A lot of excellent work has been done by planetary scientists to bring you
the best information about the planets and the latest pictures from space
missions. This set of links will take you to whatever solar system tour
you would like. Fortunately, any of them will give you an excellent
presentation.
The sites this page will connect you to are:
- U.S.
Geological Survey's Astrogeology Science Center. In the table below this is
labelled as USGS. There is also the "Map-a-Planet" site for creating your own maps of the terrestrial planets and the larger jovian moons. The links below are to their "Astropedia" section. Also look into their "PILOT" (Planetary Image Locator Tool) site for accessing many tens of thousands of images.
- Welcome to the Planets at
the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In the table below this is labelled as
WtP. Now a bit dated but go to the constantly updated NASA Photojournal to get many hundreds of thousands of recent images of all of the objects explored up close by spacecraft.
- Planetary Sciences at the
National Space Science Data Center. In the table below this is labelled as
NSSDC.
- Views of the Solar System by
Calvin J. Hamilton. In the table below this is labelled as Views. He
also has the tour in Spanish and Portuguese.
- The
Nine Planets by Bill Arnett. In the table below this is labelled as
NineP.
last updated:
June 18, 2012
Is this page a copy of Strobel's
Astronomy Notes?
Author of original content:
Nick Strobel