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1 Our Solar System

2 These photographs are taken from the NASA space missions. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/

3 Our Sun Microsoft Clip Art

4 Solar Eclipse 2001 Transit time: 3 hours in Lusaka, Zambia Total eclipse: 2 sec. short of 3 minutes

5 Photos of sun taken at 4 different wavelengths of ultraviolet

6 Mariner 10 to Venus & Mercury

7 Mercury photographic mosaic

8 Mercury with Sun behind it.

9 Photographs of the surface of Mercury

10 Magellan Spacecraft 10 August 1990

11 Venus

12 Venus -- ultraviolet photograph

13 The following sketch was taken from the Jet Propulsion Lab’s websiteThe following sketch was taken from the Jet Propulsion Lab’s website http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/index.htmlhttp://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html Ben Zalewski Nov. 2006

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15 Nicolas Copernicus published the theory that planets revolve around the sun.Nicolas Copernicus published the theory that planets revolve around the sun. 1473 -- 1543

16 Photographs of the Planets Our Moon

17 Earth photograph from Apollo 16 Gulf of California

18 Galileo Spacecraft

19 Australia from Galileo

20 Earth & Moon from Galileo

21 Earthrise – Apollo 8

22 Our Moon Color photograph

23 Apollo 17 Schmitt

24 Copernicus Crater from Hubble 90 km

25 Moon: dark side from Russian Luna3

26 New Moon 10 June 2002

27 Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) 1996 to 2006 1996 to 2006 240,000 photos 240,000 photos

28 Mars photograph

29 4 views of surface

30 Mars Viking Spacecraft 19 June 1976

31 Mars surface

32 Olympus Mons largest volcano in solar system

33 3D generated image

34 Valles Marinesis 3,200 km

35 Galileo being launched

36 Jupiter

37 Jupiter and its moon, Io

38 Several Moons of Jupiter (43 are named) Callisto Europa Ganymede Amalthea

39 Saturn -- view from Hubble

40 Saturn: infrared image Saturn: infrared image

41 Voyager spacecraft

42 B-rings of Saturn From Voyager Nov. 2006

43 Asteroids Gaspra & Ida Moon, Dactyl

44 Uranus Ultra-violet photo Giant gas planet

45 Hubble Space Telescope Taken from shuttle after deployment

46 Neptune Another giant gas planet

47 Neptune from Mariner Spacecraft

48 Clouds above Neptune

49 Triton -- one of Neptune’s moons

50 Neptune N-rings

51 Pluto 2 photographs

52 Pluto and its satellite, Charon


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