A Field Guide to the Planets

<p>Explore planets, moons, asteroids, comets, exoplanets, and so much more with an expert guide who will show you the most cutting-edge images and research—and what the future of space exploration could be.</p>

• By This Professor
• 01: How the Solar System Family Is Organized
• 02: Mercury, the Extreme Little Planet
• 03: Venus, the Veiled Greenhouse Planet
• 04: Earth: How Plate Tectonics Sets Up Life
• 05: Orbiting Earth: Up through the Atmosphere
• 06: Exploring the Earth-Moon System
• 07: Humans on the Moon: A Never-Ending Story
• 08: Exploring Mars from Space and the Ground
• 09: Water on Mars and Prospects for Life
• 10: Near-Earth Asteroids and the Asteroid Belt
• 11: Mighty Jupiter, The Ruling Gas Giant
• 12: Jupiter’s Planetlike System of Moons
• 13: Saturn and the Rings: Gravity’s Masterpiece
• 14: Saturn’s Moons: Titan to Enceladus
• 15: Uranus: A Water World on Its Side
• 16: Neptune: Windy with the Wildest Moon
• 17: Pluto and Charon: The Binary Worlds
• 18: Comets, the Kuiper Belt, and the Oort Cloud
• 19: How Our Sun Defines Our Solar System
• 20: A Solar System Time Machine and Meteorites
• 21: What the Biggest Exoplanets Reveal
• 22: Closing in on Earthlike Exoplanets
• 23: Planets Migrated in Our Early Solar System!
• 24: Human Futures in the Solar System