'Vacation Guide to the Solar System': An Awesome Travel Book in Pictures

In space, you wear clothing as long as possible but then dispose of it rather than doing laundry. To tour the solar system, you’ll be spending a lot of travel time in your space capsule.

Visit the moon’s vast Tycho Crater.

Baseball on the moon is a fun (and challenging) pastime in the universe of “Vacation Guide to the Solar System.”

On Mercury, the terminator line separating night and day is a fascinating location — just don’t get caught on the sunny side.

Venus’ upper atmosphere is the spot in the solar system with temperature and pressure most like Earth’s. It’s the perfect place for floating cities, as long as you’ve prepared for the corrosive clouds.

Venus’ surface, on the other hand, is far too hot and high-pressure to visit for long. Probes rarely last long, and exploration would take a very heavy-duty vehicle.

Mars’ moon Phobos is the closer and larger of the Red Planet’s two moons, featuring very low gravity and a stunning view of Mars. You have to travel at 25 mph (41 km/h) to reach escape velocity from this moon, though, so don’t worry about jumping all the way off.

Gravity on Mars is a little more than one-third of Earth’s, giving a helpful boost to anyone exploring the Red Planet’s striking canyons.

Look toward Jupiter’s north pole for its stunning aurora display.

Go diving in the intriguing sea below the ice of Jupiter’s moon Europa.

Your trip to Jupiter and its Galilean moons may be cut short by an untimely death from radiation poisoning.

Saturn’s enormous north pole hexagon makes for an intriguing landmark.

Tourist season on Uranus comes every 42 Earth years, according to “Vacation Guide to the Solar System” — when one pole faces the sun and the other is shrouded in shadow.

A popular pastime on Uranus, in the world of the book, is to jump down through the gases of the planet’s atmosphere.

Neptune’s dramatic cloudscape hosts the fastest winds in the solar system.

If you plan to visit Pluto, the next time it’ll be nearing its closest point to Earth will come in 2237.

Be sure to explore Pluto’s imposing, pink Al-Idrisi mountains and the planet’s extensive glaciers.

Or go skiing on Pluto; it works best on the dwarf planet’s methane snowcaps. A typical jump could launch you 24 feet in the air, but it’ll take a while to build up speed. Wherever you go, though, enjoy your journey.