A quick tour of the Solar System!

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A quick tour of the Solar System!
The nearest star! Our Sun
its FAR more complex than just a yellow ball
of gas!
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Mercury
Heavily cratered
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Venus
A dynamic geologic surface under a veil of clouds
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Venus revealed
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The 3rd planet the friendly Blue Planet
observed from a nearby outpost
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The Earth is a geologically dynamic planet great
mountain ranges rise from its surface!
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Our next destinationthe Moon!
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Looking back
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We have visited and we will be back!
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Apollo 14 Lunar Landing site!
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A close-up!
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Our next destination Mars, the Red Planet!
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A world of ice caps, clouds, winds, erosion
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Great canyons
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Cliffs carved by landslides
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Dunes formed by wind
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and sheets of ice.
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Phobosone of two Martian Moons
just large rocks a few miles across.
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JupiterKing of Planets
but only in OUR Solar System!
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One of MANY moons of Jupiter
Ganymede
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The volcanically active moon IO
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Volcanic eruptions on IO
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Saturn
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Saturns moon Tethys
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Saturns moon Titan is veiled by clouds, but a
Titan probe revealed a complex landscape with
river channels
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and lakes and seas of Methane.
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Nextthe ringed-planet Uranus!
It is now known that Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus AND
Neptune all have ring systems only Saturns
rings are easily seen.
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Uranus
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Arial
Miranda
and two of its many moons.
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Neptune
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with fascinating bands of clouds.
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How about Pluto? Why have astronomers
re-classified it as a Dwarf Planet?
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Its not unique! There are MANY such objects
known!
These are part of a vast collection of objects
that form the KUIPER BELT
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The Kuiper Belt extends from just beyond the
orbit of Neptune to the limits of Plutos orbit.
More than 1,000 Kuiper Belt objects are now known!
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And there are many other objects like
and other pieces left over from the Solar
Systems formation.