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Semester
I, 2008-2009 • G Hour (MWF 2:00-2:50) MacMillan
Hall 117 • Dr. James Head |
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Current Planetary Science Links |
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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 All
work in this Course is subject
to the Academic
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Comets, Asteroids, and Meteorites |
Planetary
Web Links (Inner Solar System) Planetary
Web Links (Outer Solar System) |
Planetary Science Links...
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EARTH |
INNER
SOLAR SYSTEM |
OUTER
SOLAR SYSTEM AND BEYOND |
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Meteor
Crater and its Environmental
Effects |
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Mars Exploration Rovers:
Both 'Spirit' and 'Opportunity' are
still operating, searching for clues to the history of water on Mars. |
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The Chandra X-Ray Observatory: Launched successfully in July of 1999, it continues
to return deep sky pictures |
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Monitor earthquakes around the world with data from seismological
stations provided by USGS |
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Mars Global Surveyor: Currently in its extended mission, returning image,
altimetry, magnetometry, and spectral data |
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Galileo: Mission has completed and spacecraft has crashed
into Jupiter |
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Hundreds of pictures of atmospheric effects and various weather related
phenomena |
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2001 Mars Odyssey: Currently orbiting Mars and returning data |
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Cassini Mission has been in orbit around Saturn for almost
a full year while returning data about Saturn and its moons. |
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Going back to the Moon: The Moon Mineralogy Mapper will launch in 2008 on
India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter |
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Four new moons
have been discovered around Saturn |
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ESA Goes to Mars: The European Space Agency's Mars Express Mission |
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The sounds of space,
including lightning in the atmosphere of Saturn and the magnetosphere of
Ganymede, can be found here.
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Interactive
Map of Canadian volcanoes from the Canadian Geological Survey |
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Deep Space 1: Validating new space flight technologies |
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Mission to Mercury: MESSENGER Homepage |
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Near Earth Asteroid
Rendezvous: One-year mission to
the asteroid Eros |
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last
updated: September 13, 2006.