Archived Site Updates and Additions
News
Archive: 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006
12/31/03
- added article on state of Mars Express and Beagle 2 to Current
Events page
- updated status of Mars Express and Beagle 2 on their mission page
- added Stardust section to Exploration > 21st Century
So Far > Comets, Asteroids, and Sun page
- updated browser compatibility information
12/29/03
- completed conversion of site to new style and color
- updated compatibility information
12/28/03
- began conversion of site to new style and colors
12/27/03
- completed the Advanced > Exploration > Pre-20th Century > Ancients > Calendars
page, completing the Advanced > Exploration > Pre-20th Century > Ancients
section
- completed the Advanced > Exploration > Pre-20th Century > Europe
through the Scientific Revolution page
- created new logo for future site style change
- created image for a Simplified Geocentric Model
- completed the Advanced > Exploration > Pre-20th Century > Europe
through the Scientific Revolution > The Church and Copernicus
page
- completed the Advanced > Exploration > Pre-20th Century > Europe
through the Scientific Revolution > Isaac Newton page
- completed the Advanced > Exploration > Pre-20th Century > Europe
through the Scientific Revolution > Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler
page, completing the Advanced > Exploration > Pre-20th Century > Europe
through the Scientific Revolution section
- Advanced version of site complete ... YAY!!
- removed incomplete "warnings" on home pages
- updated Advanced version's List of Sources By Page page
- fixed XHTML on two pages
- fixed 48 broken links across site
- unified use of notes and notes_plain paragraph format throughout
site
12/26/03
- modified the Search Results page to highlight the search term(s)
within the context string
- added "search_words" to CSS definitions to account for
highlighting in the Search Results page
- condensed Advanced > Exploration > Pre-20th Century > Ancients > Greeks & Romans
page to just cover Greeks
- completed the Advanced > Exploration > Pre-20th Century > Ancients > Greeks
page
- completed the Advanced > Exploration > Pre-20th Century > Ancients > Egyptians
page
- completed the Advanced > Exploration > Pre-20th Century > Ancients > Others
page
12/24/03
- split Advanced > Exploration > Pre-20th Century > Ancients
page into ~> Babylonians & Summerians, Greeks & Romans,
Egyptians, Others, and Calendars pages
- completed Advanced > Exploration > Pre-20th Century > Ancients
page
- optimized search engine query string by changing date modified
to mmddyy format, reducing length by ~12% on search for "earth"
- changed link on Extras > About the Authors page for Stuart Robbins
to refer to Burro site to save room on home.cwru.edu site
- removed Summerians from Advanced > Exploration > Pre-20th Century > Ancients
section
- completed Advanced > Exploration > Pre-20th Century > Ancients > Babylonians
page
12/23/03
- completed Advanced > Exploration > 20th Century > Missions
to Other Planets > Mars Global Surveyor page, completing the Advanced > Exploration > 20th Century
section
- changed image of Olympus Mons on Mars pages
- completed Advanced > Exploration > Pre-20th Century
page
- completed Advanced > Exploration > Pre-20th Century > Europe
through the Scientific Revolution page
- completed Advanced > Exploration > Pre-20th Century > Modern
World to 1900 page
12/22/03
- completed Advanced > Exploration > 20th Century > Missions
to Other Planets > Pathfinder page
- rearranged quaternary navigation in Advanced > Exploration > 20th Century > Missions
to Other Planets section to re-account for temporal linearity
12/21/03
- completed Advanced > Exploration > 20th Century > Missions
to Other Planets > Galileo page
- added article about ESO's release of three dusty spiral galaxy
images to Current Events page
- removed Greek letter media library in favor of HTML Greek letters
to save web space
- updated Advanced > Solar System > The Sun > The Sun as
a Star and Advanced > Cosmos' Live > Death? pages to accommodate
the removal of the Greek letter images
- worked on Advanced > Exploration > 20th Century > Missions
to Other Planets > Pathfinder page
12/20/03
- added Advanced > Exploration > 20th Century > Missions
to Other Planets > Magellan page
- completed Advanced > Exploration > 20th Century > Missions
to Other Planets > Magellan page
- split Advanced > Exploration > 20th Century > Missions
to Other Planets > Other Mars Missions page into Viking, Mars
Global Surveyor, and Pathfinder pages
- re-did quaternary navigation for Advanced > Exploration > 20th Century > Missions
to Other Planets to take into account new pages and go by temporal
order
- updated Advanced > Home > Site Map to take into account new
pages and order
- completed Advanced > Exploration > 20th Century > Missions
to Other Planets > Viking page
12/19/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
