The pictures used on this educational web site have mostly come from NASA and other organizations listed below. NASA does not require permission to use pictures for educational purposes, reporting, news, as long as NASA is not depicted inappropriately. 

Sun: Current solar image from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Courtesy of SDAC and NASA. (SOHO Extreme Ultraviolet  Imaging Telescope (EIT) full-field He II/Si XI 304 Å taken 19:19:11 1999/07/14) http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/images/latest_eit_304.gif or http://umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov/eit/eit_full_res.html

Used in: Main Image Map of the Graphics oriented site (mainmap.jpg); Header for Sun page (suntitle.jpg) graphics and text; 

Mercury : Courtesy of NASA/JPL/CalTech   http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/PIAGenPlanetPage.pl?Mercury

Used in: Main Image Map (mainmap.jpg); Header for Mercury page (metitle.jpg); Navigation bar (g_navbar.jpg).

Mercury Globe 1: Mosaic of Mercury taken by Mariner 10 spacecraft  on its approach on 29 March 1974. Courtesy of NASA/NSSDC (mercuryglobe1.jpg)

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Mercury Globe 2: Mosaic of Mercury also taken by Mariner 10 spacecraft taken when retreating Mercury instead of approaching it. Courtesy of NASA/NSSDC. (mercuryglobe2.jpg).

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Venus (Cloud cover): Ultraviolet picture of Venus seen from the outside with clouds swirling, as seen by the Pioneer Venus Orbitter taken 26 Feb 1979. (pvo_uv_790226.jpg) Courtesy of NASA and NSSDC. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/venus/pvo_uv_790205.jpg

Used in: Main Image Map (mainmap.jpg); Header for Venus page (vtitle.gif). Venus link on bottom bar of every page.

Venus: Global view of Venus. Courtesy of NSSDC and NASA At: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/venus/venusglobe.jpg

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Venus 3D Computer map: (mgn_eistla_regio.jpg) Computer composed 3D map of the floor of Venus at western Eistla Regio from the southwest. Courtesy of NSSDC and NASA. NASA Photo Number P-38720C. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/venus/mgn_eistla_regio.jpg

Used in: Venus page (v_ground.jpg).

Venus Ground seen from Venera 13: (actual picture with metal thing in the bottom) Picture of the surface of Venus from the Russian Venera 13, on the right side of the craft. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/venus/venera13-right.jpg

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Earth: View of Africa and Saudi Arabia from Apollo 17.  Courtesy of NSSDC and NASA. NASA photo number(s): 72-HC-928, 72-H-1578, or AS17-148-22727.   http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/earth/apollo17_earth.jpg

Used in:  Main Image Map (mainmap.jpg); Navigation bar (g_navbar.jpg); Header for Earth page (etitle.jpg).

Earth and Moon: Picture of Earth over the lunar horizon from Clementine. Courtesy of NSSDC and NASA. Caption from site: This image was taken by Clementine as it came over the north lunar pole at the completion of mapping orbit 102 on March 13, 1994. The angular separation between lunar horizon and Earth has been reduced for illustration purposes. The large crater at the bottom of the image is Plaskett (180 W longitude, 82 N latitude).    http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/earth/clem_earth_moon.jpg

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Moon Wide-Angle View: A wide-angled view of the Station 4 (base), where the astronauts worked during the Apollo 17 mission.
Courtesy of NASA and JSC. (10075262.jpg) NASA Photo number AS17-137-20992  http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/AS17/10075956.jpg

Used in: Moon Image map with more topics in graphics main page (mngrani.gif)

Mars: Sharpest view of Mars taken by the Hubble Telescope. Taken March 20, 1997. Credits to David Crisp and the WFPC2 Science Team. Photo #: STScI-PRC97-09. Courtesy of JPL/CalTech/NASA. http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/97/09/A.html

Used in: Main Image Map (mainmap.jpg); Navigation bar (g_navbar.jpg); Header for Mars page (matitle.jpg).

Jupiter: From a double picture of Jupiter. (jupiter_ir_vis.jpg) Courtesy of NSSDC and NASA. NASA Photo Numbers P-20957C, 79-H-316, 79-HC-235   http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/jupiter/jupiter_ir_vis.jpg

Used in: Main Image Map (mainmap.jpg); Navigation bar (g_navbar.jpg); Header for Jupiter page (jtitle.jpg).

Jupiter and Io (half of Jupiter and little dot on right, Io): Three color filter image of Jupiter and Io. (redspot.jpg) Courtesy of NSSDC and NASA. NASA Photo Number P-21714C, 79-HC-260. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/jupiter/redspot.jpg

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Jupiter's Red Spot (quadrant of Jupiter w/ red spot): Three color filter image of Jupiter and great red spot. (jupiter_io.jpg) Courtesy of NSSDC and NASA. NASA Photo Number P-21151. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/jupiter/redspot.jpg

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Saturn: Full color view of Saturn. Courtesy of NSSDC and NASA. NASA Photo Numbers P-23883C/BW http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/saturn/saturn.jpg

Used in: Main Image Map (mainmap.jpg); Navigation bar (g_navbar.jpg); Header for Saturn page (satitle.jpg)

Saturn (with a storm on it): Image of Saturn with a storm happenning by the Hubble Space Telescope. Courtesy of NSSDC and NASA. NASA Photo Numbers STScI-PRC94-53. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/saturn/hst_saturn_storm.jpg

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Saturn's F Ring (the red colored): Image of Saturn's F-ring. NASA PR P-23960C. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/saturn/saturn_f_ring.jpg

Used in: Header for Saturn's Rings page (sringtit.jpg)

Saturn's Rings (false colored): False colored images of Saturn's rings.(saturn_rings_false.jpg) Courtesy of NSSDC and NASA. NASA Photo Number (PR) P-23953C. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/saturn/saturn_rings_false.jpg

Used in: Link from Saturn page to Saturn's Rings page (s_r_link.jpg)

Uranus: From double picture with one false colored image and one true colored picture. Courtesy of NSSDC and NASA. NASA PR P-29478. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/uranus/uranus_true_and_false.jpg

Used in: Main Image Map (mainmap.jpg); Navigation bar (g_navbar.jpg); Header for Uranus page (utitle.jpg).

