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Exploring Saturn
Cover Exploring Saturn
Author: Dan Bortolotti
Publisher: Firefly Books
Product: Book (64 pages)
Ages: 9 to 13
Cost: $9.95
Author Dan Bortolotti navigates readers through the history of Saturn-gazing to the current crop of high-tech craft bombing their way through space right now.
    From a macro-view from Earth, he zooms right to the very core of Saturn, not to mention skimming along next to the rings’ particles. Exploring Saturn is a good example of how science is like a set of steps—start at the bottom and just keep climbing!
Jenna Gubbels

Reviewer: Morgan Englebretsen
Age: 11

The book looks very inviting to read: its cover has a beautiful picture of the Cassini spacecraft passing across the rings of Saturn. The book is full of great photos, illustrations, and charts.
    Even though all the planets are interesting, Saturn seems the most interesting because of its rings and number of moons. I enjoyed the sections of the book telling about the history of how Saturn was discovered and the astronomers who were involved.
    I learned a lot about the Voyager missions to Saturn and the Cassini-Huygens mission, which will reach Saturn in July. The Huygens probe will land on the moon Titan in January 2005. I can’t wait to see what they find.
I had lots of fun reading the book. I kept stopping my father and reading parts out loud to him. I wouldn’t change anything. The book is extremely interesting and very informative. Out of a score of 10, I give it a 9. Okay: 10! The one word I would use to describe Exploring Saturn is fascinating.

(Originally published in the May/June 2004 issue of YES Mag.)


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Last updated May 3, 2004.