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Journey Around the Sun: The Story of Halley's Comet
By James Gladstone, Yaara Eshet. 2021
Printbraille
Ancient history, General non-fiction, Science and technology, Adventure and exploration
Human-transcribed braille
Halley’s Comet tells its own history in this unique STEM book
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Impact!: Asteroids and the Science of Saving the World
By Elizabeth Rusch, Karin Anderson. 2017
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Careers and job hunting, Science and technology, Nature
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Asteroids bombard our atmosphere all the time. Some are harmless, burning up in a flash of light. But others explode…
with a great sonic boom, smashing windows and throwing people to the ground. Worst of all, some asteroids strike our planet, blasting out massive craters and destroying everything nearby on impact. Follow the award-winning author Elizabeth Rusch into the field with scientists as they search for dangerous asteroids in space, study asteroids that have smashed into the ground, and make plans to prevent an asteroid strike if one ever threatens our planet.
Mission to Pluto: The First Visit to an Ice Dwarf and the Kuiper Belt
By Mary Kay Carson, Tom Uhlman. 2017
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Careers and job hunting, Science and technology
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
In July of 2015 a robotic spacecraft reached Pluto after a nine-and-half-year journey. New Horizons is the first spacecraft mission…
to Pluto and revealed its five moons as never before seen. Images from the mission show a reddish surface covered in ice-water mountains, moving glaciers, and hints of possible ice volcanoes and an underground ocean. Pluto is geologically alive and changing! This addition to the Scientists in the Field series goes where no person or spacecraft has ever gone before. Follow along with the team of scientists as they build New Horizons, fly it across the solar system, and make new discoveries about a world three billion miles away.