Solar System
Categories
Links
Live from the Hubble Space Telescope
http://www.passporttoknowledge.com/hst/
Provides an insiders' view of what it's like to work with Earth's most powerful space telescope.
Our Solar System
http://www.geocities.com/zinazora/solarsystem/index.htm
An overview of the sun, the nine planets, asteroids, comets, and other links.
Our Solar System in Pictures
http://www.the-solar-system.net/
Pictures and quizzes about all the planets in the solar system. This site is especially useful to middle school students studying the solar system.
Passport to the Solar System
http://www.passporttoknowledge.com/solarsystem/
Provides an overview of the sun and each of the nine planets. Also includes biographies of researchers.
Planetary Fact Sheets
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetfact.html
Factual information on the planets in the solar system, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond.
Planets, Moons and Stars
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002809/main.html
Thinkquest Junior site provides basic information about the solar system.
Solar System Exploration
Describes NASA's program to explore the solar system.
Solar System Live
http://www.fourmilab.ch/solar/solar.html
Includes information and images related to the solar system and its inner planets.
Solar System Simulator
Offers the possibility to see what the Sun and every planet and their major moons look like from any other place in the Solar System at nearly any date at any time. The pictures are very accurate and in color.
Solar System Trading Cards
http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/trading/game.htm
Collect Solar System trading cards as you answer trivia questions correctly.