The Secret Lives of the Planets - Paul Murdin

Category: Education, Science
Language: English
Keywords: Astronomy Factual planets

Written by Paul Murdin
Read by Philip Bird
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

We have the impression that the solar system is perfectly regular like a clock or a planetarium instrument. On a short time scale it is. But seen in a longer perspective, the planets and their satellites have exciting lives, full of events - for example, did you know that Saturn’s moon, Titan, boasts lakes which contain liquid methane surrounded by soaring hills and valleys, exactly as the earth did before life evolved on our fragile planet?