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出版时间：2007-02-28  出版社：Quercus Books  作者：Giles Sparrow  页数：224  
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内容概要

With nearly 200 spectacular images, The Planets launches itself on an awe-inspiring tour of our celestial neighbourhood. Travelling outwards from the Sun, every planet is visited in a journey that ultimately extends a full light year into space, to the very fringes of the Solar System where the Sun is no longer the brightest star in the sky. It surveys the scorched, volcanic plains of Venus,"follows the tracks of robotic rovers over Mars, touches down On the asteroid Eros, plunges through Titan's atmosphere with the Huygens probe, and reveals Pluto to be just one of a myriad of ice worlds that lurk beyond Neptune's orbit.    Mankind's fascination with the planets has lasted millennia, but only in the last few decades has their full glory been revealed - unveiled by a fleet of interplanetary probes. And the closer we look, the more wonderful they are: Venus's clouds are laced with sulphuric acid; water once flowed over Mars's deserts; Jupiter's storms rage for centuries at near-supersonic speeds; Saturn is surroundedby a commonwealth of exotic moons; and diamonds may rain from Neptune's turbulent blue skies.    As our robotic scouts hurtle through space and our telescopes grow ever more powerful, they have revealed the Solar System to be more vibrant, startling andpopulous than we ever imagined. We live in a new Age of Discovery and the gallery of strikingly beautiful images on display in this book are without doubt itsmost precious jewels.    作者简介：Giles Sparrow studied Astronomy at University College London, and Science Communication at Imperial College. He has acted as a consultant and contributor on numerous popular science books, including Universe (Dorling Kindersley 2005). He is the author of The Universe and How To See It (Reader's Digest, 2001) and Cosmos (Quercus, 2006).

书籍目录

Unveiling the Solar SystemSun  Solar granulation  Extreme Sun  The quiet Sun  The active Sun  Solar prominence  Spicules  Regular sunspots  Irregular sunspots  Coronal Mass Ejection  Solar FlareMercury  Mercury's limb  Caloris BasinVenus  Venus globe 0  Venus globe 90  Venus globe 180  Venus globe 270  Eistla Regio  Sif and Gula Mons  Maat Mons  Sapas Mons  Pancake domes  Arachnoid  Latona Oorona and Bali Chasma  Pancake domes  Danilova, Howe and Aglaonice  Dickinson CraterEarth  Earth without cloud  Himalayan Mountains  Atlas Mountains  Death Valley  Pampas Luxsar  Amazon Rainforest  Bering Strait  Patagonian Ice Field  Byrd Glacier  Grand Erg Oriental  Rub al Khali  Chicxulub Crater  Shoemaker Crater  Cloud Streets  Hurricane Isabel  Aurorae from spaceMoon  North polar region  North polar mineral map  Lunar far side  South Pole-Aitken Basin  Earthrise over the Moon  Copernicus and Eratosthenes  Sea of Tranquillity  Astronaut footprint  Shorty Crater  Taurus-Littrow  Aridaeus Rille  Hadley RilleMarsAsteroidsJupiterSaturnUranusNeptuneIce WorldsGlossaryIndexPichure Credits