Semester I, 2008-2009 • G Hour (MWF 2:00-2:50)

MacMillan Hall 117 • Dr. James Head

 

Current Planetary Science Links

Planetary Science News

 

Cassini Homepage

Space Shuttle Mission Homepage

Status of the International Space Station

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Syllabus (pdf file)

Course Goals (pdf file)

Course Organization/Tests and Exercises (pdf file)

Reading List (.doc file)

Dr. Mike Wyatt's talk on the
Mars Exploration Rover Mission

(pdf file)

All work in this Course is

subject to the Academic Code

  Comets, Asteroids, and Meteorites
(Powerpoint file)

Class Notes

Contacts and Office Hours

Planetary Web Links (Inner Solar System)

Planetary Web Links (Outer Solar System)
an organized list of World Wide Web sources of planetary images and data

Geo 5 Course Blog

A New Perspective on Mars

Brown University Ladd Observatory

Visit a planet through Google:Mars, Moon, Earth

 


 

Planetary Science Links...

 

EARTH

INNER SOLAR SYSTEM

OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM AND BEYOND

 

Meteor Crater and its Environmental Effects

Mars Exploration Rovers: Both 'Spirit' and 'Opportunity' are still operating, searching for clues to the history of water on Mars.

 

The Chandra X-Ray Observatory: Launched successfully in July of 1999, it continues to return deep sky pictures

Monitor earthquakes around the world with data from seismological stations provided by USGS

Mars Global Surveyor: Currently in its extended mission, returning image, altimetry, magnetometry, and spectral data

Galileo: Mission has completed and spacecraft has crashed into Jupiter

 

Hundreds of pictures of atmospheric effects and various weather related phenomena

2001 Mars Odyssey: Currently orbiting Mars and returning data

Cassini Mission has been in orbit around Saturn for almost a full year while returning data about Saturn and its moons.

 

Take a Trip to the Seafloor

Going back to the Moon: The Moon Mineralogy Mapper will launch in 2008 on India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter

Four new moons have been discovered around Saturn

 

Italy's Volcanoes

ESA Goes to Mars: The European Space Agency's Mars Express Mission

 

The sounds of space, including lightning in the atmosphere of Saturn and the magnetosphere of Ganymede, can be found here.

 

Interactive Map of Canadian volcanoes from the Canadian Geological Survey

Deep Space 1: Validating new space flight technologies

 

 

 

Hydrothermal Vents

Mission to Mercury: MESSENGER Homepage

 

 

 

 

Montserrat Volcano Update

Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous: One-year mission to the asteroid Eros

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


last updated: September 13, 2006.