The Moon The Moon - general info and images Images from lunar missions First image of lunar farside - Soviet Luna probe, 1959 The Surveyor landers Surveyor 3 visited by Apollo 12 A great view of Copernicus from orbit (the crater, not the dead guy) Hadley Rille (Apollo 15) - A "young" surface and volcanic rille Mercury Lots of Mercury info and images More images of Mercury The Caloris basin - Mercury's topography The Mariner 10 mission to Mercury and Venus Mercury Messenger visits in 2008 - and orbits in 2011! Venus Lots of Venus info and images More views of Venus A beautiful optical image Evidence of tectonic activity on Venus Wind erosion on Venus Venusian impact craters Color view from the surface of Venus by the Venera 13 lander View from the surface of Venus by Venera 14: notice the sky! Recent volcanic lava flow Animiated "flybys" of Venus - cool! The Earth Earth as a planet - info and pictures More Earth-as-a-planet info and pictures Terrestrial impact craters The Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona Terrestrial volcanos A composite (cone-shaped) volcano - Mt. Etna The Grand Canyon - weathering at its best Mars Mars overview Another overview of Mars Mars exploration missions, from NASA A map of Mars showing the North/South asymmetry The older regions of the southern hemisphere The volcanoes of Tharsis Olympus Mons Fluidized impact apron - a crater splash Recent liquid water on Mars? An ancient crater exhumed by a massive flood? A flight through Valles Marineris using spacecraft imagery. The Mars Pathfinder lander - pictures and info A Martian Sunset, by Pathfinder The Mars Exploration Rovers animation of the launch, cruise, landing and deployment process - cool! 3-D images of the surface of Mars - get out those red/blue glasses! Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter info and images Google Mars Global Warming and Ozone Depletion Global Warming site from the Environmental Protection Agency Observed trends in temperature, precipitation, and sea level A year in the life of Earth's CO2 Future climate projections Ozone index Carbon Dioxide and Climate CFCs and ozone depletion The ozone hole over the antarctic Summary report from the IPCC (2007 Nobel Prize) Jupiter General information about Jupiter More info about Jupiter Homepage of the Voyager program Homepage of the Galileo Spacecraft The Galileo Spacecraft's atmospheric probe HST views of the Red Spot Jupiter's Great Red Spot - an Infrared view Movie of cloud motions and the Red Spot Jupiter's ring
Mercury Lots of Mercury info and images More images of Mercury The Caloris basin - Mercury's topography The Mariner 10 mission to Mercury and Venus Mercury Messenger visits in 2008 - and orbits in 2011! Venus Lots of Venus info and images More views of Venus A beautiful optical image Evidence of tectonic activity on Venus Wind erosion on Venus Venusian impact craters Color view from the surface of Venus by the Venera 13 lander View from the surface of Venus by Venera 14: notice the sky! Recent volcanic lava flow Animiated "flybys" of Venus - cool! The Earth Earth as a planet - info and pictures More Earth-as-a-planet info and pictures Terrestrial impact craters The Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona Terrestrial volcanos A composite (cone-shaped) volcano - Mt. Etna The Grand Canyon - weathering at its best Mars Mars overview Another overview of Mars Mars exploration missions, from NASA A map of Mars showing the North/South asymmetry The older regions of the southern hemisphere The volcanoes of Tharsis Olympus Mons Fluidized impact apron - a crater splash Recent liquid water on Mars? An ancient crater exhumed by a massive flood? A flight through Valles Marineris using spacecraft imagery. The Mars Pathfinder lander - pictures and info A Martian Sunset, by Pathfinder The Mars Exploration Rovers animation of the launch, cruise, landing and deployment process - cool! 3-D images of the surface of Mars - get out those red/blue glasses! Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter info and images Google Mars Global Warming and Ozone Depletion Global Warming site from the Environmental Protection Agency Observed trends in temperature, precipitation, and sea level A year in the life of Earth's CO2 Future climate projections Ozone index Carbon Dioxide and Climate CFCs and ozone depletion The ozone hole over the antarctic Summary report from the IPCC (2007 Nobel Prize) Jupiter General information about Jupiter More info about Jupiter Homepage of the Voyager program Homepage of the Galileo Spacecraft The Galileo Spacecraft's atmospheric probe HST views of the Red Spot Jupiter's Great Red Spot - an Infrared view Movie of cloud motions and the Red Spot Jupiter's ring
