ASTR202 :: Fall 2007

ASTR202 :: Fall 2007
Exploration of the Solar System

Interesting web sites

Last change: Wednesday August 15, 2007

This is the book website.
An access code should have been included with every new book.

"OBSERVING THE NIGHT SKY" WEBSITES
- Sky above West University
  [with predictions of Space Station passages and Iridium Flares]
- stardate.org
- YourSky [**]
- Sky View Cafe
- AstroViewer
- sky charts @wunderground
- Night Sky links @Jodrell Bank Obs.
- Astronomical Almanac @Jodrell Bank Obs.
- MyStarsLive
- SkyWatchersDiary
- ObservingTheSky.org
SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION WEBSITES
- Solar System Dynamics (@JPL)
- Solar System exploration (NASA)
- Solar System DataStore (values of many parameters for planets and their moon)
- Solar Monitor
- MARS rovers
- MARS Express
- Stardust comet mission
- Cassini mission to Saturn (Huygens plunged on Titan early this year)
- Galileo mission to Jupiter (plunged into it in 2003)
- Venus Transit
- Sun-Earth day
- NASA Sun-Earth viewer

SOLAR SYSTEM EDUCATION WEBSITES
ASTRONOMY NEWS
- Scientific American
- Sky & Telescope
- Hubble Space Telescope Press Releases
- Astronomy Picture of the day
- Science @NASA
- Science & Cosmos @NewYorkTimes
  [free-registration access to current/recent news]
- Space Chronicle @Houston Chronicle
- Science and Space @CNN
- Space.com (mostly industry news, but some science)
You are welcome to suggest additional websites to be added to this list.

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