What's New in Views of the Solar System

• Added video clips of errupting volcanoes to the Terrestrial Volcanoes page on 8/1/95.

• The page of Terrestrial Volcanoes was updated and a page on Hawaiian Volcanoes was added on 6/29/95.

• A page on Resurgent Calderas and the Valles Caldera was added on 6/23/95.

• A new page on Clouds From Space was added on 6/20/95.

• A page on Venusian Impact Craters was added on 6/8/95.

• Hubble images of Saturn's ring-plane crossing (disappearing rings) were added on 6/5/95.

• Images for Jupiter's satellites Metis and Thebe were added on 6/2/95.

• A page on Martian Clouds was added on 6/1/95.

• I have digitized numerous NASA videos and have added animation clips to the following pages: Sun, Venus, Earth, Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Ganymede, Io, Saturn, Enceladus, Uranus, Miranda, Neptune and Triton. Note that some of these animations are very large. (5/30/95).

• A to scale image of Jupiter's moons Amalthea, Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto was added to the Jupiter page on 5/22/95.

• A new image showing the Sun and planets to scale was added to the solarsystem page on 5/18/95.

• A new image of Venus was added on 5/17/95.

• The Moon page has been update to include new images and previous images scanned at a higher resolution. (5/10/95)

• An introduction to the Terrestrial Volcanoes page was added on 5/9/95.

• New HST images of Mars was added on 4/20/95.

• New HST images of Neptune showing the return of a dark spot were added on 4/20/95.

• A page on asteroid Vesta was added on 4/19/95. This includes the newly released Hubble images and animation of the asteroid. The Meteorite page was updated to include the Vesta meteorite.

• Composite images of the terrestrial and jovian planets were added to the Solar System Introduction on 4/19/95.

• An excellent page on the Earth's Interior & Plate Tectonics was added on 4/14/95.

• An excellent discussion on the The Face on Mars by Malin Space Science Systems, Inc. was added to the Mars page on 3/31/95.

• A Hubble Space Telescope view of Venus was added on 3/27/95.

• A new page titled Earth From Space is under construction.

• A diagram of the Sun was added to the Sun page on 3/13/95.

• Shaded relief maps were added for Epimetheus, Janus and Castalia. (3/7/95.)

• A gravity map image of the Chicxulub impact basin was added on 3/7/95. This impact is thought responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs.

• The Martian Volcanoes was updated to include additional information and new images. (3/7/95.)

• Images for Jupiter's moon Adrastea were added on 2/28/95.

• The pages for Phoebe, Iapetus and Rhea were updated on 2/27/95.

• A color composite image of Rhea showing whispy markings was added on 2/27/95.

• A page on the Mariner 10 Spacecraft was added on 2/21/95.

• HST image of Neptune was added on 2/17/95.

• A Listing of Terrestrial Impact Craters was added on 2/17/95.

• A new page on Terrestrial Impact Craters was added on 2/7/95.

• JPEG images were added to the Sun, Mars and Martian Volcanoes pages on 1/31/95.

• A Hubble image of Io was added to the Io page on 1/31/95.

• A beautiful image of the 1991 Solar Eclipse was added to the Sun page on 1/23/95.

• Images and Animations were added to the Educator's Guide on Convection on 1/19/95.

• Color composite image of Tethys was added on 1/18/95.

• Science Summaries and Fact Sheets were added on 1/12/95.

• Movies were added to the Sun, Venus, Earth, Moon, Mars and Saturn pages on 1/6/95.

• Image of the lunar south pole was added to the Moon page on 1/6/95.

• Images for Neptune's satellites Thalassa, Despina and Galatea were added on 12/8/94.

• An image for Belinda was added on 12/7/94.

• New images were added to the Phobos and Deimos pages. (11/30/94)

• Image for Neptune's satellite Nereid was added on 11/29/94.

• Saturn's satillites Pan and Atlas were updated to include images and new information. (11/28/94)

• New images were added to Mercury, Venus and Triton pages. (11/25/94)

• Saturn`s satellites Prometheus, Pandora, Epimetheus and Janus were newly updated to include recent information. (11/23/94).

• New HTML pages were added for Jupiter's satellites: Metis, Adrastea, Thebe, Leda, Himalia, Lysithea, Elara, Ananke, Carme, Pasiphae, and Sinope. The information is not very accurate and is hard to find. I welcome any updated information if it is available. (11/23/94).

• The Titan Home Page was updated to include the new Hubble Telescope images of the satellite with an mpeg movie showing its rotation. (11/21/94).

• A Kuiper Belt Objects page was added to the Comet page on 11/9/94.

• A Planetary Information Browse was added on 11/9/94.

• A Terrestrial Volcanoes page was added to the Earth page on 10/14/94.

• A Martian Volcanoes page was added to the Mars page on 10/14/94.

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