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Planetary Exploration eBook Series

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  • Mars

    Series series Planetary Exploration
    This curriculum-based, fun, and approachable book offers everything young readers need to know to begin their study of the Red Planet. They will learn about the fundamental aspects of the Mars, including its size, mass, surface features, interior, orbit, and spin. Further, they will learn about the history of the missions to Mars, including the Viking spacecraft and the Curiosity and MAVEN rovers. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Venus

    Series series Planetary Exploration
    This straightforward but fascinating book takes a close look at Venus and shows young people just how different our neighboring planet is from our own. Known as the hottest planet, Venus is an example of the greenhouse effect to the extreme. Young readers will take a tour beneath the sulfur dioxide clouds and see the planet’s surface up close with images taken by the Magellan and the Venus Express ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • I, Galileo

    Acclaimed author-illustrator Bonnie Christensen adopts the voice of Galileo and lets him tell his own tale in this outstanding picture book biography. The first person narration gives this book a friendly, personal feel that makes Galileo's remarkable achievements and ideas completely accessible to young readers. And Christensen's artwork glows with the light of the stars he studied.Galileo's ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Mercury

    Series series Planetary Exploration
    Mercury, the smallest and densest planet in the solar system, was first observed at least five thousand years ago, but its proximity to the sun makes it difficult for scientists to study. This appealing resource illuminates Mercury for young readers with satellite images, helpful diagrams, and vocabulary boxes. Topics covered include Mercury’s formation, surface, atmosphere, orbit, and rotation, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To Pluto and Beyond

    by Elaine Scott ...
    New Horizons was designed by NASA to study Pluto and the fringes of our solar system, farther away than any spacecraft has ever explored. Join science writer Elaine Scott as she tells the story of this mission.For Stephen Hawking, New Horizons signifies that "We explore because we are human and we want to know." This remarkable ship, no bigger than a piano, and using no more energy than a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Jupiter

    by Barbra Penne ...
    Series series Planetary Exploration
    Our solar system’s largest planet is huge enough that all of the system’s other planets could fit inside it. Although Jupiter has been known since ancient times, scientists are still learning exciting new information about the planet and its satellites today. In fact, several of its moons are now believed to have oceans below their icy surfaces. Chapters focus on topics such as Jupiter’s orbit and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pluto and Other Dwarf Planets

    Series series Planetary Exploration
    The reclassification of Pluto in 2006 not only decreased the number of planets in our solar system by one but also introduced the new category of dwarf planet. Readers will come to understand what separates a dwarf planet from a planet—or for that matter from any of the other bodies found within the solar system. They’ll learn about Pluto itself, as well as its fellow dwarf planets, Ceres, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Uranus

    Series series Planetary Exploration
    The seventh planet from the sun, Uranus is known for its blue-green color and tilted axis, which makes it look like it’s spinning on its side. But what causes these distinctive features? This engaging, easy-to-follow resource gives readers insight into Uranus, from its discovery in 1781 to the latest insights about it gained from satellite images, explaining its features, conditions, rings, and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Earth

    by Jason Carter ...
    Series series Planetary Exploration
    This curriculum-based, easy-to-follow book teaches young readers about Earth as one of the eight planets in our solar system in astronomical terms. With accessible text, it provides the fundamental information any student needs to begin their studies in astronomy, such as how Earth spins and revolves around the Sun, why it’s uniquely suitable for life, its physical features, atmosphere, biosphere, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Saturn

    Series series Planetary Exploration
    Saturn is one of the most surreal of all the planets in our solar system. With this intriguing curriculum-correlated book, young readers can learn just why. Saturn has many unusual features, such as rings made of ice, ammonia storms, and methane rain. Its density is less than that of water so theoretically it could float on water. The features of its many moons are sometimes even stranger. The ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Neptune

    by Greg Roza ...
    Series series Planetary Exploration
    This accessible and engaging book teaches young readers the fundamentals of Neptune, one of the most intriguing planets in our solar system. They will learn about Neptune’s physical features, it’s super storms that can reach 1,500 miles per hour, its ring system, the Voyager missions, and its status as one of the gas giants. Since the book includes images directly from NASA and with those taken by ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Voyager's Greatest Hits

    8 Tracks for the Epic Trek to Interstellar Space

    by Alexandra Siy ...
    It has been over forty years sincethe Voyager mission sent the twin space probes into space. They traveled to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune and now they journey beyond our solar system into interstellar space, where no probe has ventured before.Learn the fascinating story of the scientists, how the Voyager probes work, where the probes have been and what they’ve seen, and what they carry on ... Read more

    $10.99 USD