The Jovian Planets Sizes of Jovian planets compared to the Earth
... • Record, cartridge and needle are encased in aluminum jacket. Symbolic instructions on origin of spacecraft and directions on how to place the record included • Time till closest approach to ...
... • Record, cartridge and needle are encased in aluminum jacket. Symbolic instructions on origin of spacecraft and directions on how to place the record included • Time till closest approach to ...
Unit 7 Planetary Sciences - Comparisons of Moons ppt
... At first glance, Jupiter's moon Europa is a relatively simple world. But looks can be deceiving: Cracks cover the moon's icy surface, signals the possible presence of an underground liquid ocean. Since water appears to be key to life as we know it, scientists would not be surprised if Europa harbor ...
... At first glance, Jupiter's moon Europa is a relatively simple world. But looks can be deceiving: Cracks cover the moon's icy surface, signals the possible presence of an underground liquid ocean. Since water appears to be key to life as we know it, scientists would not be surprised if Europa harbor ...
nov14
... much faster than Jupiter’s. How can you explain this given that Saturn is twice as far from the Sun as Jupiter. ...
... much faster than Jupiter’s. How can you explain this given that Saturn is twice as far from the Sun as Jupiter. ...
MoonsRings
... The outer planets have large retinues of moons, including objects as big as Mercury (Ganymede,Titan) and with an atmosphere (Titan). There are also numerous little moons, some of which are captured asteriods. The major moons formed in a disk around the planet, like a little solar system. ...
... The outer planets have large retinues of moons, including objects as big as Mercury (Ganymede,Titan) and with an atmosphere (Titan). There are also numerous little moons, some of which are captured asteriods. The major moons formed in a disk around the planet, like a little solar system. ...
solar_system
... the fourth largest. It is slightly smaller than the Earth’s moon. The surface strongly resembles images of sea ice on Earth. There may be a liquid water sea under the crust. Europa is one of the five known moons in the solar system to have an atmosphere. ...
... the fourth largest. It is slightly smaller than the Earth’s moon. The surface strongly resembles images of sea ice on Earth. There may be a liquid water sea under the crust. Europa is one of the five known moons in the solar system to have an atmosphere. ...
... a. details about its moons system b. data about its temperature c. that it has a faint ring d. data about its composition 7. What happens to the gases in Jupiter’s atmosphere as the depth increases? ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________ ...
Planet Jupiter
... approximately t he same size as Earth; imagine how small we are! Jupiter is a large gas planet where clouds change colours daily. Jupiter’s complex atmosphere bristles with lightening and swirls with huge storm systems. Jupiter is sometimes called a mini solar system because of all its moons (16) an ...
... approximately t he same size as Earth; imagine how small we are! Jupiter is a large gas planet where clouds change colours daily. Jupiter’s complex atmosphere bristles with lightening and swirls with huge storm systems. Jupiter is sometimes called a mini solar system because of all its moons (16) an ...
CHAPTER 9.3: The Outer Planets
... cycle vs. a water cycle!! 33. _________________________ is the seventh planet from the Sun. 34. The last Cme it was visited by a probe was in ______________ when Voyager 2 flew by. 35. Uranus, like ...
... cycle vs. a water cycle!! 33. _________________________ is the seventh planet from the Sun. 34. The last Cme it was visited by a probe was in ______________ when Voyager 2 flew by. 35. Uranus, like ...
The Inner Planets of Our Solar System
... planets, moons, or asteroids. Travel through space without an orbit. ...
... planets, moons, or asteroids. Travel through space without an orbit. ...
Chapter8- Jovian Planet Systems
... • The bands of rising air are called zones. • They appear white in color because ammonia clouds form as the air rises to high, cool altitudes. • The adjacent belts of falling air are depleted in cloud forming ingredients and do not contain any white ...
... • The bands of rising air are called zones. • They appear white in color because ammonia clouds form as the air rises to high, cool altitudes. • The adjacent belts of falling air are depleted in cloud forming ingredients and do not contain any white ...
The Outer Planets - Jupiter
... banded structure of Jupiter or Saturn • Uranus has a “retrograde rotation” like Venus and Pluto • Uranus rotation is also on its side – its south pole faces the sun • The theory for this odd rotation is the Uranus was hit by a large object sometime in the past ...
... banded structure of Jupiter or Saturn • Uranus has a “retrograde rotation” like Venus and Pluto • Uranus rotation is also on its side – its south pole faces the sun • The theory for this odd rotation is the Uranus was hit by a large object sometime in the past ...
Class 32
... Nitrogen (90%), somewhat like the Earth (77%), with the remainder being made up of Argon, methane and ethane, making Titan warmer than expected (-180oC). Titan has a surface pressure only slightly larger than the Earth’s. The relatively low proportions of methane and ethane in the atmosphere suggest ...
