What's New

Notable changes to The Nine Planets:

1998 Mar 05: Ice on the Moon confirmed!
1997 Nov 17: added Galileo images of Jupiter's 4 inner moons
1997 Nov 03: two new moons of Uranus discovered!
1997 Oct 23: added 253 Mathilde page
1997 Oct 15: Cassini launched successfully
1997 Sep 17: Mars has a global magnetic field
1997 Jun 27: first images of 253 Mathilde
1996 Nov 17: images of Phobos from Phobos 2
1996 Nov 8: major face lift
1996 Aug 12: first Galileo image of Europa
1996 Aug 7: preliminary evidence of life on Mars!!
1996 Aug 2: fixed many stale links to JPL
1996 Jul 10: new info and links to Galileo images of Ganymede
1996 May 4: new info about the interior of Io from Galileo; cosmetic changes
1996 Apr 30: added page about the origin of the solar system
1996 Apr 22: added an image of Leda
1996 Apr 22: added Arabic names to the Planetary Linguistics page
1996 Mar 25: added amateur images to the seeing the solar system page
1996 Mar 10: added a page about seeing the solar system
1996 Mar 7: new HST images of Pluto
1996 Jan 22: updated Jupiter page with preliminary info from the Galileo probe
1996 Jan 17: info and references to the newly discovered planetary systems orbiting 70 Virginis and 47 Ursae Majoris
1995 Oct 17: preliminary info about a planetary companion to the star 51 Pegasi
1995 Oct 08: new info about the new Saturnian satellites (but the situation is still confused)
1995 Oct 05: added a mirror in Korea
1995 Sep 28: added a page about other solar systems
1995 Sep 23: added mirrors in Italy and Brazil
1995 Sep 15: added a mirror in Hungary
1995 Sep 13: added a mirror in India
1995 Sep 11: improved the Planetary Linguistics page
1995 Sep 6: added a mirror in Hong Kong
1995 Aug 23: added mirrors in Greece and Italy
1995 Aug 10: added another Japanese mirror
1995 Aug 3: added an image of a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite (finally!)
1995 Jul 28: added a page about possible new satellites of Saturn (including an HST image)
1995 Jul 26: added references to USGS nomenclature pages
1995 Jul 23: added info about observing the planets and links to Mike Harvey's charts
1995 Jul 18: added California mirror site
1995 Jul 03: added Japanese mirror site (and another on 7/9)
1995 Jun 20: added additional data page
1995 Jun 18: added references to many new movies from Calvin Hamilton of LANL
1995 Jun 17: added a reference to an image of Clyde Tombaugh
1995 Jun 16: added an image from HST's recent detection of small Kuiper Belt objects
1995 Jun 16: added summaries of the rings of Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune
1995 Jun 15: inline images of Metis and Thebe
1995 Jun 14: new tidbits on the Hypothetical Planets page
1995 May 24: new large inline image of Venus
1995 May 16: added image of Pandora, Prometheus and Saturn's F ring
1995 Apr 21: info and images of 4 Vesta
1995 Apr 21: new HST images of Neptune
1995 Apr 21: What's New page
1995 Apr 11: Copyright page
1995 Mar 28: new HST images of Mars and Venus
1994 Nov 15: The Nine Planets is the Cool Site of the Day
1994 Oct 22: first copy at SEDS
1994 Oct 13: first "publication" notice
1994 Jul 27: completed first draft (somewhat delayed by SL9 week)

Numerous minor updates and fixes are not listed above. The dates at the bottom of each page indicate the most recent change to the text of that page (not counting fixes to typos and broken URLs).