- added article about SIRTF renaming and images to Current Events
- added article about Beagle 2's release from Mars Express to Current
Events
12/17/03
- added article about Martian ice age to Current Events
12/13/03
- released first public beta of self-made search engine
- added article about GALEX images to Current Events
- added link to GALEX home page to Extras > Legal, Links, and
Sources > Links page
12/12/03
- changed "This site was last updated" text to "This
page was last updated" on several pages
12/10/03
- fixed grammar on 9 pages to correct for e.g. and i.e. usage
- fixed 14 capitalization errors for "x-ray" across site
- implemented Java applet search engine, along with a notice about
a better one in development
- removed white spaces in the names of objects from M, NGC, and IC
catalogs throughout site
- added article about Japanese Mars probe being lost to Current Events
- added article about new solar flare information to Current Events
- added article about most distant probable star-forming galaxy to
Current Events
12/09/03
- added article about Chandra finding evidence for galaxy collisions
to Current Events
- started process of bookmarking all headers by bookmarking within
Current Events page
- updated all planet pages to include information on Jupiter's new,
61st, moon
12/08/03
- updated Advanced > Solar System > Asteroid page data and
graphs
12/06/03
- split the November 2003 Current Events into an archive
- updated Site Maps
- added article about Martian Deltas to Current Events
- added article about Ion Drive Test to Current Events
- added article about distant x-ray jet to Current Events
- added article about protoplanet around nearby star to Current Events
- added article about link between various cosmic explosions to Current
Events
- added article on Hubble Heritage December 2003 to Current Events
- added December 2003 Hubble Heritage information to Hubble Heritage
Archive
- added article about shape of Eta Carinae cloud to Current Events
- checked XHTML across site
- fixed 18 broken links across site
11/22/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
11/06/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
- split the October 2003 Current Events into an archive
- updated Site Maps
- added article on Hubble Heritage November 2003 to Current Events
- added November 2003 Hubble Heritage information to Hubble Heritage
Archive
- added article on Voyager entering the Heliopause to Current Events
11/02/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
- updated Advanced section exoplanet data graphs
10/30/03
- added article about solar flares to Current Events
- added article about SDSS map to Current Events
10/25/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
- added article about Martian water to Current Events
10/21/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
10/20/03
- completed Advanced > Exploration > 20th Century > Missions
to Other Planets > Pioneers page
- completed Advanced > Exploration > 20th Century > Missions
to Other Planets > Voyagers page
10/19/03
- completed Advanced > Stars section via completion of Advanced > Stars > H-R
Diagram > Samples page
- changed "Goodies" section to "Extras" and re-named
many of the sub-pages to extras_[page]
- completed Advanced > Exploration > 20th Century > Missions
to Other Planets > Mariner page
10/18/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
- changed image of Mars on Solar System > Planets > Mars page
- updated Goodies > Legal, Links, and Sources > List of Sources
By Page
10/16/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
- fixed error on H-R Diagram pages
- updated legal section to include clause about validity of site
material
- updated feedback form
- updated Advanced section exoplanet data graphs
- added article about China's manned spaceflight to Current Events
page
- added article about CONTOUR Mishap Investigation Board's final
results to Current Events page and the Exploration > 21st Century
So Far > Comets, Asteroids, & Sun page
- added missing link to all Exploration > 21st Century
So Far sub-pages
- added new moons to Uranus and Neptune pages, and updated all planet
pages to reflect new figures
- updated Author information
10/14/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
10/07/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
10/04/03
- added article on Hubble Heritage October 2003 to Current Events
- added October 2003 Hubble Heritage information to Hubble Heritage
Archive
10/01/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
- split the September 2003 Current Events into an archive
- updated Site Maps
- updated Galileo mission information
- moved SMART-1 information from Exploration > Near Future > ESA
to Exploration > 21st Century So Far > Earth and
Moon
- updated SMART-1 information
- added article about SMART-1 launch to Current Events
- added article about HST finding new and old Uranian moons
- updated Uranus' Moon information
- checked site for broken links
09/17/03
