Outer Planets Resources

Strategic Planning Documents

• Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the New Horizons Missions (2005)
• Science in NASA's Vision for Space Exploration (2005)
• Issues and Opportunities Regarding the U. S. Space Program: A Summary Report of a Workshop on National Space Policy (2004)
• NASA Office of Exploration Systems Program Overview (2004)
• A Renewed Spirit of Discovery - The President's Vision for U.S. Space Exploration (2004)
• Stepping-Stones to the Future of Space Exploration: A Workshop Report (2004)
• New Frontiers in Solar System Exploration (2003)
• New Frontiers in Solar System: an Integrated Exploration Strategy (2003)
• Solar System Remote Sensing (2002)
• Forum on Innovative Approaches to Outer Planetary Exploration 2001–2020 (2001)
• America at the Threshold – Report of Synthesis Group (1991)

Mission Planning Documents

• New Horizons II Feasibility Study (2005)
• Europa Surface Science Package (2004)
• Report of the NASA Science Definition Team for the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (2004)
• Forum on Concepts and Approaches for Jupiter Icy Moon Orbiter (2003)
• Preventing the Forward Contamination of Europa (2000)
• Missions Table (1975)
• Outer Planets Missions table (1975)

MEPAG Reports

• Pathways Science Steering Group Report: Investigation-Driven Science Pathways for Mars Exploration (2002)
• Mars Exploration Program Launch Year Chart 1
• Mars Exploration Program Launch Year Chart 2

Jupiter Resources

Documents

• Jupiter: The Planet, Satellites and Magnetosphere
  The Website (2005)
• Europa Surface Science Package (2004)
• Report of the NASA Science Definition Team for the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (2004)
• Forum on Concepts and Approaches for Jupiter Icy Moon Orbiter (2003)
• Report of the NASA Science Definition Team for the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (2004)
• A Science Strategy for the Exploration of Europa
• Workshop on Europa's Icy Shell: Past, Present and Future (2004)
• Forum on Concepts and Approaches for Jupiter Icy Moon Orbiter (2003)
• The Depths of Space: the Story of the Pioneer Planetary Probes (2004)
• Preventing the Forward Contamination of Europa (2000)
• Evaluating the Biological Potential in Samples Returned from Planetary Satellites and Small Solar System Bodies (1998)
• Pioneer Odyssey: encounter with a Giant (1977)

Imagery/Cartography

• Controlled Photomosaic Map of Europa Je15 M CMN (I-2757)
• Controlled Color Photomosaic Map of Ganymede Jg 15MCMNK (I-2762)
• Controlled Photomosaic Map of Callisto JC 15M CMN (I-2770)
• Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature: Jupiter System Nomenclature
• Hubble Space Telescope Images
• Jupiter Satellites-Voyager and Galileo Global Mosaics
• Maps and Globes Gallery: Jovian Satellites
• Planetary Data System
• Planetary Photojournal: Jupiter

LINKS

• Io Mountain Database Online
• Callisto Crater Database
• Ganymede Crater Database
  

Saturn Resources

Documents

• Titan – from Discovery to Encounter
• Passage to a Ringed World: the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan
• Voyager 1 and 2 Atlas of Six Saturnian Satellites (1984)
• Cristiani Hugenii Systema satrunium, sive, De causis mirandorum Saturni phaenomenon (1659)

Imagery/Cartography

• Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature: Saturn System Nomenclature
• Hubble Space Telescope Images
• Planetary Data System
• Planetary Photojournal: Saturn
• Saturn Satellites–Voyager Global Image Maps

Uranus Resources

Imagery/Cartography

• Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature: Uranus System
• Hubble Space Telescope Images
• Planetary Data System
• Planetary Photojournal: Uranus

Neptune Resources

Documents

• Exploring the Trans–Neptunian Solar System

Imagery/Cartography

• Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature: Neptune System
• Hubble Space Telescope Images
• Planetary Data System
• Planetary Photojournal: Neptune

Pluto Resources

Documents

• Exploring the Trans–Neptunian Solar System

Imagery/Cartography

• Planetary Photojournal: Pluto
• Hubble Space Telescope Images

Links

• Pluto
• Pluto Portal
• Pluto, The Ninth Planet

Comets Resources

Documents

• The Depths of Space: The story of Pioneer Planetary Probes (2004)
• Exploring the Trans-Neptunian Solar System
• Workshop on Cometary Dust in Astrophysics (2003)
• International Workshop on Collaboration and Coordination among NEO Observers and Orbital computers (2001)
• The Bright Comet Chronicles (1998)
• Evaluating the biological potential in samples returned from Planetary Satellites and Small Solar System Bodies: Framework for Decision Making (1998)
• Exploration of Near Earth Objects (1998)
• Abstracts for IAU Symposium 160: Asteroids, Comets, Meteors – 1993
• Abstracts for International Conference on Asteroids, Comets, Meteors–1991
• Workshop on Analysis of Returned Comet Nucleus Samples (1989)
• Summary of a Workshop on Experimental Approaches to Comets (1978)

Imagery

• Comet Observations: Comet Images (JPL)
• Hubble Space Telescope: Comets
• Planetary Photojournal: Comets

Links

• Comet Ephemerides
• Comet Fact Sheet: Information of Selected Comets
• Comet Observation Home Page
• Comets: Recent News and Observations
• Comet Shoemaker-Levy Collision with Jupiter
• Deep Impact Mission's Small Telescope Science Program
• Digital Sky Survey
• Ephemerides and Orbital Elements: Observable Comets
• Exploring Comets
• Guide Star Catalog
• ICQ Comet Information Website
• IRAS Minor planet survey
• PDS: The Small Bodies Node
• Near-Live Comet Watching System
• SkyView: The Internet's Virtual Telescope
• Spacewatch
• Ulysses Comet Watch

Related Links

• Astrophysical Data System
• GEISA databases
• HITRAN database
• International Outer Planet Watch
• JPL Molecular Spectroscopy
• NIST Chemistry WebBook
• NIST Chemical Kinetics Database on the Web
• Planetary Data System
• SwRI Atomic, Molecular, and Plasma Physics

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