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I. Mercury You might be tempted to think Mercury is very similar to the Moon, but compare and contrast them, and think about what the differences might mean. II. Venus Through UV and orange filters: From the Soviet Venera 13 lander: From Venera 14: This is a perspective mosaic of Venera images , which shows roughly what a human being would see on the surface of Venus: III. Earth Can you spot Earth in this Voyager 2 image taken beyond Pluto? IV. Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) There are only two NEOs that have clear, interesting, photographic images at the moment. There are tons more that either have blurry, mundane images, computer-generated images based on radar data, or just specks on a starfield. (No, this is not a joke - an asteroid named Eros looks like this...) V. Mars Northern ice cap: Either sunrise or sunset (sources differ): Earth from the Martian surface: Size comparison of Phobos and Deimos (this is not one photo, but two separate ones scaled and joined): VI. Main Asteroid Belt & Comets Some of these images are marginal, because we have not yet sent dedicated probes to Main Belt objects and have to rely on the Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories in most cases. Superior images were obtained only by probes destined for outer planets passing through the Main Belt. In the case of comets, they may have been imaged from a point closer than the Main Belt, but I include them arbitrarily because their orbits are usually too eccentric to categorize regionally. There are tens of thousands of cataloged objects for which there are no clear, close-up images. Size comparison of 951 Gaspra, Phobos, and Deimos: Size comparison of 951 Gaspra (right) with 243 Ida (left): A comparison of the size of Washington D.C. to 253 Mathilde: A comparison of the size of 253 Mathilde and 433 Eros: This is the largest asteroid in the solar system (hence its being spherical), and possibly destined for human settlement. It's thus a scandal that we still don't have any decent images of it (though we're sending the Dawn probe, which will arrive in 2015). This is from Hubble: Planned collision of Deep Impact interceptor probe with Comet Tempel 1: VII. Jupiter South pole: North pole: With Europa: With Ganymede: Io and Europa transit: Io transit: Europa transit with Callisto in foreground: Another Io transit: From descender probe, inside upper layers of Jovian atmosphere: Jupiter has dozens of moons, but we only have decent images of the Galilean satellites and a couple of the small, captured asteroid variety. Volcanic eruption: Lava flow: Black and white: Ice hills: Black and white: Size comparison of Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa: VIII. Saturn Eclipse: As with Jupiter, most moons of Saturn are just asteroid rubble, so most have no images. However, there are many more that do have images thanks to the Cassini probe. Notice that this moon causes waves in the rings to either side of it due to gravitational perturbation: The shadow of F Ring lies across it: "Above" plane of rings, with Titan in the background: In front of Saturn: Janus, Prometheus, and rings: With Northern latitudes of Saturn in background (not rings, as it might appear due to ring shadows): Partially eclipsing Dione: Saturn in the background: Ring plane in background: Close-up of surface, as seen from an angle: Outgassing: Enceladus inside E Ring. Outgassing from Enceladus is thought to be responsible for the existence of that ring: Enceladus and Dione (next 2 images): Janus, Enceladus, and Tethys: In front of Saturn: Enceladus and Janus: Tethys and Enceladus: Tethys and Dione: Infrared, showing surface features through the clouds (next 2 images): Radar, showing coastlines and fjords along hydrocarbon lakes (next 2 images): Surface: False color: Saturnshine - This is from the night side of Iapetus, seen only by the reflected light of Saturn. The streaks in the background are probably dust. IX. Uranus As there has never been a dedicated spacecraft sent to this planet, we can only rely on images from the Voyager 2 flyby and false-color images from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). In fact, there are no officially accepted plans to send spacecraft to either of the furthest outer planets in the foreseeable future. Hopefully that changes. Some folks sympathize with Pluto, but I feel sympathy for this planet - it gets ignored because of the primary's plainness, and due to the giggle factor of its name. Maybe things would have been different if it had been given the Greek version of its name, "Oranos," rather than the Latinized spelling. False color (next 3 images), from HST: In front of Uranus: Size comparison of Uranus, Puck, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon: --- X. Neptune Neptune and Triton: XI. Kuiper Belt (pronounced "Kye-per," rhymes with "viper") Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) are frigid ice worlds intersecting or beyond the orbit of Neptune, and tend to have relatively eccentric orbits. We have no clear images of any of the hundreds of known objects (astronomers expect there to be about 70,000), but there are vague images of the largest and brightest ones. This is the best we've got so far, and it is in true color: We also have false-color images of the Plutonian system, the first showing Pluto and Charon, and the second showing all four objects (as labeled): There will be much better images of the Plutonian system when the New Horizons probe passes by in 2015. Monochrome: With its two satellites, Hi'iaka (top) and Namaka (bottom). Extended exposure, HST: Eris is both substantially larger and more massive than Pluto. In this extended exposure, it's seen with its satellite, Dysnomia: Thus concludes our photo tour of the solar system. A. Additional size comparison images B. Orbital Charts Description: This chart helps us appreciate the true scale of the solar system. In the first panel, beginning at upper left, we see the inner solar system, with Jupiter included as a boundary (Jupiter is typically considered part of the outer solar system). Moving clockwise to the upper right panel, we telescope outward and see the original panel shrunk to just a small part of the outer solar system. The Kuiper Belt is shown, as is object 90377 Sedna at perihelion (closest approach to the Sun). Continuing clockwise to the lower right panel, we once again telescope outward, and now the entire planetary part of the solar system has shrunk to a small set of concentric circles at one of the foci of Sedna's highly elliptical orbit. Then, telescoping outward again into the lower left and final panel, we see Sedna's orbit reduced to a tiny ellipse within the inner extent of the Oort Cloud. The Oort Cloud - consisting mainly of comets and other small, icy bodies with extraordinarily long-period orbits - has poorly-defined boundaries, and it it considered a possibility that these clouds intersect between stars. Oort Cloud objects may therefore end up transferring from star to star over long time periods, or be thrown into the inner solar system. Description: Here we see a more detailed chart of the inner solar system and Jupiter, showing various asteroidal swarms. The "Greek" and "Trojan" swarms are asteroid groupings at Jupiter's stable solar Lagrange points, although both swarms are often referred to in shorthand as "Trojan asteroids" with the qualifier "leading" or "trailing" to denote which swarm is being referred to. It crosses the orbit of Neptune and has a wildly eccentric orbit:
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