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photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov A Spacecraft Tour of the Solar System James Zimbelman Center 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’s Canvas

PIA06254 (7/14/05) PIA06247 “Tiger Stripes” False-color mosaic 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 LakesLongitudinal 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” satellites Voyager 2 (9/86)

Arial (1162 km) Miranda (480 km) Miranda cliff -> (16 km high!) Voyager 2 (9/86)

Neptune Diam. ~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)

Pluto Diam. ~0.2E Pluto Charon HST (2/21/94) “Double-planet” (Now a “dwarf planet”) (1172 km) 0.33 M 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)

Kepler 1235 ‘candidate’ extra-solar planets Jason Rowe (3/29/11) Sun

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