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Our Solar System
These photographs are taken from the NASA
space missions.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/
Our Sun
Microsoft Clip Art
Solar Eclipse 2001
Transit time: 3 hours in Lusaka, Zambia
Total eclipse: 2 sec. short of 3 minutes
Photos of sun taken at 4 different wavelengths of
ultraviolet
Mariner 10
to Venus & Mercury
Mercury
photographic
mosaic
Mercury
with
Sun behind it.
Photographs of the surface of
Mercury
Magellan
Spacecraft
10 August 1990
Venus
Venus -ultraviolet
photograph
• The following sketch was taken from the Jet
Propulsion Lab’s website
• http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html
Ben Zalewski Nov. 2006
• Nicolas Copernicus published the theory
that planets revolve around the sun.
1473 -- 1543
Our Moon
Photographs
of the
Planets
Earth
photograph from
Apollo 16
Gulf of California
Galileo Spacecraft
Australia from Galileo
Earth & Moon from Galileo
Earthrise – Apollo 8
Our Moon
Color
photograph
Apollo 17
Schmitt
Copernicus Crater from Hubble
90 km
Moon: dark side
from Russian Luna3
New Moon
10 June 2002
Mars Global
Surveyor (MGS)
1996 to 2006
240,000 photos
Mars
photograph
4 views of surface
Mars
19 June 1976
Mars surface
Olympus Mons
largest volcano in solar system
3D generated image
Valles Marinesis
3,200 km
Galileo being
launched
Jupiter
Jupiter
and its
moon,
Io
Several Moons
of Jupiter
(43 are named)
Callisto
Europa
Amalthea
Ganymede
Saturn --
view from Hubble
Saturn:
infrared image
Voyager spacecraft
B-rings of Saturn
From Voyager Nov. 2006
Asteroids Gaspra & Ida
Moon,
Dactyl
Uranus
Giant
gas
planet
Ultra-violet
photo
Hubble Space Telescope
Taken from
shuttle after
deployment
Neptune
Another giant
gas planet
Neptune from Mariner Spacecraft
Clouds above Neptune
Triton -- one of Neptune’s moons
Neptune N-rings
Pluto
2 photographs
Pluto and its satellite, Charon
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