Planetary Picture List

These pages collect together references to many pictures of the solar system that can be found on the Net. I have removed some duplicates, but probably some remain.

Since I originally compiled this list the number of relevant images has grown tremendously. I cannot hope to keep up with them all. If you don’t find what you want here, try the references below.

Note: most of the pictures here are not true color. Most of them were created by combining several black and white images taken thru various color filters. Though the colors may look “right” chances are they aren’t exactly what your eye would see.

Index

• Sun
  • Mercury
  • Venus
  • Earth
    • Moon
  • Mars
    • Phobos
    • Deimos
  • Jupiter
    • Amalthea
    • Io
    • Europa
    • Ganymede
    • Callisto
  • Saturn
    • Pan
    • Atlas
    • Prometheus
    • Pandora
    • Epimetheus
    • Janus
    • Mimas
    • Enceladus
    • Tethys
    • Dione
    • Rhea
    • Titan
    • Hyperion
    • Iapetus
    • Phoebe
  • Uranus
    • Puck
    • Miranda
    • Ariel
    • Umbriel
    • Titania
    • Oberon
  • Neptune
    • Triton
    • Proteus
    • others
  • Pluto/Charon
  • Misc
    • Ida
    • Gaspra
    • Other asteroids
    • Comets
    • Meteorites
    • Spacecraft

Sources

• http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/
• ftp://ftp.cribx1.u-bordeaux.fr/astro/
• ftp://ftp.cribx1.u-bordeaux.fr/astro/anim/
• http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html
• ftp://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/pub/images/
• ftp://stsci.edu/stsci/epa/
• ftp://phobos.sscl.uwo.ca/pub/Space/
• ftp://dftnic.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/gifs/
• NASA Spacelink
• http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/images.html
• http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/magellan/images.html
• http://www.solarviews.com/cap/index/index.html
• http://esther.la.asu.edu/asu_tes/TES_Editor/IMAGES/SOL_SYST/
• http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/
• http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/ceps/rpif/rpif.cfm
• http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/
• http://www.sunspot.noao.edu/gifs/
• http://barsoom.msss.com/
• http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery.html
• http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
• http://www.lpi.usra.edu/pub/research/outerp/
• NASA Image Access Homepage (Planetary Photojournal)
• NSSDC Catalog of Spaceborne Imaging
• On-line CDROMs at JPL
• a VAX at Goddard
• eclipse pics
• Garbo (large collection)
• a few NASA pics
• a few images from SPIF at Cornell
• http://delcano.mit.edu/http/amesinfo.html
• a few Venus images
• Images du systeme solaire de l’Observatoire du Pic du Midi
• Phil Stooke’s maps

Other lists of Net resources

• Stereo Atlas of the Solar System (a stereo image collection)
• large list of astronomy related ftp sites (plain text version)
• more SL9 sites
• A Space Library, including many maps and projected images
• planetary maps suitable for projecting onto spheres

Where to find hard copy prints of NASA images

• The Nine Planets Shop
• NSSDC
• NASA HQ
• HST
• NASA Spacelink (educational materials)
• ASP
• The Planetary Society
• MSSS