DID YOU KNOW...

1. ✴Lightning bolts on Earth are about the thickness of a banana, but Saturn’s shocking superbolts may be as wide as the Eiffel Tower?
   

1. ✴Every Martian winter, the sky “falls” as 25% of the Red Planet’s atmosphere becomes dry snow?
   

1. ✴The stinkiest place in the Solar System isn’t your brother’s bedroom but rather Jupiter’s funky moon Io?
   

These are just a few of the remarkable phenomena that we explore in our award-winning book The 50 Most Extreme Places in Our Solar System (Harvard University Press 2010).   Generously illustrated with explanatory figures and stunning NASA photographs, this fun popular science book is an intimate, smart, and eye-opening look at our corner of the galaxy, sure to fascinate anyone who has ever looked up at the sky and wondered what it’s like out there.

I’ve also successfully used the book in an introductory astronomy college course “The Most Extreme Places in Our Solar System”.

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                  English: Harvard University Press

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1. ✴Critically acclaimed by Scientific American, Discover, Wired.com, National Geographic, Science News, Astronomy Now, and many more!
   

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1. ✴PROSE Award Honorable Mention in Cosmology and Astronomy (equivalent of Academy Awards for scholarly works).

THE 50 MOST EXTREME PLACES IN

OUR SOLAR SYSTEM

David Baker and Todd Ratcliff