Solar System Web Links
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/solarsystem/ax/low.html?2d
Virtual Solar System with clickable planets with information.
Site provides links for information for all 9 planets. Extensive details
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/home/F_Facts_About_Five_Planets.html
Fun Facts about Venus, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn
http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Jupiter&Display=Overview
Site with details of all the planets
http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=SolarSys&Display=Kids
Site showing details of the planets, even allows students to enter their weight and find their weight on that planet. (staying in the tab marked kids eye view)
http://www.nasm.si.edu/ceps/etp/
Exploring the Planets is a site that shows facts about the planets
http://www.mov.vic.gov.au/planetarium/solarsystem/index.html
Good site that lists the planets and facts about them including atmosphere, moons, surface and mythology
http://stardate.org/resources/ssguide/
Lists planets and links for facts (articles “If you went to Mars….” Telling them what it would be like)
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level2/planets.html
Lists lots of facts and information about the planets
http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Educator.Focus/Articles/010_Solar_System/
Lithograph pictures and information sheets about each planet
Diameter, Gravity, Mean Distance from Sun, Rotation Period, Composition
Significant Dates such as: Discovery information , Exploratory NASA Missions
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/our_solar_system/planets_desc.html
Extensive information on the planets
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome/mercury.htm
Site has pictures of the planets (short descriptions of the location of the
photo on the planet)
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/weight/
This site calculates your weight on other planets and gives an explanation of why there is a difference, you can also calculate your age on other planets using links on this page.
http://library.thinkquest.org/28327/?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0508
A virtual journey into the universe. This site gives information on the 9 nine planets.
The
following sites are great places to find information about the weather in the
solar system.
All
Planets
The Solar System
Mercury
and Venus
ROG Mercury
Venus
Earth and
Mars
Dust Storms Bedevil Mars
Mars: Dastardly Dust
How much water is there
on Earth?
Jupiter
and Saturn
Stormy Weather: Jovian
Superstorms Like Those on Earth
Uranus,
Neptune, and Pluto
The Planets of our Solar
System Explored and Explained
Pluto: Permanent Ice Age
http://ast.star.rl.ac.uk/darwin/planets/solar.html
Site provides numerical facts about the planets
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetfact.html
Planet facts (includes temperatures and atmosphere conditions)
http://www.spacepix.net/mars/index.htm
Site shows photos of Mars and Jupiter along with facts