Vault of the heavens exploring the solar system's place in the universe (Portable professor Science)
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Fourteen lectures examining our surroundings and the place Earth and our planetary system hold in the universe. Looks at the the planets themselves--how they are constructed and how they differ from one another. Full description
Table of Contents:
- Course lectures: 1. We and the Universe
- 2. Reflections of the spinning Earth
- 3. Sun and seasons
- 4. Stories in the sky: constellations
- 5. Romance of the Moon
- 6. Happy wanderers: the planets
- 7. Keeping it all together
- 8. Reaching outward
- 9. Our domain: Earth and the Moon
- 10. Iron planets: Mercury, Venus and Mars
- 11. Monsters of the midway: Jupiter and Saturn
- 12. Distant outposts: Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto
- 13. Leftovers of creation: comets, asteroids, and meteors
- 14. Creation.