The Planets Some images. 3 kinds of Solar System Object Rocky Gassy Icy How can you tell? What happens when you step on it?

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Presentation transcript:

The Planets Some images

3 kinds of Solar System Object Rocky Gassy Icy How can you tell? What happens when you step on it?

Mercury 0 moons Mariner

Messenger images Mercury in 2008

Check out the cool Rays!

Venus Image in UV 0 moons Magellan - Venera

Venus – from Magellan radar data

Venus – Elevation map

Views from Venera – Russian Lander on Venus

The Earth Look outside 1 moon LandSAT – Ikonos - NOAA

Kathmandu South Georgia

The Moon

Mars 2 moons Mariner – Viking – MGS – Opportunity

Phobos 22.2 km across

Taken from Mars Express

Deimos 12.6km across

Mars

3 Juno 1 Ceres

Gaspra

Ida – Dactyl - Gaspra

Last image from Eros – NEAR/Shoemaker

Jupiter 63* moons Pioneer – Voyager Galileo

J u p i t e r

Saturn 60* moons Voyager

Saturn

Uranus 27* moons Voyager

Neptune 13* moons Voyager

Neptune

Pluto 3 moons

Pluto Charon HST

Eris (formerly UB 313 – Xena) 1 moon Dysnomia (formerly Gabrielle)

Quaoar How to discover a TNO (or for that matter, a comet, or asteroid). Take 3 images, align the stars, and blink between them, the moving thing is the object you are looking for.

Haumea 2 moons Makemake 0 moons

Other potential dwarf planets Haumea 2 moons Makemake 0 moons

Comets Comet 1P/Halley

Comet 81P / Wild 2

Comet Shoemaker/Levy 9 hitting Jupiter (lower left of Jupiter)

Disclaimer Aloha I put together these power points for use in my science classes. You may use them in your classes. Some images are public domain, some are used under the fair-use provisions of the copyright law, some are mine. Copyright is retained by the owners! Ted Brattstrom