<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>
Overview
Syllabus
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- 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
Taught by
Sabine Stanley
