Planetary Geology

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The Big Bang

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The Birth of a Star

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The Interior of Stars

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The Sun - A Red Giant ?

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Nucleosynthesis in Massive Stars

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The Supernova of a Massive Star

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The Shockwave from a Supernova

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Solar Nebula Hypothosis

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Protoplanetary Disk

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‘Sol’ - Our Sun

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The Planets (to scale)

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Planetary Data

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The Terrestrial Planets

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Terrestrial Planet Interiors

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Mercury

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Venus (visible and radar images)

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Earth - The Big Blue Ball

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Earth - Moon System

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The Moon

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Mars with Deimos and Phobos

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The Gas Giant (Jovian) Planets

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Jovian Interiors

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The Jupiter ‘System’

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Saturn

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Uranus with Rings

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Small Solar System Bodies - the Asteroid Belt

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Asteroid Gaspra

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Dwarf Planet Ceres

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Ceres is Differentiated

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Meteors vs Meteorites

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Kuiper Belt

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Pluto

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Dwarf Planets

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The Oort Cloud

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Comets

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