File - Mr. Pelton Science
... In August of 2007 the International Astronomical Union redefined what a planet is (no official scientific definition of a "planet" existed before). A planet: Is a body that orbits the sun (this definition only applies to our Solar System) Is large enough for its own gravity to make it round And has ...
... In August of 2007 the International Astronomical Union redefined what a planet is (no official scientific definition of a "planet" existed before). A planet: Is a body that orbits the sun (this definition only applies to our Solar System) Is large enough for its own gravity to make it round And has ...
Moon Jupiter Ganymede Artega - ASTR101
... Jupiter have explored Ganymede which include four flybys in the 1970’s and some passes in the 1990’s and 2000’s • It began with Pioneer 10 making its first arrival in 1973 followed by pioneer 11 in ...
... Jupiter have explored Ganymede which include four flybys in the 1970’s and some passes in the 1990’s and 2000’s • It began with Pioneer 10 making its first arrival in 1973 followed by pioneer 11 in ...
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... Jupiter • Jupiter is by far the most massive planet in the solar system (it contains about 2/3 of the solar system mass outside the Sun). • It has the largest radius of any solar system planet, and it rotates the fastest (once every 10 hours). • It has at least 63 moons. • In many categories, Jupit ...
... Jupiter • Jupiter is by far the most massive planet in the solar system (it contains about 2/3 of the solar system mass outside the Sun). • It has the largest radius of any solar system planet, and it rotates the fastest (once every 10 hours). • It has at least 63 moons. • In many categories, Jupit ...
12_LectureOutlines
... Not a gas giant like other outer planets. Has an icy composition like a comet. Has a very elliptical, inclined orbit. Pluto has more in common with comets than with the eight major planets • Its orbit around the sun is mathematically chaotic on time scales of 100million years. ...
... Not a gas giant like other outer planets. Has an icy composition like a comet. Has a very elliptical, inclined orbit. Pluto has more in common with comets than with the eight major planets • Its orbit around the sun is mathematically chaotic on time scales of 100million years. ...
Ch 12 slides - UNLV Physics
... •! Most have been discovered very recently so little is known about them. •! NASA’s New Horizons mission will study Pluto and a few other Kuiper Belt object in a planned flyby. ...
... •! Most have been discovered very recently so little is known about them. •! NASA’s New Horizons mission will study Pluto and a few other Kuiper Belt object in a planned flyby. ...
UT 3.4 - Homeschool Academy
... of Jupiter’s atmosphere is its Great Red Spot, a storm that is larger than Earth. Jupiter probably has a dense core of rock and iron at its center, surrounded by a thick mantle of liquid hydrogen and helium. Galileo discovered Jupiter’s four largest moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Saturn ...
... of Jupiter’s atmosphere is its Great Red Spot, a storm that is larger than Earth. Jupiter probably has a dense core of rock and iron at its center, surrounded by a thick mantle of liquid hydrogen and helium. Galileo discovered Jupiter’s four largest moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Saturn ...
Planets Which of the following lists the outer planets
... E. Satellite measurements of water in the polar caps. ...
... E. Satellite measurements of water in the polar caps. ...
A new deҰnition would add 102 planets to our solar system
... Pluto, Earth and Mars” to talk about glacial processes on their surfaces, or “a planetwide haze layer” when discussing the moon Titan's atmosphere. “As planetary scientists we feel like the situation got really badly mangled back in 2006,” Stern said. “It was time somebody write this all down … and ...
... Pluto, Earth and Mars” to talk about glacial processes on their surfaces, or “a planetwide haze layer” when discussing the moon Titan's atmosphere. “As planetary scientists we feel like the situation got really badly mangled back in 2006,” Stern said. “It was time somebody write this all down … and ...
Solar System Bead Distance Activity
... Solar System beads may be put into a plastic zip lock bag for each student. Also, for younger students, a measured marking grid can be put on a tabletop so the students can mark their measured distances and then tie off the beads. If the pre-marking method is used, extra distance must be added to ea ...
... Solar System beads may be put into a plastic zip lock bag for each student. Also, for younger students, a measured marking grid can be put on a tabletop so the students can mark their measured distances and then tie off the beads. If the pre-marking method is used, extra distance must be added to ea ...
