This site features clickable interactive maps and data sets about landing sites on Mars.

Through GEOLogic puzzles, students are given clues about properties about the terrestrial and Jovian planets respectively, and challenged to match the planet with the correct equatorial radius, mean orbital velocity, and period of rotation.

Find lesson plans, worksheets, photo galleries, and related links for teaching about the weather systems of planets in our solar system.

Learn about the first astrogeologist and discoverer of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.

Details the Russian lunar missions from Luna 1 to Zond 8.

This web page contains information about the Voyager and the Voyager II. The page explains that the Voyagers were designed to go beyond our solar system. The page also contains scientific results of regarding the Voyager mission.

See pictures of the Surveyor, as well as a small description of the Surveyor mission objectives, along with launch,landing dates and coordinates.

A rendezvous with a comet was the goal for NASA's Stardust mission. Read about the mission and the comet here.

Contains the official record of the Clementine mission's survey of the moon, with links to more detailed information about the spacecraft and its mission. Includes images of the mission and planets.

Available in both HTML and Shockwave formats, this site is a visual timeline of US, Soviet, and Japanese Lunar exploration. Each point of the timeline links to text information about that spacecraft and mission.

This comet fact sheet, supplied by the NSSDC, provides a table of information on selected comets, complete with commentary when appropriate. Includes details of missions to observe these comets.

A pair of small tables of data that contain just about everything known about the moons of Neptune.

Take a journey through the solar system with this interactive guide. Includes planetary history, "travel information," "tourist highlights," and video clips. Games and quizzes include a Solar System jigsaw that prompts the student to...

This image shows Johannes Kepler, a German astronomer famous for his laws of planetary motion. Check out our Johannes Kepler facts page for more information.

Combined with aspects of circular motion, students discover that Kepler's third law follows directly from the law of universal gravitation. This unit will expand upon the conservation of energy principle for problems beyond the confines...

Are you interested in an environmental career? Explore current environmental job opportunties in the Earthworks database.

On its way to Saturn, the Cassini probe passed by Jupiter to pick up a gravity assisted speed boost. This resoure gained more information as it passed by Jupiter on December 30, 2000 and traveled another four years outward to Saturn.

Detailed information about the Magellan Mission to Venus with images of major surface features and two images of the spacecraft.

Information on the failed Russian missions to Mars. Though both failed to complete their missions, much was learned about the solar system and new technology.

This site from NASA describes each of the experiments aboard Galileo and gives the data for each.

This nonprofit organization creates structured projects that facilitate engaged learning and youth making a difference on an International scale. Project areas include interdisciplinary topics such as the environment/science,...

In 1968, a science fiction writer named James R. Berry wrote an article entitled '40 Years in the Future' for the magazine Mechanix Illustrated. It was his futuristic vision of the 21st Century. Berry's predictions of a world featuring...

Classroom activity for teaching astronomy uses PowerPoint presentations and illustrations of Kepler's light curves used to discover planets.

A university-level course that examines the atmospheres and interiors of extrasolar planets, or exoplanets. The course also looks at the search for planets that could support life. Includes lecture notes and assignments.