According to the planets, light

Guidebooks are a special variety of literature, where the reader himself acts as the main character. Guidebooks not only help to make a route, but also allow you to make a trip in dreams and plans in advance. Actually, a real journey is often only the addition and embodiment of these fantasies, an application to the guide.

Such a guide format for the solar system was chosen for the story about the planets two foreign astronomers - Olivia Koski and Yana Grssevich. The “Space Tourist Guide” was made on the model of a conventional guide, with traditional descriptions of attractions and a bunch of useful tips.

And there are enough attractions, of course. In ordinary encyclopedias, you can read about many of them, but such abstract knowledge quickly disappears from the head. It is different here: stories about craters and other people's atmospheres are impressive and remembered.

For example, Mount Olympus on Mars is a long -extras, the highest in the solar system of the volcano, it rises by 27 km. Everest in comparison with him is like a hut next to a nine -story building. Such information is trivial, but the detail that will revive them: a trip to Olympus with the rise and descent will take a whole month from the tourist.

Or a curious detail about Jupiter. Even before he becomes visible, the tourist will hear him: a few weeks before arriving at the planet, at a distance of 5.6 million km, Jupiter’s magnetic field becomes tangible, and the radio will catch the noise - a hoarse, obsessive and unfriendly “Jupiter Voice”.

Everyone knows about pressure on Venus, but here is a detail that helps to understand this feature. A space tourist is offered an attraction on Venus: lower the plastic bottle down. Once in a high -pressure zone, it will burst, as if crushed by an elephant, and if it descends even lower, it will melt.

The result was a funny and useful book, replete with interesting memorable information. They go well with the irony of the authors: " If you return from the trip to be alive, the memories will be enough for the rest of your life ."

Anton Nelikhov