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''The 50 Most Extreme Places in Our Solar System'' is the title of Popular Science book by David Baker, professor of physics at Austin College and Todd Ratcliff, a planetary geophysicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. ==Table of Contents== The book is divided into nine sections with a few chapters in each section. The divisions are roughly phenomenological. * Surface and Interior : - Tallest Mountain – Olympus Mons : - Coldest Volcano – Cryovolcanos : - A Truly “Grand” Canyon – Valles Marineris : - Movers and Shakers – Plate Tectonics : - Ooh! That’ll Leave a Mark – Extreme Impact Craters * Oceans & Water & Ice, Oh My! : - Deepest Ocean – Europa : - Best Surf Spot – Earth : - Biggest Ice Cubes – Saturn’s Icy Moons : - Jekyll and Hyde of the Solar System – Dirty, Icy Comets : - The Sky is Falling! – The Dry Ice Caps of Mars * Wild Wild Weather : - Longest Lived Storm – Jupiter’s Great Red Spot : - An Ill and Still Wind Bloweth – Hurricanes on Earth : - Wildly Wicked Winds of Neptune : - Best Vacuum Cleaner – Martian Dust Devils : - The Hardest Rain – Diamond Hail on Uranus and Neptune * Extreme Climates : - Biggest, Baddest Babies of Climate – El Niño and La Niña : - But It’s a Dry Heat – Runaway Greenhouse of Venus : - Dirtiest Climate Change – Global Dust Storms on Mars : - Most Bizarre Seasons – Uranus : - Snowballs in Hell – Mercury * Rings and Things : - Those Lovely Rings – Saturn : - Billions and Billions of Bodies – The Oort Cloud : - When Comets Attack – Shoemaker-Levy 9 : - The Planet That Wasn’t – The Asteroid Belt : - Earth Shattering Impact – Birth of Our Moon? * Electro Magneto Extremo : - Super Twisted Magnet – Our Sun : - Blowing a Bubble in Space – The Solar Wind : - Biggest Plasma Screen – Jupiter’s Magnetosphere : - Most Radical Electric Light Shows – Aurorae on Earth and Jupiter : - Shocking Superbolts of Saturn * Life : - Juuust Right! – Earth’s Abundant Life : - Death from Above – The Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event : - Life from Above – Alien Origins : - Little Green. . .Microbes? – Possible Life on Mars : - Life in the Dark – Earth & Europa? * The Wack Pack : - Stinkiest Place – The Rotten Egg of Io : - Best Fuel Depot – Titan : - Problematic Planethood – Pluto : - Most Retro – Venus & Triton : - Most Misinterpreted “Artifact”– The Face on Mars : - One-Eyed Monster and the Hex of Saturn : - FrankenMoon – Miranda : - As Sure as Sunrise? – Hyperion’s Chaotic Rotation : - The Incredible Shrinking Planet – Mercury : - A Perfect Fit – Solar Eclipses on Earth : - Strangest Life Form – Humans * Sum of Extreme Parts : - Supreme Sun : - Giant Jupiter : - Sexy Saturn : - Extreme Earth 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The 50 Most Extreme Places in Our Solar System」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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