Global Warming and Ozone Depletion Global Warming site from the Environmental Protection Agency Observed trends in temperature, precipitation, and sea level A year in the life of Earth's CO2 Future climate projections Ozone index Carbon Dioxide and Climate CFCs and ozone depletion The ozone hole over the antarctic Summary report from the IPCC (2007 Nobel Prize) Jupiter General information about Jupiter More info about Jupiter Homepage of the Voyager program Homepage of the Galileo Spacecraft The Galileo Spacecraft's atmospheric probe HST views of the Red Spot Jupiter's Great Red Spot - an Infrared view Movie of cloud motions and the Red Spot Jupiter's ring
Jupiter General information about Jupiter More info about Jupiter Homepage of the Voyager program Homepage of the Galileo Spacecraft The Galileo Spacecraft's atmospheric probe HST views of the Red Spot Jupiter's Great Red Spot - an Infrared view
Moons and more moons A good overview of the satellites of the outer planets Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, the large moons of Jupiter. Latest results from Galileo about Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Landscape comparisons among Jupiter's Galilean satellites The internal structure of the Galilean satellites The moons of Saturn Titan The moons of Uranus: Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon Triton, the large moon of Neptune (with geysers!) Asteroids, Meteors, Meteorites Lists and Plots: Minor Planets The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous spacecraft- orbiting and landing on 433 Eros! JPL Near-Earth Objects Page Meteors and Meteorites Meteorites for sale! The Peekskil Meteorite Car Comets The Kuiper Belt Home Page The Comet Fact Sheet The Kuiper Belt and The Oort Cloud The Comet Home Page Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9: Collision with Jupiter Nucleus of Comet Halley from Giotto Deep Impact Stardust - Comet sample return ROSETTA: ESA's Rendezvous Mission with a Comet NASA's Deep Space 1 probe took images of the nucleus of Comet Borrelly Planetary impacts: past, present, and future Asteroid and comet impact hazards The Peekskill Fireball Video of the Chelyabinsk Meteorite Actual fall of a chunk of the Chelyabinsk meteor into a frozen lake The 1908 Tunguska event The "Tunguska" Home page Tungusca photos Terrestrial impact crater images Database Survey of Earth's impact craters Manson, Iowa, impact crater Here is where it is Here is a cross section A short AP story on the Manson crater Comet SL-9 and its impact with Jupiter Near-Earth-Objects What killed the dinosaurs? Spaceguard Astrology and Pseudoscience A Skeptic's View of Astrology What's Your Sign? A critical reading of the Astrology FAQ Eric Krieg's excellent synopsis of astrology Real Astrological Signs Real vs astrological sun signs Astrology Defense Kit The Sun A pictorial introduction to the Sun, from NCAR The Sun: a "virtual" tour The Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) Satellite (look there for up-to-the-minute images of the Sun) A movie of sungrazing comets, coronal mass ejections and the motion of the Sun across the background sky Solar Dynamics Observatory: the Sun today Star and planet formation The Orion Nebula - general overview Closeup of inner region of the nebula Images of protostellar disks Edge-on view of protoplanetary disk Movies of protostars and protoplanetary disks Star birth and "eggs" in M16 A face on detailed view of a protoplanetary disk around AB Aur The disk surrounding the main sequence star Beta Pictoris The planet and disk surrounding Fomalhaut Extrasolar Planetary Systems Methods for finding planets The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia Extrasolar Planet Search The Kepler Mission to find extrasolar planets in the habitable zone Exoplanet Travel Bureau (with posters!) Life in the Universe The Drake Equation Stromatolites - the earliest life on Earth The SETI Institute, home of Project Phoenix Seti@home: SETI on your own home computer. The Arecibo Message The Arecibo Message (decoded) SETI: Artificiality vs. complexity Back up Back to Steve Kawaler's homepage Back to ISU Astronomy
