Why Study the Planets?

    - Challenger Disaster

Astronomy 101

    - Kepler's 2nd Law
    - Kepler's 3rd Law

Home Sweet Home

    - Earthquake shaking (Kobe, Japan)
    - Tsunami generation
    - Indian Ocean tsunami (December 26, 2004)

Living on a Restless Planet I

    - Pangea Splitup (UCSB)
    - Global Topograpy Visualization (BIG)
    - Hydrothermal Vent on the Seafloor

From Earth to the Moon

    - Apollo 11 Landing
    - Apollo 15 Launch
    - US & USSR Lunar Sample Returns (figure)

Shoemaker's World

    - Rotating Moon (gray)
    - Rotating Moon (colored topography)
    - Lunar Impact

Moonstruck

    - Moon Formation

Surf's Up

    - Reasons for Seasons
    - Lunar Phases
    - Solar Eclipse in India

Venus Revealed

    - Magellan Mission

Venus: Past Prime Yet so Young

    - Rotating Venus
    - Maxwell Montes
    - Tectonics & Deformation

The Venusian Atmosphere

    - Tour de Venus (not shown in class)

New Views of Mars

    - Mars Pathfinder (Sojourner)
    - Mars Exploration Rovers (Spirit & Opportunity)

Volcanoes the size of Arizona

    - Impacts and magnetism
    - Olympus Mons & Hawaii

Another Wet Planet

    - Martian Oceans
    - Mars & Earth Polar Caps

MESSENGER to Mercury

    - Day vs. Year
    - Doppler Shift: Siren
    - Mercury-Sun Transit (2003)

Space Junk

    - Eros the Asteroid
    - Peekskill, NY Meteor
    - Comet Approaching Sun

Gas Giants I

    - Rotating Jupiter
    - Cloud Belts
    - The Red Spot
    - Impact: Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9

Gas Giants II

    - Saturn Fly Around
    - Saturn Storm
    - Saturn Radio Sounds
    - Saturn Rings Panormic
    - Saturn Spokes
    - Cassini Orbit around Saturn
    - Huygens Probe Landing on Titan

Gas Giants III

    - Magnetic Field of Uranus
    - Neptune's Rotation
    - Neptune's Cloud Bands
    - Pluto & Charon Comparison
    - Why Go To Pluto?

Jovian Moons

    - Io (1)
    - Io (2)
    - Ganymede
    - Ganymede's aurora
    - Callisto

Multiple Solar Systems

    - Solar System Formation
    - Planet Quest
    - Doppler Shift Detection
    - Transit Method Detection
    - 55 Cancri Planetary System
    - ESP Exploration

Life Beyond Earth?

    - Hydrothermal Energy
    - The Habitable Zone
    - Arecibo Telescope