Course Notes

    • Week 1 Powerpoint
    • Week 2 Powerpoint-corrected!
    • Week 3 Powerpoint - really big
    • Part 1, Part 2 - Week 4 Powerpoint
      Second half of the course -
    • Planetary Interiors
    • Planetary Surfaces - Part 1
    • Planetary Surfaces - Part 2
    • Planetary Atmospheres

    Homework and Test information

    Project Information

    • Planetary Landforms link - USGS Feature Types
    • Program in the Lab: PDS Win - zipped file, you need a decompressor to install it.
    • A similar program: NASA View - scroll down the list until you find it then download it for the platform you need.
    • Venus Maps - Gazetteer
    • CD-ROM directory
    • Venus Feature Names

    General Astro Information and data bases

    • Astronomy picture of the day
    • Space Weather - latest events, aurora
    • Sky and Telescope Magazine

    Solar System Exploration Space Craft

    • Chronology of Planetary Exploration
    • Solar System Exploration
    • NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
    • Apollo Mission
    • Magellan - Venus explorer
    • Mars Pathfinder Mission
    • Mars Global Surveyor Mission
    • Mars Rovers
    • Mars Express
    • Voyager - Outer solar system
    • Galileo - Jupiter explorer
    • Cassini - Saturn explorer
    • Stardust - Comet explorer
    • Deep Impact - Comet vandal

    Solar System Objects

    • Planetary Science Research
    • Solar System Simulator - solar system objects seen from a variety of perspectives
    • Maps of Solar System objects
    • Planetary Photojournal
    • The Nine Planets - Guide to the Solar System
    • Views of the Solar System - Images
    • USGS Astrogeology Program
    • Outer Solar System Satellites
    • Solar System Dynamics

    Small Stuff

    • General Comet Homepage
    • Comet Shoemaker Levy 9
    • Near Earth Object Program
    • Minor Planet Center
    • Meteorites
    • Impact Hazards

    Exo-planets

    • Possible Planetary Systems beyond our own
    • More Possible Planetary Systems