Asteroids, Meteors, Meteorites Lists and Plots: Minor Planets The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous spacecraft- orbiting and landing on 433 Eros! JPL Near-Earth Objects Page Meteors and Meteorites Meteorites for sale! The Peekskil Meteorite Car Comets The Kuiper Belt Home Page The Comet Fact Sheet The Kuiper Belt and The Oort Cloud The Comet Home Page Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9: Collision with Jupiter Nucleus of Comet Halley from Giotto Deep Impact Stardust - Comet sample return ROSETTA: ESA's Rendezvous Mission with a Comet NASA's Deep Space 1 probe took images of the nucleus of Comet Borrelly Planetary impacts: past, present, and future Asteroid and comet impact hazards The Peekskill Fireball Video of the Chelyabinsk Meteorite Actual fall of a chunk of the Chelyabinsk meteor into a frozen lake The 1908 Tunguska event The "Tunguska" Home page Tungusca photos Terrestrial impact crater images Database Survey of Earth's impact craters Manson, Iowa, impact crater Here is where it is Here is a cross section A short AP story on the Manson crater Comet SL-9 and its impact with Jupiter Near-Earth-Objects What killed the dinosaurs? Spaceguard Astrology and Pseudoscience A Skeptic's View of Astrology What's Your Sign? A critical reading of the Astrology FAQ Eric Krieg's excellent synopsis of astrology Real Astrological Signs Real vs astrological sun signs Astrology Defense Kit The Sun A pictorial introduction to the Sun, from NCAR The Sun: a "virtual" tour The Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) Satellite (look there for up-to-the-minute images of the Sun) A movie of sungrazing comets, coronal mass ejections and the motion of the Sun across the background sky Solar Dynamics Observatory: the Sun today Star and planet formation The Orion Nebula - general overview Closeup of inner region of the nebula Images of protostellar disks Edge-on view of protoplanetary disk Movies of protostars and protoplanetary disks Star birth and "eggs" in M16 A face on detailed view of a protoplanetary disk around AB Aur The disk surrounding the main sequence star Beta Pictoris The planet and disk surrounding Fomalhaut Extrasolar Planetary Systems Methods for finding planets The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia Extrasolar Planet Search The Kepler Mission to find extrasolar planets in the habitable zone Exoplanet Travel Bureau (with posters!) Life in the Universe The Drake Equation Stromatolites - the earliest life on Earth The SETI Institute, home of Project Phoenix Seti@home: SETI on your own home computer. The Arecibo Message The Arecibo Message (decoded) SETI: Artificiality vs. complexity Back up Back to Steve Kawaler's homepage Back to ISU Astronomy
Comets The Kuiper Belt Home Page The Comet Fact Sheet The Kuiper Belt and The Oort Cloud The Comet Home Page Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9: Collision with Jupiter Nucleus of Comet Halley from Giotto Deep Impact Stardust - Comet sample return ROSETTA: ESA's Rendezvous Mission with a Comet NASA's Deep Space 1 probe took images of the nucleus of Comet Borrelly Planetary impacts: past, present, and future Asteroid and comet impact hazards The Peekskill Fireball Video of the Chelyabinsk Meteorite Actual fall of a chunk of the Chelyabinsk meteor into a frozen lake The 1908 Tunguska event The "Tunguska" Home page Tungusca photos Terrestrial impact crater images Database Survey of Earth's impact craters Manson, Iowa, impact crater Here is where it is Here is a cross section A short AP story on the Manson crater Comet SL-9 and its impact with Jupiter Near-Earth-Objects What killed the dinosaurs? Spaceguard Astrology and