ESS 306 - Planetary Geology LINKS
Class Topics:
Oxygen isotopes:
Genesis mission webpage (nice explanation related to planetary science on NASA Genesis mission webpage)
Schroder presentation) (More detailed PPT, 1 MB)
Regolith: Lunar Sourcebook Ch. 7 (excellent and highly detailed)
News and Current Events:
The Planetary Society blog (very good!)
NASA JPL site: Main Page
| News
| Blogs
NASA main site: Solar system news and press releases
| Mars Science Laboratory "Curiosity" rover mission
General Information:
Planetary Mission Data and Images:
Wikipedia
(Good info for all planetary bodies, except Mars)
The Nine Planets
(List of major moons by planet, basic facts, open questions, etc.)
Views of the Solar System
(More detailed info than The Nine Planets, excellent overall resource)
Planetary Science Research Discoveries, PSRD (excellent articles on wide variety of topics - searchable archive)
Apollo Lunar Surface Journal (transcripts, recordings and videos from the Apollo astronaut missions)
Goudie Encyclopedia of Geomorphology (17 MB PDF) - excellent and detailed resource for geo-terminology
Planet (including moons)
| Link
| Description
| Mercury
| MESSENGER Gallery
| Gallery of MESSENGER images and other info
| Mars
| JMARS
| Java-based geospatial information system for Mars datasets
| Mars
| MOC Images
| Theme index of MOC images with captions, organized by type of features seen (layers, gullies, volcanoes, etc.). (NOTE: scroll down past calendar index)
| Mars
| HiRISE images
| Theme index of HiRISE images, organized by science theme (aeolian processes, glacial processes, mass-wasting processes, etc.)
| Mars
| THEMIS images
| Theme index of THEMIS images, organized by topic (channels, landslides, craters, etc.)
| Moon, Mars, Venus, Jupiter
| USGS PIGWAD Maps
| GIS-based interactive maps and geospatial information
| all
| NASA JPL Photojournal
| Searchable collection of captioned images from all NASA planetary missions
| all
| NASA Image eXchange (NIX)
| meta search engine for all of NASA's online image databases
| all
| NSSDC Photo Gallery
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| Jupiter
| Galileo Legacy Site
| Well-organized interface for browsing images of Jupiter's moons, including clickable maps for Io, Europa, and Callisto
| Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
| CICLOPS Search
| Searchable database of captioned images from Cassini, Galileo, Voyager and New Horizons
| Saturn
| CICLOPS Maps
| Mosaic and cartographic maps of Saturnian moons
| Saturn
| Cassini mission homepage
| Official homepage of Cassini mission; press and raw images but inefficient interface
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Journal Articles and Conference Abstracts:
| SAO/NASA ADS | Searchable database of journal articles and abstracts |
| 2009 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference | PDF of conference program with links to abstracts |
| Google Scholar | General search tool for papers and abstracts, with links to cited and referenced articles |
Miscellaneous Links: