The characters who populate an Alice Munro story live and breathe. Passions hopelessly conceived, affections betrayed, marriages made and broken: the joys, fears, loves and awakenings of women echo th
In these piercingly lovely and endlessly surprising stories by one of the most acclaimed current practitioners of the art of fiction, many things happen: there are betrayals and reconciliations, love
Jupiter is the biggest planet in the solar system, but it still has secrets!A The discovery of its moons changed how scientists viewed the whole solar system.A With a storm that's raged for hundreds o
Jupiter is the biggest planet in the solar system, but it still has secrets!A The discovery of its moons changed how scientists viewed the whole solar system.A With a storm that's raged for hundreds o
Looks at the location of Jupiter in relation to the other planets, and discusses the planet's moons, surface composition, and what makes Jupiter unique.
Describes Jupiter as part of the solar system, and discusses days and years, its structure and atmosphere, the Great Red Spot, its most important moons, exploring the planet and its moons, and relate
Jupiter is an extraordinarily colourful and dynamic planet. Over minutes, one can watch tiny shadows cast by its moons slide over its surface; over days and weeks parades of diverse, giant swirling storms can be seen to move and evolve. It is because of this richness of visual and physical properties that Jupiter has intrigued amateur and professional astronomers and has been the goal of several space missions. This highly illustrated volume provides a comprehensive and accessible account of Jupiter and its satellites. It reviews systematic telescopic observations that have stretched over more than a hundred years, in addition to modern observations and theories, and the wealth of data from the Pioneer, Voyager and Ulysses space missions. As well as a thorough survey of the planet's atmosphere, this volume presents an up-to-date account of our present knowledge of Jupiter's satellites and magnetosphere, at a level accessible to the non-specialist. This volume provides the definitive ac
The King of Planets, Jupiter is both the largest planet in our solar system and one of the most interesting. This book examines how Jupiter formed, its atmosphere and major features, its many moons, a
Explore the farthest reaches of the universe from the comfort of your living room with the Discovering Moons Handbook.Ever wondered how many moons Jupiter has? Want to know how big our moon is? Then t
Discover the amazing features of Jupiter with its gaseous clouds and awesome moons. Find out about probes that have been sent there and the scientists' theories about what the information sent back ha
Discover the amazing features of Jupiter with its gaseous clouds and awesome moons. Find out about probes that have been sent there and the scientists' theories about what the information sent back ha
Presents a study of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, including information about their size, distance from the Sun, orbits, moons, rings, and the gases that they are made of.
The solar system, of which Earth is but a small part, is an amazing collection of bodies, ranging in size from the Sun, through the giant planet Jupiter, to specks of dust left over from the primordia
IAU Symposium 269 celebrates the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's discovery of the Medicean Moons, Jupiter's four largest satellites, exploring the impact his findings have had on science and the humanities. Galileo's instrumental discovery and his belief that the planets and moons in our Solar System could be habitable worlds encouraged a deeper understanding of our place in the Universe. Today, ongoing space missions to Jupiter's moons, our own Moon, Mars, Saturn and Enceladus reveal our continued fascination with the possibilities of alien life, but this time with a focus on potential host sites for primitive life forms. These critical reviews examine our present knowledge of the Jupiter system and consider how future space missions and improvements in telescopes will bolster the contemporary vision of our Solar System, of the many known extrasolar planetary systems and of life forms beyond the Solar System.
Originally published in 1993, this revised picture book includes exciting new discoveries made since that time, such as the discovery of additional moons orbiting Jupiter and the re-designation of Plu
