Introduction to the Planets

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The terrestrial planets - Mercury Venus, Earth and Mars

Background Knowledge Needed

None (except general knowledge and a wish to know more)

Mathematical Knowledge Needed

Aimed at people with no background in mathematics - simply knowledge of arithmetic (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division). Anything else will be provided within the course.

The Giant Planets

Introduction

• Introduction
• The Solar System

The Planets in the Solar System

The Solar System

• Mercury
• Venus
• Earth
• The Moon
• Mars
• The asteroids
• Jupiter
• Jupiter's Moons
• Saturn
• Saturn's Moons
• Uranus and its moons
• Neptune and its moons
• The Kuiper belt (Pluto, Charon, Eris, Quaoar and the rest)

Sunset over a planet in a triple star system

Beyond the Solar System

• Planets around other stars