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The Planets - A Journey Through the Solar System (Hardcover)
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The Planets - A Journey Through the Solar System (Hardcover)
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List price R250
Loot Price R217
Discovery Miles 2 170
You Save R33 (13%)
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In the last 40 years the planets have been revealed in their full
glory, unmasked by a fleet of satellites and interplanetary probes.
And the closer we look, the more astonishing they are: Mars'
deserts were once home to rivers and oceans; on Jupiter wind speeds
reach 10,000 kph (6,000 mph) and storms rage for centuries; Saturn
is surrounded by a swarm of 34 moons; and diamonds are believed to
rain from Neptune's blue skies. Moving out from the Sun, every
planet and moon is visited in a journey that takes us a full light
year into space, out to the fringes of the solar system where the
Sun is no longer the brightest star in the sky. With 200
spectacular images, The Planets follows the tracks of robotic
rovers over Mars, plunges through Titan's atmosphere on the back of
the Hugyens probe, smashes into a comet with Deep Impact, and
voyages to the edge of our solar system to discover the frozen
planets that lurk beyond the orbit of Pluto.
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