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Earth
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Earth and Moon
Mars
Jupiter and moons
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
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Sun (click on picture for link)

Sun

Yohkoh and the Sun

Mercury (click on picture for link)

Mercury
This mosaic of Mercury was taken by the Mariner 10 spacecraft during its approach on 29 March 1974.

Venus (click on picture for link)

Venus - Hemispheric view of Venus produced by Magellan.

Earth (click on picture for link)

View of Africa and Saudi Arabia from Apollo 17. Probably the most requested picture of the Earth, this picture was taken by the Apollo 17 astronauts as they left earth orbit en route to the Moon. Taken on Dec. 7, 1972, it was the first time that the trajectory of an Apollo mission enabled a view of the south pole.

Moon (click on picture for link)

Three-filter color image of the Moon.

Earth and Moon (click on picture for link)

This image was taken by Galileo as it flew by the Earth-Moon system in 1990.

Mars (click on picture for link)

Mars The Valles Marineris region.
Global image taken by the Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2 on the Hubble Space Telescope.

Jupiter (click on picture for link)

Jupiter and moons of Jupiter

Left: Three-color filter image of Jupiter and Ganymede.
Right: Montage of images of the Galilean satellites (Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto) taken by HST.

Saturn (click on picture for link)

Saturn
Infrared image of Saturn taken by HST's NICMOS instrument.

Uranus (click on picture for link)

Uranus
True- and false-color images of Uranus. These two pictures of Uranus - one in true color (left) and the
other in false color - were compiled from images returned on January 17, 1986, by the narrow-angle camera of Voyager 2.

Neptune (click on picture for link)

Neptune - Color image of Neptune showing its "Great Dark Spot".

 Pluto (click on picture for link)

Pluto and its satellite Charon as taken with ESA's Faint Object Camera on HST.

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