... Nitrogen (90%), somewhat like the Earth (77%), with the remainder being made up of Argon, methane and ethane, making Titan warmer than expected (-180oC). Titan has a surface pressure only slightly larger than the Earth’s. The relatively low proportions of methane and ethane in the atmosphere suggest ...
where it is, how big it
... The four large Galilean moons are named after other people in Zeus’ life, most are his lovers. Jupiter is considered one of the gas planets. The gas planets are the planets in our solar system which do not have solid surfaces, their gaseous material simply gets denser with depth. What we see when l ...
... The four large Galilean moons are named after other people in Zeus’ life, most are his lovers. Jupiter is considered one of the gas planets. The gas planets are the planets in our solar system which do not have solid surfaces, their gaseous material simply gets denser with depth. What we see when l ...
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... • Remnants from the formation of the sun begin to coalesce and form planetesimals • Matter with higher density remains in close proximity to the sun forming the terrestrial planets • Low density gases move further away forming ...
... • Remnants from the formation of the sun begin to coalesce and form planetesimals • Matter with higher density remains in close proximity to the sun forming the terrestrial planets • Low density gases move further away forming ...
Direct and Retrograde Motion of the Planets
... a. Jupiter is much more massive than Mars. b. Jupiter is further away from the Sun than Mars. c. Jupiter's orbit is closer to the plane of the ecliptic than is the orbit of Mars. d. We are watching this motion from our terrestrial viewpoint. ...
... a. Jupiter is much more massive than Mars. b. Jupiter is further away from the Sun than Mars. c. Jupiter's orbit is closer to the plane of the ecliptic than is the orbit of Mars. d. We are watching this motion from our terrestrial viewpoint. ...
The Outer Planets
... Jupiter’s hydrogen-helium atmosphere also contains small amounts of methane, ammonia, water, and sulfur compounds Due to immense pressures within the atmosphere, Jupiter is thought to be a gigantic ocean of liquid hydrogen Jupiter also has a faint system of rings surrounding the planet, not discover ...
... Jupiter’s hydrogen-helium atmosphere also contains small amounts of methane, ammonia, water, and sulfur compounds Due to immense pressures within the atmosphere, Jupiter is thought to be a gigantic ocean of liquid hydrogen Jupiter also has a faint system of rings surrounding the planet, not discover ...
The Gas Giants
... crosses its orbit, making it the 9th planet • Has 13 moons, with Triton being the largest ...
... crosses its orbit, making it the 9th planet • Has 13 moons, with Triton being the largest ...
The King Of The Planets
... o Jupiter is visible at night as the “brightest star” in the night sky. o Jupiter’s great red spot is visible with binoculars some times! o Jupiter's great red spot is actually a great red hurricane. Its been around for hundreds of years. o Jupiter has a strong magnetic field, resulting, you would ...
... o Jupiter is visible at night as the “brightest star” in the night sky. o Jupiter’s great red spot is visible with binoculars some times! o Jupiter's great red spot is actually a great red hurricane. Its been around for hundreds of years. o Jupiter has a strong magnetic field, resulting, you would ...
ppt
... • composed of a rocky core with a water/ice mantle and a crust of rock and ice • no known atmosphere, but presence of ozone means a thin tenuous oxygen atmosphere from charged particles disrupting surface ice • http://www.solarviews.com/raw/jup/vgany2.mpg ...
... • composed of a rocky core with a water/ice mantle and a crust of rock and ice • no known atmosphere, but presence of ozone means a thin tenuous oxygen atmosphere from charged particles disrupting surface ice • http://www.solarviews.com/raw/jup/vgany2.mpg ...
Neighbors With Nothing in Common
... and ridges. Its tallest mountain towers 15 miles high. A thin layer of carbon dioxide surrounds the planet. Mars is a cold, dry place. It does, however, have some water in the form of ice at its poles. The planet is similar enough to Earth that it is possible that people may venture there someday. ...
... and ridges. Its tallest mountain towers 15 miles high. A thin layer of carbon dioxide surrounds the planet. Mars is a cold, dry place. It does, however, have some water in the form of ice at its poles. The planet is similar enough to Earth that it is possible that people may venture there someday. ...
Moons of Jovian Planets
... Narrow gaps: Swept clean by small moonlets embedded within the rings. Moonlets are much larger than largest ring particles -> simply attract ring material as they orbit, leaving a less dense area. Cassini Division due to gravitational force of Saturn's innermost medium sized moon – particles are def ...
... Narrow gaps: Swept clean by small moonlets embedded within the rings. Moonlets are much larger than largest ring particles -> simply attract ring material as they orbit, leaving a less dense area. Cassini Division due to gravitational force of Saturn's innermost medium sized moon – particles are def ...
