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photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov
A Spacecraft Tourof the Solar System
James ZimbelmanCenter for Earth and Planetary Studies
National Air and Space Museum
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PIA12824(12/24/10)
PIA12826(2/25/11)
A new storm
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PIA06142(11/7/04)
Nature’sCanvas
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PIA06254(7/14/05) PIA06247
“TigerStripes”
False-colormosaic Enceladus
(512 km)
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Fountains of Water-Ice from the “Tiger Stripes”
PIA07758 & 9(released 12/6/05)
PIA14858(10/1/11)
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PIA06141(10/26/04)
Titan(5210 km)D = 1.5M
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Lakes and Sand Dunes(radar images of Titan)
PIA08738(9/7/06)
PIA08740(9/23/06)
(frame ~60 km wide)
Liquid Methane Lakes Longitudinal Dunes
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PIA07231
PIA07232
Huygens Probe(1/14/05)
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Uranus
Voyager 2 (9/86)
Diam. ~4.0E
The planet that rotates on its side!
(Poles: 42 yr sunlight, 42 yr darkness)
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Uranus, rings, and satellites(HST) “Sheparding”
satellitesVoyager 2 (9/86)
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Arial (1162 km)
Miranda(480 km)
Miranda cliff -> (16 km high!)
Voyager 2 (9/86)
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NeptuneDiam. ~3.9E
Voyager 2 (8/89)
The ‘other’ Blue Planet (methane)
Dynamic atmosphere
“Great Dark Spot”
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Triton(2705 km)
0.78 M
Voyager 2 (8/89)
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Ring ‘Arcs’
Voyager 2 (8/89)
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PlutoDiam. ~0.2E
PlutoCharon
HST (2/21/94)
“Double-planet”
(Now a “dwarfplanet”)
(1172 km)0.33 M
6.387 day rotation and revolution
(2284 km)0.66 M
Trans-Neptunian Objects
S&T, 11/07
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More Moons around Pluto (HST)
NASA/ESA/Mark Showalter
Nix and Hydra(Discovered 5/05)
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Giotto (3/86)
Comet Halley
Comet West (3/10/76)
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Kepler1235
‘candidate’extra-solar
planets
Jason Rowe(3/29/11)
Sun