The Planets

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Дава Собел. The Planets

CONTENTS

1 MODEL WORLDS

2 GENESIS

3 MYTHOLOGY

4 BEAUTY

5 GEOGRAPHY OR ON BECOMING A PLANET

6 LUNACY

7 SCI-FI

8 ASTROLOGY

9 MUSIC OF THE SPHERES

10 DISCOVERY OR ‘NIGHT AIR’

POSTSCRIPT

11 UFO

12 PLANETEERS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

GLOSSARY

DETAILS. 1 MODEL WORLDS (Overview)

2 GENESIS (The Sun)

3 MYTHOLOGY (Mercury)

4 BEAUTY (Venus)

5 GEOGRAPHY (Earth)

6 LUNACY (The Moon)

7 SCI-FI (Mars)

8 ASTROLOGY (Jupiter)

9 MUSIC OF THE SPHERES (Saturn)

10 DISCOVERY (Uranus and Neptune)

11 UFO (Pluto)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Praise

About the Author

Copyright

About the Publisher

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PLANETS

DAVA SOBEL

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Discoveries of the drastic differences between Earth and Venus evoked surprise sometimes expressed in moral terms, as though one sister had chosen the right course while the other veered down an errant path. Nevertheless Venus, the wayward sister, preaches an important cautionary tale to careless humans, for her hostile environment proves how even small atmospheric effects can conspire over time to convert an earthly paradise into a hellfire cauldron. Indeed, much current study of Venus aims to save humanity from itself by verifying, for example, the destruction that chlorine compounds wreak in high-altitude clouds.

And art thou, then, a world like ours,

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