This stunning collection of images provides a new look at the Solar System made possible by recent exciting missions such as Cassini as well as by other probes and by Earth-based imaging. The book takes advantage of the rich pool of images that is available to tell a story of the Solar System that has not been told before. The images, all from the public domain but not hitherto gathered into a coherent collection, are supported by text and graphics. Each main image is accompanied by a graphic showing the location in the Solar System of the featured object. All of these graphics are based in a template providing a simple representation of the Solar System. The text itself is not extensive, allowing page design to have a high priority. The book is intended for anybody who lives in solar orbit and takes a general interest in the solar neighborhood.

The book provides a new look at the Solar System made possible by recent exciting missions such as Cassini as well as by other probes and by Earth-based imaging The book reveals a large collection of weird and very wonderful objects that, like us, are trapped by the Sun's gravitational pull Key information is provided in an easily accessible format

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David Brodie is the author of several successful educational textbooks and his travel writing has been published in the national press. He has initiated and run 'art-science' projects on neuroscience and on particle physics, resulting in significant national exhibitions.

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Ice, Rock, and Beauty is a book for anybody who lives in the solar neighborhood, and takes an interest in its significance to us as residents.

Human experience of the Solar System is changing rapidly. Techniques of observation from Earth-based telescopes continue to develop, while missions such as Voyager, Galileo, Cassini, and the Hubble Space Telescope have yielded many stunning images.

So although most people have some knowledge of the essential structure of the Solar System, relatively few are familiar with the amazing diversity of objects that travel with and amongst the planets in their journeys around the Sun.

The book gathers images from a rich pool, many from national and international organizations such as NASA and ESA, some directly from academic astronomers, and a few from private individuals. Together they tell a story of the Solar System, and of its beauty, that has not been told before.

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The Wonder Just Goes On and On.- Within Ourselves.- That's You, Right in the Middle.- Not Quite a Bee's Eye View.- The Namer and the Named.- The Truth but not the Whole Truth.- What Happened Next.- Up and Down.- What It's Good At.- Third Rock and a Bit.- A Fabulous Night.- Aorounga to Zapadnaya (by Way of Manicouagan).- Known and Unknown.- Works of Nature.- And Cold Indifference.- Enough Way Beyonds.- A Pretty Face but a Cold One.- A Journey of a Thousand Lifetimes.- A Moon of One's Own.- No Substitute for Going There.- Ringshine.- Beneath the Blowing Sands.- Designed by Committee.- No Ordinary String.- An Innocent Passer-by?.- Once Upon a Time, Long Ago.- Bigger Than We Are.- Unpossessed.- So Similar, So Different.- As an Angel.- Tricks of the Light.- More Than a Match.- Curiously Normal.- Looking Again.- Realities Like This.- Above a Turbulent Sky.- They All Turn out Differently.- Warhol's Worlds.- An Edge of Darkness.- No Moon Is an Island.- What Shall We Call Her?.- The Wrong Place at the Wrong Time.- Heaven's Harpstrings.- And the Gates of Hell.- Simple Rings.- Crime Scene Investigation.- The Dust Left Behind.- Skies on Fire.- Looking on the Bright Side.- Fragments of Truth.- All Her Thoughts.- Leaving Just the Oddballs.- Epic Stories.- Mimas in Blue.- Taking What You Can Get.- Time in the Sun.- Something out there Moving.- This Side of Xanadu.- Simplicity Too.- The Journey of a Hero.- Whatever Seasons.- Forever Entangled.