The Usborne First Encyclopedia of Space,9781580863575

The Usborne First Encyclopedia of Space

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ISBN13: 9781580863575
ISBN10: 1580863574
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-08-01
Publisher(s): Edc Pub
List Price: $17.95

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Summary

Amazing photographs and illustrations combine with lively text to illustrate the basics of our planet's geography, its animals, ocean life and what's out in space

Table of Contents

Amazing space
4(2)
The moving sky
6(2)
Telescopes
8(2)
Radio telescopes
10(2)
Trips into space
12(2)
Astronaut training
14(2)
A walk in space
16(2)
Living in space
18(2)
Dangers and disasters
20(2)
Satellites and space probes
22(2)
Into the future
24(2)
Is anyone out there?
26(2)
What's in our Solar System?
28(2)
The Moon
30(2)
The Sun
32(2)
Mercury and Venus
34(2)
Mars
36(2)
Jupiter and Saturn
38(2)
Uranus and Neptune
40(2)
Pluto and beyond
42(2)
Bits and pieces
44(2)
The Universe
46(2)
Distant suns
48(2)
A star's life
50(2)
Galaxies
52(2)
Weird and wonderful
54(2)
Looking at the night sky
56(2)
Binoculars and telescopes
58(2)
Space words
60(2)
Index 62(2)
Web sites 64

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