{"id":723,"date":"2020-03-06T06:50:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T14:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=723"},"modified":"2020-03-05T16:12:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T00:12:34","slug":"dr-maggies-grand-tour-of-the-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/dr-maggies-grand-tour-of-the-solar-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Maggie&#8217;s Grand Tour of the Solar System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/drmaggiesgrandtour_0-595x769.jpg?resize=525%2C679&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"679\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10798\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781684640348?aff=anasuen09\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.indiebound.org\/files\/indiebound\/images\/banners\/indiesRed2_161x41_10-26-15.png?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Support Independent Bookstores - Visit IndieBound.org\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.myubam.com\/p\/8190\/dr-maggies-grand-tour-of-the-solar-system\">Dr. Maggie&#8217;s Grand Tour of the Solar System<\/a><br \/>\nby Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock (Author) and Chelen \u00c9cija (Illustrator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Just how much would it cost to colonize Mars? Could a human survive on the blistering-hot surface of Venus? Space scientist Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock takes readers on the trip of a light-speed lifetime &#8212; from the proximity of the surface of our very own planet to the furthest sectors of the Solar System.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dr-maggie-interior-595x387.png?resize=525%2C341&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"341\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10801\" \/><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dr-maggie-interior-2-595x387.png?resize=525%2C341&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"341\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10802\" \/><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dr-mag-int-3-595x387.png?resize=525%2C341&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"341\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10803\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-889\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stemfriday.tiny_.jpg?resize=216%2C104\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"104\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/\">STEM Friday!<\/a> (<strong>STEM<\/strong> is <strong>S<\/strong>cience, <strong>T<\/strong>echnology, <strong>E<\/strong>ngineering, and <strong>M<\/strong>athematics)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Maggie&#8217;s Grand Tour of the Solar System by Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock (Author) and Chelen \u00c9cija (Illustrator) Booktalk: Just how much would it cost to colonize Mars? Could a human survive on the blistering-hot surface of Venus? Space scientist Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock takes readers on the trip of a light-speed lifetime &#8212; from the proximity &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/dr-maggies-grand-tour-of-the-solar-system\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dr. Maggie&#8217;s Grand Tour of the Solar System&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem-friday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pamhGQ-bF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":175,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/maggie-alaskas-last-elephant\/","url_meta":{"origin":723,"position":0},"title":"Maggie, Alaska&#8217;s Last Elephant","author":"Sue Heavenrich","date":"January 4, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Maggie, Alaska's Last Elephant by Jennifer Keats Curtis; illus. by Phyllis Saroff 32 pages; ages 4-9 Arbordale, 2018 Like us, elephants need family and friends. 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