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Observing the Solar System from Your Armchair

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NASA puts much of its space exploration data on the Internet, copyright free. Some military stuff is doubtless kept under wraps, but that is also off topic. Since the folks at NASA have been very busy bees since the dawn of space exploration, there is an awful lot of NASA material available.

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Clark, J. (2015). Observing the Solar System from Your Armchair. In: Viewing and Imaging the Solar System. The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5179-2_11

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