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Best books to learn Planetary science, in order

Planetary science is interdisciplinary—geology, atmospheric physics, chemistry—so a good order gives you the formation story first as the thread that ties it together. Start with how planets and the solar system formed, then comparative geology and atmospheres across worlds and moons, then the frontier of exploration and exoplanets, so each new body illuminates the processes rather than piling on facts.

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