There has never been a more exciting time than today to explore and understand our solar system and beyond with A Field Guide to the Planets. Your instructor, Professor Sabine Stanley, a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University, guides you on a thrilling ride of discovery, illustrated by the phenomenal images NASA has gathered from throughout the solar system. In 24 lectures, you will experience a journey that was never before possible as your professor makes these astronomical wonders accessible to anyone, allowing you to experience, via our robot explorers, what it is like to visit worlds that were previously unknown.

1 How the Solar System Family Is Organized

2 Mercury, the Extreme Little Planet

3 Venus, the Veiled Greenhouse Planet

4 Earth: How Plate Tectonics Sets Up Life

5 Orbiting Earth: Up through the Atmosphere

6 Exploring the Earth-Moon System

7 Humans on the Moon: A Never-Ending Story

8 Exploring Mars from Space and the Ground

9 Water on Mars and Prospects for Life

10 Near-Earth Asteroids and the Asteroid Belt

11 Mighty Jupiter, The Ruling Gas Giant

12 Jupiter's Planetlike System of Moons

13 Saturn and the Rings: Gravity's Masterpiece

14 Saturn's Moons: Titan to Enceladus

15 Uranus: A Water World on Its Side

16 Neptune: Windy with the Wildest Moon

17 Pluto and Charon: The Binary Worlds

18 Comets, the Kuiper Belt, and the Oort Cloud

19 How Our Sun Defines Our Solar System

20 A Solar System Time Machine and Meteorites

21 What the Biggest Exoplanets Reveal

22 Closing in on Earthlike Exoplanets

23 Planets Migrated in Our Early Solar System!

24 Human Futures in the Solar System



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