- added article about Chandra usage to detect lunar composition to
Current Events page
- added article about iron x-ray spectra determining if a black hole
is spinning to Current Events page
09/13/03
- updated Advanced > Solar System > Asteroids data and graphs
- added information to Advanced > Stars > H-R Diagram > Samples
page
- fixed title in Current Events page
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
09/10/03
- updated Advanced section exoplanet data graphs
- validated XHTML and fixed any errors throughout site
- fixed 2 broken links throughout site
- added article about Chandra's black hole sound waves to Current
Events
- added article about SIRTIF instrument testing to Current Events
- added article about HST's KBO discoveries to Current Events
- added article about Hubble assisting Rosetta mission to Current
Events
- added article about Hubble imaging Saturn in various wavelengths
to Current Events
09/09/03
- split the August 2003 Current Events into an archive
- updated Site Maps
- added article on Hubble Heritage September 2003 to Current Events
- added August and September 2003 Hubble Heritage information to
Hubble Heritage Archive
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
08/31/03
- added article about the Columbia Accident Investigation Board's
findings to Current Events
08/15/03
- completed Advanced > Exploration 20th Century > Soviet
Craft > Sputnik page, completing the Soviet Craft section
08/14/03
- completed Advanced > Exploration 20th Century > Soviet
Craft > Mars page
- completed Advanced > Exploration 20th Century > Soviet
Craft > Luna page
08/13/03
- completed Advanced > Exploration 20th Century > Soviet
Craft > Venera page
08/12/03
- removed Advanced > Exploration > 20th Century > Soviet
Craft > Soyuz - Early page
- completed Advanced > Exploration 20th Century > Soviet
Craft > Zond page
- corrected spelling on all "What's New" archive pages
- completed Advanced > Exploration 20th Century > Soviet
Craft > Cosmos page
08/07/03
- split the July 2003 Current Events into an archive
- added article on Hubble Heritage August 2003 to Current Events
- validated XHTML and fixed any errors throughout site
- fixed 27 broken links throughout site
- added August 2003 Hubble Heritage information to Hubble Heritage
Archive
07/20/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
- added article about galaxy and black hole size link to Current
Events
- added article about Mars Express image of Earth and Moon to Current
Events
07/16/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
07/13/03
- finished Advanced > Stars > Neutron Stars page
- updated image of neutron star anatomy
- changed introduction to basic site's Neutron Star and Black Hole
pages
- split Advanced H-R Diagram pages into three sub:
- finished Advanced > Stars > H-R Diagram page
- finished Advanced > Stars > H-R Diagram > History page
- finished Advanced > Stars > H-R Diagram > Uses page
- added information to Advanced > Stars > H-R Diagram > Samples
page
- added link to Basic > Stars > H-R Diagram page
07/12/03
- edited Advanced > Exploration > 20th Century > Soviet
Craft > Sputnik page
- edited Advanced > Exploration > 20th Century > Soviet
Craft > Cosmos page
- finished Advanced > Stars > Binary & Variable page
- updated image of binary star system
- re-wrote and finished Advanced > Stars > Black Holes page
- re-made diagram of Kerr Black Hole anatomy
07/10/03
- added article about 13 billion-year-old planet to Current Events
07/09/03
- finished Advanced > Exploration > 20th Century > Soviet
Craft page
07/08/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
- added article about MER Opportunity launch to Current Events
- split and created all Advanced > Exploration > 20th Century > Soviet
Craft pages
- finished Advanced > Exploration > 20th Century > Soviet
Craft > Phobos page
- finished Advanced > Exploration > 20th Century > Soviet
Craft > Vega page
07/06/03
- implemented a free tracking service for the site to record visitor
demographics
07/05/03
- changed Advanced > Stars section navigation to put all life
cycle information (nebulae through death) into one section, and make
six tertiary links:
- Nebulae
- Birth
- Average Life
- Average Death
- Giant Life
- Giant Death
- updated Site Maps with recent changes
- finished Advanced > Stars > Stellar Life - Nebulae to Death
page
- finished Advanced > Stars > Stellar Life - Nebulae to Death > Nebulae
page
- finished Advanced > Stars > Stellar Life - Nebulae to Death > Birth
page
- created image of the CNO cycle
- changed Spirograph Nebula image on Advanced > Solar System > Sun > The
Sun as a Star page
- finished Advanced > Stars > Stellar Life - Nebulae to Death > Average
Life page
- finished Advanced > Stars > Stellar Life - Nebulae to Death > Average
Death page
- finished Advanced > Stars > Stellar Life - Nebulae to Death > Giant
Life page
- finished Advanced > Stars > Stellar Life - Nebulae to Death > Giant
Death page
