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DASCH, P. (ed.) 2004. Icy Worlds of the Solar System.

xiv + 202 pp. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. Price £30.00, US $45.00 (hard covers). ISBN 0 521 64048 2.

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The arrival of the Cassini–Huygens mission to remote Titan was another eye-opener. What would the lander see? Ethane oceans, and maybe, just maybe, an analogue of a whale disporting itself and bellowing into the methane rain? The reality was, in the end, more familiar, a very cold world but active and not entirely unlike the Earth. It was a useful reminder that we know far too little about our Solar System and while there is the wonderful, there is also the prosaic. And what could be more straightforward than ice, which forms the connecting theme of this useful volume where seven leading authorities take us from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, beyond including the trillions of comets that roam at least half way to the nearest star. It is a grand theme, and while the continuity does not . . . [Full Text of this Article]