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Our Solar System
(An Introductory Tour)
Solar System Formation
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Our Favorite Star
The Terrestrial Planets
• Mercury
• Venus
• Earth
• Mars
Mercury
Venus - Clouds
Venus - Surface
Venus from Clementine
Venus Transits the Sun
Earth
Mars
Valles Marineris
Olympus Mons
The Asteroid Belt
Eros – an Asteroid
The Gas Giants
• Jupiter
• Saturn
• Uranus
• Neptune
Jupiter
Great Red Spot
Jupiter’s Rings – dust
Jupiter’s Rings and Small Moons
Jupiter’s Big Moons (Galileo)
Jupiter’s Magnetic Field
Jupiter’s X-ray Auroras
Saturn
Fly Around Saturn
Saturn’s Rings – mostly ice
Spokes in the Rings
Titan – a moon of Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
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.