07/04/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
- updated all exoplanet trends pages
- split the June 2003 Current Events into an archive
- added article on Hubble Heritage July 2003 to Current Events
- added article on pulsar spin limits to Current Events
- added article on T-Tauri disk imaging to Current Events
- added July 2003 Hubble Heritage information to Hubble Heritage
Archive
07/03/03
- updated Advanced section exoplanet data graphs
07/02/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
- created archive "What's New" for January-June 2003
- fixed all broken (17) links across site
- validated and fixed any XHTML errors
06/30/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
- updated Advanced section exoplanet data graphs
- updated all exoplanet trends pages
06/29/03
- finished Advanced > Stars > Nebulae & Birth page
- finished Advanced > Stars > Clusters page
06/28/03
- added image and explanation about filters and images to Exploration > 20th Century > Earth & Moon
Missions and Satellites > Hubble Space Telescope page
- finished Advanced > Exploration > 20th Century > Earth & Moon
Missions and Satellites > Lunar Prospector page
- finished Advanced > Exploration > 20th Century > Earth & Moon
Missions and Satellites > Gemini page, completing the Earth & Moon
Missions and Satellites section
- created Advanced > Stars section
- finished Advanced > Stars page
06/27/03
- optimized main navigation XHTML code across the site; did not change
update dates
- finished Advanced > Exploration > 20th Century > Earth & Moon
Missions and Satellites > Clementine page
06/26/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
- updated Advanced section exoplanet data graphs
- set new layout indentation standard (one space) for XHTML code
- updated all exoplanet trends pages
- optimized XHTML code for exoplanet data tables
- added article about CfA CME model to Current Events
- added article about SOHO antenna problem to Current Events
- added article about dynamic Mars ice discovery to Current Events
06/25/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
- updated Advanced section exoplanet data graphs
06/19/03
- extensive re-writes of missions Apollo 14-17 in Advanced site,
completing the page
- added article about GRB-supernova link to Current Events
- added article about Chandra Deep Fields to Current Events
- added article about HST and Chandra GOODS collaboration to Current
Events
06/17/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
- extensive re-writes of missions Apollo 1-13 in Advanced site
06/16/03
- completed Advanced > Exploration > 20th Century > Mercury
06/15/03
- extensive work on Advanced > Exploration > 20th Century > Earth & Moon
Missions and Satellites > Soviet Craft page, completing Sputnik
section and Luna 1 through 1963B
- added new sections to Site Map
- due to Soviet missions with the same name going to different places,
change navigation creating separate Soviet Craft section under 20th Century
- completed Advanced > Exploration > 20th Century > Early
Unmanned NASA Missions
- added article on flattest star to Current Events
06/14/03
- wrote new Overview sections for sub-pages to Exploration > 21st Century
So Far
- added first image of Saturn taken by Cassini to Exploration > 21st Century
So Far > Outer Planets page
- added article about Spirit rover of the Mars Exploration Rover
mission to Current Events page
- completed Advanced > Exploration > 21st Century
So Far > Outer Planets page
- completed Advanced > Exploration > 21st Century
So Far > Other Inner Planets
- completed Advanced > Exploration > 21st Century
So Far > Comets, Asteroids, and Sun
- completed Advanced > Exploration > 21st Century
So Far > Earth and Moon
- changed opening information to reflect progress in Advanced version
- completed Advanced > Exploration > 20th Century > People
section
- added to the Advanced > Exploration > 20th Century > Earth & Moon
Missions and Satellites section the pages Soviet Craft, Early Unmanned
NASA Craft, Mercury, Clementine, and Lunar Prospector
- created above pages and edited navigation in section to reflect
this
- completed Advanced > Exploration > 20th Century > Hubble
Space Telescope page and section
06/13/03
- broke up the Exploration > 21st Century So Far page
into four: Earth and Moon, Other Inner Planets, Outer Planets, and
Comets, Asteroids, and Sun pages
- changed opening paragraph for Exploration > 21st Century
So Far page
- added new pages to Site Maps and changed the Goodies > Legal,
Links and Sources > List of Sources By Page outline to reflect
new pages
- altered the way the main navigation is coded to make it more cross-platform
compliant (changed from a table cell background to a stretched foreground)
-- did not change "last modified" date for any of the pages
06/12/03
- changed the picture of the Hubble Space Telescope on the Exploration > 20th Century > Earth & Moon
Missions > Hubble Space Telescope page to a real photo in both
site versions and updated sources list to reflect these
