General Astronomy Animations

• Lunar Phases
• Lunar Phases II
• Lunar Phases III
• Lunar Phases IV
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• Moon Orbital Motion
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• Mars Retrograde Motion
• Mars Retrograde Motion II

APAS 1010 and 1020 Images

Star and planet formation:

• Eagle Nebula
• Close-up of portion of Eagle Nebula
• Orion Nebula with "propylids" (pre-planetary disks)
• Close-up of propylids
• Cygnus Loop (supernova remnant)

Earth-Moon system:

• Classical view of full Earth from Apollo 17
• Earth as seen by Galileo mission
• Earth and Moon from space
• Orbital view of Gibralter
• Auroral Circle
• Earth above Moon's horizon
• Full Moon
• Astronaut on the Moon
• Far side of the Moon
• North polar region of the Moon (from Clementine mission)
• South polar region of the Moon (from Clementine mission)
• Oblique view of lunar crater Copernicus

Mercury:

• Earth-based visible image of Mercury
• Mercury in color (Mariner 10 data, colorized)
• Mariner 10 mosaic, half disk
• Fault line on Mercury
• Hills on Mercury
• Caloris Planitia
• Radio image of Mercury (VLA)

Venus:

• Ultraviolet image from the Pioneer-Venus spacecraft
• Visible-light image from Galileo spacecraft
• Full disk from Magellan radar mapper
• Topographic globe of Venus (Magellan)
• Volcanoes on Venus
• Pancake domes on Venus
• Plain with impact craters
• Corona seen close-up

Mars:

• Mars disk, Schiaparelli region (Viking)
• Mars disk, Valles Marineris region (Viking)
• Percival Lowell's sketch of Mars
• Erosion channels on Mars (Viking)
• River channel on Mars (Viking)
• Portion of Valles Marineris (Chandor Chasma: Viking)
• Dust storm on Mars (Viking)
• Olympus Mons (Viking)
• Color view of Olympus Mons from above (Viking)
• The "face" on Mars (Viking)
• The first Viking lander view (Viking 1)
• The view from the Viking 2 lander
• Phobos (Viking)
• Phobos in color (Viking)
• Deimos (Viking)
• Phobos, Deimos, and asteroid Gaspra

Jupiter:

• Jupiter full disk (HST)
• IR and visible images of Jupiter
• Jupiter Great Red Spot (Voyager)
• Great Red Spot detail (Voyager)
• Jupiter storm systems (HST)
• Aurorae on Jupiter (HST)
• The four Galilean satellites (Voyager)
• The Galilean satellites as seen by Hubble
• Callisto full disk (Voyager)
• Ganymede full disk (Voyager)
• Ganymede detail (Galileo)
• Europa (partial disk, Voyager)
• Europa ice floes (Galileo)
• Io full disk (Voyager)
• Io eruption (Voyager)
• Changes on Io (HST)
• New Io images (Galileo)
• Jupiter's ring

Saturn:

• Saturn from the ground
• Saturn (HST)
• Storm on Saturn (HST)
• Saturn backlit (Voyager)
• Saturn with Rhea and Dione (Voyager)
• Saturn's moons (Voyager images)
• Titan (Voyager)
• Titan surface features (HST far-red)
• Mimas
• Dione
• Tethys
• Enceladus
• Iapetus
• Rhea
• Hyperion
• Saturn's tiny moonlets (Voyager)
• Diagram of Saturn's rings
• The F ring
• "Spokes" in Saturn's rings (Voyager)
• Rings seen edge-on (HST)
• Another view of rings edge-on (HST)

Uranus:

• Uranus full disk (Voyager)
• Uranus with Miranda and rings (Voyager composite)
• Crescent Uranus (Voyager)
• Uranus and rings (HST)
• False color Uranus (HST)
• IR image of Uranus, with two satellites (IRTF)
• Oberon (Voyager)
• Titania (Voyager)
• Umbriel (Voyager)
• Ariel (Voyager)
• Miranda's surface (Voyager)
• Another view of Miranda (Voyager)
• Rings of Uranus (Voyager)
• Uranus rings in false color (CU/Voyager)
• Shepherd moons and ring of Uranus (Voyager)
• Dust rings of Uranus (Voyager)

Neptune:

• Neptune full disk (Voyager)
• Neptune and Triton, IR (IRTF)
• Neptune and Triton (composite; Voyager)
• False color Neptune (HST)
• Neptune's Great Dark Spot (Voyager)
• Great Dark Spot and "Scooter" (Voyager)
• Changes in the Great Dark Spot (Voyager)
• Neptune "cirrus" clouds (Voyager)
• Wave-like structure in Neptune's clouds (Voyager)
• New clouds on Neptune (HST)
• Triton south polar region (Voyager)
• "Cantaloup" terrain on Triton (Voyager)
• Faint rings of Neptune (Voyager)
• Lumpy rings of Neptune (Voyager)

Pluto and the Kuiper belt:

• Pluto discovery photos
• Ground-based Pluto/Charon image
• Pluto/Charon (HST before optical correction)
• Pluto and Charon (HST after correction)
• Orbits of Pluto and Charon
• Surface features of Pluto (HST reconstruction)
• Expected internal structure of Pluto and Charon
• Kuiper belt oject motion (ground-based)
• Kuiper belt object observed from the ground (Luu-Jewett)
• Faint Kuiper belt object (HST)

Interplanetary bodies:

• Asteroid Gaspra, close up (Galileo)
• Asteroid Ida with satellite Dactyl (Galileo)
• Gaspra (top) with Phobos and Deimos
• Radar images of asteroid Toutatis
• Series of HST images of asteroid Vesta
• Surface map of Vesta
• Comet Halley in 1910
• Halley in 1986 (ROE)
• Halley in 1986 with star trails (AAT)
• Halley in false color, 1986
• The nucleus of Comet Halley in 1986 (Giotto)
• Comet West (1970)
• Comet Kohoutek (1973)
• Comet Hyakutake (1996)
• Another image of Comet Hyakutake (1996)
• Hyakutake again
• Series of Hyakutake images as it circled the pole
• Comet Hale-Bopp in 1996
• Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 approaches Jupiter (drawing)
• HST image of SL-9 "string of pearls"
• Comet SL-9 and Jupiter (montage)
• Infrared views of SL-9 fragment A impact
• Fragment Q impact (infrared)
• Ultraviolet image of SL-9 impact sites (HST)
• Barringer crater, Arizona
• Topo map of Chicxulub crater, Yucaton (dinosaur killer?)
• Stony meteorites with chondrules
• Iron meteorite
• Meteorite from mars