An introduction to the planet Saturn, with information about its atmosphere, rings, and moons.

Author: Robin Kerrod
Library Binding: 32 pages
Company: Lerner Pub Group (L) (2000-09)
ISBN: 0822539098
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For the first time, psychological strategies for surviving the astrological fallout of turning the big 3-0!

Many young women approach their 30th birthdays with anxiety. They suddenly notice every tiny wrinkle, question the speed of their corporate ladder climb, or suffer from a biological clock that rivals Big Ben. Is it vanity, fear of aging, early midlife crisis, or insanity?

It's actually the result of what astrologers call the "Saturn Return," a phenomenon occurring every 28 years, when Saturn completes its cycle through an individual's birth chart. At this crucial juncture, women often experience a crisis of self, unexplained chaotic feelings, or the uncertainty of personal and professional crossroads.

In Surviving Saturn's Return, the first book to explore the subject, the authors combine their psychological and astrological expertise to demystify this cosmic source of strife and offer self-help strategies for surviving, even thriving, during this "quarterlife" crisis. In a fun, friendly, and reassuring tone, they explain how to deal with everything from the father complex to money to marriage to maturing confidently into adulthood.

Author: Sherene Schostak, Stefanie Iris Weiss
Paperback: 288 pages
Company: McGraw-Hill (2003-12-03)
ISBN: 0071421963
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A breathtaking look at the most beautiful of all the planets with its magnificent rings and moons. "A delightful coupling of sound expositions and dazzling illustrations."--School Library Journal. A companion to Galaxies and Jupiter.

Author: Seymour Simon
Paperback: 32 pages
Company: HarperCollins (1988-10-26)
ISBN: 0688084044
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An illustrated preview to the Cassini-Huygens mission arriving at Saturn in 2004.

Exploring Saturn is a lively, informative way for students to fully appreciate and understand the Cassini orbiter's historic rendezvous with the ringed planet in 2004. It features Cassini's 4-year mission details including the breakaway Huygens probe that will plummet to Saturn's largest moon, Titan -- the only moon in our solar system with an atmosphere. The data gathered from the Cassini-Huygens mission will help scientists to unravel Saturn's many mysteries, answer questions about Earth's formation, and investigate the possibility of life on other planets.

Exploring Saturn tells the remarkable story of discovering Saturn and its moons. Ancient astronomers estimated with surprising accuracy the distance, weight, and composition of Saturn using little more than observation and elementary physics. The book includes the latest findings from NASA as well as stunning color images from the Hubble Space Telescope, Voyager and Pioneer probes.

Included are practical website resources and a six-year schedule and location guide for backyard observations of the planet. The informative text is lively and conversational-easily accessible by students and amateur astronomers.

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Author: Dan Bortolotti
Hardcover: 64 pages
Company: Firefly Books (2003-09-06)
ISBN: 1552977668
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Author: Helen Orme, David Orme
Paperback: 24 pages
Company: Gareth Stevens Publishing (2007-01-12)
ISBN: 0836881311
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Using recent findings and photographs, presents information about Saturn's atmosphere and geographic features.

Author: Elaine Landau
Paperback: 48 pages
Company: Children's Press(CT) (2008-03)
ISBN: 0531147959
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New views of Saturn -- provided by the Cassini-Huygens probe -- bring an extraordinary planet and its rings and moons into a whole new realm.

Saturn is one of the five planets that star watchers can see with the naked eye. In 1997 the satellite Cassini-Huygens was launched with the sole purpose of studying Saturn and its moons and rings. Cassini is still in orbit, and in 2009 it witnessed Saturn's equinox firsthand, providing an entirely new perspective of the planet and a basis for amazing discoveries.

Cassini has generated enormous scientific interest with its accomplishments so far, including: Landing on Saturn's moon Titan -- scientists now believe Titan possesses many parallels to Earth, including lakes, rivers, channels, dunes, rain, snow, clouds, mountains and possibly volcanoes Recording images of a storm raging across Saturn that has lightning 10,000 times more powerful than any lightning on Earth Discovering there may be as many as 10 million tiny moonlets in Saturn's rings Finding that a newly discovered moon embedded in the planet's G ring may actually be responsible for that ring; before this discovery, scientists believed it was the only ring without an associated moon

Featuring extraordinary photos selected from NASA resources on almost every page, Saturn examines the planet and its place in our universe with a special emphasis on the most recent discoveries of the Cassini probe. These are the closest and most detailed views of Saturn ever.

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Author: Nicole Mortillaro
Hardcover: 96 pages
Company: Firefly Books (2010-09-23)
ISBN: 1554076498
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The telling of mythic stories has always been a powerful form of therapy, bringing healing to people facing adversity. The greatness of Saturn is such a therapeutic myth, told and retold through many centuries. Taken from the East Indian Vedic tradition, it honors the planet Saturn, who personifies time, limitations, loss, and all forms of adversity.

Author: Dr. Robert Svoboda
Paperback: 304 pages
Company: Lotus Press (1997-06-01)
ISBN: 0940985624
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After a journey of seven years and 2.2 billion miles, the spacecraft Cassini, with a probe named Huygens aboard, reached Saturn in July 2004, beginning a four-year tour to observe the remote planet, its rings, and its moons in depth. As a result of the spectacularly succesful Cassini-Huygens mission, photographs of astounding beauty have come streaming back to Earth, together with enough data to keep hundreds of scientists engrossed for decades. Reproduced here, in unprecedented detail and exquisite, high-quality format, are 150 of the best of those images, among them rings from the unlit side never visible from Earth and panoramas of the surface of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.

This breathtaking volume, including authoritative essays on the planetary system and the mission, reveals the planet, its ethereally beautiful rings, and its 40+ moons in ways never before seen or recorded.

“Astonishing, amazing, and personal.”
— Dr. David Livingston

Host, The Space Show

Author: Laura Lovett, Joan Horvath, Jeff Cuzzi
Hardcover: 192 pages Bargain Price
Company: "Harry N. Abrams, Inc." (2006-09-01)
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Was Mercury bigger in the past?
How did Venus change the way people saw the world?
What is happening to Mount Everest, the highest place on Earth?
Does Mars have seasons?
Is there a surface to the planet Jupiter?
Who discovered Saturn’s rings?
What is strange about the way Uranus spins?
What is the coldest place in our solar system? (Hint: It isn’t the planet,)

Learn the answer to these questions and many more fun facts in this group of eight 15-Minute Books. The planets of our solar system have many strange and wonderful things about them. Surprise your friends, and even your parents with these fun facts.

This compilation includes the following 15-minute books:
14 Fun Facts About Mercury
14 Fun Facts About Venus
14 Fun Facts About Earth
14 Fun Facts About Mars
14 Fun Facts About Jupiter
14 Fun Facts About Saturn
14 Fun Facts About Uranus
14 Fun Facts About Neptune

LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day.


Author: Caitlind Alexander, Jeannie Meekins
Kindle Edition: 126 pages Kindle eBook
Company: LearningIsland.com (2011-10-05) (2011-10-05)
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