- edited last paragraph on said pages to include information of this
site's version of the Hubble Heritage Gallery
- added article about solar system scale model to Current Events
page
- added article about XMM-Newton directly measuring a neutron star's
magnetic field for the first time to Current Events page
- moved Mars Exploration Rover information from Exploration > Near
Future > NASA to Exploration > 21st Century So Far
- re-wrote Overview section to Exploration > 21st Century
So Far page
06/10/03
- added information for Hubble Heritage Archive 2000 for June-December,
finishing the Hubble Heritage section
06/09/03
- added information for Hubble Heritage Archive 2000 for January-May
06/08/03
- added information for Hubble Heritage Archive 1999 for August-December
06/07/03
- added information and image for December 2002 Hubble Heritage
- completed Hubble Heritage Archive for 1998 page
- deleted credit line for June 2003 Hubble Heritage image in the
2003 Hubble Heritage Archive
- finished Advanced > Exploration > Near Future > ISAS page
- updated Exploration > Near Future > ISAS page
- finished Advanced > Exploration > Near Future > NASA page
- updated Exploration > Near Future > NASA page
- updated Advanced > Goodies > Legal, Links, and Sources > List
of Sources by Page
- found and replaced with higher quality images of several Hubble
Heritage images
- added information for Hubble Heritage Archive 1999 for January-July
06/06/03
- added June 2003 Hubble Heritage image to Current Events and Hubble
Heritage Archive, 2003
- completed September, January through September, 2001 Hubble Heritage
sections
- fixed a few errors in Hubble Heritage 2002 page
06/04/03
- added image of Venus Express to Exploration > Near Future > ESA
page
- added article about MER launch days to Current Events
- added all 41 remaining Hubble Heritage images (text not yet completed)
06/03/03
- verified XHTML and fixed any errors in it across the site
- moved the information on Mars Express (an ESA mission) from Exploration > Near
Future > ESA to Exploration > 21st Century So Far
- added article about Mars Express launch to Current Events
- moved position of Hubble Heritage Archive links on Hubble Heritage
archive pages
- updated and added to the Project Home Pages in the Links pages
- updated Goodies > Legal, Links, and Sources > List of Sources
by Page pages
- finished Advanced > Exploration > 21st Century > ESA
page
- added information about Venus Express mission to Exploration > Near
Future > ESA page
- altered tertiary navigation image for the "Legal, Links, and
Sources" pages
- added disclaimer on the top of "List of All Sources" page
about it no longer being updated
- finished Advanced > Exploration > Near Future page
- finished Advanced > Exploration page
06/02/03
- split the May 2003 current event articles into an archive file
- updated Site Maps
- added Hubble Heritage for 1998
- switched order of Hubble Heritage months to go from top to bottom
January to December
- changed predicted day of Advanced site completion
- fixed any broken links across site
06/01/03
- completed September, October, November, and December 2002 Hubble
Heritage sections
- completed September, October, November, and December 2001 Hubble
Heritage sections
- updated Advanced > Site Map
05/31/03
- completed March, April, May, June, July, and August 2002 Hubble
Heritage sections
05/30/03
- created all Advanced > Exploration > 20th Century > Earth & Moon
Missions and Satellites > Hubble Space Telescope > Hubble Heritage
pages
- completed 2003 (January through May) and January and February 2002
Hubble Heritage sections
05/29/03
- added GRB article to Current Events
05/26/03
- finalized Advanced > Cosmos' Life > Death? page
- updated all pages for date of Recombination
- created all Advanced > Exploration pages
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
- updated Site Map
05/23/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
- added story about Satellite Galaxy to Current Events
- added story about pictures from Mars to Current Events
- updated Advanced section exoplanet data graphs
05/17/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
- added story about Neptune's seasonal change to Current Events
05/11/03
- finished Advanced > Cosmos' Life > History page
05/09/03
- added story about Hubble's Helix Nebula Image to Current Events
- added story about launch of Muses-C to Current Events
- moved and updated Muses-C information from Exploration > Near
Future > ISAS to Exploration > 21st Century
05/08/03
- added story about India's rocket launch to Current Events
- added story about Hubble's M31 deep image to Current Events
05/07/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
05/05/03
- finished Cosmos' Life page
- finished Cosmos' Life > Big Bang page
05/04/03
- created all "Cosmos' Life" pages for the Advanced version
05/03/03
- split the April 2003 current event articles into an archive file
