Solar System

all links at this site were working on 5/30/2009

 

1. Amazing Space is a set of web-based activities primarily designed for classroom use, but made available for all to enjoy. Shockwave is required
2. The Astronomy Picture of the Day - great photos and an explanation each day. Their search feature returns thumbnail images of matches and their archive extends back to June 16, 1995.
3. Classroom-Ready Astronomy Lesson Plans - scroll one-third of the way down the page to Sky Paths
4. Eclipse sites
   1. Calgary Centre Solar Eclipse Photo Gallery
   2. Eclipse Home Page at the NASA/GSFC Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum. This web site is continually expanding and strives to be the ultimate resource for online information about eclipses.
   3. Eclipse Chasers - Picture Gallery, Information, Photography, Stories, and more about Solar and Lunar Eclipses
   4. Eclipse Chaser home page - another site devoted to chasing the elusive eclipse
   5. Eclipse Shades™ - Safe Solar Glasses, Viewers & Filters. This is a commercial page where eclipse glasses can be purchased. However, there is quite a bit of free information provided by this site.
   6. Eclipses - students can manipulate the Sun, the Earth, and the moon into all of their phases as well as view the phases from a variety of different perspectives
   7. Hermit.org - eclipse page.
   8. Lunar Eclipse Finder - This site contains some very detailed eclipse graphics. Select a specific year to see them.
   9. Annular eclipse recorded with a foreground of palm trees during a 1992 annular eclipse (from APOD)
   10. Excellentanimation of a lunar eclipse from APOD
   11. Photo Gallery - solar eclipse 1999
   12. Solar Eclipse: Stories from the path of totality - an Exploratorium site
   13. Solar Eclipses through Space and Time - this 41 slide show is filled with information, images and movies
5. Field Guide to the Universe - Solar System
6. NASA - home page
7. Photo Gallery of the National Space Science Data Center
8. Planets
   1. Daily Martian Weather Report - The Mars Global Surveyor Radio Science Team conducted a detailed study of the Martian atmosphere, and results from their study were presented on this site in the form of a daily weather report for the planet Mars. The site is not being updated any longer, but a large amount of Martian atmosphere/weather data is available.
   2. Exploring Planets in the Classroom - Hands-on Activities for Science Classes. More than 25 hands-on science activities are provided in classroom-ready pages for both teachers and students for exploring Earth, the planets, geology, and space sciences.
   3. Mars Exploration Rover Mission - Latest News From Spirit and Opportunity
   4. Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera Image Gallery - Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) Image Gallery! This site contains the pictures of Mars acquired by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) orbiter through 31 January 2001. MOC is operated daily at Malin Space Science Systems. The company is responsible for archiving the camera data once they are received on Earth.
   5. Mars Today - current conditions on Mars and its relationship to Earth
   6. MSSS Viking Image Archive - This page provides access to a large fraction of the set of images taken by the Viking orbiters from 1976 to 1980.
   7. The Nine Eight Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System
   8. Planets of the Solar System - includes a 3D model of the solar system
   9. Planets of the solar system - Click on a planet to get a short bit of information about each one. [relative sizes are not accurate]
   10. Planetary Orbits - Shockwave simulation showing planetary orbits
   11. Pluto demoted to dwarf planet - CNN report from 1:12 p.m. EDT, August 27, 2006
   12. Solar System - This real-time 3D simulation allows the student to inspect our solar system from any angle or vantage point as well as gain detailed information about each element.
   13. Solar System Live - Where are the planets right now. Go to this site to find. You can also reset the date for times in the past or future to see where the plants were, or will be. A view of the Inner planets is also available.
   14. Solar System Scale Model Page - Making scale models of the solar system is a useful way to learn about it. This page lists various related pages.
   15. Solar System: True to Scale - scroll forever to find the planets, and don't try to print this site (1487 pages almost all black!)
   16. Surface of Mars colored by height - click and drag the image to rotate the planet
   17. Views of the Solar System - This site 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.
   18. Virtual Solar System by National Geographic - your chance to discover the wonders of our solar system in a spectacular 3-D environment. Take a fly-by tour of the sun and each planet in its orbit, observe close-up views of the planets, extraterrestrial weather patterns, and more.
   19. Welcome to Mars from the American Museum of Natural History
   20. Welcome to the Planets - This is a collection of many of the best images from NASA's planetary exploration program.
   21. What would you weigh on other planets? Enter your weight, select calculate and see what you would weigh on each of the other planets.
9. See an Excel workbook that does the same thing. What would I weigh on...? - an interactive workbook which uses hyperlinks and protected cells. Calculate your weight on another planet.
1. World's largest scale model of the Solar System - Welcome to the home of Jupiter, part of the world's largest scale model of the solar system
2. World's largest scale model of the Solar System: Location Details - Peoria scale model - Roadside America article about the model
10. Retrograde Motion - Use this java applet to see retrograde motion involving Earth and Venus or Earth and Mars.
11. Solar Image - get the latest image of the sun in one of several formats.
12. Solar Images - from Mt. Wilson's 150-Foot Solar Tower
13. Solar Image - from the Big Bear Solar Observatory
14. Solar and Solar-Related links from the Mt Wilson Observatory
15. Space Environment Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration providing space weather alerts and warnings to the nation and the world for disturbances that can affect people and equipment working in space and on Earth
16. Space Weather - A complex series of events that begin deep inside the Sun, and extend throughout the solar system, carried by the solar wind.
17. Space Weather Today - current views of the sun and the aurora
18. Stanford SOLAR Center - Providing Solar On-Line Activity Resources for the joy of solar science exploration
19. The Sunspot Cycle - from the Science Directorate at Marshall Space Flight Center
20. Sunspot Numbers - raw data of the daily number of sunspots from 1818 to the present. Is there a project here? (You might also want to see how the numbers are determined) See also, How to get Solar data from NGDC