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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

Take a space hike! Read about each of the eight other planets in the solar system. Then, close your eyes and imagine the heat of Venus reaching over 900 degrees Fahrenheit, and the incredible tall volcanoes of Mars, one rising 79,000 feet above the surrounding Martian floor. As you "travel" to each planet you'll learn all the fascinating facts you'll need to know: Mercury holds the record in the solar system for having the largest temperature difference between the day and night sides of the planet; Jupiter's orbit is so big it takes 12 years for it to spin around the Sun, to Earth's one year; because Saturn is mostly made up of gases, with no real surface, if you could find a big enough bath Saturn would float in it; tipped on its side, Uranus "rolls" around in its orbit like a big, pale-green ball; one of Neptune's moons, Triton, has tall geysers that spew out nitrogen frost and other material, strong winds, and frozen lakes; if you weighed 100 pounds on Earth, you would only weigh 6 pounds on Pluto; and many other out-of-this-world pieces of information!

(Extracted from the back cover).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contents.

-Where Are We Going?

-1- Mercury Is Burning in the Sun!

-2- What's Under the Clouds of Venus?

-3- On to Mars.

-4- Watch Out for those Asteroids!

-5- The Jupiter Solar System?

-6- The Rings and Moons of Saturn.

-7- It is Cold on Uranus.

-8- It's Even Colder on Neptune.

-9- Pluto in Last Place (Almost).

-Looking Back to Earth.

-Planet Chart.

-Glossay.

-Index.

OUR REVIEW

This is the most adequate work aimed at the true beginner. Thus could A Traveler's Guide to the Solar System be considered. Oriented and written praising all possible divulgative resources, it provides the reader, in but a handful of pages, the main traits defining our solar system which we all should know. Therefore this is a small book aimed at the general readership, with little text and many spectacular photographs in full color, exactly what is necessary to attract those people who want to have a look at what we have out there, surrounding the Earth.

The book is structured in the form of a voyage, in such a way that the author takes us by the hand towards the depths of our planetary system, as she shows us in each instant the most interesting aspects in each stage. A book which is most appropriate both to adults and to children, A Traveler's Guide to the Solar System is more than enough to attract our attention. Anyone can feel deeply moved by its photos, the best ones ever got from interplanetary probes, whose educational worth is almost as great as that of the text. In a few words, this truly is a small work covering a basic segment in the readership range, aimed at the people who in the future will feel interested in the mysteries of space and those of the sky.