| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 300 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Why a new solar system? -- Exploring the planets -- The sun -- Mercury: a hot, old world -- Venus: a hot, cloudy planet -- Earth: a watery, living world -- Mars: the red planet -- The asteroid belt -- Jupiter: the gas giant -- Saturn: the ringed planet -- Uranus: the blue, icy planet -- Neptune: an icy, cold world -- Trans-Neptunian objects -- Overview and the future. |
| Summary |
Discoveries made about our Solar System using ground-based and space probe technology. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Solar system.
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Solar system. |
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Outer space.
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Outer space. |
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Astronomy.
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Astronomy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wilkinson, John. Probing the new solar system. Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Pub., ©2009 9780643095755 0643095756 (OCoLC)317520880 |
| ISBN |
9780643096851 (electronic book) |
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064309685X (electronic book) |
| Standard No. |
3032022 |
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