*World Book Web is great for researching the planets (it is the resource NASA directs you to online).
Search for your planet in the World Book Student database.
How to research for your planet
How to cite your sources using NoodleBib
The Planets and the Solar System
Search for your planet in the World Book Student database.
How to research for your planet
How to cite your sources using NoodleBib
The Planets and the Solar System
- Solar System: Astronomy for Kids (from KidsAstronomy.com)
- Planetary Fact Sheet (NASA)
- Explore the Cosmos: Our Solar System (from the Planetary Society founded by Carl Sagan)
- Hubble Site Solar System Collection
- Welcome to the Planets (a collection of many of the best images from NASA's planetary exploration program)
- Planetary Photojournal: NASA's Image Access Home Page
- Project Galileo Home Page (the Galileo circled Jupiter and its moons and sent information home to earth)
- Views of the Solar System
- Solar System - includes links to each planet (from Yahoo! Kids Space)
- The Solar System Live (by John Walker)
- Photo Gallery Solar System (from National Geographic)
- WebQuest: One Giant Leap For Mankind? (created by Mr. Mills, Mr. Lucher, Mrs. Kearon and Mrs. Minikel)
- The Apollo Program (from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum)
- The Apollo Program (1963 - 1972) (from the National Space Dcience Data Center)
- Apollo Expeditions to the Moon (fron the Scientific and Technical Information Office at NASA)
- NOVA Online: To the Moon: Explore the Moon
- NASA Human Space Flight: Apollo History
- A Field Trip to the Moon (read astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt's personal account of the Apollo 17 voyage)
- Astronaut Biographies (NASA)
- Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards (NASA)
- Doomsday Asteroid (NOVA Online)