 Welcome to Exploring the Solar System, our free online course that not only visits the celestial bodies of the Solar System and discusses their general properties but also presents the necessary information for their observation and exploration using modern astronomical and space technology. Together with my colleague Uli Lotzman, I designed and developed this course. You may wonder how this is possible. Uli, a dental surgeon and myself, a linguist. Well, we have both been hobby astronomers since our youth. We have been keen followers of the first manned missions to the moon. We have enjoyed the enormous progress made by several missions to the planets and together we have the equipment and the background on how to perform astronomical observation. And the digital material for this course, well, the internet has it all. So what we did, we took the texts, the images, the animations, the simulations and the videos that are freely available on the web, added our own stuff and of course our long experience with digital teaching and learning. The result is this online repository. So join us on the Virtual Linguistics Campus, our standard platform for digital teaching and learning. Take your free account and then self-enroll to exploring the solar system. In the second video, we will talk about the digital learning units of this course and about our principles of asynchronous learning using our digital material. Until then, have a nice time.