1. Our Solar System (An Introductory Tour)

2. Solar System Formation Thanks to Mary Oshana

5. Our Favorite Star

6. The Terrestrial Planets Mercury Venus Earth Mars

7. Mercury

8. Venus - Clouds

9. Venus - Surface

10. Venus from Clementine

11. Venus Transits the Sun

12. Earth

13. Mars

14. Valles Marineris

15. Olympus Mons

16. The Asteroid Belt

17. Eros – an Asteroid

18. The Gas Giants Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune

19. Jupiter

20. Great Red Spot

21. Jupiter’s Rings – dust

22. Jupiter’s Rings and Small Moons

23. Jupiter’s Big Moons (Galileo)

24. Jupiter’s Magnetic Field

25. Jupiter’s X-ray Auroras

26. Saturn

27. Fly Around Saturn

28. Saturn’s Rings – mostly ice

29. Spokes in the Rings

30. Titan – a moon of Saturn

31. Uranus

32. Neptune

33. Pluto – a dwarf planet Pluto is weird. It’s not very big, and its orbit is very strange. It’s not a gas giant – it seems to be made of rock and ice. Maybe it was captured by Neptune. Some astronomers say it isn’t really a planet.

34. Pluto (seen from Charon)

35. How Big is Pluto ?

36. WHAT’S OUT THERE BEYOND PLUTO ??

37. Trans-Neptune Objects (TNOs) Thanks to Marty Mulroe

38. Eris – a dwarf planet (formerly 2003 UB313)

39. Eris and Dysnomia Thanks to Marty Mulroe

40. Sedna (Nov 2003)

41. Oort Cloud = Comets

42. Orbit of a Comet

43. Comet

44. Tail of a Comet