Acquire The New Solar System Documented By J. Kelly Beatty Contained In Version

have the german edition Die Sonne und Ihre Planetenand the english edition Note I'm reading theed but couldn't find it in goodreads just this much earlier edOur understanding of our local corner of the Universe has accelerated in the lastyears and it becomes difficult for the interested layman to keep up with it all So books like this are very useful for those of us who are interested in the Solar System Despite beingyears old and I hope another version is coming soon there is a great deal here to keep even someone like myself who tries to Keep Up busy and in wonderThe we know about the Solar System the we understand how busy a place it is Pluto as everyone knows has been demoted from major planet status but then promoted to first and foremost of a large and growing family of fascinating transNeptunian or Kuiper Belt objectsBut we are constantly learning about the old familiar planets also Mars Venus even Mercury are still giving up their secrets Frozen water on Mercury so close to the Sun Yup Evidence that Mars was once a very wet and slushy place Yup And why is Venus so smooth with so few craters Then there are the Jovian moons and Saturn's rings whose complexity is only now being truly understood And the ice giants Uranus and Neptunethey have their own wonder as wellThis book is a bit technical and I would be lying if I said I understood everything in it But like many things you are only going to stretch if you expose yourself to things that are just a bit beyond you Soif you are a science andor Solar System geek to any extent this is for you

Drink up Knowledge of the solar system to the present day is summarized in this book which includes the story of the first decades of space exploration told by some of the pioneers of the era In this third edition every article has been rewritten to incorporate recent discoveries and developments.