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Planetary exploration
      Titles Descriptions
  1. Cassini Mission to Saturn
  2. Magellan Mission to Venus
  3. Mars Missions
  4. Planetary Society
  5. Space Research Institute (IKI)
  6. Space Today
  7. The Magellan Mission to Venus
  8. Welcome to the Planets

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Cassini Mission to Saturn
Information about the Cassini mission to Saturn launched in October 1997 and due to report back in 2004. The mission is named after the seventeenth century, French-Italian astronomer Jean Dominique Cassini, who discovered the prominent gap in Saturn's main rings and the moons Iapetus, Rhea, Dione and Tethys.
     Author: NASA
     Subjects: planetary exploration
     DeweyClass: 523.4
     Resource type: documents, news
Magellan Mission to Venus
Offers images of Venus taken by the Magellan spacecraft which plunged into the planet's dense atmosphere on October 11, 1994. During its four years in orbit around Venus, Magellan radar-mapped 98 percent of the surface and collected high-resolution gravity data of Venus.
     Author: NASA
     Subjects: planetary exploration
     DeweyClass: 523.42
     Resource type: images
Mars Missions
Integrated NASA information about Mars missions to 2001 and beyond, including Mars Pathfinder, Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Surveyor 1998 and Mars Surveyor 2001. Includes information on launch and flight trajectory, mission overview and design, spacecraft characteristics and a selection of mission related images.
     Author: NASA
     Subjects: mars, planetary exploration, planetary science
     DeweyClass: 523.43
     Resource type: documents, images
Planetary Society
Society founded in 1980 by Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray and Louis Friedman to encourage the exploration of the solar system and the search for extraterrestrial life. Has over 100,000 members from over 100 countries.
     Author: Planetary Society
     Subjects: astronomy news, astronomy societies, extraterrestrial life, planetary exploration
     DeweyClass: 523
     Resource type: institution, news
Space Research Institute (IKI)
An organisation of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Provides research information and results, details of collaboration with institutes worldwide, and project outlines.
     Author: Space Research Institute (IKI)
     Subjects: astrophysics, planetary exploration, plasma physics, space exploration
     DeweyClass: 520
     Resource type: documents, index
Space Today
Online magazine offering original articles on space exploration and discovery.
     Author: Curtis, Anthony R
     Subjects: astronomy news, planetary exploration, space exploration
     DeweyClass: 520
     Resource type: magazine
The Magellan Mission to Venus
Describes the Magellan spacecraft mission which orbited Venus in three mapping cycles between 1990 and 1992. Includes details of the Altimetry And Experiment Data Record (ALTEDR), the Surface Characteristics Vector Data Record (SCVDR), and Spherical Harmonics (SHADR) and Gridded Digital Maps (RSDMAP), along with software for data analysis, reports, and Planetary Data System Catalogue information.
     Author: PDS Geosciences Node, Washington University in St. Louis
     Subjects: planetary exploration
     DeweyClass: 523.43
     Resource type: documents, reference data, software
Welcome to the Planets
A collection of many of the best images from NASA's planetary exploration program.
     Author: McGill University
     Subjects: astronomy education, planetary exploration, planetary guides
     DeweyClass: 523.2
     Resource type: image collection