What's New in Views of the Solar System

#### October 15, 1997

- Animated flight around Proteus.
- Animated flight around Hyperion.
- Animated flight around Janus.
- Animated flight around Phobos.

#### October 7, 1997

- Polar Stereographic Map of Miranda.
- Simple Cylindrical Map of Miranda.

#### October 6, 1997

- Orthographic Image of Miranda.
- Sponsors of Views of the Solar System.

#### September 29, 1997

- Animation of Tharsis Tholus a volcanoe on Mars.

#### September 25, 1997

- Pseudo-image of Uranus' Ring

#### September 24, 1997

- Animation of Babbar Patera on Jupiter's moon Io.

#### September 22, 1997

- Animation of The Rotating Asteroid Castalia
- Animation of Janus, The Rotating Moon of Saturn
- Animation of Deimos Shape Model in Rotation

#### September 19, 1997

- Giotto Mosaic of Halley's Comet

#### September 18, 1997

- Pseudo-image of Saturn's Ring
- Saturn Without a Ring
  What would Saturn look like if it did not have a ring. Most of the current theories about Saturn's rings say that the rings are probably younger than 100,000,000 years and are not stable.

#### September 17, 1997

- Movie of Asteroid Vesta in Rotation
- Shape Model Animation of Gaspra

#### September 16, 1997

- An image of Comet SOHO-6 and Solar Polar Plumes.

#### September 15, 1997

- Movie of the Olympus Mons Caldera on Mars
- A Movie of rotating Gaspra.

#### September 12, 1997

- An Animation of Mars from the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft.
- Stereo Image of Ida.

#### September 11, 1997

- A rotating animation of Ida.

#### September 10, 1997

- Two animations of the April 7, 1997 Halo Mass Ejction Event on the Sun.
- An animation of the NEAR spacecraft encounter with asteroid Mathilde.

#### Previous New Releases

- A new Hubble Space Telescope image of Asteroid Vesta was added on 9/9/97.

- An animation of Triton was added on 9/4/97.

- Topographic maps of Vesta and Proteus were added on 9/3/97.

- Two excellent animations of Mars' moons Phobos and Deimos were added on 9/3/97.

- VRML models of The Face on Mars, Ida and Gaspra were added on 8/29/97.

- Topographic maps of Prometheus, Janus, Hyperion, and Epimetheus were added on 8/28/97.

- A high-resolution Feature map of Io was added on 8/27/97.

- Topographic maps of Gaspra, Ida, Castalia, and Toutatis were added on 8/27/97.

- Topographic maps of Amalthea, Deimos, and Phobos were added on 8/26/97.

- I have created the Monster Mosaic of the Viking Lander 2 site. This is the highest resolution mosaic of the Viking Lander 2 site that has ever been created.

- A more complete index of Pathfinder Images was added on 7/11/97.

- A high-resolution mosaic image of Phobos, a moon of Mars, was added on 7/8/97.

- Selected Images from Mars Pathfinder were added on 7/8/97.

- Additonal images of Ariel, a moon of Uranus, were added on 5/5/97.

- An Mercator Map of Ariel, a moon of Uranus, was added on 4/23/97.

- An image of Io's Sodium Cloud was added on 4/21/97.

- A Venus Topography Map was added on 4/21/97.

- A Martian Topography Map was added on 4/17/97.

- An albedo image map of Umbriel was added on 4/17/97.

- A press release on "New Images Hint at Wet and Wild History For Europa", along with seven new Galileo Images of Europa were added on 4/14/97.

- Several maps and images of Titania were added on 4/8/97.

- A map and color image of Oberon were added on 4/3/97.

- Two maps of Neptune's moon Triton were added on 3/31/97.

- A new mosaic of Neptune's moon Triton was added on 3/28/97.

- A press release on "Thought-Provoking Imagery Shows Sun's Place in the Galaxy" along with some video clips were added on 3/21/97.

- An excellent map of Jupiter's moon Europa was added on 3/17/97. This map was prepared by A. Tayfun Oner.

- An excellent map of Jupiter's moon Io was added on 3/14/97. This map was prepared by A. Tayfun Oner.

- The Pluto page was updated with one of the first maps ever made of Charon. In addition, an animation of Pluto was added. The map and animation were created by A.Tayfun Oner based on pictures courtesy of Marc Buie of Lowell Observatory. (3/13/97)

- An animation of Pluto's moon Charon was added on 2/21/97.

- An image of sulfur dioxide distribution on Io was added on 1/23/97.