Pseudoscience A Skeptic's View of Astrology What's Your Sign? A critical reading of the Astrology FAQ Eric Krieg's excellent synopsis of astrology Real Astrological Signs Real vs astrological sun signs Astrology Defense Kit The Sun A pictorial introduction to the Sun, from NCAR The Sun: a "virtual" tour The Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) Satellite (look there for up-to-the-minute images of the Sun) A movie of sungrazing comets, coronal mass ejections and the motion of the Sun across the background sky Solar Dynamics Observatory: the Sun today Star and planet formation The Orion Nebula - general overview Closeup of inner region of the nebula Images of protostellar disks Edge-on view of protoplanetary disk Movies of protostars and protoplanetary disks Star birth and "eggs" in M16 A face on detailed view of a protoplanetary disk around AB Aur The disk surrounding the main sequence star Beta Pictoris The planet and disk surrounding Fomalhaut Extrasolar Planetary Systems Methods for finding planets The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia Extrasolar Planet Search The Kepler Mission to find extrasolar planets in the habitable zone Exoplanet Travel Bureau (with posters!) Life in the Universe The Drake Equation Stromatolites - the earliest life on Earth The SETI Institute, home of Project Phoenix Seti@home: SETI on your own home computer. The Arecibo Message The Arecibo Message (decoded) SETI: Artificiality vs. complexity Back up Back to Steve Kawaler's homepage Back to ISU Astronomy
Planetary impacts: past, present, and future Asteroid and comet impact hazards The Peekskill Fireball Video of the Chelyabinsk Meteorite Actual fall of a chunk of the Chelyabinsk meteor into a frozen lake The 1908 Tunguska event The "Tunguska" Home page Tungusca photos Terrestrial impact crater images Database Survey of Earth's impact craters Manson, Iowa, impact crater Here is where it is Here is a cross section A short AP story on the Manson crater Comet SL-9 and its impact with Jupiter Near-Earth-Objects What killed the dinosaurs? Spaceguard Astrology and Pseudoscience A Skeptic's View of Astrology What's Your Sign? A critical reading of the Astrology FAQ Eric Krieg's excellent synopsis of astrology Real Astrological Signs Real vs astrological sun signs Astrology Defense Kit The Sun A pictorial introduction to the Sun, from NCAR The Sun: a "virtual" tour The Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) Satellite (look there for up-to-the-minute images of the Sun) A movie of sungrazing comets, coronal mass ejections and the motion of the Sun across the background sky Solar Dynamics Observatory: the Sun today Star and planet formation The Orion Nebula - general overview Closeup of inner region of the nebula Images of protostellar disks Edge-on view of protoplanetary disk Movies of protostars and protoplanetary disks Star birth and "eggs" in M16 A face on detailed view of a protoplanetary disk around AB Aur The disk surrounding the main sequence star Beta Pictoris The planet and disk surrounding Fomalhaut Extrasolar Planetary Systems Methods for finding planets The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia Extrasolar Planet Search The Kepler Mission to find extrasolar planets in the habitable zone Exoplanet Travel Bureau (with posters!) Life in the Universe The Drake Equation Stromatolites - the earliest life on Earth The SETI Institute, home of Project Phoenix Seti@home: SETI on your own home computer. The Arecibo Message The Arecibo Message (decoded) SETI: Artificiality vs. complexity Back up Back to Steve Kawaler's homepage Back to ISU Astronomy
