Our Solar System

These photographs are taken from the NASA space missions.

Our Sun

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

Nicolas Copernicus published the theory that planets revolve around the sun

Our Moon Photographs of the Planets

Earth photograph from Apollo 16

Galileo Spacecraft

Australia from Galileo

Earth & Moon from Galileo

Earthrise – Apollo 8

Our Moon

Apollo 17

90 km Copernicus Crater from Hubble

Moon: dark side from Russian Luna3

New Moon 10 June 2002

Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) 1996 to 2006

Mars

4 views of surface

Mars

Mars surface

Olympus Mons largest volcano in solar system

3D generated image

3,200 km Valles Marinesis

Galileo being launched

Jupiter

Jupiter and its moon, Io

Several Moons of Jupiter (43 are named) Callisto Europa Ganymede Amalthea

Saturn -- view from Hubble

Saturn: infrared image

Voyager spacecraft

B-rings of Saturn From Voyager Nov. 2006

Asteroids: Gaspra Ida

Uranus Giant gas planet

Hubble Space Telescope

Neptune Another giant gas planet

Neptune from Mariner Spacecraft

Clouds above Neptune

Triton one of Neptune’s moons

Neptune N-rings

Pluto

Pluto and its satellite, Charon