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Moons of our Solar System
Moons of our Solar System

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Acknowledgements

This course was written by David Rothery and Simon Kelley. Further contributions were made by Susanne Schwenzer, Jessica Barnes, Jean-David Bodénan, Catherine Hill, James Mortimer, Elena Nickson, Phillipa Smith, Beth Steer and Felicity Williams.

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Figure 1, 4, 6, 9, 19 Image courtesy of NASA/JPL/USGS

Figure 2 Image courtesy of The Galileo Project/JPL/NASA

Figure 3 Image courtesy of NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Figure 5, 12, 13, 22, 23, 25, 26, 28, 29, 41, 42, 49 Image courtesy of NASA/JPL

Figure 7, 8, 14, 30, 59 Image courtesy of NASA

Figure 10 Image courtesy of NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

Figure 11 Image courtesy of NASA/JPL/Ames Research Center

Figure 17 GL Archive / Alamy Stock Photo

Figure 18 © Jan Sandberg

Figure 20 Image courtesy of NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

Figure 21 Image courtesy of NASA/JPL/Ted Stryk

Figure 24 Image courtesy of JPL

Figure 27, 35, 36 Image courtesy of NASA/JPL/Orion Moon

Figure 31, 32 © The Open University

Figure 33 Image courtesy of W.R. Normak, USGS.

Figure 34 Image courtesy of NASA/ESA/L. Roth/SWRI/University of Cologne

Figure 37, 38, 39, 40 Image courtesy of NASA/JPL/ASU

Figure 43 Images courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems/Texas A&M Univ.

Figure 44 Image courtesy of Cassini Imaging Team/SSI/JPL/ESA/NASA

Figure 45, 46, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 57, 58 Image courtesy of NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Figure 48 Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Figure 56 Image courtesy of NASA/JPL/SSI

Figure 60 Image courtesy of NASA, ESA, H. Weaver (JHU/APL), A. Stern (SwRI), and the HST Pluto Companion Search Team

Figure 61 Image courtesy of BBC

Figure 62 and 63 courtesy of NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI

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Week 3 guide © The Open University

Volcanic eruptions on Io © The Open University (some materials by courtesy of NASA)

Cryovolcanism on Enceladus © The Open University (some materials by courtesy of NASA)

How Enceladus works © The Open University

Is Europa habitable? © The Open University (some materials by courtesy of NASA)

Phobos and Deimos © The Open University (some materials by courtesy of NASA)

Phobos seen from the surface of Mars Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems/Texas A&M Univ.

The moons of asteroids © The Open University (some materials by courtesy of NASA/Lance Benner/Marina Brozović/Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology)

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