Explore the Planets helps students investigate the planets and their satellites and understand the processes that shape them: volcanism, impact cratering, tectonics, landslides, flowing water, and wind. They will study the planets the way planetary scientists do, by comparing, for example, why some volcanoes on Mars are so much larger than their counterparts on Earth. They’ll discover why impact craters are so widespread and much more.
 
This updated CD-ROM is fully narrated and contains new data and images from recent discoveries and missions into space. The program aids learning with scored review questions, a visual index, an illustrated glossary, colorful animations, video clips, and an updated planet database. Students can even pilot a spaceship through the solar system and test their knowledge of planetary bodies.
 
New features in Version 2.0:

• Extensive revisions of Mars and the asteroids based on recent missions.
• New images of planets and their moons based on recent missions.
• Interactive panoramas and videos on Mars and asteroids.
• Updated data and images in Planetary Database.
• Fully narrated.
• New visual index.
• Interactive illustrated glossary.
• Easy navigation including page numbers and a jump button on every frame.
• Scored review questions that can be printed and saved to file.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Tour the Planets: Mercury/Venus/Earth/The Moon/Mars/Asteroids & Comets/Jupiter/Saturn/Uranus/Neptune/Pluto
• Planet Processes: Landslides/Volcanism/Flowing water/Wind/Impact cratering/Tectonics/Atmosphere
• Planet Explorer Game
• Planet Database

System Requirements: Macintosh: PowerPC™ 180 MHz processor (G3 or higher recommended); Mac OS® 9.2 to Mac OS X, 128 MBytes available RAM; thousands or millions of colors. QuickTime™ required. Windows: Windows 98®: Intel® Pentium® II 200MHz, 64 MBytes available RAM; Windows 2000® and Windows XP®: Pentium III 450 MHz, 128 MBytes available RAM; thousands or millions of colors. QuickTime™ required. This program was developed as a 32-bit application and is not supported on 64-bit versions of XP or Vista.