- Two images of Triton and Neptune were added on 1/23/97.

- A page of Additional Galileo Images of Europa was added on 1/21/97.

- A press release on Ice Volcanoes Reshape Europa's Chaotic Surface was added on 1/17/97.

- Several GIF animations of Phobos, were added on 1/14/97.

- An animation of Halley's Comet, was added on 1/14/97.

- An animation of Phobos, was added on 1/7/97.

- A quicktime move of The Sounds From Ganymede, was added on 12/24/96.

- A press release New Discoveries From Galileo, was added on 12/24/96.

- Additional Galileo images of Callisto, Ganymede, Europa, were added on 12/17/96.

- A Galileo image of Callisto, was added on 12/3/96.

- A Mariner 10 image of the Earth & Moon, was added on 11/22/96.

- A Near-Infrared Image of Europa, taken by Galileo, was added on 11/21/96.

- Two maps of the Nucleus of Comet Halley were added on 11/20/96.

- A new, digital, high-resolution photomosaic of Mariner 10's Incoming View of Mercury has replaced the old image. This is the best mosaic I have ever found of Mercury. Many thanks goes to the U.S. Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona for creating this image. I have created both low and high resolution versions of this image.

- A page of Galileo Images of Io was added on 11/14/96.

- A natural and false color image of Europa taken by Galileo was added on 11/13/96.

- A Hubble rotation movie of Neptune was added on 10/31/96.

- A Hubble image of Jupiter's Auroras was added to the Jupiter page on 10/31/96.

- A page of Awards and Recognition has been started for Views of the Solar System. (10/24/96)

- A false color image of Europa taken by Galileo was added on 10/21/96.

- A galileo temperature map image of Ganymede was added on 9/27/96.

- Galileo images of Jupiter's red spot were added on 8/22/96.

- Galileo computer simulation animations were added to Ganymede on 8/22/96.

- A press release on "Jupiter's Europa Harbors Possible "Warm Ice" or Liquid Water" was added on 8/16/96.

- Two images taken by Galileo were added to the Io page on 8/16/96.

- Some fantastic images of Europa taken by Galileo were added on 8/14/96.

- Added Life from Mars: Video Animations. (8/13/96)

- Find out about the latest discoveries on Life from Mars. (8/9/96)

- Additional pages were translated to spanish. These include Júpiter, Ganímedes, Io, El Descubrimiento de los Satélites Galileanos, and Imágenes de Ganímedes desde la sonda Galileo. (8/2/96)

- An image taken by Galileo was added to the Io page on 7/22/96.

- Hot new images of Ganymede, taken by Galileo, were added on 7/11/96.

- Added another image of Ganymede was added on 7/9/96.

- An additional image of Ganymede, taken by Voyager 1, was added on 7/8/96.

- Images from the SOHO spacecraft were added to the Sun page on 7/2/96.

- I updated my Author page on 7/2/96.

- A page on The Discovery of the Galilean Satellites was added on 6/17/96.

- An animation of Pluto was added on 5/31/96.

- Views of the Solar System has started to be translated to Spanish -- This version can be found at: Vistas del Sistema Solar. (5/16/96)

- A press release on Galileo Finds Giant Iron Core in Jupiter's Moon Io was added on 5/16/96.

- A page of Miscellaneous Comet Images, submitted by the astronomy community, was added on 4/26/96.

- An image of the Aorounga impact crater in Chad was added to the Terrestrial Impact Craters page on 4/25/96.

- The discovery image of Jupiter's moon Leda was added on 4/22/96.

- Numerous spacecraft mission summaries and updated chronology of space exploration were added to the History of Space Exploration. (4/12/96)

- A press release on Comet Hyakutake - First X-Rays From a Comet Discovered was added on 4/5/96.

- An image of Comet Hyakutake was added to the Comet page on 3/28/96.

- I am starting a new page on The Surface of Mars. Right now it only includes images, but more will follow. (3/20/96)

- New Hubble Telescope images of Pluto, showing faint surface features, were added on. (3/8/96)

- Asteroids Gaspra and Ida were updated to include higher resolution images. (3/5/96)

- Additional images of Saturn were added on 2/28/96.

- Additional images of Triton were added on 2/27/96.

- Additional images of Uranus were added on 2/15/96.

- Additional images of Miranda, a moon of Uranus, were added on 2/14/96.

- A press release on Galileo Probe Suggests Planetary Science Reappraisal was added on 1/24/96.

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##### Author: Calvin J. Hamilton.