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72 pages
illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits.
Contents: Planet Earth and its neighbors -- What is a planet? -- Changing worlds -- Skywatching -- Space age exploration -- The Sun -- Mercury -- Venus -- Earth -- Water world -- Living planet -- The moon -- Exploring the moon -- Mars -- The red planet -- Roving on Mars -- Asteroids -- Jupiter -- Jupiter's moons -- Saturn -- Saturn's rings -- Saturn's moons -- Visiting the giants -- The outer solar system -- Uranus -- Neptune -- The dwarf planets -- Comets -- Exoplanets -- Solar system facts.
Summary: From Mercury to Neptune and beyond, get an eyewitness view of the rocky planets, gas giants, dwarf planets, asteroids, comets and other bodies that make up our Solar System. Discover the secrets of space, examine the latest space exploration equipment, and learn about the scientists behind discoveries ancient and new.
Eyewitness.