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Welcome to the Planets

A site containing lots of images of the planets in the solar system and the machines used to take the pictures. This site also contains a comprehensive glossary of space terms.

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http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/

The Nine Planets

Extensive overview of our solar system, covering history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of planets, moons, asteroids in our solar system, with many links.

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http://www.nineplanets.org/

Exploring Planets in the Classroom

More than 15 hands-on science activities are provided in classroom-ready pages for both teachers and students for exploring Earth, the planets, geology, and space sciences.

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http://www.spacegrant.hawaii.edu/class_acts/index.html

Ten things you don’t know about the Earth

Cool facts about our planet.

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http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/08/ten-things-you-dont-know-about-the-earth/
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Jupiter Effect

Diagram showing forces of attraction with planet alignment.

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http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/tide.html#jup

What Colour is the Red Planet, Really?

A blog post looking at how scientist adjust colours of scientific images.

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http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/outthere/?p=240

Explore Mars now

Take a virtual tour of a martian base and discover the technology that might be used to set up camp on the red planet

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http://www.exploremarsnow.org/

When North goes South

Images and animations on how our planet's magnetic poles have flipped in the past, and how they may flip again.

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http://www.psc.edu/science/glatzmaier.html

Visible Earth

A catalogue of satellite images of our home planet detailing everything from atmospheric data to city lights or natural disasters.

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http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/

Why do planets not twinkle, when stars do?

A short explanation from PhysLink.

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http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae298.cfm
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