Provides a new look at the Solar System made possible by recent exciting missions such as Cassini as well as by other probes and by Earth-based imagingReveals a large collection of weird and very wonderful objects that, like us, are trapped by the Sun’s gravitational pullKey information is provided in an easily accessible formatIce, Rock, and Beautyis a book for anybody who lives in the solar neighborhood, and takes an interest in its significance to us as residents.Human experience of the Solar System is changing rapidly. Techniques of observation from Earth-based telescopes continue to develop, while missions such as Voyager, Galileo, Cassini, and the Hubble Space Telescope have yielded many stunning images.So although most people have some knowledge of the essential structure of the Solar System, relatively few are familiar with the amazing diversity of objects that travel with and amongst the planets in their journeys around the Sun.The book gathers images from a rich pool, many from national and international organizations such as NASA and ESA, some directly from academic astronomers, and a few from private individuals. Together they tell a story of the Solar System, and of its beauty, that has not been told before.