Vacation Guide to the Solar System: Science for the Savvy Space Traveler!

Vacation Guide to the Solar System

Science for the Savvy Space Traveler!

2017 • 234 pages

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Cute idea and excellent execution in this guide to our Solar System (from the perspective of a travel guide). Here is a description of skydiving into Saturn:

“...You'll start your fall in a layer of wispy, yellowish ammonia ice clouds. After falling ten minutes or so you'll have traveled more than sixty miles, and you'll start to encounter thicker, redder ammonia hydrosulfide ice clouds. Finally, you'll reach some more familiar, white water vapor clouds. The entire fall will be very dark—the sunlight is only 1 percent that on Earth at the cloud tops, and rapidly gets darker the deeper into the atmosphere you fall. Eventually the skies will fade to pitch-black. Feel free to fall for a bit into the dark abyss. You're in no danger of hitting the ground because there is no ground to hit, but it is possible to go so deep that your suit implodes under the pressure...”

January 1, 2018