Views of the Solar System
by Calvin J. Hamilton
- New! Views of the Solar System CD-ROM -- available through the National Science Teachers Association for $21.95. Members of NSTA receive a 10% discount. The CD contains the information from this site plus an extensive teachers resources list, and NSTA journal articles that cover key processes in space science. Includes all necessary software to run on Macintosh and Windows computers.
- Views of the Solar System in Spanish -- Vistas del Sistema Solar. Only a few pages have been translated. More will come.
Views of the Solar System has been created as an educational tour of the solar system. It contains images and information about the Sun, planets, moons, asteroids, comets and meteoroids found within the solar system. It contains over 220 pages of information, over 950 high-resolution images and animations, and over 880 megabytes of data. The image processing for many of the images was done by the author.
This tour uses hypertext to allow space travel by simply clicking on a desired planet. This causes information and images about the planet to appear on screen. While on a planet page, hyperlinks travel to pages about the moons and other relevant available resources. Unusual terms are linked to and defined in the Glossary page. Statistical information of the planets and satellites can be browsed through sorted lists. The History of Space Exploration contains information about rocket history, early astronauts, space missions, spacecraft and detailed chronology tables of space exploration. The Table of Contents page has links to all of the various pages within Views Of The Solar System.
Contents
| What's New | Mirror
Sites | Image
Index | Solar
System Introduction
Sun | Mercury
| Venus | Earth
| Mars | Jupiter
| Saturn | Uranus
| Neptune | Pluto
Asteroids | Comets
| Meteoroids & Meteorites
| History | People
Sun, Planet & Satellite
Data | Planetary
Data Browser | Glossary
| Credits
Software to Display Images and Play Movies
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Access counts to this page:
- During December 1996: 81,521
- Since January 1, 1996: 716,274
Access counts to all of Views of the Solar System pages and images:
- During December 1996: 3,983,038
- Since January 1, 1996: 32,717,565
Author: Calvin J. Hamilton; last updated: 4 December 1996