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

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1 Our Solar System (An Introductory Tour)

2 Solar System Formation Thanks to Mary Oshana

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5 Our Favorite Star

6 The Terrestrial Planets Mercury Venus Earth Mars

7 Mercury

8 Venus - Clouds

9 Venus - Surface

10 Venus from Clementine

11 Venus Transits the Sun

12 Earth

13 Mars

14 Valles Marineris

15 Olympus Mons

16 The Asteroid Belt

17 Eros – an Asteroid

18 The Gas Giants Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune

19 Jupiter

20 Great Red Spot

21 Jupiter’s Rings – dust

22 Jupiter’s Rings and Small Moons

23 Jupiter’s Big Moons (Galileo)

24 Jupiter’s Magnetic Field

25 Jupiter’s X-ray Auroras

26 Saturn

27 Fly Around Saturn

28 Saturn’s Rings – mostly ice

29 Spokes in the Rings

30 Titan – a moon of Saturn

31 Uranus

32 Neptune

33 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.

34 Pluto (seen from Charon)

35 How Big is Pluto ?

36 WHAT’S OUT THERE BEYOND PLUTO ??

37 Trans-Neptune Objects (TNOs) Thanks to Marty Mulroe

38 Eris – a dwarf planet (formerly 2003 UB313)

39 Eris and Dysnomia Thanks to Marty Mulroe

40 Sedna (Nov 2003)

41 Oort Cloud = Comets

42 Orbit of a Comet

43 Comet

44 Tail of a Comet


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