Books in Exploring the Solar System series

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Images highlight this exploration of the fourth planet from the Sun, its two moons, and the discoveries made in the last several years by visiting probes searching for signs of water and life on the red planet.

Beautiful full-color photographs help illuminate the lunar cycle, the Moons surface, and its exploration by astronauts, as well as the effects of this heavenly bodys gravitational pull on Earth.

Sparrow, Giles

What would it be like if you could travel to Saturn in a spaceship, fly across its rings, and walk on its icy moons? This book takes you on a mission to the Saturn system. Send a probe into Saturn's atmosphere, watch geysers explode on the moon Enceladus, and find out how Saturn got its magnificent rings.

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What would it be like if you could travel to Jupiter in a spaceship, fly across the cloud tops, and land on its moons? This book takes you on a mission to the Jupiter system. Watch the Great Red Spot spin around, search for life on Jupiter's moons, and find out why the strange moon lo is constantly turning itself inside out.

This series explores the four key elements of our Solar System: the Sun, the Moon, the Planets and the Stars. With each title including fascinating facts and photographic images, young readers will enjoy discovering what lies in the darkness beyond.

What would it be like if you could fly to the outer solar system in a spaceship, land on the moons of Uranus and Neptune, and touch down on tiny Pluto? This book takes you on a mission to the outer planets. Watch storms tear across Neptune, fly past Uranus's rings, and find out why it would take a whole lifetime to go to Pluto and back again.

What would it be like if you could travel to Mercury in a spaceship, land on its surface, and bounce around in the low gravity? This book takes you on a mission to Mercury. Fly over the second-largest impact crater in the solar system, explore the deep crack in Mercury's crust, and find out why a day last longer than a year on this tiny planet.

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