2. Mercury Data http://www.vegaattractions.com/images/1mercury.gif Surface Gravity if Earth = 1 0.38 Planet Symbol (draw) Mass if Earth = 1 0.055 Length of Day 58.65 Earth days Diameter if Earth = 1 0.38 Length of Year (revolution around the sun) 87.97 Earth days Diameter at the Equator 3,031 miles Moons 0 Mean Distance from the sun 36,000,000 miles 0.4 AU

4. Mercury is only Slightly Larger than the Moon MERCURY OUR MOON

7. Phases of Inferior Planets http://www.polaris.iastate.edu/EveningStar/Unit1/Graphics/PicES1_6c.gif http://astromm.calstatela.edu/images/planets/larousse/Me_Phases.jpg

9. Planetary Eccentricities Which planet is most eccentric?

10. Mercury’s Lobsided Orbit www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/.../ mercury_layers.jpg

13. Discovery Scarp

16. Caloris Basin & Antipode

18. Shakespeare quadrangle of Mercury http://www.hollowaypages.com/images/CHANDOS2.jpg

22. Mariner 10’s Mercury (all images) http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/mission_index.html#Mariner_10

24. MESSENGER: Jan 2008

25. MESSENGER: Double-Ring Crater (1/14/08) http:// messenger.jhuapl.edu /

26. MESSENGER: “Spider” Crater

27. MESSENGER: Jan 2009

31. Venus Data http://www.vegaattractions.com/images/1venus.gif Surface Gravity if Earth = 1 0.91 Planet Symbol (draw) Mass if Earth = 1 0.815 Length of Day 243.01 Earth days Diameter if Earth = 1 0.95 Length of Year (revolution around the sun) 224.70 Earth days Diameter at the Equator 7,521miles Moons None Mean Distance from the sun 67,200,000 miles 0.72 AU

34. Venus as Evening Star Venus as an evening star in the western sky after sunset

35. Venus as Morning Star Venus as a morning star in the eastern sky before sunrise

36. Changing Positions of Venus, Mercury http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/img/mv-orbit.jpg

37. Evening Star: Venus and Moon http://www.russellsastronomy.com/sky/April-June%20Planets.htm

40. Venus Phases, Earth and Sun Centered http://r2d2.stcloudstate.edu/~womack/astr/galileo/venuscop.jpg

41. Phases of Venus ( Click Here ) http://www.robertsilvey.com/notes/Venus02t.jpg

48. Venus Greenhouse Effect http://www.uk2planets.org.uk/images/gallery/venus_greenhouse%20effect_esa.jpg

49. Cloudy Venus Venus is covered with a dense layer of clouds that hides its surface. Unlike the benign water vapor clouds on Earth, these clouds contain large amounts of sulfur dust and sulfur compounds, giving them a yellow-orange color. The clouds on Venus are made of concentrated sulfuric acid.

51. Mariner’s Venus http://www.solarviews.com/browse/venus/venusmar.jpg 1962

52. Venus’s Surface (Venera) http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0311/venus_venera13.jpg

53. Magellan Global Views http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-venus.html

54. Venusian Landscape (Magellan)

55. Venusian Crater

57. Equatorial Venus

58. Venus Volcanism (all images) http://nineplanets.edu

59. Unusual Volcanism, Pancake Domes

60. Corona and Arachnoid

63. June 2004 Transit of Venus http://www.atmob.org/Photo/venus_2004/venus%20transit%208.JPG

64. Transits of Venus 8 June 9, 2255 122 June 11, 2247 8 December 8, 2125 105 December 11, 2117 8 June 6, 2012 June 8, 2004 Separation in Years Transit Dates

68. Goddess Ishtar http://www.unige.ch/lettres/antic/mesopotamie/ishtar.jpg

69. Maya Venus, Dresden Codex http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Diagrams/Dresden.jpeg

70. Maya Venus “Observatory” at Chichen Itza http://centros.edu.aytolacoruna.es/sfxabier/world_links/mexico_observatory.jpg

72. Paradise Lost http://www.clt.astate.edu/wnarey/Honors%20Seminars_files/Horror/summar3.jpg http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lina0897/emwo/images/big/PARADISE_LOST.jpg

73. Mars Data http://www.vegaattractions.com/astrology/symbols.html Surface Gravity if Earth = 1 0.38 Planet Symbol (draw) Mass if Earth = 1 0.107 Length of Day 24 hr. 37 min. 22.6 sec. Diameter if Earth = 1 0.53 Length of Year (revolution around the sun) 686.98 Earth days Diameter at the Equator 4,217 miles Moons 2 Mean Distance from the sun 141,500,000 miles AU

76. Mariner 4 : No Canals (1965) http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/martianchronicle/martianchron2/issue2images/mariner4photo.jpeg

77. Viking (1976) http://www.hypography.com/bilder/viking_on_mars.jpg

78. Pathfinder (1997) http://users.bigpond.net.au/Nick/Mars/Pathfinder.jpg

79. Pathfinder (Mars or Arizona?) http://anw.com/mars/images/widescene.jpg

83. Mars Phoenix, 2007 Phoenix, location near north pole of Mars

84. Mars Phoenix

85. Phoenix: Ice on Mars

86. Mars Missions

89. Mars Dust Storm

90. Martian Seasons Large ice cap made mostly of frozen carbon dioxide (dry ice) The dry ice melts, leaving a much smaller polar cap

92. Impact Craters on Mars Most of these craters are found in the Southern Hemisphere, suggesting that the northern vastness has been resurfaced.

93. Olympus Mons http://www.physast.uga.edu/~jss/1010/ch10/mtoly.jpg

94. Tharsis Region Olympus Mons & clouds

95. Vallis Marineris (Viking)

98. Water Features Martian winding canyon, photographed by the Viking orbiter The Yangtze River in China has similar features

99. Ancient Waterways? An ancient lake A dried riverbed Sedimentation

100. Layers of rock laid down by water Hemetite black rocks, usually formed in water Gullies in crater walls

101. Sedimentary Layers from Water http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/images/mars_water/sediments.jpg

102. Chyrse, “Teardrop” Islands http://www.esa.int/images/mars_water_400.jpg

103. Martian Ice

105. Viking Lander

106. Viking Life Experiment Trenches http://www.physics.uc.edu/~hanson/ASTRO/LECTURENOTES/ET/Earth/VikingMarsBig.jpg

107. Meteorite from Mars! http://www.universetoday.com/am/uploads/meteorite.jpg http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/dn8004/dn8004-1_440.jpg

108. Martian Life? (ALH84001) http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lpi/meteorites/Photomicrograph.gif

110. Phobos & Deimos http://www.sarkanniemi.fi/oppimateriaali/tahtiakatemia/kuvat/aurinkokunta/deimos_phobos.jpg http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pgj/phobos-deimos-061105.gif

114. Viking’s Face on Mars (1976) http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/images%5Cface_mars.jpg

115. Face the Truth Apparent “face” on the Martian surface 22 years later, with improved technology the feature looks more natural

116. Alien with Spirit?

117. Life on Mars?