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…
- Snowballs in Hell – Mercury (Chapter 20)
- Life in the Dark – Earth & Europa? (Chapter 35)
- Supreme Sun (Chapter 47)
- Longest Lived Storm – Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (Chapter 11)
- Those Lovely Rings – Saturn (Chapter 21)
- Stinkiest Place – The Rotten Egg of Io (Chapter 36)
- The Hardest Rain – Diamond Hail on Uranus and Neptune (Chapter 15)
- Deepest Ocean – Europa (Chapter 6)
- Tallest Mountain – Olympus Mons (Chapter 1)
- Extreme Earth (Chapter 50)