The Solar System

With this newly revised Ninth Edition of THE SOLAR SYSTEM, the authors' goals are to help you use astronomy to understand science--and use science to understand what we are. Fascinating, engaging, and visually vibrant, this text will help you answer two fundamental questions: What are we? And how do we know? Emphasizes the scientific method as it guides students to answer two fundamental questions: What are we? And how do we know? Updated with the newest developments and latest discoveries in the exciting study of astronomy, the authors discuss the interplay between evidence and hypothesis, while providing not only fact but also a conceptual framework for understanding the logic of science. -- Provided by publisher