Our Solar System

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Our Solar System

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These photographs are taken from the NASA space missions.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/

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Our Sun

Microsoft Clip Art

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Solar Eclipse 2001

Transit time: 3 hours in Lusaka, Zambia

Total eclipse: 2 sec. short of 3 minutes

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Photos of sun taken at 4 different wavelengths of ultraviolet

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Mariner 10 to Venus & Mercury

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Mercury photographic mosaic

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Mercury with Sun behind it.

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Photographs of the surface of Mercury

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Magellan Spacecraft 10 August 1990

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Venus

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Venus -- ultraviolet photograph

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The following sketch was taken from the Jet Propulsion Lab’s website

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html

Ben Zalewski Nov. 2006

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Nicolas Copernicus published the theory that planets revolve around the sun.

1473 -- 1543

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Photographs of the Planets

Our Moon

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Earth photograph from Apollo 16

Gulf of California

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Galileo Spacecraft

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Australia from Galileo

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