- added Hubble Heritage May '03 article to Current Events
- added Mercury Transit article to Current Events
- added First Generation of Stars article to Current Events
- fixed two bugs in the Feedback Form
- added information on the 2 newly discovered Jupiter moons
- added information on the 1 newly discovered Saturn moon
04/28/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
- optimized XHTML issue in all pages
04/27/03
- added article about new information about the surface of Saturn's
moon Titan
- edited Cosmos' Life > Death? page per suggestions by one of
the editors
04/26/03
- finished Advanced > Solar System > Asteroids page
04/25/03
- added article about M17 image released from HST
04/24/03
- worked extensively on creating charts for various asteroid data
- created Hydrogen Phase Diagram image
04/21/03
- worked on new search engine
- fixed error in main planets page for Regular site of number of
Jupiter's moons
04/20/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
- updated Advanced section exoplanet data graphs
- extensive work on a new JavaApplet search engine
- finished Advanced > Solar System > Planets > ... Jupiter's
Moons, Saturn's Moons, Uranus' Moons, Neptune's Moons, and Pluto's
Moon pages
- created Advanced > Solar System > Asteroids, Comets, and
The "Edge" pages
- finished Advanced > Solar System > Comets and The "Edge" pages
04/19/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
- added link on Solar System > Planets > Earth > Earth's
Moon to Advanced page
- finished Advanced > Solar System > Planets > Mars > Life
on Mars and Mars' Moons pages
- fixed size parameters for Mars' moons on Regular site
- expanded Advanced > Solar System > Planets > Earth > Earth's
Moon data table
- expanded Advanced > Solar System > Planets > Jupiter > Jupiter's
Moons data table
04/18/03
- updated all planet pages with information on the 6 new Jovian moons
- updated both Jupiter's Moons pages with new data on the 6 new Jovian
moons
- finished Advanced > Solar System > Planets > Earth > Earth's
Moon
04/17/03
- finalized Advanced Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto pages
- changed formatting on Advanced Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn
pages
- added Jovian ring information to Advanced Jupiter page
- optimized XHTML on Advanced planet pages
- added original coaches to Sources By Page page
- added picture and information sources to Advanced > Goodies > Legal,
Links, and Sources > Sources By Page page
04/15/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
- updated Advanced section exoplanet data graphs
- added article about Mars Explorer Rovers landing locations being
selected to Current Events
- updated Exploration > Near Future
04/14/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
- added story about brown dwarf imaged in x-rays to Current Events
04/13/03
- fixed a few errors in Venus, Earth, and Mars Advanced pages
- finished Jupiter and Saturn Advanced pages
- fixed spelling error in all planet pages
04/12/03
- created all planetary pages for the Advanced site, including main
planet pages, moon pages, and "life" on Mars page
- finished Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars Advanced pages
04/11/03
- added instructions on how to use the secondary navigation bars
to all of the main tabbed pages in both versions
- completed planetary data table in Advanced section
04/10/03
- created elemental pie charts for:
- Earth
- Mars
- Jupiter
- Saturn
- Uranus
- Neptune
04/09/03
- added information to Advanced > Solar System > Sun > The
Sun as Our Star page
- added information
- spell-checked
- fixed some data on Advanced > Solar System > The Sun
- added a lot of information to Advanced > Solar System > Sun > Solar
Phenomena, including several images
04/08/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
- updated Advanced section exoplanet data graphs
- added information to Advanced > Solar System > Sun > The
Sun as Our Star page
- created Planck Curve graph
- added equations
- altered EM spectrum image
04/04/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
- reformatted a bit of the Home Page
04/03/03
- split the March 2003 current event articles into an archive file
- added Hubble Heritage April '03 article to Current Events
- updated Jovian moon data on Solar System > Planets > Jupiter > Jupiter's
Moons page
04/01/03
- fixed links and XML code in:
- normal and advanced Current Events
- normal and advanced Search Engine
- advanced Particle Physics Overview
- style sheet
03/31/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
- added low-mass red giant star cross section image to Advanced > Solar
System > Sun > The Sun as a Star
03/30/03
- created image of cross section of a low-mass star in the red giant
phase
03/29/03
- made pie charts of Mercury and Venus atmospheric compositions
03/28/03
- made pie charts of Sun's elemental composition and added them to
Advanced > Solar System > Sun > The Sun as a Star page
