Cosmic Zoom Class #2 The Voyage --- Exploring the solar system

Instructor:  Garry T. Stasiuk
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http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/chrono.html
Chronology of Lunar and Planetary Exploration
This chronology gives a list of a known (successful and unsuccessful) lunar and planetary missions
 including a few historical missions which were instrumental in the development and evolution of space exploration.

http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome.htm
This is a collection of many of the best images from NASA's planetary exploration program. The collection has been extracted from the interactive program "Welcome to the Planets" which was distributed on the Planetary Data System Educational CD-ROM Version 1.5 in December 1995. It has also been updated with the addition of more recent images.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/solar_system/
NASA’s current space probes and their results.

http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm
About the spacew programs and the people in them.

http://maps.jpl.nasa.gov/
This is a database of JPL/Caltech generated planetary maps. Select your planetary system of choice!

http://cmex-www.arc.nasa.gov/
Center for Mars Exploration

Magellan Mission to Venus
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/magellan.html

http://www.solarviews.com/eng/homepage.htm
http://www.solarviews.com/cap/index.htm

Views of the Solar System presents a vivid multimedia adventure unfolding the splendor of the Sun, planets, moons, comets, asteroids, and more. Discover the latest scientific information, or study the history of space exploration, rocketry, early astronauts, space missions, spacecraft through a vast archive of photographs, scientific facts, text, graphics and videos. Views of the Solar System offers enhanced exploration and educational enjoyment of the solar system and beyond.

http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov/
 Spacecraft  Galileo
Launch: October 18, 1989
Mass: 2,223 kilograms (5,956 pounds), fueled
Science instruments: Pointed instruments camera, near-infrared mapping spectrometer, photopolarimeter-radiometer, ultraviolet spectrometer/extreme ultraviolet explorer; unpointed instruments magnetometer, energetic particle detector, plasma investigation, plasma wave subsystem, dust-detection subsystem, heavy ion counter, radio science; descent probe atmospheric structure, neutral mass spectrometer, helium abundance, nephelometer, net flux radiometer, lightning and radio emissions/energetic particles, doppler wind experiment

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/current/marsglobalsurveyor.html
Spacecraft  Global Surveyor
Launch: November 7, 1996
Arrival: September 12, 1997
Mass: 767 kilograms (1,691 pounds)
Science instruments: High-resolution camera, thermal emission spectrometer, laser altimeter, magnetometer/electron reflectometer, ultra-stable oscillator, radio relay system

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/current/cassini.html
Spacecraft Cassini

Launch: October 15, 1997
Mass: 5,712 kilograms (12,593 pounds), consisting of 2,125-kilogram (4,685-pound) orbiter, 320-kilogram (705-pound) Huygens probe, launch vehicle adapter and 3,132 kilograms (6,905 pounds) of propellants
Science instruments: Orbiter optical camera system, imaging radar, radio science, ion and neutral mass spectrometer, visible and infrared mapping spectrometer, composite infrared spectrometer, cosmic dust analyzer, radio and plasma wave spectrometer, plasma spectrometer, ultraviolet imaging spectrograph, magnetospheric imaging instrument, dual technique magnetometer; Huygens probe descent imager and spectral radiometer, atmospheric structure instrument, gas chromatograph and mass spectrometer, aerosol collector pyrolyzer, surface science package, doppler wind experiment


http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey/
2001 Mars Odyssey is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the red planet. The opportunity to go to Mars comes around every 26 months, when the alignment of Earth and Mars in their orbits around the sun allows spacecraft to travel between the two planets with the least amount of energy. 2001 Mars Odyssey launched on April 7, 2001, and arrived at Mars on October 24, 2001, 0230 Universal Time (October 23, 7:30 pm PDT/ 10:30 EDT).


http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/
Solar System Simulator


http://www.lpi.usra.edu/research/outerp/io.html

http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/cosmic/earth.html
Cosmic Distance scales