Our Solar System
These photographs are taken from the NASA space missions.
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 websiteThe following sketch was taken from the Jet Propulsion Lab’s website Ben Zalewski Nov. 2006
Nicolas Copernicus published the theory that planets revolve around the sun.Nicolas Copernicus published the theory that planets revolve around the sun
Photographs of the Planets Our Moon
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
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