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ENCYCLOPEDIA
of the
SOLAR SYSTEM
‘‘Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the
cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.’’
—Galileo Galilei, 1564–1642
ENCYCLOPEDIA
of the
SOLAR SYSTEM
Edited by
PAUL R. WEISSMAN
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
LUCY-ANN M
C
FADDEN
Department of Astronomy
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland
TORRENCE V. JOHNSON
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
ACADEMIC PRESS
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Jacket:
An artist’s view of the Solar System as observed from the Sun. Painting by Brad Greenwood.
Frontispiece:
Launch of the Galileo spacecraft from the shuttle Atlantis, October 18, 1989. Galileo used gravity-assist flybys of Venus and
the Earth to get to Jupiter, where it went into orbit on December 7, 1995. (NASA photo; courtesy of IMAX Corporation.)
Appendix:
Launch of the Cassini Orbiter and Huygens Probe on Titan IV. (NASA photo)
Website:
Academic Press maintains a WWW site for the Encyclopedia at www.academicpress.com/solar/. Author-recommended web
resources for additional information, images, and research developments related to each chapter of this volume are available here.
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
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1999 by ACADEMIC PRESS
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