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Explorations: Stars, Galaxies, and Planets
Thomas Arny, University of Massachusetts

The Outer Planets

Web Links


Governmental Agencies

http://www.nasa.gov/
(http://www.nasa.gov/)

NASA homepage
Welcome to the Planets
(http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets)

Nice pictures, fact sheets, and other info.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-earth.html
(http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-earth.html)

National Space Science Data Center. A NASA site with lots of pictures, fact sheets, glossary.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
(http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/index.html
(http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/index.html)

Project Galileo
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/solar_system/family_portraits.jpg
(http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/solar_system/family_portraits.jpg)

Solar System Family Portrait
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/
(http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/)

Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Collision with Jupiter
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/jupiterfact.html
(http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/jupiterfact.html)

Jupiter Fact Sheet
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/jupiter.html
(http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/jupiter.html)

Online from Jupiter-NASA's Jupiter Activities for K-12
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/saturnfact.html
(http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/saturnfact.html)

Saturn Fact Sheet
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini/
(http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini/)

Cassini mission and Uranus's Small Moons
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/uranusfact.html
(http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/uranusfact.html)

Uranus Fact Sheet
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/neptunefact.html
(http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/neptunefact.html)

Neptune Fact Sheet
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/plutofact.html
(http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/plutofact.html)

Pluto Fact Sheet
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/europaorbiter
(http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/europaorbiter)

Europa Orbiter
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/jupiter.html
(http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/jupiter.html)

NASA's K-12 Internet Initiative
Institutional / Education

http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/planet_sci/contents/chap4c.html
(http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/planet_sci/contents/chap4c.html)

Rings
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/saturn.html
(http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/saturn.html)

Saturn
http://windows.engin.umich.edu/neptune/lower_atmosphere.html
(http://windows.engin.umich.edu/neptune/lower_atmosphere.html)

Neptune Atmospheric Overview
http://web.physics.twsu.edu/alex/pluto.htm
(http://web.physics.twsu.edu/alex/pluto.htm)

Pluto quiz
Other Links of Interest

http://www.seds.org/billa/tnp
(http://www.seds.org/billa/tnp)

"The Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System," by Bill Arnett Excellent pictures, glossary, and other info.
http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/ssc/tutorial/planet_magnetospheres.html
(http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/ssc/tutorial/planet_magnetospheres.html)

Planetary Magnetospheres
http://cda.mrs.umn.edu/nineplanets/uramoons.html
(http://cda.mrs.umn.edu/nineplanets/uramoons.html)

Moons of Uranus