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Planetary bodies
Large celestial masses of rock, metal, or gas orbiting around a star. Use for extraterrestrial bodies.
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Meteorites (5 items)
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Planetary Data Systems (PDS) Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image collection [New Window]
Planetary Data Systems (PDS) Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image collection with available images in decompressed JPEG format, raw data available by FTP access, web graphical images, and link to NASA's Map-a-Planet.
Astrogeology Research Program [New Window]
Primary homepage for the Astrogeology Research Program with links to solar system, space missions, technology, data & information, research programs for geology, remote sensing, and ice & polar, hot topics, photo gallery, and Astro Kids.
Astrogeology Research Program - Posters [New Window]
Four colored posters, Mapping the solar system, Mars Pathfinder landing site, Mars mini-globe project (can be downloaded, uses Adobe Acrobat Reader), and Venus globe with links to related websites.
Browse the Solar system [New Window]
Images of planets of the solar system.
Clementine images [New Window]
Images from the Clementine spacecraft, which successfully mapped the Moon with 4 cameras (UVVIS 415-1000nm; NIR 1100-2789 nm; HI-RES 415-750 nm; LWIR 9 microns) over the period February through May 1994.
Eastern Mineral Resources meteorite research [New Window]
Description of chemical research on meteorites to understand the formation processes of chondrite meteorites and chondrules. Site has link to issues of Meteoritical Bulletin and signup for e-mail notification of new meteorites.
Flagstaff Field Center [New Window]
Homepage for the Flagstaff Field center with links to space science, water and ice studies, earth sciences, biological resources, Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, outreach & education, data and software, and images.
Investigating the Chesapeake Bay impact crater [New Window]
Links to information on the formation and structure of Chesapeake Bay including online reports, recent field work, field work archives, cooperating agencies, bibliography, and links to articles about other terrestrial impact craters.
Mars Pathfinder [New Window]
Images from Mars Pathfinder Mission and the process of mapping the landing site.
Martian hemispheres [New Window]
Mosaics of the Martian hemispheres created by the USGS from Viking Orbiter images.
Meteoritical Bulletin database [New Window]
Searchable database of all known meteorites and impact craters worldwide, based on published reports of the Meteoritical Society and several international research organizations.
Online guide to the continental Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the Raton basin, Colorado and New Mexico [New Window]
Field guide describing the geology and paleontology of the continental Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the Raton basin, Colorado and New Mexico.
Spectroscopy Lab [New Window]
Links to Spectroscopy Lab projects to identify and map materials through spectroscopic remote sensing (imaging spectroscopy, hyperspectral imaging, imaging spectrometry, ultraspectral imaging, etc) on the Earth and in space.
The Chesapeake Bay bolide: modern consequences of an ancient cataclysm [New Window]
Presentation that the location of Chesapeake Bay may have been predetermined by a Eocene bolide, an extraterrestrial body, impacting the Earth in the vicinity of the Delmarva Peninsula at high velocity and exploding to create a large crater.


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