02076cam a2200325 4500 56983302 TxAuBib 20061129120000.0 061129s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2005028284 9781556525933 1556525931 (OCoLC)607354042 TxAuBib Carson, Mary Kay. Exploring the solar system for kids : a history with 22 activities / Mary Kay Carson. 1st ed. Chicago : Chicago Review Press, 2006. 168 p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. How do we know that Mars is covered in rusty dust, that a day on Venus lasts longer than its year, and that Neptune has 13 moons? For centuries, astronomers turned their telescopes toward the sky to learn what they could about the sun, moon, and planets. Following the advances in rocketry of the first half of the 20th century, scientists and engineers were finally able to launch satellites into orbit in the late 1950s. Eventually humans left earth's gravitational pull, landed astronauts on the moon, and sent probes to the farthest planets. Exploring the Solar System relates the rich history of space exploration using telescopes, satellites, probes, landers, and human missions-up to and including the recent discovery of 2003UB313, what some are colling the "10th planet" in our solar system. (Book.) 20061129. Astronomy Study and teaching Activity programs Juvenile literature. Outer space Exploration Juvenile literature. Solar system. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip061/2005028284.html Table of contents only https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0667/2005028284-b.html Contributor biographical information https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0667/2005028284-d.html Publisher description TXLIV