Astro 1: `Slides' for Class 38 - The Terrestrial Planets



Relative sizes of the terrestrial planets





Mercury - Wide-field image





Mercury - Schematic diagram illustrating some of its main properties





Venus - Wide-field image showing the thick atmosphere





Venus - Vertical atmospheric structure





The Greenhouse Effect





Venus - The Venera 13 spacecraft





Venus - Image of the surface taken by the Venera 13 spacecraft





Venus - The Magellan spacecraft being launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis





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





Earth - Wide-field image from space





Earth - The Eons and Eras of Earth





Earth - Plate tectonics





Earth - Pangaea (250 million years ago)





Earth - The "Ring of Fire"





Earth - Earth's Moon





Mars - Wide-field image





Mars - Olympus Mons - The largest volcano in the solar system - Almost as big as the state of Arizona





Mars - Yuty crater on surface





Mars - View of the South polar cap





Mars - Dust storms





Mars - Martian rock being studied by Mars Pathfinder Sojourner Rover





Mars - Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft





Mars - Mars' moon Phobos





Mars - Mars' moon Deimos





Mars - Martian meteorite found on Earth and studied intensively





Terrestrial planets found around a pulsar





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