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Class Flow: Planets
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains information on our solar system as well as links to related websites, a tic-tac-toe game and Activote questions.
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Nasa: Eyes on the Solar System
This interactive experience allows users to assume different positions and vantage points in space while moving through the Solar System. Also, explore the 2011 Juno spacecraft mission to Jupiter with real-time positioning in space.
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Nasa: Welcome to the Planets Mars
NASA offers a photo gallery of Mars images. These images include a detailed caption, each available in audio.
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Nasa: Welcome to the Planets Jupiter
NASA offers a photo gallery of Jupiter images. Each image includes a detailed caption describing what the image is of, and the captions are also available in streaming audio.
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Nasa: Welcome to the Planets Uranus
This NASA site offers a photo gallery of Uranus images. Each image includes a detailed caption describing what the image is of, and the captions are also available in streaming audio.
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Nasa: Space Place: The Lone Planet
Find out about the lonely planet without a star that space scientists have discovered.
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Nasa: Welcome to the Planets Mercury
NASA offers a photo gallery of Mercury images. Each image includes a detailed caption describing what is being seen, and this caption is also available in streaming audio.
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Nasa: Welcome to the Planets Venus
NASA offers a photo gallery of Venus images. Each image includes a detailed caption describing what the image is of, and this caption is also available in streaming audio.
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Nasa: Welcome to the Planets Saturn
NASA offers a photo gallery of Saturn images. Each image includes a detailed caption describing the image. Captions are also available in streaming audio.
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Nasa: Planetary Photojournal: Earth
This site provides access to publicly released images of the planet Earth from various Solar System exploration programs.
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Nasa Star Child: Mars the Red Planet (Level 1)
Get to know your next door neighbor in space. An introduction to Mars, the Red Planet. Vocabulary words linked to glossary of terms. Printable version available.
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Nasa Star Child: The Planet Venus
Basic facts about the planet Venus including its temperature, its atmosphere, and its volcanoes. Includes a discussion question on temperature, with facts, and the answer. A linked page covers similar material in a "Level 2" version, and...
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Nasa Star Child: The Planet Mercury
Basic facts about the planet Mercury including its size, its name, and its atmosphere. Includes a discussion question on its visibility from Earth, with facts, and the answer. A linked page covers similar material in a "Level 2" version,...
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Nasa: Surface Maps of the Solar System
Solar system surface map database. Includes maps of all solid planets and many moons. Maps of gas planets are either based on images taken by Voyager, or are fictitious maps including general storm systems.
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Nasa Star Child: Where Oh Where Does That Little Object Go?
See if you can identify the positions of the 9 planets in our solar system. Take an online quiz and get feedback on your answers.
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Nasa: Kepler's Third Law
This site from NASA states Kepler's third law of motion and extends it to develop an equation for the velocity of an orbiting planet.
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Nasa: Kepler's Second Law
This site from NASA states Kepler's second law of planetary motion and depicts its meaning with an informative diagram. Relates the law to conservation of energy principles and discusses the eccentricity of a satellite's (or a planet's)...
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Nasa Star Child: Planet Hop
Figure out your age and your weight on all the planets in the solar system using the formulas given here. Then type them into the correct place, and let the computer check to see if you are correct.
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Nasa: What Is Stereo Vision?
The robots NASA sends to explore other planets need two good eyes, just like humans. Learn why through this simple exercise.
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Nasa: Magellan Mission to Venus
This home page from NASA offers Venus images taken by Magellan and other highlights from the mission. In orbit around Venus for four years this mission provided maps of 98 percent of the surface of Venus that are more detailed than most...
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Nasa: Astronomy Picture of the Day: Jupiter From Voyager
Taken by Voyager 1 as it passed Jupiter in 1979, this image shows the Great Red Spot, which is a hurricane-like storm that has lasted over 300 years, and is more than three times the size of planet Earth.
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Cnn: Nasa Announces Missions to Seek Planets, Study Gamma Rays
A news article about NASA's plans to learn more about gamma rays and discover more planets launched in 1999.
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Nasa Space Place: All About Earth
Brief description of the earth's structure, surface, neighbors, and history with images.
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Nasa: Huge Springtime Storms Hit the Planet Uranus
Describes in detail the devastating storms that occur on Uranus.Also includes an .mpeg movie showing the rings of Uranus up close. (Mar. 29, 1999)