Characteristics and Origins of the Solar System
Dr. Spangler, Spring 2004

The "Snowball Earth" of 700 Million Years Ago

MWF 1:30 pm; Room 70, Van Allen Hall

• Syllabus
• Lecture Notes
• Addenda to Lecture Notes
• Homework Problems
• Exams New and Old
• Current Astronomy News
• What's up (in the Sky)?

Current NASA missions: spacecraft "Out There"

• SOHO Views the Sun
• Mars Exploration Rovers ("Spirit" and "Opportunity")
• CASSINI heads to Saturn
• Mars Odyssey 2001
• GALILEO orbits Jupiter
• MGS scrutinizes Mars
• NEAR kisses the asteroid Eros
• STARDUST collects comet samples
• Apollo Results on the Moon