Chapter 23 Touring Our Solar System Section 1 The Solar System
... Simply stated, a gas molecule can escape from a planet if it reaches a speed known as the escape velocity. For Earth, this velocity is 11 kilometers per second. Any material, including a rocket, must reach this speed before it can escape Earth’s gravity and go into space. A comparatively warm body w ...
... Simply stated, a gas molecule can escape from a planet if it reaches a speed known as the escape velocity. For Earth, this velocity is 11 kilometers per second. Any material, including a rocket, must reach this speed before it can escape Earth’s gravity and go into space. A comparatively warm body w ...
Chapter 23 Touring Our Solar System
... Simply stated, a gas molecule can escape from a planet if it reaches a speed known as the escape velocity. For Earth, this velocity is 11 kilometers per second. Any material, including a rocket, must reach this speed before it can escape Earth’s gravity and go into space. A comparatively warm body w ...
... Simply stated, a gas molecule can escape from a planet if it reaches a speed known as the escape velocity. For Earth, this velocity is 11 kilometers per second. Any material, including a rocket, must reach this speed before it can escape Earth’s gravity and go into space. A comparatively warm body w ...
Moons, Pluto, and Rings
... Their small difference in size and internal heating may have led to the significant differences between the two moons now The gravity of Jupiter may be responsible for Ganymede’s continuing geological activity It is close enough to Jupiter that tidal forces from Jupiter may have occasionally heated ...
... Their small difference in size and internal heating may have led to the significant differences between the two moons now The gravity of Jupiter may be responsible for Ganymede’s continuing geological activity It is close enough to Jupiter that tidal forces from Jupiter may have occasionally heated ...
SOLAR SYSTEM - Heart of the Valley Astronomers
... Jupiter has an oblateness of about 6%, which means that the equatorial diameter is 6% greater than the polar diameter. ...
... Jupiter has an oblateness of about 6%, which means that the equatorial diameter is 6% greater than the polar diameter. ...
Written by Abby Cessna Eight Planets The eight planets in our Solar
... The inner planets and outer planets are characterized by different features. The inner planets are called terrestrial planets because they have a solid surface and are similar to Earth. These planets are composed of heavy metal, such as iron and nickel and have few or no moons. Mercury, the smallest ...
... The inner planets and outer planets are characterized by different features. The inner planets are called terrestrial planets because they have a solid surface and are similar to Earth. These planets are composed of heavy metal, such as iron and nickel and have few or no moons. Mercury, the smallest ...
Solar System Basics PPT
... orbit of Mimas, are continually exchanging orbits with one another in a "waltz" -- they are called the coorbital satellites. ...
... orbit of Mimas, are continually exchanging orbits with one another in a "waltz" -- they are called the coorbital satellites. ...
Planets
... This idea is named the Nebular Hypothesis. It was first presented by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant in the late 1700’s. Such clouds have been observed around stars other than our sun (e.g., Beta Pictoris) ...
... This idea is named the Nebular Hypothesis. It was first presented by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant in the late 1700’s. Such clouds have been observed around stars other than our sun (e.g., Beta Pictoris) ...
Document
... Though the Galileo spacecraft could not go close to Io for most of its mission, for fear of getting ruined because of Jupiter’s strong radiation field in that region, it could obtain high-quality images of Io and its volcanoes (see figure (a)). ...
... Though the Galileo spacecraft could not go close to Io for most of its mission, for fear of getting ruined because of Jupiter’s strong radiation field in that region, it could obtain high-quality images of Io and its volcanoes (see figure (a)). ...
Saturn`s Moons The Moons of Uranus and Neptune
... Until the Space Age, Saturn was thought to have nine moons, all discovered before 1900. Recently, new moons have been discovered through telescopes and with spacecraft. At least 31 moons orbit Saturn outside of, or within, its rings. The largest and most interesting is Titan. Titan is the second-lar ...
... Until the Space Age, Saturn was thought to have nine moons, all discovered before 1900. Recently, new moons have been discovered through telescopes and with spacecraft. At least 31 moons orbit Saturn outside of, or within, its rings. The largest and most interesting is Titan. Titan is the second-lar ...
