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
End of part 1
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