Neptune: Color image of Neptune and the great dark spot. Courtesy of NSSDC and NASA. NASA photo number P-34611C.   http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/neptune/neptune.jpg

Used in: Main Image Map (mainmap.jpg); Navigation bar (g_navbar.jpg); Header for Neptune page (ntitle.jpg).

Neptune with picture of sled like spot: Picture of Neptune's curious sled looking spot. Courtesy of NASA/JPL/CalTech and NSSDC. NASA Photo number P-34632C Voyager 2-N32C. Taken by the Voyager 2.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/neptune/neptune_gds.jpg

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Neptune picture of the clouds going around: Two pictures of  Neptune taken by the Hubble Telescope. Shows Neptune's Clouds swirling around. Almost true color images.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/neptune/hst_neptune.jpg

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Pluto: From double picture of pluto and charon taken by the Hubble Telescope. Taken with the ESA's Faint Object Camera on the Hubble Space Telescope. (hst_pluto_charon.jpg) Courtesy of STScI and NSSDC and NASA. NASA STScI-PRC96-09a, 96-H-106. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/pluto/hst_pluto1.jpg

Used in: Main Image Map (mainmap.jpg); Navigation bar (g_navbar.jpg); Header for Pluto page (ptitle.jpg).

Asteroid: Asteriod called Gaspra. (gaspra.jpg) Courtesy of NSSDC and NASA. NASA PR P-40450-C. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/asteroid/gaspra.jpg

Used in: Main Image Map (mainmap.jpg); Navigation bar (g_navbar.jpg); Header for Asteriods and Comets page (asttitle.jpg).

Comet: Comet P/Halley taken on March 8, 1986 by W. Liller, Easter Island, as part of the International Halley Watch (IHW) Large Scale Phenomena Network. Photo (LSPN-1725) Courtesy of W. Liller and IHW/LSPN and NSSDC/NASA. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/comet/lspn_comet_halley1.jpg

Used in: Header for Asteroids and Comets page (asttitle.jpg).

Space Shuttle: Taken out of a picture of shuttle flying in the earth's atmosphere after release from a experimental launching technique, by separating from a 747, in 1977. (ecn_8611.jpg) Courtesy of NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. DFRC Photo number ECN-8611. http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/ALT/HTML/ECN-8611.html

Used in: Main Image Map (mainmap.jpg); Navigation bar (g_navbar.jpg).

Space Shuttle Lifting Off: Side view of the Discovery shuttle lifting off from Pad 39B at 6:49:42 AM on May 22, 1999. Courtesy of NASA. (sts096s008.jpg) Photo Number STS096-(S)-008. http://www.spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-96/html/sts096s008.html

Used in: Header for Space Travel page (travtit.jpg).

Pete Conrad: Portrait of Astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., Prime Crew Commander of the Apollo 12 Lunar Landing Mission, in his space suit minus the helmet. He is standing outside beside a mock-up of the Lunar Lander. (09/22/69) Courtesy of NASA (s69-38866.jpg) NASA Photo Number S69-38866 http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/index.html (query for Pete Conrad)

Used in: Graphics version of "Pete Conrad" space news article.

Planet Montage: Planet montage of all the planets fit into a small collage like picture. Courtesy of NASA/JPL/CalTech. (pia01341.jpg) NASA Photo Number PIA0134. Individual Pictures of the planets taken by the Galileo Orbiter, Magellan, Mariner 10, Viking Orbiter 1, Viking Orbiter 2, Voyager 1, Voyager 2.

Used in: Main Index page (with choice to go to text or graphics version); background for Planets Trivia Game.

Jupiter's Moons Picture of 4 of them: Picture of Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto. Taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Courtesy of STScI and NSSDC (hst_gal_sats.jpg) NASA Photo number STSci-PRC95-35, 95-HC-610.

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Solar Eclipse '99: Picture of Solar Eclipse taken on Aug. 11, 1999 in Strasbourg, France. Courtesy of the European Space Agency D/Sci and Serco/Medialab. (0000242_s2.jpg). http://sci.esa.int/eclipse99/images/00000242_s2.jpg

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Comet Halley: Comet P/Halley taken March 8,1986 by W. Liller, Eater Island, part of International Hally Watch (IHW)Large Scale Phenomena Network NASA Photo number (LSPN-1725) Courtesy of NASA and NSSDC. 
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/comet/lspn_comet_halley1.jpg

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Giotto Halley: Comet P/Halley as taken with the HAlly Multicolor camera on the ESA mission Giotto. Courtesy of NASA and NSSDC and ESA. (giotto_halley.jpg) http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/comet/giotto_halley.jpg

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