HET620 - Planetary Science
Here are some links that might be helpful (or at least interesting) for HET620 students.
General
The Nine Planets
, and their
orbital
and
physical
data.
NASA photojournal
NASA's
Solar System Exploration
NASA's
Eyes on the Solar System
IAU
Minor Planet Center
, with current positional plots of the minor planets in the
inner
and
outer solar system
Planetary dynamics
JPL Solar System Dynamics
, with the
small-body database
,
orbit diagrams
,
formulae for converting Keplerian to Cartesian orbital elements
, plus loads more!
Planetary orbits simulator
Celestial Mechanics
, by Dr Tatum
Solar Heating
Net radation map of the Earth
Earth's energy budget
Average Earth insolation map
Solar irradiance
Atmospheres
Atmospheric retention lab
Methane on Mars
SETI institute podcast by Kevin Zahnle (7 Aug 2011)
And some gorgeous
Earth Observatory
images:
Net radtion map of the Earth
Land surface temperature map
Sea surface temperature map
Trichodesmium (cyanobacteria)
, converting nitrogen gas into ammonia for fertilizer and removing atmospheric CO
2
on Earth
Airglow
above the northen India-Pakistan border.
Surfaces
Google Moon
Google Mars
Google Earth
Apollo lunar samples compendium
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