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Explore the Planets CD-ROM
New Version 2.0!
Explore the Planets CD-ROM

Explore the Planets helps students investigate the planets and their satellites and understand the processes that shape them: volcanism, impact cratering, tectonics, landslides, flowing water, and wind. They will study the planets the way planetary scientists do, by comparing, for example, why some volcanoes on Mars are so much larger than their counterparts on Earth. They’ll discover why impact craters are so widespread and much more.

This updated CD-ROM is fully narrated and contains new data and images from recent discoveries and missions into space. The program aids learning with scored review questions, a visual index, an illustrated glossary, colorful animations, video clips, and an updated planet database. Students can even pilot a spaceship through the solar system and test their knowledge of planetary bodies. Grades 5 through 12.


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New features in Version 2.0:
  • Extensive revisions of Mars and the asteroids based on recent missions.
  • New images of planets and their moons based on recent missions.
  • Interactive panoramas and videos on Mars and asteroids.
  • Updated data and images in Planetary Database.
  • Fully narrated.
  • New visual index.
  • Interactive illustrated glossary.
  • Easy navigation including page numbers and a jump button on every frame.
  • Scored review questions that can be printed and saved to file.

Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Tour the Planets: Mercury/Venus/Earth/The Moon/Mars/Asteroids & Comets/Jupiter/Saturn/Uranus/Neptune/Pluto
  • Planet Processes: Landslides/Volcanism/Flowing water/Wind/Impact cratering/Tectonics/Atmosphere
  • Planet Explorer Game
  • Planet Database


National Science Education Standards
See how Explore the Planets aligns with NSES standards.


On-line Activity

*Macromedia's Shockwave plug-in is required to access this on-line activity.

System Requirements
Macintosh® Power Macintosh G3; OS 9.2, 64 MB RAM; OS X (10.1.5, 10.2.6, 10.3, 10.4.1), 128 MB RAM; thousands or millions of colors, QuickTime™ required. Intel Mac users click here.
Windows®
98: Pentium II, 64 MB RAM; 2000 and XP: Pentium III, 128 MB RAM; thousands or millions of colors, QuickTime™ required.


Written by G. Jeffrey Taylor, Ph.D., Planetary Geosciences Division, University of Hawai'i.


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