Solar System Cornell Notes - CE Williams Middle School
... meteorite - when a meteor is so large that it doesn't completely vaporize in Earth's atmosphere and reaches Earth's surface. asteroid - large pieces of rock with same composition of planets. Large What is the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter believed to be from unformed Kuiper Disk? planet. Li ...
... meteorite - when a meteor is so large that it doesn't completely vaporize in Earth's atmosphere and reaches Earth's surface. asteroid - large pieces of rock with same composition of planets. Large What is the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter believed to be from unformed Kuiper Disk? planet. Li ...
Lab 7: Gravity and Jupiter`s Moons
... Ganymede and Callisto are the third and fourth Galilean moons from Jupiter, respectively. Both Ganymede and Callisto are pockmarked with craters, like the moon. Ganymede is the largest moon in the Solar system, actually bigger than the planet Mercury. The light colored areas on Ganymede's surface ar ...
... Ganymede and Callisto are the third and fourth Galilean moons from Jupiter, respectively. Both Ganymede and Callisto are pockmarked with craters, like the moon. Ganymede is the largest moon in the Solar system, actually bigger than the planet Mercury. The light colored areas on Ganymede's surface ar ...
The Galilean Moons of Jupiter
... Narrow gaps: Swept clean by small moonlets embedded within the rings. Moonlets are much larger than largest ring particles -> simply attract ring material as they orbit, leaving a less dense area. Cassini Division due to gravitational force of Saturn's innermost medium sized moon – particles are def ...
... Narrow gaps: Swept clean by small moonlets embedded within the rings. Moonlets are much larger than largest ring particles -> simply attract ring material as they orbit, leaving a less dense area. Cassini Division due to gravitational force of Saturn's innermost medium sized moon – particles are def ...
Exploration of Io
The exploration of Io, Jupiter's third-largest moon, began with its discovery in 1610 and continues today with Earth-based observations and visits by spacecraft to the Jupiter system. Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was the first to record an observation of Io on January 8, 1610, though Simon Marius may have also observed Io at around the same time. During the 17th century, observations of Io and the other Galilean satellites helped with the measurement of longitude by map makers and surveyors, with validation of Kepler's Third Law of planetary motion, and with measurement of the speed of light. Based on ephemerides produced by astronomer Giovanni Cassini and others, Pierre-Simon Laplace created a mathematical theory to explain the resonant orbits of three of Jupiter's moons, Io, Europa, and Ganymede. This resonance was later found to have a profound effect on the geologies of these moons. Improved telescope technology in the late 19th and 20th centuries allowed astronomers to resolve large-scale surface features on Io as well as to estimate its diameter and mass.The advent of unmanned spaceflight in the 1950s and 1960s provided an opportunity to observe Io up-close. In the 1960s the moon's effect on Jupiter's magnetic field was discovered. The flybys of the two Pioneer probes, Pioneer 10 and 11 in 1973 and 1974, provided the first accurate measurement of Io's mass and size. Data from the Pioneers also revealed an intense belt of radiation near Io and suggested the presence of an atmosphere. In 1979, the two Voyager spacecraft flew through the Jupiter system. Voyager 1, during its encounter in March 1979, observed active volcanism on Io for the first time and mapped its surface in great detail, particularly the side that faces Jupiter. The Voyagers observed the Io plasma torus and Io's sulfur dioxide (SO2) atmosphere for the first time. NASA launched the Galileo spacecraft in 1989, which entered Jupiter's orbit in December 1995. Galileo allowed detailed study of both the planet and its satellites, including six flybys of Io between late 1999 and early 2002 that provided high-resolution images and spectra of Io's surface, confirming the presence of high-temperature silicate volcanism on Io. Distant observations by Galileo allowed planetary scientists to study changes on the surface that resulted from the moon's active volcanism.Following Galileo and a distant encounter by the Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft in 2007, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) made plans to return to the Jupiter system and Io. In 2009, NASA approved a plan to send an orbiter to Europa called the Jupiter Europa Orbiter as part of a joint program with ESA called the Europa/Jupiter System Mission. The ESA component of the project was the Jupiter Ganymede Orbiter. However, the EJSM mission collaboration was cancelled. ESA is continuing with its initiative under the name Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) to explore Ganymede, Europa, and Callisto, without plans to investigate Io at all. The proposed NASA Discovery mission Io Volcano Observer, currently going through a competitive process to be selected, would explore Io as its primary mission. In the meantime, Io continues to be observed by the Hubble Space Telescope as well as by Earth-based astronomers using improved telescopes such as Keck and the European Southern Observatory, that use new technologies such as adaptive optics.