A Diverse Solar System “The solar system used to be a simple place, before any spacecraft ventured forth from the Earth … But 30 years of planetary exploration have replaced the simple picture with a far more complex image. ‘The most striking outcome of planetary exploration is the diversity of the planets,’ says planetary physicist David Stevenson of the California Institute of Technology. Ross Taylor of the Australian National University agrees: ‘If you look at all the planets and the 60 or so satellites [moons] , it’s very hard to find two that are the same,’ “--Richard Kerr, “The Solar System’s New Diversity,” Science 265, September 2, 1994, p. 1360 --Quoted in Vance Ferrell, The Evolution Handbook, (Altamont, TN: Evolution Facts, Inc., 2001), 99.
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