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These photographs are taken from the NASA space missions.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/
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Our Sun
Microsoft Clip Art
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Solar Eclipse 2001
Transit time: 3 hours in Lusaka, Zambia
Total eclipse: 2 sec. short of 3 minutes
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Photos of sun taken at 4 different wavelengths of ultraviolet
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Mariner 10 to Venus & Mercury
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Mercury photographic mosaic
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Mercury with Sun behind it.
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Photographs of the surface of Mercury
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Magellan Spacecraft 10 August 1990
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Venus
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Venus -- ultraviolet photograph
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The following sketch was taken from the Jet Propulsion Lab’s website
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html
Ben Zalewski Nov. 2006
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Nicolas Copernicus published the theory that planets revolve around the sun.
1473 -- 1543
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Photographs of the Planets
Our Moon
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Earth photograph from Apollo 16
Gulf of California
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Galileo Spacecraft
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Australia from Galileo
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