Product Description: Since the earliest times one of the brightest lights in the heavens has been that of Jupiter, mythical king of the gods and the largest planet in the solar system. It was only natural that peoples from the dawn of history would be interested in such a planet and, indeed, Jupiter was one of the first objects to be observed with the telescope...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Traces the history of the exploration of the moon from ancient times to the present and discusses the makeup of the moon's surface