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Solar System Live

Chapter 1 - Observing the Sky: The Birth of Astronomy

Crab Nebula -- The Movie
Apollo Lunar Surface Journal
Galileo's experiments on the Moon
Map of the Moon

Chapter 2 - Orbits & Gravity

Kepler

Links to Other Sites Relating to Kepler
Kepler
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)

Brahe

Brahe, Tycho
Neft's Tycho Brahe Homepage in English
Tycho Brahe

Newton

Newton, Isaac (1642-1727)
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
Newton's life

Chapter 3 - Earth, Moon, & Sky

Solar Eclipse on August 11, 1999
Total Solar Eclipse of 1999 August 11
NASA - Eclipse 99

Chapter 4 - Radiation and Spectra

Supernova Remnant Example Spectra
Learning from Light Educational Home Page
STIS RECORDS A BLACK HOLE'S SIGNATURE (http)
HDF (ftp)
STIS observes black hole (ftp)

Chapter 5 - Astronomical Instruments

About HST
preflight testing of HST
deployment of HST
HST technical overview
The HST Focal Plane and the GHRS Apertures
FOC PSF before and after COSTAR
WFPC image before and after costar
FOC image before and after costar
Hubble Uncovers Brilliant Star in Milky Way's Core (NICMOS)
Hubble's Sharpest View Of Mars (WFPC2)
FIREWORKS NEAR A BLACK HOLE IN THE CORE OF SEYFERT GALAXY NGC 4151 (STIS)
Hubble Separates Stars In The Mira Binary System (FOC)
Proposed NGST Designs
NGST Potential Launch Vehicles
NGST Orbits
Description of AXAF-I (ACIS)
GRO
Compton Gamma Ray Observatory Information
SOHO - The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
EIT Image Gallery (SOHO)
LASCO Movies (SOHO)
The Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope
NOAO Telescopes and Instruments

Chapter 6 - Other Worlds: An Introduction to the Solar System

Planetary Nomenclature Introduction TOC
HST Images by Subject

Planet Formation Around Other Stars

STScI- PRC99-21 Hubble Picture Adds to Planet-Making Recipe
STScI- PR99-05: Vast Stellar Disks Set Stage for Planet Birth in New Hubble Images
Orion Nebula Mosaic and Protoplanetary Disks

Chapter 7 - Earth as a Planet

Regional Geophysics Section
Terrestrial Impact Craters
Ice Ages and Glaciation Part IV
Moving Towards Life
The Earth's Atmosphere
The Earth's Magnetosphere
What is the Magnetosphere?
Earthquake zones [This Dynamic Earth, USGS]
GIF image 793x350 pixels
NEIC Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics
Seismic Waves
Earth's Interior & Plate Tectonics
Spacelink - Earth Images From Space
JPEG image of Earth from space
another JPEG image of Earth from space
Home Page of VolcanoWorld
USGS National Earthquake Information Center: Earthquake Information for the World
NEIC: GENERAL EARTHQUAKE INFORMATION
NEIC: Plate Tectonics

Chapter 8 - Cratered Worlds: The Moon and Mercury

Mercury

Mercury
TRACE Mercury Transit
Mercury
Mercury Nomenclature Table of Contents
MESSENGER
PSR Discoveries: Hot Idea: Mercury Unveiled
Ice on Mercury

Moon

Regional Geophysics Section
BBC News | Sci/Tech | Moon not quite dead
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/1999/99-119.txt
Clementine
Ice on the Moon
Apollo & Skylab
Apollo Project
The Moon
Cascades Volcano Observatory HOME PAGE
Top 10 Scientific Discoveries from Apollo
Lunar Prospector Homepage
Impact Crater Geology and Structure

Chapter 9 - Earth-like Planets: Venus and Mars

Mars

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/1999/99-114.txt
Mars Global Surveyor MOC2-180 - MOC2-183 Release MENU
Mars Exploration Timeline
Mars Pathfinder Mission
Mars Pathfinder - Mars - Thumbnails
Meteorite Yields Evidence of Primitive Life on Early Mars
Terraforming
Mars Pathfinder Fact Sheet
Mars Global Surveyor - Science

