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Hurricane from Space
Barringer Crater – Arizona, USA
On the edge of Barringer Crater
Inside Barringer Crater
The bottom of Barringer Crater
Wolfcreek Crater - Australia
Yucatan Crater
Aurora Borealis
Aurora Borealis from space
Apollo 11 on the moon
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the moon
‘Earthrise’ as viewed from lunar orbit
Lunar Eclipse
Solar Eclipse
Our Milky Way Galaxy
A Space Shuttle lifts off
The CanadaArm on the Space Shuttle
Space Shuttle Discovery
Space shuttle piggy-back on a Jumbo 747
The International Space Station
An astronaut on CanadaArm2
Part of the ISS truss
Two astronauts working on the ISS truss
Sunrise from the International Space Station
Space Shuttle Challenger
Space Shuttle Columbia
Hubble Space Telescope
The Sun
Our Solar System
Mercury – closest to the sun
Venus – our closest planetary neighbor
Surface of Venus – the hottest planet in our solar system
Mars – the red planet
Surface features of Mars
The surface of Mars
The surface of Mars
Phobos – largest moon of Mars
The asteroid belt is between Mars and Jupiter
The great
red spot is
a huge
storm!
Jupiter – king of the planets
its mass is greater than all the other planets combined!
Io and Europa – moons of Jupiter
Europa – ice moon of Jupiter
Comet impact on Jupiter
Saturn – thousands of rings made of dust and gases
Titan – Saturn’s largest moon
Uranus – the oddball…
It spins vertically and has vertical rings
Neptune – fastest winds in the solar system
Pluto – no longer a planet
The Kuiper Belt orbits outside of Neptune.
Pluto is now considered a large Kuiper Belt Object.
Pluto – no longer a planet
Earth – 6.4 billion km away
Comets
Comets
Asteroids
The Eagle Nebula (Pillars of Creation)
Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula
Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula – a star nursery
A planetary nebula
Cats Eye planetary nebula
Eskimo planetary nebula
Whirlpool Galaxy
Andromeda Galaxy
Sombrero Galaxy
Galaxies colliding
Hubble Space Telescope ‘deep space shot’ in 2004
Hubble Space Telescope ‘deep space shot’ in 2009
Time to start exploring the Universe!