Philips Atlas of the Universe

THE SOLAR SYSTEM
Titan’s surface from Huygens. Drainage channels visible near the top of this image mosaic appear to lead down ...

Uranus ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE U ranus, third of the giant planets, was discovered by William Herschel in 1781. Herschel was not l ...

THE SOLAR SYSTEM Uranus N Rings Path of star as seen from aircraft OrbitofMiranda 1966 (1798–1882–1966) 1985 (1817–1901–1985) 20 ...

Missions to Uranus ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE O nly one spacecraft has so far encountered Uranus. On 24 January 1986, Voyager 2 flew ...

THE SOLAR SYSTEM THE RINGS OF URANUS Distance from Ring Uranus, km Width, km 6 41,800 1–3 5 42,200 2–3 4 42,600 2 (Alpha) 44,700 ...

Satellites of Uranus ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE U ranus, like all the giant planets, has an extensive satellite family. The two outer ...

THE SOLAR SYSTEM Miranda’s orbit. The only newcomer to exceed 100 kilo- metres (60 miles) in diameter is Puck, which was imaged ...

Maps of the Satellites of Uranus ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE W hen Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in January 1986, it allowed detailed maps ...

THE SOLAR SYSTEM TITANIA OBERON UMBRIEL Lat. °S Long. °E Kanaloa 11 351 Malingee 22 13 Setibos 31 350 Skynd 1 (N) 335 Vuver 2 31 ...

Neptune ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE S ome years after Uranus was discovered, it became clear that it was not moving as had been expect ...

THE SOLAR SYSTEM THE RINGS OF NEPTUNE Name Distance from centre Width, km of Neptune, km Galle 41,900 50 Le Verrier 53,200 50 ‘P ...

Satellites of Neptune T wo satellites of Neptune were known before the Voyager fly-by: Triton and Nereid. Each was excep- tional ...

THE SOLAR SYSTEM migrates towards the upper part of the crust, the pressure will be relaxed, and the nitrogen will explode in a ...

Pluto ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE E ven after the discovery of Neptune, there were still tiny irregularities in the movements of the o ...

THE SOLAR SYSTEM PLANETARY DATA – PLUTO nitrogen as well, while Charon shows signs of water ice; it has no detectable atmosphere ...

The Surface of Pluto ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE T he Hubble Space Telescope has allowed astronomers to view the surface of Pluto as n ...

Scattered Disk objects have very eccentric orbits, taking them far beyond Neptune. Thus asteroid 1996 TL 66 ranges between 35 an ...

Comets ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE ▼ West’s Comet, below left, and Neat’s Comet, below right. West’s Comet was a bright naked-eye obje ...

THE SOLAR SYSTEM Short-period Comets
Encke’s Comet, as photographed by Jim Scotti on 5 January 1994, using the 0.91-m Spacewat ...

Halley’s Comet ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE Of all the comets in the sky There’s none like Comet Halley. We see it with the naked eye, ...