Transcript Our Solar System These photographs are taken from the NASA space missions. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/

Our Solar System
These photographs are taken from the NASA
space missions.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/
Our Sun
Microsoft Clip Art
Solar Eclipse 2001
Transit time: 3 hours in Lusaka, Zambia
Total eclipse: 2 sec. short of 3 minutes
Photos of sun taken at 4 different wavelengths of
ultraviolet
Mariner 10
to Venus & Mercury
Mercury
photographic
mosaic
Mercury
with
Sun behind it.
Photographs of the surface of
Mercury
Magellan
Spacecraft
10 August 1990
Venus
Venus -ultraviolet
photograph
• The following sketch was taken from the Jet
Propulsion Lab’s website
• http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html
Ben Zalewski Nov. 2006
• Nicolas Copernicus published the theory
that planets revolve around the sun.
1473 -- 1543
Our Moon
Photographs
of the
Planets
Earth
photograph from
Apollo 16
Gulf of California
Galileo Spacecraft
Australia from Galileo
Earth & Moon from Galileo
Earthrise – Apollo 8
Our Moon
Color
photograph
Apollo 17
Schmitt
Copernicus Crater from Hubble
90 km
Moon: dark side
from Russian Luna3
New Moon
10 June 2002
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