The 50 Most Extreme Places in Our Solar System

by Todd Ratcliff, David Baker, Bootnah violrds

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The extreme events that we hear about daily hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions are extreme in purely human terms, in the devastation they do. But this book moves our understanding of the extreme into extraterrestrial dimensions and gives us an awe-inspiring sense of what our solar system at its utmost can do. Martian dust devils taller than Mount Everest. A hurricane that lasts over 340 years. Volcanoes with lava colder than...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674049985

ISBN13:9780674049987

Release Date:September 2010

Publisher:Belknap Press

Length:290 Pages

Weight:2.14 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 7.0" x 8.4"

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Astronomy Astronomy & Astrophysics Astronomy & Space Science Astrophysics & Space Science Physics Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology

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