Astro 1: `Slides' for Class 37 - A Tour of the Solar System



Relative sizes of the planets and basic planet information





Orbits of the planets





Mercury - Wide-field image





Mercury - Caloris Basin - Resulted from a collision with an asteroid





Venus - Wide-field image showing the thick atmosphere





Venus - Wide-field surface image made from radar mapping by the Magellan spacecraft





Venus - Surface image made from radar mapping by the Magellan spacecraft





Earth - Wide-field image from space





Mars - Wide-field image





Mars - Wide-field image from the Hubble Space Telescope showing polar cap





Mars - Olympus Mons - The largest volcano in the Solar System - Almost as big as the state of Arizona





Mars - Viking lander





Mars - Surface image taken by Viking lander





Mars - Surface image taken by Mars Pathfinder





Mars - Landing sites of Mars missions





Mars - The infamous "Mars face"





Mars - The infamous "Mars face" debunked by a better image





The Jovian planets





Jupiter - The Great Red Spot





Jupiter - The Galilean Moons





Saturn - Wide-field image





Saturn - Close-up image of the rings





Saturn - The names of the rings





Uranus - Wide-field image





Uranus - Composite infrared image showing the rings





Neptune - Wide-field image showing surface features





Pluto - Wide-field image showing the Pluto-Charon system





Pluto - Surface features on Pluto and Charon





The Barringer Meteorite Crater in Winslow, Arizona





Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 before its collision with Jupiter





Impact site of fragment G of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter





Schematic diagram illustrating the formation of the Solar System





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