The Secret Lives of Planets: Order, Chaos, and Uniqueness in the Solar System

by Paul Murdin

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We have the impression that the solar system is perfectly regular like a clock or a planetarium instrument. On a short timescale it is. But, seen in a longer perspective, the planets, and their satellites, have exciting lives, full of events.

For example, did you know that Saturn's moon, Titan, boasts lakes which contain liquid methane surrounded by soaring hills and valleys, exactly as the earth did before life evolved on our fragile planet?...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1643133365

ISBN13:9781643133362

Release Date:October 2020

Publisher:Pegasus Books

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.92 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 5.7" x 8.3"

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