AST80005 - Exploring the Solar System

General

• The Nine Planets, and their orbital and physical data.
• NASA photojournal
• NASA's Solar System Exploration
• NASA's Eyes on the Solar System
• Planetary science glossary
• 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

• Net radiation 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 links for the gorgeous Earth Observatory site:
  • Net radiation map of the Earth
  • Land surface temperature map
  • Sea surface temperature map
  • Trichodesmium (cyanobacteria), converting nitrogen gas into ammonia for fertilizer and removing atmospheric CO₂ on Earth
  • Airglow above the northen India-Pakistan border.

Surfaces

• Google Moon
• LROC Moon
• Google Mars
• Google Earth
• Apollo lunar samples compendium
• Finding your location (lat, long, alt) on Earth

Last updated: Thursday, 30-Mar-2017 23:10:57 AEDT
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