Links to Tours of the Solar System

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A lot of excellent work has been done by planetary scientists to bring you the best information about the planets and the latest pictures from space missions. This set of links will take you to whatever solar system tour you would like. Fortunately, any of them will give you an excellent presentation.

The sites this page will connect you to are:

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Flagstaff Field Center. In the table below this is labelled as USGS.
  2. Welcome to the Planets at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In the table below this is labelled as WtP.
  3. Planetary Sciences at the National Space Science Data Center. In the table below this is labelled as NSSDC.
  4. Views of the Solar System by Calvin J. Hamilton. In the table below this is labelled as Views. He also has the tour in Spanish and Portuguese.
  5. The Nine Planets by Bill Arnett. In the table below this is labelled as NineP.

Planet USGS Wtp NSSDC Views NineP
Sun NA NA go to go to go to
Mercury go to go to go to go to go to
Venus go to go to go to go to go to
Earth go to go to go to go to go to
Moon go to go to (at bottom) go to go to go to
Mars go to go to go to go to go to
Jupiter go to go to go to go to go to
Saturn go to go to go to go to go to
Uranus go to go to go to go to go to
Neptune go to go to go to go to go to
Pluto go to go to go to go to go to
Asteroids go to go to go to go to go to
Meteorites NA go to (at bottom) NA go to go to
Comets go to go to go to go to go to

last updated: 19 July 1997

Planet Properties table

Planet Atmospheres and Magnetic Fields table

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