The 50 Most Extreme Places in Our Solar System

by Todd Ratcliff, David Baker, Bootnah violrds

Book Overview

The extreme events that we hear about daily hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions are extreme in purely human terms, in the devastation they do. But this book moves our understanding of the extreme into extraterrestrial dimensions and gives us an awe-inspiring sense of what our solar system at its utmost can do. Martian dust devils taller than Mount Everest. A hurricane that lasts over 340 years. Volcanoes with lava colder than...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674049985
• ISBN13: 9780674049987
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 2.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 8.4"