Clipart 7: Solar System

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EARTHSPN JPG   Earth in color                                           
FULLNEP  JPG   Full disk Neptune
GALWPROB GIF   Galileo Probe                                         
GPRSEP   JPG   Galileo probe separates from spacecraft                                         
HST22JUL GIF   Comet impact on Jupiter                                  
IDAMOON  GIF   Ida and Dactyl                                
IOEXPLOD JPG   Volcanic explosion on Io                                          
JUPITER  GIF   Jupiter from Galileo probe                                          
JUPITER  JPG   Jupiter                                          
JUPWSMAP GIF   Jupiter storms                                        
LOKI     JPG   Erupting volcano                                        
MARS1    GIF   Mars from Viking mission                                         
MULTIMPS JPG   Multiple impacts on Jupiter                                          
P23883   GIF   Saturn by voyager 2   2/1/93                                            
P42383   GIF   Venus, from Magellan                                          
PRANDJUP JPG   Probe approaches Jupiter
SATSTORM GIF   Hubble Space Telescope image of storm on saturn                                           
SCHIAP   JPG   Crater Schiaparelli on Mars                                           
VALMAR   JPG   Canyon and volcanoes on Mars                                           
YOHKOH   GIF   Image of sun with soft X-ray telescope                                           

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YOHKOH  -- This image of the Sun in the wavelength band 3 - 45 
Angstrom Units, recorded with the Soft X-ray Telescope aboard the 
Japanese/USA spacecraft Yohkoh (the Japanese word for sunlight).  The 
globe of the Sun can be seen as dark because it is not hot enough to 
emit X-rays.  The bright areas surrounding the dark globe are hot 
clouds of gas (1 to 2 million degrees K) in the Sun's corona, which 
glow in X-rays.  The appearance of bundles or skeins of threads is due 
to the magnetic field of the Sun, which traps and constrains the forms 
of the clouds, as well as playing a still poorly-understood role in 
heating the clouds to such a higher temperature than the Sun's surface 
(5800 deg K). Scale: the Sun's diameter is approximately 1,400,000 km 
(840,000 mi.).  ISAS is the Japanese space agency.  Yohkoh data become 
publicly available 2 years after acquisition, through the SDAC or 
NSSDC. 

JUPITER.JPG -- Jupiter is a "gas giant"; all gas giants are similar to 
Jupiter in composition. Jupiter's diameter is 11 times Earth's and 20% 
larger than Saturn's, making it the largest planet in the solar 
system. Gas giants are also very much larger than terrestrial planets. 
This color-enhanced image of Jupiter was taken by Voyager 1. 

IOEXPLOD -- A volcanic explosion can be seen silhouetted against dark 
space over Io's brilliant limb. Solid material was blasted to an 
altitude of about 160 km (100 mi), requiring an ejection velocity from 
the volcanic vent of about 1920 km (1200 mi) per hour. Io appears to 
be far more volcanically active than Earth. 

LOKI --  Erupting Volcano -- The blue and white protrusion visible on 
the limb is an eruption of Volcano Loki. This picture of <A Io was 
taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in July 1979, during its closest 
approach to Jupiter's satellite. 

EARTHSPN -- Earth in Color -- South America appears near the center of 
this view of Earth. The white, sunlit continent of Antarctica lies 
near the bottom of the globe. Picturesque weather fronts are visible 
in the South Atlantic, lower right. This image was taken at about 
14:10 UTC on December 11, 1990, when Galileo was 2 million km (1.3 
million mi) from Earth.

IDAMOON -- Ida and Dactyl -- This color mosaic shows the asteroid Ida 
and its newly-discovered moon, Dactyl. The images were taken by the 
camera system on the Galileo spacecraft, about 14 minutes before its 
closest approach to the asteroid on August 28, 1993.  Ida appears to 
be about 52 km (32 mi) in length and is irregularly shaped.  This view 
shows numerous craters, including many degraded craters, indicating 
Ida's surface is older than previously thought.

MULTIMPS --   Multiple Impacts -- This image of Jupiter was 
obtained by the  Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 
after numerous fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 had collided with 
the planet.  Eight impact sites are visible.  From left to right are 
the E/F complex (barely visible on the edge of the planet), the star-
shaped H site, the impact sites for tiny N, Q1, small Q2, and R, and 
on the far right limb the D/G complex.  The smallest features in this 
image are less than 200 km (124 mi) across.

FULLNEP -- Full Disk Neptune  -- On its approach to Neptune in August 
1989, Voyager 2 captured this image of the fourth and outermost of the 
giant gas planets. This image shows two of the four oval cloud 
features tracked by the cameras. The large dark oval near the left 
edge revolves around Neptune every 18 hours. The bright clouds 
immediately to the south and east of this oval substantially change 
their appearance in periods as short as 4 hours. The second dark spot, 
at lower right edge, revolves around Neptune every 16 hours 

VALMAR --  Canyon and Volcanoes -- This mosaic of Mars is similar to 
the view you would see from a spacecraft. The center of the scene 
shows the entire Valles Marineris canyon system, over 4000 km (2486 
mi) long and up to 7 km (5 mi) deep. It extends from Noctis 
Labyrinthus, the arcuate system of graben on the west side, to the 
chaotic terrain on the east side. Many ancient river channels begin 
from the chaotic terrain and north-central canyons and run north. 
Three Tharsis volcanoes are visible to the west (dark red spots). They 
rise 10 to 18 km (6 to 11 mi) above the Tharsis Plateau, attaining 
elevations of 18 to 26 km (11 to 16 mi). 

SCHIAP -- Crater Schiaparelli -- This mosaic of Mars is composed of 
about 100 Viking Orbiter images. The images were acquired in 1980 
during mid-northern summer on Mars. Crater Schiaparelli left of 
center, is 461 km (277 mi) in diameter.  The dark streaks with bright 
margins emanating from craters in the Oxia Palus region, in the upper 
left, are caused by erosion and deposition by the wind. Bright white 
areas to the south, including the basin at extreme lower right, are 
covered by carbon dioxide frost. 
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