a quick tour of the solar system! the nearest star! our sun… …it’s far more complex than just...
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A quick tour of the Solar System!
The nearest star! Our Sun…
…it’s FAR more complex than just a “yellow ball of gas”!
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Mercury
Heavily cratered…
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Venus…
A dynamic geologic surface under a veil of clouds…
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Venus revealed…
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The 3rd planet; the friendly “Blue Planet” observed from a nearby outpost…
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The Earth is a geologically dynamic planet… great mountain ranges rise from its surface!
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Our next destination…the Moon!
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Looking back…
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We have visited… and we will be back!
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Apollo 14 Lunar Landing site!
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A close-up!
The Lunar Lander…
Astronaut tracks…
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Our next destination… Mars, the Red Planet!
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A world of ice caps, clouds, winds, erosion…
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Great canyons…
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Cliffs carved by landslides…
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Dunes formed by wind…
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…and sheets of ice.
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Phobos…one of two Martian Moons…
…just large “rocks” a few miles across.
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Jupiter…”King of Planets”…
but only in OUR Solar System!
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One of MANY moons of Jupiter…
Ganymede
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The volcanically active moon “IO”
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Volcanic eruptions on IO… Eruption shadow!
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Saturn…
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Saturn’s moon “Tethys”
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Saturn’s moon “Titan” is veiled by clouds, but a Titan probe revealed a complex landscape with river channels…
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…and lakes and seas of Methane.
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Next…the ringed-planet Uranus!
It is now known that Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus AND Neptune all have ring systems… only Saturn’s rings are easily seen.
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Uranus…
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Miranda
Arial
…and two of its many moons.
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Neptune…
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…with fascinating bands of clouds.
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How about Pluto? Why have astronomers re-classified it as a “Dwarf Planet”?
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It’s not unique! There are MANY such objects known!
These are part of a vast collection of objects that form the KUIPER BELT…
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More than 1,000 Kuiper Belt objects are now known!
The Kuiper Belt extends from just beyond the orbit of Neptune to the limits of Pluto’s orbit.
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Comets…
Asteroids…
…and other pieces left over from the Solar System’s formation.
And there are many other objects like…