Astronomy 103 Web Resources

General Resources	The Planets	Planetary Missions	Earth and Space	Venus
Asteroids	Craters	The Moon	Mars	Jovian Planets and Moons
	Extrasolar Planets	The Sun	Other Astronomy web sites and Miscellaneous	Online Articles

General Resources

• Space Science News
• Marshall Space Science News
• NASA home page
• Sky and Telescope
• Astronomy Magazine

The Planets

• Views of the Solar System by Calvin J. Hamilton
• The Nine Planets by Bill Arnett at SEDS
• Welcome to the Planets by JPL
• Volcanoes on Other Worlds
• Exploring the Planets form the National Air and Space Museum
• Planetary Tour by Scientific American

Planetary Missions

• NASA Historical Archive for Manned Missions
• Galileo Home Page
• Galileo Atmospheric Probe Mission
• Cassini Mission Home Page

Earth and Space

• Space Weather
• The ABC's of Plate Tectonics
• Earth and Moon Viewer

Venus

• The Face of Venus
• Venus from Exploring the Planets

Asteroids

• NEAR Mission
• Spacewatch: hunting for Earth impacting asteroids

Craters

Mars

• Lots of Mars links from my FYS class
• Front page for the Mars missions
  • This site provides links to the Mars missions, including one for Mars 2001
• Mars Pathfinder
• A list of papers on Pathfinder results
  • "Overview of the Mars Pathfinder Mission...."
  • "Results from the Mars Pathfinder Camera"
  • "Characterization of the Martian Surface Deposits...."
• Summary of Science Results from Pathfinder
• Mars information on the Internet
• MOLA: Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter
• Science Instruments on Mars Global Surveyor
• Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) Images Listed by Topic
• Recent Volcanoes on Mars

The Moon

• Lunar Prospector Home Page
• NSSDC Lunar Prospector Home Page
• Ice on the Moon
• The Moon Page
• Apollo Lunar Surface Journal
• Project Apollo from NASA's Historical Archive

Jovian Planets and Moons

• Galilean Moon Positions

Extrasolar Planets

• Search for Extrasolar Planetary systems: G. Marcy page
• NASA space science news report on planetary system of Upsilon Andromedae
• HST images show stellar disks which may be sites of forming planets
• Other 'Solar' Systems, from the Nine Planets page

The Sun

• A Virtual Tour of the Sun
• Slide tour of the Sun
• Ulysses Mission
• The Sun (good site!)
• SOHO Mission
• GONG home page
• "New Views of the Sun"

Other Astronomy Web Sites and Miscellaneous

• Web Sites for Stellar Astronomy
• Milky Way poster from NASA
• Unusual lifeforms found in Antartic ice samples
• McKim Observatory
• My research page

Online Articles

• "Lunar Prospector: Overview" from Science magazine
• "The Case for Relic Life on Mars"
• "Global Climatic Change on Mars"

Last updated  28 Jan. 2002