The Secret Lives of Planets: Order, Chaos, and Uniqueness in the Solar System

The Secret Lives of Planets answers any questions you might have about the planets, their satellites, and our place in the solar system. It can be easy to think of the solar system working seamlessly, like a machine, but there is a chaos to that order. For example, Titan has lakes made of liquid methane, just as Earth once once did. Mars has a volcano 100 times the size of Earth's biggest, and a canyon ten times deeper than the Grand Canyon. Author Paul Murdin, an emeritus professor of astronomy at Cambridge, distills a lifetime of wonder and a head full of astronomy into this first-rate introduction to the solar system. 

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