We leave the air we know behind to confront the strange and violent skies of our solar system.

Dr. Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander guides us through the crushing pressures, toxic clouds, and thin vapors that define the planets and moons, shaping how we explore them.

•Confront the hellish world of Venus, where the atmosphere crushes with 92 times the pressure of Earth's, the sun rises in the west, and a single day lasts longer than an entire year.

•Understand why Mars's thin, carbon dioxide-rich air, while incapable of supporting life, is actually an ideal environment for landing and operating robotic rovers on the surface.

•Gaze into the Great Red Spot of Jupiter, a storm larger than our entire planet, and learn how the gas giants' immense atmospheres act as laboratories for extreme weather.

•Discover how moons like Titan and Enceladus, with their methane lakes and water-ice geysers, are rewriting the rules of what we consider a potentially habitable environment.

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