Astro 121 bookmarks

Links for Astronomy 121

Basic Astronomy Concepts: Celestial Sphere (RA & Dec demonstrated); Rotation of Earth; Seasons of the Year; Zodiacs!; Precession; Demonstration of Precession; The Precession of the NCP; Phases of the Moon

Laws of Motion: Kepler's 1st law; Kepler's 2nd law; Kepler's 3rd law; Newton's laws; Circular motion (demonstration of Newton's 1st & 2nd law); Newton's 3rd law; Escape velocity; Explanation of tides; Tide demonstration

Mercury: Orbit and greatest elongation; 3:2 Spin-Orbit Resonannce; Image 1 (1300 × 2439); Mariner Map; Mariner Map (with notations); Crater on Mercury 100km in diameter; Caloris Basin; Caloris Basin's and "Weird" Terrain's birth; Interior; Relativistic precession; Mercury at radio wavelengths

Earth: Earth from space 1; Earth from space 2; Tectonics; Tectonic motions; American tectonics; Earth's interior; Earth's magnetic field; Geo-Solar magnetic interaction; Aurora; Aurora & meteor; Planetesimal (artistic)

Moon: Moon; Interactive Moon atlas; Tsiolkovsky crater (Moon surface); Archimedes, Autolycus, Palus Putredinis and the Apennine Mountains; Mare Imbrium, Euler (center) and Deslile (top left); Crater Plato North lunar hemisphere; Copernicus (Apollo 17 image)

Mars: Mars' retrograde motion; Global mosaic of Mars; Valles Marineris is visible; Mars; Mars (Tharsis region); Mars (Hellas Planitia, Syrtis Basin); Map of Mars 1 (mercator & polar projections); Map of Mars 2; Map of Mars 3 (mercator projection); Martian surface (mercator projection); Valles Marineris; Mountain Olympus; Gullies in crater (Mars Global Surveyor); More gullies in crater (Mars Global Surveyor); Crater on Northern Elysium Planitia (Mars Global Surveyor); Martian landsape; Mars' interior; Martians!!!

Jupiter: Jupiter (Voyager image); Close-up to Jupiter's Red Spot (Voyager 1image); Red Spot close-up; Storms on Jupiter; Jupiter's interior; Jupiter's Moons; Io; Io (Galileo Image); Volcanic eruption at Io; Io's interior; Europa; Europa's scarred surface (Galileo image); Europa's interior 1; Europa's interior 2; Ganymede; Galileo Regio (dark area, top right) and palimpsests (ghosts of ancient craters); Voyager image; Ganymede interior; Ganymede interior 2; Callisto; the Valhalla impact basin is located to the bottom left of the image (Voyager 2 image); Callisto's interior; Callisto's interior 2; Amalthea in Jupiter

Saturn: Saturn (Voyager Image); Dark side of Saturn; Saturn's rings; Saturn's rings (Voyager 2, color enhanced image); Inside Saturn's rings (artist's impression); Pan in the Encke gap; Titan: Saturn's largest satellite; Rhea: Saturn's 2nd largest satellite; Rhea: close-up (Voyager 2 image); Iapetus: Saturn's 3rd largest satellite; Saturn's heating mechanism; Comparison of Jupiter's and Saturn's interiors; Saturn's magnetosphere

Uranus: Uranus; aaa; Uranus (HST image); Uranus' Atmosphere (HST); Titania: Uranus's largest satellite; Oberon: Uranus' 2nd largest satellite; Umbriel: Uranus' 3rd largest satellite; Umbriel: computer processed image; Ariel: Uranus' 4th largest satellite (Voyager 2 image); Miranda: Uranus' 5th largest satellite; Miranda close-up; Cressida, Ophelia and Portia (Uranus); Uranian Sepherd Moons, Cordelia (U8) and Ophelia (U7); Uranus' interior

Neptune: Neptune (Voyager 2 image); Neptune; Neptune: close-up to the Great Dark Spot; Cloud Streaks on Neptune; Neptune's rings (Voyager 2 image); Neptune's rings (computer processed image); Triton: Neptune's largest satellite; Close-up on Triton (Voyager 2 image); Triton's surface (evidence for fluid activity); Proteus Neptune's 2nd larget moon; Neptune's interior; Comparison of Uranus' and Neptune's interiors

Pluto: Pluto (in Ophiuchus); Pluto & Charon (HST image); Surface contrast on Pluto (HST image); Pluto and Charon interiors; Pluto from Charon (artistic)

Asteroids, Meteorites and Comets: Asteroid belt (composite image); Asteroid distribution from NASDA; Oort Cloud and Kuiper Belt; Kuipert belt; Asteroids Mathilde, Gaspra and Ida; Ida and Dact asteroids; Ida asteroid and its moon; Eros Near Earth Asteroid (600 × 667); Eros' complex rotation; Eros surface; Meteors shower; Comets 1; Comets 2; Core of Halley comet; Shoemaker-Levy comet crashes on Jupiter (artistic); Hale-Bobb Comet; Hale-Bopp close image