Venus

NSSDC Photo Gallery: Venus

Chapter 10 - The Giant Planets

Voyager Project Home Page
CNN - Scientists: Eclipse proves existence of planet light years away - November 13, 1999

Saturn

CNN - The Cassini Mission - 1997
SATURN IMAGES
Cassini

Neptune

University of California News Release
NEPTUNE IMAGES
Neptune

Uranus

Hubble Space Telescope Images by Subject: Solar System
URANUS IMAGES
Uranus
Uranus

Jupiter

BBC News | Sci/Tech | By Jupiter! Confusion over planet
Comet Shoemaker-Levy Home Page (JPL)
Galileo Project: Jupiter
Internet Galileo Resources
Galileo Images and Animations

Chapter 11 - Rings, Moons, and Pluto

Rings

Neptune

Neptune's Ring System

Uranus

The Uranian Ring System

Saturn

Saturn's Ring System
Saturn closeup
Another Saturn closeup

Jupiter

Jupiter's Ring System

Saturn's Satellites

Titan

Probe

Jupiter's Satellites

Galileo Images and Animations

Io

Io images from Galileo

Europa

Europa Fact Sheet
Europa images from Galileo
Hubble Finds Oxygen Atmosphere on Europa
Europa zoom in false color

Ganymede

Ganymede images from Galileo

Callisto

Callisto structure
Callisto Fact Sheet
Callisto 3 Quick-Look Orbit Facts
Voyager Image of Callisto
Callisto as seen by Voyager 2
Callisto images from Galileo

Uranus' Satellites

Uranus' Moon Miranda
Uranus' Moon Ariel
Uranus' Moon Titania
Uranus' Moon Umbriel
Uranus' Moon Oberon
Uranus' New Moons

Neptune's Satellites

Triton

Triton

Pluto

Ice & Fire Preprojects: Pluto-Kuiper Express
Pluto
NSSDC Photo Gallery: Pluto
HST Images of the Surface of Pluto

Chapter 12 - Comets and Asteroids: Debris of the Solar System

A mystery revolves around the sun

Asteroids

Impact of an Asteroid off the New York Coast
The Galileo Gaspra Images
The Galileo Ida Images
Asteroid Introduction
Asteroids
951 Gaspra
243 Ida
Near-Earth Asteroid 3753 Cruithne

Comets

Comet Hale-Bopp Home Page (JPL)
Links to Other Comet Hyakutake Pages
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Collision with Jupiter
3D Comet Impact Simulations
Top 20 Comet Shoemaker-Levy Images

Chapter 13 - Cosmic Samples and the Origin of the Solar System

A Dusty Ring May Be the Tell-Tale Mark of an Emerging Planetary System

Meteors

Leonid hits the Moon, November 17, 1999
A Leonid on the Moon?
Meteor shower schematic

Origins of Solar System

A Dusty Ring May Be the Tell-Tale Mark of an Emerging Planetary System
STScI- PR99-03
Star-Birth in M16
Orion Nebula Mosaic and Protoplanetary Disks
Warped Disk in Beta Pictoris

Meteorites

The Big Signal Project
Robot joins the polar meteorite hunt
Meteorites and Their Properties
ANSMET - The Antarctic Search for Meteorites
Meteorites, Impactites and Tektites for Science, Education and Collectors
Meteorites
Meteorite Impacts
The Peekskill Fireball
Meteorites, Meteorites and Impacts
Tunguska - the Cosmic Mystery of the Century

Chapter 14 - The Sun: A Garden-Variety Star

SXT
| DATA CENTER | T R A C E on-line |
Stanford SOLAR Center
SOHO - The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
National Solar Observatory / Sacramento Peak, Solar, Physics, Astronomy
Ulysses/NASA Home Page

Chapter 15 (new edition) - The Search for Planets and Life Elsewhere

Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
SFSU Extrasolar Planets Search planets around stars doppler search for planets discovery of planets brown dwarfs and planets new worlds
CNN - Technology - More than one way to make a planet, scientists theorize - December 8, 1999