Site Bibliography

This is a resource to web sites that provide exciting, accurate, and detailed space science information both inside and out of our solar neighborhood.



Consulted sites                 

  • Views of the Solar System - Where I gathered most of my info about the planets. They have great image archives and data organization.

  • NSSDC Photo Gallery: Venus - Includes true surface images of Venus taken by the Soviet Venera spacecraft.

  • Windows to the Universe - A great site for solar system info. They divide up information based on your knowledge level.



  • Other useful sites                 


  • NASA Homepage

  • Kennedy Space Center - Shuttle and space flight information with archives of images and videos.

  • JPL - The organization that develops and runs most unmanned space exploration programs (e.g. Mars Pathfinder, Voyager, Galileo).

  • NASA Human Spaceflight - Information on Space Shuttle activity and international space station progress.

  • Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive - The only web site I check every day. Great images with detailed link-rich descriptions.

  • Planetary Photojournal - An impressive database of images from nearly every unmanned mission.

  • United Space Alliance - Live data during a shuttle mission like NASA TV feed, mission audio, and shuttle tracking.