1. The Solar System
The Planets

2. The Sun

6. Solar Eclipse and a view of the Milky Way Galaxy—Amateur Photographer

7. Waxing cresent moon with Jupiter to the right and Venus a top and the star Spica below Venus. A view of the two brightest nighttime objects.

8. Mercury

12. Venus

15. Venus Landscape

17. Earth

18. View of North America

19. View of Antarctica

21. Mars

22. Mars with polar ice cap---pictured by amateur photographers

24. Mars Landscape

25. The Face of Mars

27. What are these two objects? Again, amateur photo

28. The Outer Planets

29. Jupiter

32. Interesting facts about Jupiter
It would be more massive than all of the other planets combined.
It is about 90% hydrogen and 10% helium,
with traces of methane, water, ammonia, and “rock.”
Jupiter has 63 known satellites (as of Febuary 2004)
Scientist seem to think that the stripes around Jupiter where produced by tides from it’s 60 moons.

34. What is pictured to the left of Jupiter?

35. Jupiter
Jupiter is the 5th planet from the sun. It is also the largest.
The diameter is 142,984km.
The mass of Jupiter is 1.900e27kg.

36. Jupiter’s Spot

37. Saturn

38. Saturn and it’s Satellites

39. Ultraviolent Saturn

40. Saturn Saturn is the 6th planet from the sun.
It is one of the gas planets along with Jupiter, Uranus,
Neptune and Pluto.
Saturn’s core is probably composed of
iron, nickel, silicon,
and oxygen compounds which is surrounded
by a deep layer of metallic hydrogen and an intermediate
layer of liquid hydrogen and liquid helium.

41. Saturn taken by amateur photographer

42. Interesting Facts About Saturn
Saturn’s average radius is about 9 times larger than
Earths.
Saturn has nine rings, mostly of ice particles with small
amounts of rocky debris and dust.
62 known moons orbit the planet.

44. Infared Saturn

45. Uranus

46. Interesting Facts About Uranus
It has the 3rd largest radius and the 4th largest planet mass in
the solar system.
It has been observed many times before being named a
planet.
It revolves around the sun about every
84 earth years.

48. The Moons of Uranus

49. Uranus

52. Neptune

54. Neptune Neptune is the 8th a farthest planet from the sun.
Neptune is 17 times the mass of earth
and is slightly more massive than its near
twin Uranus which is 15 times the mass of
Earth but not as dense.
Neptune’s atmosphere which is like
Jupiter’s and Saturn’s is composed of
primarily of hydrogen and helium.

56. Neptune picture taken by amateur photographer

57. Clouds around Neptune

60. Pluto

61. Actual amateur photo of Pluto----Wow! How did he find it?

62. Pluto Pluto is the second largest dwarf planet in the solar system
and the 10th largest body orbiting the sun.
The reason why it is called a dwarf planet
Is because on August 24th, 2006 the
international Astronomical Union, defined
what it meant to be a planet orbiting the
solar system, thus making it a dwarf planet.
After the reclassification, Pluto was added to the list of
minor planets and given the number

64. Interesting Fact About Pluto
Pluto’s orbital rate is 284 Earth years.
Despite Pluto's orbit appearing to cross Neptune’s path,
the two objects' orbits are aligned so that they can never
collide or even approach closely.
Pluto's atmosphere consists of a thin layer of nitrogen, methane,
and carbon monoxide gases.