Max Goes to Jupiter

Max Goes to Jupiter is the latest book in the Big Kid Science series “Science Adventures with Max the Dog.” Max and his friends begin their adventure with a ride 100,000 kilometers straight up on the amazing Space Elevator — a concept that might really be developed. They then travel to Jupiter, where they drop a probe into Jupiter’s atmosphere and visit the volcanically active moon Io and the ice-encrusted moon Europa. On Europa, Max helps find the spot where the crew can send a submarine through the ice and into the ocean below. As in all Big Kid Science books, the sides of the pages feature Big Kid Boxes that clearly explain the “behind the scenes” science. Max Goes to Jupiter also carries a message of hope and inspiration for the human race: The multinational crew looks back at the past from the vantage point of a future in which wars no longer occur, while their discovery of simple life on Europa helps everyone appreciate the far greater diversity of life that we have here on our own world.