For a description of the links see Franknoi, Morrison, and Wolff, Voyages to the Planets, (2nd edition), Saunders College Publishing.    Do you wish to have your favorite astronomical link add to this list?    Send a mail to  valerio@astro.cornell.edu

             Part 1:     General Concepts About the Solar System

                          Chapter 1     Chapter 2    Chapter 3   Chapter 4    Chapter 5   Chapter 6

            Part 2:     The Inner Solar System

                          Chapter 7     Chapter 8     Chapter 9

            Part 3:     The Outer Solar System

                          Chapter 10    Chapter 11    Chapter 12

            Part 4:     Origins

                          Chapter 13    Chapter 14    Chapter 15
 

General
 

•  www.nineplanets.org  - A Solar System site

•  webexhibits.org/calendars/ - History of calendars

Part 1:  General Concepts About the Solar System
 
 

Chapter 1:  Observing the Sky: The Birth of Astronomy
 

•  The constellations and their stars

•  The Galileo Project

•  The History of Astronomy Site

Chapter 2: Orbits and Gravity
 

•  Images of Tycho Brahe

•  Visual Satellite Observer's Home Page

•  The Satellite Observing Resources Page

•  Mathematical Discovery of Planets

Chapter 3: Earth, Moon, and Sky

•  Calendar Zone

•  Eclipse Home Page

•  The Sky Online Eclipse Page

•  Astronomical Data Sevices

•  Sundials on the Internet

Chapter 4: Radiation and Spectra
 

•  SkyView

•  Tutorial on Temperature

•  Blackbody Radiation Demonstration

Chapter 5: Astronomical Instruments
 

• Early Radio Astronomy

• Whispers from the Cosmos

• Orbiting Astronomical Observatories

• History of  High-Energy Astrophysics

• Sites with Information on Buying Your Own Telescope:

1. Astronomy magazine
2. Sky &Telescope magazine

Chapter 6: Other Worlds: An Introduction to the Solar System
 

• The Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System

• Planetary Sciences Site

• Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

• Planetary Photojournal

• A Space Library

• The Thousand-Yard Model: Earth as a Peppercorn

Part 2: The Inner Solar System
 
 

Chapter 7: Earth as a planet
 

• Earth on the Solar System Web Sites

1. The Nine Planets Site
2. Planetary Sciences Site

• Tutorial on the Magnetosphere

• The Electronic Volcano

• NASA Observatorium Ozone Guide

• National Earthquake Information Center

• Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazard Page

Chapter 8: Cratered Worlds: The Moon and Mercury
 

      A. The Moon

• General Sites about the Moon, with good links:

1. The Nine Planets Site
2. Planetary Sciences Site

• Exploring the Moon

• Apollo Lunar Surface Journal

• Clementine Mission Sites:

1. Sky & Telescope Introduction
2. Official Mission Site
3. Lunar Ice

• Lunar Prospector Home Page

• Touring the Moon with Binoculars

       B. Mercury

• General Sites about Mercury

1. The Nine Planets Site
2. Planetary Sciences Site

• Mercury Unveiled

      A. Venus

• General Venus sites:

1. The Nine Planets Site
2. Planetary Sciences Site

• Magellan Mission to Venus

• Venus Hypermap

     B. Mars

• General Venus sites:

1. The Nine Planets Site
2. Planetary Sciences Site

• Center for Mars Exploration Home Page

• Mars Pathfinder Mission Home Page

• Mars Global Surveyor Home Page

• Mars Explorer for Armchair Astronauts

• On the question of the Mars Meteorite

• Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander Missions

Part 3: The Outer Solar System
 

Chapter 10: The Giant Planets
 

• General Jupiter sites:

1. The Nine Planets Site
2. Planetary Sciences Site

• General Saturn sites:

1. The Nine Planets Site
2. Planetary Sciences Site

• General Uranus sites:

1. The Nine Planets Site
2. Planetary Sciences Site

• General Neptune sites:

1. The Nine Planets Site
2. Planetary Sciences Site

• Galileo Mission Site

• Voyager Project Home Page

• Cassini: Voyage to Saturn

Chapter 11: Rings, Moons, and Pluto
 

• Europa Orbiter Mission Site

• General Pluto Sites

1. The Nine Planets Site
2. Planetary Sciences Site

• The Clyde Tombaugh Web Site

• Pluto Home Page

• The Planetary Rings Node

Chapter 12: Comets and Asteroids: Debris of the Solar System
 

• Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards Page

• Comet Hale-Bopp Home Page

• Comet Observation Home Page

• Comet Shoemaker-Levy Home Page

• Kuiper Belt Home Page

• Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Mission

• Stardust Mission Home Page

Part 4: Origins
 

Chapter 13: Cosmic Samples and the Origin of the Solar System
 

• Meteors Showers Site

• Sky On Line Meteor Page

• Mars Meteorites

• Nine Planets Meteors, Meteorites, and Impact Page

Chapter 14: The Sun: A garden-Variety Star
 
 

• General Information Sites about the Sun:

1. The Nine Planets Site
2. Views of the Solar System Site

• The Stanford SOLAR Center

• NASA Goddard Solar Flares Pages

• Images of the Sun Today

• Sites for Space Missions about the Sun

1. Ulysses
2. SOHO
3. TRACE
4. Yohkoh Soft X-ray Telescope

Chapter 15: The Search for Planets and Life Elsewhere
 

• The Astrobiology Web

• NASA Astrobiology

• Extra-solar Planets Encyclopedia

• Searching for the Extra-Solar Planets

• SETI Institute Home Page

• The Planetary Society's Search

• SERENDIP Home Page

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