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A Spacecraft Tourof the Solar System

James ZimbelmanCenter for Earth and Planetary Studies

National Air and Space Museum

PIA12824(12/24/10)

PIA12826(2/25/11)

A new storm

PIA06142(11/7/04)

Nature’sCanvas

PIA06254(7/14/05) PIA06247

“TigerStripes”

False-colormosaic Enceladus

(512 km)

Fountains of Water-Ice from the “Tiger Stripes”

PIA07758 & 9(released 12/6/05)

PIA14858(10/1/11)

PIA06141(10/26/04)

Titan(5210 km)D = 1.5M

Lakes and Sand Dunes(radar images of Titan)

PIA08738(9/7/06)

PIA08740(9/23/06)

(frame ~60 km wide)

Liquid Methane Lakes Longitudinal Dunes

PIA07231

PIA07232

Huygens Probe(1/14/05)

Uranus

Voyager 2 (9/86)

Diam. ~4.0E

The planet that rotates on its side!

(Poles: 42 yr sunlight, 42 yr darkness)

Uranus, rings, and satellites(HST) “Sheparding”

satellitesVoyager 2 (9/86)

Arial (1162 km)

Miranda(480 km)

Miranda cliff -> (16 km high!)

Voyager 2 (9/86)

NeptuneDiam. ~3.9E

Voyager 2 (8/89)

The ‘other’ Blue Planet (methane)

Dynamic atmosphere

“Great Dark Spot”

Triton(2705 km)

0.78 M

Voyager 2 (8/89)

Ring ‘Arcs’

Voyager 2 (8/89)

PlutoDiam. ~0.2E

PlutoCharon

HST (2/21/94)

“Double-planet”

(Now a “dwarfplanet”)

(1172 km)0.33 M

6.387 day rotation and revolution

(2284 km)0.66 M

Trans-Neptunian Objects

S&T, 11/07

More Moons around Pluto (HST)

NASA/ESA/Mark Showalter

Nix and Hydra(Discovered 5/05)

Giotto (3/86)

Comet Halley

Comet West (3/10/76)

Kepler1235

‘candidate’extra-solar

planets

Jason Rowe(3/29/11)

Sun