Our Solar System (An Introductory Tour). Solar System Formation Thanks to Mary Oshana.

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Our Solar System (An Introductory Tour)

Solar System Formation Thanks to Mary Oshana

Our Favorite Star

The Terrestrial Planets Mercury Venus Earth Mars

Mercury

Venus - Clouds

Venus - Surface

Venus from Clementine

Venus Transits the Sun

Earth

Mars

Valles Marineris

Olympus Mons

The Asteroid Belt

Eros – an Asteroid

The Gas Giants Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune

Jupiter

Great Red Spot

Jupiter’s Rings – dust

Jupiter’s Rings and Small Moons

Jupiter’s Big Moons (Galileo)

Jupiter’s Magnetic Field

Jupiter’s X-ray Auroras

Saturn

Fly Around Saturn

Saturn’s Rings – mostly ice

Spokes in the Rings

Titan – a moon of Saturn

Uranus

Neptune

Pluto – a dwarf planet Pluto is weird. It’s not very big, and its orbit is very strange. It’s not a gas giant – it seems to be made of rock and ice. Maybe it was captured by Neptune. Some astronomers say it isn’t really a planet.

Pluto (seen from Charon)

How Big is Pluto ?

WHAT’S OUT THERE BEYOND PLUTO ??

Trans-Neptune Objects (TNOs) Thanks to Marty Mulroe

Eris – a dwarf planet (formerly 2003 UB313)

Eris and Dysnomia Thanks to Marty Mulroe

Sedna (Nov 2003)

Oort Cloud = Comets

Orbit of a Comet

Comet

Tail of a Comet