Solar System 2015 Calendar

A Visual Exploration of the Planets, Moons, and Other Heavenly Bodies that Orbit Our Sun

Contributors

By Marcus Chown

Photographs by Planetary Visions

On Sale
Jul 21, 2014
Page Count
28 pages
ISBN-13
9781579129552

Take a yearlong tour around our solar system.Each month in the Solar System calendar explores a new beautiful and fascinating body in our interstellar neighborhood.

Based on the best-selling book Solar System and the best-selling iPad app of the same name, Solar System 2015 Calendar is perfect for scientists, students, teachers, and anyone interested in the beauty and diversity of outer space.

Every month shows a big, beautiful photograph of a featured body or event from our solar system. Monthly highlights in the 2015 calendar include the Sun, Earth, Men in the Moon, Water on Mars, Itokawa, Jupiter, Europa, Saturn, Saturn’s Rings, Uranus, Titan, and Hyperion. Smaller related images populate the monthly grids, which include major North American, British, and Australian and New Zealand holidays.

Includes a photographic Solar System poster!

Formats and Prices

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$13.99

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$17.99 CAD

Format

Calendar

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Calendar $13.99 $17.99 CAD

Marcus Chown

About the Author

Marcus Chown is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology, he is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Brunel University. His numerous books include The Ascent of Gravity, a Sunday Times Science Book of the Year; Breakthrough; Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand; What a Wonderful World; Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You; We Need to Talk to Kelvin; and Afterglow of Creation. He won The Bookseller Digital Innovation of the Year Award for “Solar System for iPad," for which he wrote the text. He lives in London, England.

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