- finished Advanced > Solar System > Sun main page
- added extensive information to Advanced > Solar System > Sun > The
Sun as a Star page
- different fusion processes
- huge amount of information on its eventual evolution
- images and equations
03/27/03
- created images for Tides section to be added to Solar System > Planets > Earth > Earth's
Moon page
- created Solar System > Planets main page for Advanced site
- added to planetary data table
- fixed error in data table on Solar System > Planets and subpage
pages
- wrote Tides section on Solar System > Planets > Earth > Earth's
Moon page and added terms to Search Engine
- fixed major error with Search Engine that would cause it to not
work at all
- fixed formatting error in Search Engine for Advanced site
- added information to Advanced sun pages
- filled rest of data table
- added magnetic field information
- added temperatures
- added composition information
03/26/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data on Known Extra-Solar Planets data
- added article about erupting star to Current Events
- created image for Seasons section to be added to Solar System > Planets > Earth
page
- re-organized planet data table and added a lot more information
and updated old information on all Solar System > Planet pages
- added new information for newly discovered moons around Jupiter
- added section in Solar System > Planets > Earth about "The
Seasons"
- added small section at the bottom of Solar System > Sun page
with general solar data; also added this to The Sun as a Star page
in the Advanced section
- changed file name of Solar System > Sun page in normal site
in order to add continuity between normal and advanced versions
- updated Search Engine with new information from Solar System > Planets > Earth
page
- added data table to Solar System > Planets > Pluto > Pluto's
Moon page
03/25/03
- added image to black hole article in Current Events
- fixed text in an article in Current Events
03/24/03
- added article about intermediate size black holes to Current Events
- added bookmark to "accretion disk" in glossary
03/20/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
03/19/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
table
- broke up Current Events page into months as separate pages for
archival purposes in both versions of site
- created pages for Advanced Site:
- split Sun page into three sections: "The Sun as a Star," "The
Sun as Our Star," and "Solar Phenomena"
- made tertiary navigation image for new Sun sections
- split existing information among new Sun pages
- updated Site Maps in both versions of site
- added story about simulations of Gamma Ray Bursts to Current Events
03/18/03
- fixed an error on Advanced > Other Worlds > Data Trends page
and spell-checked
- opened Advanced site for public preview
- added link on Advanced site Home Page to return to the Regular
Site
- added article about Crab Nebula subpulses to Current Events
03/15/03
- created several pages for the Advanced site, in particular, the "Other
Worlds" pages:
- main page
- data page
- method for finding
- trends
- added histograms of mass, eccentricity, period, and semi-major
axis
- added plot of period vs. semi-major axis
03/14/03
- updated Other Worlds > Data for Known Extra-Solar Planets data
- deleted Goodies > On-Line Quiz
- updated Site Map
- changed opening blurb about what the site is
- created several pages for the Advanced site:
- Home Page
- Feedback Form
- Site Map
- Current Events
- Search
- main Goodies Page
- Astronomy Glossary
- About the Authors
- Links
- all bibliographic pages
- linked Particle Physics page to Goodies pages; added it to
Advanced Site Map
03/13/03
- added "Initial Program and Expansion" section to Goodies > About
the Authors page
- added article about two Gamma Ray Bursts to Current Events
- added article about the newly discovered liquid Mars core to Current
Events
- added bookmark for "precession" to Goodies > Astronomy
Glossary
- added article about evaporating "hot Jupiter" to Current
Events
- changed the title of the main page from "Welcome to Journey
Through the Galaxy" to "Journey Through the Galaxy"
03/06/03
- added article about Hubble Heritage release for March 2003 to Current
Events page
03/05/03
- updated extra-solar planet data
- changed information on launch date of MUSES-C in Exploration > Near
Future > ISAS (Japan)
- added source to Goodies > Legal, Links, and Sources > List
of Sources by Page
03/04/03
- added article on China's proposed Moon missions to Current Events
03/02/03
- added article on new gas cloud found around Jupiter to Current
Events page
2/27/03
- added article on WMAP map of CMB to Current Events page
- added article on Pioneer 10's last signal to Current Events page
- major update of extra-solar planet data
2/26/03
- added news article about Moon crater to Current Events page
- added news article about Hubble Heritage picture of M27 for month
of February 2003 to Current Events page
2/24/03
