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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
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 10to 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
Nicolas Copernicus published the theory that planets revolve
around the sun.
1473 -- 1543
Our Moon
Photographs of the Planets
Earthphotograph from Apollo
16
Galileo Spacecraft
Australia from Galileo
Earth & Moon from Galileo
Earthrise – Apollo 8
Our Moon
Apollo 17
90 km
Copernicus Crater from Hubble
Moon: dark sidefrom Russian Luna3
New Moon 10 June 2002
Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
1996 to 2006
Mars
4 views of surface
Mars
Mars surface
Olympus Monslargest volcano in solar system
3D generated image
3,200 km
Valles Marinesis
Galileo being
launched
Jupiter
Jupiter and its moon, Io
Several Moons of Jupiter (43 are named)
Callisto
Europa
Ganymede
Amalthea
Saturn -- view from Hubble
Saturn: infrared image
Voyager spacecraft
B-rings of Saturn
From Voyager Nov. 2006
Asteroids:
Gaspra
Ida
Uranus
Giant gas
planet
Hubble Space Telescope
Neptune
Another giant gas planet
Neptune from Mariner Spacecraft
Clouds above Neptune
Tritonone of Neptune’s
moons
Neptune N-rings
Pluto
Pluto and its satellite, Charon