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This website has 315 web pages with over 340 pictures. This website has 2 purposes: To give a pictorial overview of the solar system and to quiz you about these pictures.

After each page of information about the solar system there are some review questions about the pictures on that page. There are also 15 picture quizzes with 75 questions - each question comes with a picture. You will also find astronomy WebQuests here.

Planets in our Solar System

• The planet Mercury - Pictures and quizzes about the planet Mercury
• The planet Venus - Pictures and quizzes about the planet Venus
• The planet Earth - Small 3D Stereoscopic pairs gallery    Added - 17 September 2002
• The planet Mars - Pictures and quizzes about the planet Mars
• The planet Jupiter - Pictures and quizzes about the planet Jupiter
• The planet Saturn - Pictures and quizzes about the planet Saturn
• 3D images of Saturn - No red/blue glasses required.   Added - 23 September 2002
• The planet Uranus - Pictures and quizzes about the planet Uranus
• The planet Neptune - Pictures and quizzes about the planet Neptune
• Pluto and Charon - Pictures and quizzes about the planet Pluto

• Picture quizzes of our solar system - A set of 15 quizzes - each question has a picture.

Our Solar System Extremes

Quiz 1     Quiz 2

Asteroids

Facts     Pictures     Quiz

Comets

Quiz 1     Quiz 2

The Sun

Quiz 1      Quiz 2

Total Solar Eclipse of 4 December 2002 Description and maps of the Path of Totality

Our Solar System Glossary

• Quiz about our solar system terms - covers the Sun, the Moon, all the planets, asteroids and comets.

Solar System Models and Mobiles - links to many different models and mobiles you and your students can build

The Moon - Contains 2 complete maps of the moon, pictures of the moon and quizzes about the phases of the Moon.

Galileo Galilei - Quizzes about Galileo Galilei and 20 other famous astronomers