[First, a brief update on the October 21st post on Tutankhamun\u2019s tomb: radar scanning in late November gave researchers 90 percent confidence that there is more to the burial chamber beyond its interior walls; they\u2019ll investigate further over the next few months.]<\/p>\n
What with one incredible photograph after another coming back from Pluto over these past several months, it\u2019s a good time to check out space exploration resources! Books yet to be published will have plenty of information about Pluto and its moons, but for right now, the best source of new information on Pluto is NASA\u2019s New Horizons website:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/newhorizons\/main\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n We also have some excellent titles on other aspects of the solar system and the universe. This next title is a good general reference for the solar system (although the New Horizons Pluto flyby, along with other recent missions, will certainly require a new edition soon):<\/p>\n REF QB501.E53 2007 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Encyclopedia of the Solar System, 2nd ed. (2007)<\/p>\n In addition, we\u00a0have atlases concerning Mars exploration, the Galilean Moons of Jupiter, our own moon, and other planets and moons. You can find links to these following three ebooks by searching on their titles in the Library Catalog:<\/p>\n eBook \u00a0 \u00a0 The international Atlas of Mars Exploration: Vol. 1, 1953 to 2003 (2012)<\/p>\n eBook \u00a0 \u00a0 Atlas of the Galilean Satellites (2010)<\/p>\n eBook \u00a0 \u00a0 Photographic Atlas of the Moon (2002)<\/p>\n The non-photographic Times Atlas of the Moon can be found in the Oversize Collection, as well as in one of the Reference Collection atlas cases.<\/p>\n OVR QB595.U49 1969 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Times Atlas of the Moon<\/p>\n One of our most recent titles covers the just-ending Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn, including information on the giant geysers on the ice moon Enceladus, Titan, Saturn\u2019s rings, and much more:<\/p>\n QB671.M45 2015 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0The Cassini-Huygens Visit to Saturn (2015)<\/p>\n QB means Astronomy in the Library of Congress call number system, so you can find interesting books on everything from asteroids to galaxies just by browsing the QBs in the Reference, General, and Oversize collections; the NAS section for NASA in the Government Documents section also has some very interesting works, such as this periodical that is available both in print and online:<\/p>\n