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• Voyager’s Grand Tour: To the Outer Planets and Beyond (Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight Series)

  A rare planetary alignment, a visionary team, and two space probes transform our knowledge of the solar system Every 176 years, Earth and the outer planets gather on one side of the sun, allowing close observation in a single flight, or Grand Tour. To exploit this alignment, the Voyager team developed the so-called gravity assist [...]

• Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World

  Written in the form of stories and suffused with a reverence for the earth, a collection of meditations explores the mysteries of such subjects as bees, porcupines, caves, and the myths and rituals of Native American cultures. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

• Going to the Planets With Your Eyes and Imagination

  A good way to teach your kids their first lesson about the eight or nine (depending on how you wish to tell them about Pluto) planets of the solar system is by combining factual lessons with visible sightings of the planets. How to Teach Your Kids about Planets Related posts Astronomical telescopes detect activity on [...]

• The Snows of Olympus: A Garden on Mars

  Using his own computer-generated color illustrations, the best-selling author of 2001 presents his vision, founded in fact, of the colonization of Mars, showing what humans could do to make it inhabitable.

• The Solar System (Early Bird Astronomy)

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