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Smithsonian Institution

National Air and Space Museum: Exploring the Planets: Venus

For Students 9th - 10th
Get the facts on Venus. Resource offers a variety of satellite images and facts about the structure and features of Venus.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Air and Space Museum: Exploring the Planets: Tools of Exploration

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of the National Air and Space Museum's online exhibition about Exploring Planets, this describes and gives visuals of telescopes, probes and fly-by aircrafts, orbiters, and landers as current methods for earth and airborne...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Air and Space Museum: Exploring the Planets: Mercury

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a useful resource for facts and images pertaining to the planet Mercury.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Air and Space Museum: Exploring the Planets: Early Discovery

For Students 9th - 10th
This section of the exhibition gives the history of the discovery and study of space starting with the Greeks and Romans through to the early 1900's.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Air and Space Museum: Exploring the Planets: Earth's Lithosphere

For Students 9th - 10th
The plate tectonics and other features of the Earth's lithosphere are explained and illustrated. Has links to definitions of the magnetosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere.