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DID YOU KNOW…

✴ Lightning bolts on Earth are about the thickness of a banana, but Saturn’s shocking superbolts may be as wide as the Eiffel Tower?

✴ Life on Earth may have originated from biological building blocks from outer space?

✴ The stinkiest place in the Solar System isn’t your brother’s bedroom but rather Jupiter’s funky moon Io?

These are just a few of the remarkable phenomena that we explore in our award-winning book The 50 Most Extreme Places in Our Solar System. Generously illustrated with explanatory figures and stunning NASA photographs, this fun popular science book is an intimate, smart, and eye-opening look at our corner of the galaxy, sure to fascinate anyone who has ever looked up at the sky and wondered what it’s like out there.

Buy the Book!

The 50 Most Extreme Places in Our Solar System has been published in four languages: English (Harvard University Press), German (Rowohlt Verlag), Korean (Thenan Publishing), and Japanese (Asakura Publishing).

The book is now available electronically, exclusively on Amazon Kindle.

Meet the Authors

Authors David Baker and Todd Ratcliff surfing “big waves” in Manhattan Beach, California. Good surfers don’t even bother getting in the water under such terrifying conditions.

Extreme Acclaim

The 50 Most Extreme Places in Our Solar System has been critically acclaimed by Scientific American, Discover, Wired.com, National Geographic, Science News, Astronomy Now, and many more!

Readers’ Poll

In the book, we chose not to rank the most extreme places from 1 to 50. Instead, we asked the readers to vote for their top extreme places.

The results are in! The Readers’ Top 10 Most Extreme Places are…