The moon Earth's companion
""Presents facts about the composition, surface, atmosphere, and history of exploration of Earth's moon and features large illustrations and photographs."--
| Main Author: | Brennan, Shawn (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago, Illinois :
World Book, Inc.,
[2020]
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| Series: |
Our solar system (World Book, Inc.)
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Table of Contents:
- Lunar attraction
- Earth's closest companion
- The moon and Earth
- The moon's size
- Traveling around Earth
- Looking at the moon
- The surface of the moon
- Millions of craters
- The lunar exosphere
- Water on the moon
- The moon's effect on Earth's oceans
- Phases of the moon
- A shadow on the moon
- Blotting out the sun
- The near side, the far side, and the dark side
- How the moon was formed
- Studying the moon : ancient ideas
- Early observations with telescopes
- The first moon probes
- The space race
- The Apollo Program
- A giant leap for mankind
- The moon men
- Taking rocks, leaving footprints
- What the Apollo Program achieved
- Still probing
- Back to the moon
- and beyond.