- updated browser information on Safari (Mac OSX only)
2/15/03
- changed location of Advanced version notification on Home Page
2/10/03
- added news article on Gamma-Ray Bursts to Current Events page
2/8/03
- added information about baryons, atoms, and antimatter to particle
physics overview page (a
sneak peak at the particle physics page)
- deleted decay column for mesons on particle physics overview page
- fixed formatting issue with tables in particle physics overview
page
- finished first draft of Particle Physics Overview Page
2/5/03
- fixed a script error on the Bibliography page
- added extensive information about mesons to the particle physics
overview page (a sneak
peak at the particle physics page)
- altered the style sheet; changes made:
- added format for Greek letters
- added format for antiparticles (overscore)
2/4/03
- added A LOT of information to the particle physics overview page,
including bosons, leptons, quarks, and hadrons (a
sneak peak at the particle physics page)
- altered the style sheet; changes made:
- all fonts made larger
- link color changed
- visited link color changed
- table category color changed
2/1/03
- added section on the Space Shuttle Columbia's explosion to the
Current Events page
- added Overview and Fundamental Forces section to Particle Physics
Overview for Advanced version
- updated Extrasolar Planet Data
1/31/03
- added cross-links on pages in the Solar System section, including:
The Sun, Earth's Moon, "Life" on Mars, Jupiter, Jupiter's
Moons, Neptune, Neptune's Moons, Uranus, Uranus' Moons, Pluto, Comets,
The Edge
- edited Asteroids, Venus, Earth's Moon, "Life" on Mars,
Saturn's Moons, Uranus, Pluto pages
1/30/03
- fixed layout issue on main page
- edited Cosmos' Life > Birth, History, and Death? pages
1/28/03
- added browser compatibility information to main page
1/27/03
1/23/03
- added news of Neptune's moons to Current Events section
- added blurb about Neptune's new moons to Neptune moon page
- added updates on ESA's Rosetta to Current Events and the Near Future > ESA
page
- added greek lowercase alphabet to image library in preparation
for Advanced site
- began work on Particle Physics page for the Advanced site
- added chemical reaction equations for three pp cycles of fusion
in sun-like stars to image library
1/22/03
- added to the Other Planets > How to Find Them page information
about location via transiting, as was done with the star OGL-TR-56
- updated Neptune and Neptune's Moons pages with the three new moons
of Neptune: S/2002 N1-3
1/21/03
- changed the location of the hit counter on the home page
- changed the location of "What's New" on the home page
- added separators to the "What's New" column on the home
page
- changed layout of the hit counter on the home page
- fixed link in the What's New Archive
- fixed links on the Goodies > On-Line Quiz and re-worded some
of the questions
- fixed link in Current Events
- fixed XHTML code in the following pages: Apollo, Galileo, Comets,
Death?, Glossary, Ancients, Search, Site Map, and Solar System Edge
- changed coding of gray bars around What's New section on home page
- fixed scientific notation on home page
- re-worded comet data table
- altered headers of all data tables
- switched colors of data table headers with that of active planet
1/20/03
- fixed core temperature of the sun
- re-made sun anatomy image
- added exoplanet around star HD 3651, and updated trends page appropriately
- added blurb at intro page to Goodies > Legal, Links & Sources
- fixed the Bibliography
- fixed the Quiz code, formatting, layout, and some of the questions
1/19/03
- fixed image names in Exploration > 21st Century So
Far page
- edited the content of and added images to all pages under Exploration > Near
Future
- added to the Current Events page information on the launch situation
of Rosetta
- changed the layout of the Overview sections of the future missions
pages
- removed the "under construction" information from the
Exploration main page
- fixed a spelling error on the Solar System main page
- edited some of the content in the Solar System > Sun page per
Mrs. Beauregard's comments
- changed the formatting of the "What's New" column on
the main page
1/18/03
- added the What's New column on the Home page; created the What's
New Archive and updated Site Map
- edited content and added pictures to Exploration > 20th Century > Missions
through the introduction page of Exploration > Near Future
- extensively re-wrote and designed the page on the Apollo program;
added Apollo crews to search engine
- added more equations to the library to be used in the Advanced
section
- added story about first Cassini image of Saturn to the Current
Events page
1/17/03
- edited content and added pictures to Exploration > Pre-20th Century
and all pages up through Exploration > 20th Century > Stephen
Hawking
- began the equation library for the Advanced site, and included
a few important ones in this version
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