Solar System
Categories
- Asteroids, Comets and Meteors (172)
- Conferences (0)
- Earth (54)
- Jupiter (53)
- Kuiper Belt (20)
- Mars (81)
- Mercury (11)
Links
Exploring the Planets
http://www.nasm.si.edu/ceps/etp/
Sponsored by the National Air and Space Museum, contains many interesting facts about the planets, pictures, comparisons and a section dedicated to spacecraft.
Free Software for Planetary Science
http://members.tripod.com/petermasek/marinerall.html
Image processing browers for Mariner 6, 7, 9, 10, Venera 15/16, and Viking Orbiter.
Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature
http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/
Protocols for naming planetary features, by the Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature of the International Astronomical Union.
Northeast Regional Planetary Data Center
http://www.planetary.brown.edu/planetary/data_center/
Includes list of available image collections and how to obtain the data at the facility (no images are online).
Orrery: Solar System Simulator
http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~kmcclary/
A Java applet that simulates gravitating masses. Features a working model with motions and sizes of 70 planets and moons to scale.
Orrery: The Solar System in Action
http://www.harmsy.freeuk.com/orrery.html
A concise tour containing numerous educational resources, and support for Spacetech's Orrery application.
Planetary Cartography and Graphics by Ralph Aeschliman
Planetary maps and graphics of Mars, the Moon and Venus.
Planetary Materials Curation
http://www-curator.jsc.nasa.gov/curator/curator.htm
Features Moon rocks, Mars meteorites, and space exposed materials at NASA's curation office.
Planetary Science Institute
Research and educational institute with projects to study planets, asteroids, and comets.
Rotation of Sun and Planets
http://www.geocities.com/saeles/planetsrotation.htm
The rotation period of a large body circled by one or more satellites can be calculated theoretically.