We have the impression that the solar system is perfectly regular like a clock or a planetarium instrument.
On a short timescale it is.
But, seen in a longer perspective, the planets, and their satellites, have exciting lives, full of events.
For example, did you know that Saturn's moon, Titan, boasts lakes which contain liquid methane surrounded by soaring hills and valleys, exactly as the earth did before life evolved on our fragile planet? Or that Mercury is the shyest planet? Or,.
Pegasus Books The secret lives of planets: order, chaos, and uniqueness in the solar system, hardcover/paul murdin
