The grand tour: a traveler's guide to the solar system

Part 1. The major worlds. Jupiter, planet of the gods

Saturn, lord of the rings

Uranus, a sideways world

Neptune, the last giant

Earth, it's alive

Venus, the veiled inferno

Mars, the other earth-like world

Ganymede, a new wrinkle

Titan, the masked moon

Mercury, child of the sun

Callisto, Jupiter's battered moon

Io, a world turning inside out

The moon, Earth's companion

Europa, the solar system's secret ocean

Triton, a world out of place

Pluto and Charon, a double world

Titania and Oberon, largest moons of Uranus

Rhea, crater-crowded moon of Saturn

Sedna, at the outer limits

2004 DW, Pluto's rival

Iapetus, the two-faced moon of Saturn

Umbriel and Ariel, midsized moons of Uranus

Dione and Tethys, midsized moons of Saturn

1 Ceres, the largest asteroid

Part 2. Selected smaller worlds. Enceladus, the resurfaced moon of Saturn

4 Vesta, a lava-covered asteroid

Miranda, Uranus's reassembled moon?

Mimas, Saturn's reassembled moon?

Nereid, a captured moon of Neptune?

624 Hektor, largest compound asteroid?

Amalthea, football-shaped moon of Jupiter

2060 Chiron, the king of the comets

5145 Pholus, fugitive from the Kuiper Belt

Janus and Epimetheus, co-orbital satellites of Saturn

Thebe, under the volcanoes

Naiad, within Neptune's rings

Comet P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1, a comet with intermittent outbursts

433 Eros, the first asteroid landing

243 Ida and its moon, an asteroid with a bonus

Phobos and Deimos, moonlets of Mars

Halley's Comet, the most famous of them all

1221 Amor and 1862 Apollo, planet-approaching asteroids

4769 Castalia and 4179 Toutatis, Apollo asteroids of curious shapes

Asteroid 6178, heavy metal in the sky

3908 NYX, a piece of Vesta

1991 BA, the cosmic shooting gallery

Part 3. Beyond the solar system. Planetary systems beyond the Sun.