What's New in Views of the Solar System

• A page on the European spacecraft Ulysses was added on 10/19/95.

• A page on the Soviet Mars Program was added on 10/20/95.

• A page on the Soviet Venus Program was added on 10/20/95.

• A 'Landslide in Valles Marineris' image was added to the Mars pages on 10/20/95.

• The page on asteroid 4179 Toutatis was updated with some fantastic information and new images (10/19/95).

• A page on the Japanese spacecraft Sakigake was added on 10/19/95.

• A page on the Japanese spacecraft Suisei was added on 10/19/95.

• A page on the European spacecraft Giotto was added on 10/19/95.

• A page on the USSR spacecrafts Venera 15 & 16 was added on 10/17/95.

• A page on the USSR spacecraft Phobos was added on 10/17/95.

• A page on Galileo was added on 10/17/95.

• A page on Magellan was added on 10/17/95.

• A page on the Voyager Spacecraft was added on 10/17/95.

• A page on the Viking Spacecraft was added on 10/17/95.

• A page on Surveyor was added on 10/16/95.

• A page on Mariner 9 was added on 10/16/95.

• A page on Mariner 6 & 7 was added on 10/16/95.

• A page on Mariner 5 was added on 10/16/95.

• A page on Mariner 4 was added on 10/16/95.

• A page on Mariner 2 was added on 10/16/95.

• A page on "The Rationale for Exploring Mars" was added on 10/13/95.

• An Martian metorite image with a microscopic view was added to the Meteorite page on 10/12/95.

• An image of "Martian Mantle Convection" was added to the Martian Volcanoes page on 10/12/95.

• An image of "Frost at the Viking 2 Lander Site" was added to the Mars page on 10/12/95.

• A "Hubble Photo Gallery of the Galilean Satellites" image was added to the Jupiter page on 10/12/95.

• A school activity on Luna and Io - A Comparison Study was added on 9/27/95. It contains a couple of nice pictures of the relative sizes of Jupiter and Earth, and Io and the Moon.

• All of the video clips for the Apollo missions were updated. Higher resolution digitization was used. Most of the clips were digitized at 210x160 with some at 320x240. For the index to the animations click HERE. To access the Apollo mission summaries click HERE. (9/21/95).

• Video clips of the Apollo 13 Mission were added on 9/7/95.

• A page on Hypothetical Planets was added on 9/2/95.

• I have processed and added some beautiful images of Venus and Mercury from Mariner 10 spacecraft data. (8/25/95)

• A page on New Satellites of Saturn was added on 8/15/95.

• A page on Venusian Volcanic Features was added on 8/11/95.

• A page on asteroid Geographos was added on 8/7/95.

• Added video clips of errupting volcanoes to the Terrestrial Volcanoes page on 8/1/95.

• The page of Terrestrial Volcanoes was updated and a page on Hawaiian Volcanoes was added on 6/29/95.

• A page on Resurgent Calderas and the Valles Caldera was added on 6/23/95.

• A new page on Clouds From Space was added on 6/20/95.

• A page on Venusian Impact Craters was added on 6/8/95.

• Hubble images of Saturn's ring-plane crossing (disappearing rings) were added on 6/5/95.

• Images for Jupiter's satellites Metis and Thebe were added on 6/2/95.

• A page on Martian Clouds was added on 6/1/95.

• I have digitized numerous NASA videos and have added animation clips to the following pages: Sun, Venus, Earth, Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Ganymede, Io, Saturn, Enceladus, Uranus, Miranda, Neptune and Triton. Note that some of these animations are very large. (5/30/95).

• A to-scale image of Jupiter's moons Amalthea, Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto was added to the Jupiter page on 5/22/95.

• A new image showing the Sun and planets to scale was added to the Solar System page on 5/18/95.

• A new image of Venus was added on 5/17/95.

• The Moon page has been update to include new images and previous images scanned at a higher resolution. (5/10/95)

• An introduction to the Terrestrial Volcanoes page was added on 5/9/95.

• New HST images of Mars was added on 4/20/95.

• New HST images of Neptune showing the return of a dark spot were added on 4/20/95.

• A page on asteroid Vesta was added on 4/19/95. This includes the newly released Hubble images and animation of the asteroid. The Meteorite page was updated to include the Vesta meteorite.

• Composite images of the terrestrial and Jovian planets were added to the Solar System Introduction on 4/19/95.

• An excellent page on the Earth's Interior & Plate Tectonics was added on 4/14/95.

• An excellent discussion on the The Face on Mars by Malin Space Science Systems, Inc., was added to the Mars page on 3/31/95.

• A Hubble Space Telescope view of Venus was added on 3/27/95.

• A new page titled Earth From Space is under construction.

• A diagram of the Sun was added to the Sun page on 3/13/95.

• Shaded relief maps were added for Epimetheus, Janus and Castalia. (3/7/95.)

• A gravity map image of the Chicxulub impact basin was added on 3/7/95. This impact is thought responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs.

• The Martian Volcanoes was updated to include additional information and new images. (3/7/95.)

• Images for Jupiter's moon Adrastea were added on 2/28/95.

• The pages for Phoebe, Iapetus and Rhea were updated on 2/27/95.

• A color composite image of Rhea showing whispy markings was added on 2/27/95.

• A page on the Mariner 10 spacecraft was added on 2/21/95.

• HST image of Neptune was added on 2/17/95.

• A Listing of Terrestrial Impact Craters was added on 2/17/95.

• A new page on Terrestrial Impact Craters was added on 2/7/95.

• JPEG images were added to the Sun, Mars and Martian Volcanoes pages on 1/31/95.

• A Hubble image of Io was added to the Io page on 1/31/95.

• A beautiful image of the 1991 Solar Eclipse was added to the Sun page on 1/23/95.

• Images and Animations were added to the Educator's Guide on Convection on 1/19/95.

• Color composite image of Tethys was added on 1/18/95.

• Movies were added to the Sun, Venus, Earth, Moon, Mars and Saturn pages on 1/6/95.

• Image of the lunar south pole was added to the Moon page on 1/6/95.

• Images for Neptune's satellites Thalassa, Despina and Galatea were added on 12/8/94.

• An image for Belinda was added on 12/7/94.

• New images were added to the Phobos and Deimos pages. (11/30/94)

• Image for Neptune's satellite Nereid was added on 11/29/94.

• Saturn's satillites Pan and Atlas were updated to include images and new information. (11/28/94)

• New images were added to Mercury, Venus and Triton pages. (11/25/94)

• Saturn`s satellites Prometheus, Pandora, Epimetheus and Janus were newly updated to include recent information. (11/23/94).

• New HTML pages were added for Jupiter's satellites: Metis, Adrastea, Thebe, Leda, Himalia, Lysithea, Elara, Ananke, Carme, Pasiphae, and Sinope. The information is not very accurate and is hard to find. I welcome any updated information if it is available. (11/23/94).

• The Titan Home Page was updated to include the new Hubble Telescope images of the satellite with an mpeg movie showing its rotation. (11/21/94).

• A Kuiper Belt Objects page was added to the Comet page on 11/9/94.

• A Planetary Information Browse was added on 11/9/94.

• A Terrestrial Volcanoes page was added to the Earth page on 10/14/94.

• A Martian Volcanoes page was added to the Mars page on 10/14/94.

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Author: Calvin J. Hamilton