Exploring Our Solar System
Sally Ride. Crown Publishers, $19.95 (110pp) ISBN 978-0-375-81204-0
Former astronaut Sally Ride offers an expansive text for would-be astronauts, astronomers and scientists, Exploring Our Solar System, co-written with frequent collaborator Tam O'Shaughnessy. The book teems with scientific information about the history, development and exploration of this tiny section of the universe: the sun, each of the nine planets, various moons and asteroid belts. Clear, dramatic photographs, many of them courtesy of NASA, help readers visualize the far reaches of space.
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Reviewed on: 11/01/2003
Genre: Children's