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"The Helios Project is a top-secret experiment to harness the sun's power to create a virtually limitless new energy source. When an enormous solar flare overwhelms the project's containment system, it unleashes swirling magnetic vortexes that consume anything metallic in their path. The magnetized funnels act like huge buzz saws, pulverizing cars, buildings and entire towns in their wake. The destruction only makes them grow stronger, and as these giant magnetic tornadoes spread across three continents, it seems mankind is powerless to stop them"--Container.
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The solar system, of which Earth is but a small part, is an amazing collection of bodies, ranging in size from the Sun, through the giant planet Jupiter, to specks of dust left over from the primordial nebula from which the solar system emerged. Excluding the Sun, the eight major planets, together with several dwarf planets and at least 160 orbiting natural satellites, form the main mass of the system. These are made from an amalgam of silicate, metal, ice, and gas. Introducing the Planets and Their Moons describes the characteristics and geological development of the eight large planetary bodies and their more substantial moons. This includes discussion of their orbital properties, magnetic fields, atmospheres, and mutual interactions. Rather than deal with the system planet by planet, the book's approach is comparative. Thus, one chapter deals with planetary orbits, another with planetary differentiation, and a third with volcanism. This enables the reader to perceive immediately how
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