Astrology and Pseudoscience A Skeptic's View of Astrology What's Your Sign? A critical reading of the Astrology FAQ Eric Krieg's excellent synopsis of astrology Real Astrological Signs Real vs astrological sun signs Astrology Defense Kit The Sun A pictorial introduction to the Sun, from NCAR The Sun: a "virtual" tour The Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) Satellite (look there for up-to-the-minute images of the Sun) A movie of sungrazing comets, coronal mass ejections and the motion of the Sun across the background sky Solar Dynamics Observatory: the Sun today Star and planet formation The Orion Nebula - general overview Closeup of inner region of the nebula Images of protostellar disks Edge-on view of protoplanetary disk Movies of protostars and protoplanetary disks Star birth and "eggs" in M16 A face on detailed view of a protoplanetary disk around AB Aur The disk surrounding the main sequence star Beta Pictoris The planet and disk surrounding Fomalhaut Extrasolar Planetary Systems Methods for finding planets The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia Extrasolar Planet Search The Kepler Mission to find extrasolar planets in the habitable zone Exoplanet Travel Bureau (with posters!) Life in the Universe The Drake Equation Stromatolites - the earliest life on Earth The SETI Institute, home of Project Phoenix Seti@home: SETI on your own home computer. The Arecibo Message The Arecibo Message (decoded) SETI: Artificiality vs. complexity Back up Back to Steve Kawaler's homepage Back to ISU Astronomy
The Sun A pictorial introduction to the Sun, from NCAR The Sun: a "virtual" tour The Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) Satellite (look there for up-to-the-minute images of the Sun) A movie of sungrazing comets, coronal mass ejections and the motion of the Sun across the background sky Solar Dynamics Observatory: the Sun today Star and planet formation The Orion Nebula - general overview Closeup of inner region of the nebula Images of protostellar disks Edge-on view of protoplanetary disk Movies of protostars and protoplanetary disks Star birth and "eggs" in M16 A face on detailed view of a protoplanetary disk around AB Aur The disk surrounding the main sequence star Beta Pictoris The planet and disk surrounding Fomalhaut Extrasolar Planetary Systems Methods for finding planets The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia Extrasolar Planet Search The Kepler Mission to find extrasolar planets in the habitable zone Exoplanet Travel Bureau (with posters!) Life in the Universe The Drake Equation Stromatolites - the earliest life on Earth The SETI Institute, home of Project Phoenix Seti@home: SETI on your own home computer. The Arecibo Message The Arecibo Message (decoded) SETI: Artificiality vs. complexity Back up Back to Steve Kawaler's homepage Back to ISU Astronomy
Star and planet formation The Orion Nebula - general overview Closeup of inner region of the nebula Images of protostellar disks Edge-on view of protoplanetary disk Movies of protostars and protoplanetary disks Star birth and "eggs" in M16 A face on detailed view of a protoplanetary disk around AB Aur The disk surrounding the main sequence star Beta Pictoris The planet and disk surrounding Fomalhaut Extrasolar Planetary Systems Methods for finding planets The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia Extrasolar Planet Search The Kepler Mission to find extrasolar planets in the habitable zone Exoplanet Travel Bureau (with posters!) Life in the Universe The Drake Equation Stromatolites - the earliest life on Earth The SETI Institute, home of Project Phoenix Seti@home: SETI on your own home computer. The Arecibo Message The Arecibo Message (decoded) SETI: Artificiality vs. complexity Back up Back to Steve Kawaler's homepage Back to ISU Astronomy
Extrasolar Planetary Systems Methods for finding planets The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia Extrasolar Planet Search The Kepler Mission to find extrasolar planets in the habitable zone Exoplanet Travel Bureau (with posters!) Life in the Universe The Drake Equation Stromatolites - the earliest life on Earth The SETI Institute, home of Project Phoenix Seti@home: SETI on your own home computer. The Arecibo Message The Arecibo Message (decoded) SETI: Artificiality vs. complexity Back up Back to Steve Kawaler's homepage Back to ISU Astronomy
Life in the Universe The Drake Equation Stromatolites - the earliest life on Earth The SETI Institute, home of Project Phoenix Seti@home: SETI on your own home computer. The Arecibo Message The Arecibo Message (decoded) SETI: Artificiality vs. complexity Back up Back to Steve Kawaler's homepage Back to ISU Astronomy
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