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