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1) Space Probes
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Young explorers are treated to cool photographs and illustrations of space probes and outer space. Photographs also show images taken directly from various space probes. The narrative shares a lot of detail in an engaging way. A timeline is included.
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How do we know if there is water on Mars? How do we know what planets look like? We send probes to look around! Readers learn how scientists use space probes to study planets in our solar system . . . and beyond. Fascinating backmatter features a diagram of a space probe and an amazing true story.
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Compelling narrative nonfiction text presents the story of the Voyager space probes, featuring the intrigue and excitement behind the missions. Additional features to aid comprehension include a table of contents, fact-filled captions and callouts, infographics, a glossary, a listing of source notes, sources for further research, and an introduction to the author. Author/Illustrator biography Glossary of key words Index Infographics Informative sidebars...
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Although Apollo 11's successful mission to the Moon is seen as the culmination of the Space Race, and the Apollo program remains NASA's most famous, one of the space agency's most successful endeavors came a few years later. In fact, the Pioneer program was the most diversified sequence of any of NASA's programs, and though they're now remembered for being among the first probes in history to reach the Outer Solar System, the elaborate planning changed...
11) Exploring space
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64 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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""Presents facts about the history of piloted and unpiloted space exploration in our solar system and features large illustrations and photographs."--
12) Frozen orbit
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"When a tiny space probe hurtled past Pluto in 2015, no one could know that its most amazing discovery would remain hidden for years. Only when a long-lost Soyuz is destroyed in the skies above Siberia does the truth begin to emerge. About to embark on NASA's first expedition to the outer planets, the crew of the spacecraft Magellan learns someone else has beaten them by a few decades: a top-secret Soviet project codenamed Arkangel. It was a mission...
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Secret Explorers volume 2
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127 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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"In The Secret Explorers and the Comet Collision, space expert Roshni leads a mission that's out of this world - literally! With rainforest expert Ollie, she is set the task of fixing the space probe orbiting Jupiter before a comet hits the planet. With the clock ticking, it's a race against time for the Secret Explorers as they dodge asteroids, complete daring spacewalks, and use all their skills to complete their mission."--Amazon.com.
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255 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"How Technology Works demystifies the machinery that keeps the modern world going, from simple objects such as zip fasteners and can openers to the latest, most sophisticated devices of the information age, including smartwatches, personal digital assistants, and driverless cars. It includes inventions that have changed the course of history, like the internal combustion engine, as well as technologies that might hold the key to our future survival,...
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