This course is now taught using RPI's Learning Management System (http://rpilms.rpi.edu/). Students enrolled in the course should log onto LMS to download all course material. Powerpoint slides of the lectures listed below will be available on LMS:

Lecture 1: Introduction to the Solar System

Lecture 2: Observing the Solar System

Lecture 3: The Moon and Mercury: Airless Worlds

Lecture 4: Impact Cratering

Lecture 5: Venus and Earth: Dissimilar Siblings

Lecture 6: Mars: The Red Planet

Lecture 7: The Sun, Powerhouse of the Solar System

Lecture 8: The Giant Planets

Lecture 9: Giant Moons

Lecture 10: Planetary Ring Systems

Lecture 11: Interplanetary Debris

Lecture 12: Origin of the Solar System

Lecture 13: Life in the Solar System

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