Seven Wonders of the Rocky Planets and Their Moons

Miller, Ron

ISBN 10: 0761354484 ISBN 13: 9780761354482

Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books, 2011

Synopsis

Describes the geographic phenomena of the inner planets of the solar system and their moons, including the largest mountain of the planets, the deepest canyon, and the highest recorded temperatures.

About this title

About the Author:

Ron Miller has worked as a freelance writer and illustrator for more than 30 years. Many of his illustrations appear in magazines like Astronomy and Scientific American. He has also worked on motion pictures and created postage stamps. (One of his stamps is attached to a spacecraft headed for the planet Pluto!) He has also written short stories and novels and has even created a comic book.

From School Library Journal:

Gr 5-8-These titles highlight some of the universe's more awesome natural features. In Solar System, Miller introduces the largest known galaxy, nebula (the Tarantula Nebula), and star (red hypergiant VY Canis Majoris), along with a pulsar, a supernova's cloud, a galactic supercluster, and Gliese 581D-until recently considered to be the most earthlike exoplanet yet discovered. His tally of chief wonders among our solar system's Gas Giants includes Saturn's rings, Jupiter's Great Red Spot, and the moon Europa's probable underground seas. Rocky Planets opens with the solar system's largest volcano, Olympus Mons on Mars, and closes with "Life on Earth." Related objects or features come in for shorter notices throughout, and each volume ends with an annotated resource list plus an invitation to readers to add an eighth wonder of their own choosing. Some of the broad array of artists' conceptions and processed space photos are uninformative illustrative filler, and a few minor errors, such as a confusion between Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea in Rocky Planets, creep in. Still, both newly starstruck readers and confirmed students of the heavens will find plenty to marvel over in these volumes.-John Peters, formerly at New York Public Library (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

About this edition

• Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0761354484
• ISBN 13: 9780761354482
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 80