Physics 111 Exam 2 Fall 2016 Multiple Choice. Choose the one
... 13) When we see a region of a planet that is not as heavily cratered as other regions, we conclude that A) the surface in the region is older than the surface in more heavily cratered regions. B) the surface in the region is younger than the surface in more heavily cratered regions. C) there is litt ...
... 13) When we see a region of a planet that is not as heavily cratered as other regions, we conclude that A) the surface in the region is older than the surface in more heavily cratered regions. B) the surface in the region is younger than the surface in more heavily cratered regions. C) there is litt ...
a) Mars b) Mercury c) Earth d) Neptune What is the fifth planet from
... Play Space Race to practice identifying and correctly ordering the eight planets in our solar system. Attach the two Space Race pages together so that all eight planets are lined up. The goal of this game is to be the fastest player to fill up their solar system. Players take turns spinning the Spac ...
... Play Space Race to practice identifying and correctly ordering the eight planets in our solar system. Attach the two Space Race pages together so that all eight planets are lined up. The goal of this game is to be the fastest player to fill up their solar system. Players take turns spinning the Spac ...
Asteroids, meteorites, and comets
... The Kuiper Belt The outer edge of our Solar System is not empty. There are many, many huge spheres of ice and rock out near Pluto's orbit. Astronomers call this huge group of planetoids "Kuiper Belt Objects", or "KBOs" for short. The Kuiper Belt is a bit like the asteroid belt, but much farther from ...
... The Kuiper Belt The outer edge of our Solar System is not empty. There are many, many huge spheres of ice and rock out near Pluto's orbit. Astronomers call this huge group of planetoids "Kuiper Belt Objects", or "KBOs" for short. The Kuiper Belt is a bit like the asteroid belt, but much farther from ...
Phys 214. Planets and Life
... that there are patches of very high radar reflection near the poles The icy regions are believed to be covered to a depth of only a few meters, and contain about 1014–1015 kg of ice. By comparison, the Antarctic ice sheet on Earth has a mass of about 4 x 1018 kg, and Mars’ south polar cap contains a ...
... that there are patches of very high radar reflection near the poles The icy regions are believed to be covered to a depth of only a few meters, and contain about 1014–1015 kg of ice. By comparison, the Antarctic ice sheet on Earth has a mass of about 4 x 1018 kg, and Mars’ south polar cap contains a ...
October 2011 - Newbury Astronomical Society
... Jupiter has many moons and more are being discovered all the time, more than 60 so far. Many are small and may be captured asteroids but four are large and easy to see in a small telescope. Galileo was the first person to have been credited with observing Jupiter using a telescope and discovered the ...
... Jupiter has many moons and more are being discovered all the time, more than 60 so far. Many are small and may be captured asteroids but four are large and easy to see in a small telescope. Galileo was the first person to have been credited with observing Jupiter using a telescope and discovered the ...
4 The Outer Planets
... The second-largest planet in the solar system is Saturn. The Voyager probes showed that Saturn, like Jupiter, has a thick atmosphere made up mainly of hydrogen and helium. Saturn’s atmosphere also contains clouds and storms, but they are less dramatic than those on Jupiter. Saturn is the only planet ...
... The second-largest planet in the solar system is Saturn. The Voyager probes showed that Saturn, like Jupiter, has a thick atmosphere made up mainly of hydrogen and helium. Saturn’s atmosphere also contains clouds and storms, but they are less dramatic than those on Jupiter. Saturn is the only planet ...
Space Science - Discovery Education
... What are the names of Jupiter’s two moons, and what is unique about each one? Answer: Io’s surface is covered with active volcanoes. Europa is extremely cold and has an icy crust. ...
... What are the names of Jupiter’s two moons, and what is unique about each one? Answer: Io’s surface is covered with active volcanoes. Europa is extremely cold and has an icy crust. ...
Exploration of Jupiter
The exploration of Jupiter has been conducted via close observations by automated spacecraft. It began with the arrival of Pioneer 10 into the Jovian system in 1973, and, as of 2014, has continued with seven further spacecraft missions. All of these missions were undertaken by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and all but one have been flybys that take detailed observations without the probe landing or entering orbit. These probes make Jupiter the most visited of the Solar System's outer planets as all missions to the outer Solar System have used Jupiter flybys to reduce fuel requirements and travel time. Plans for more missions to the Jovian system are under development, none of which are scheduled to arrive at the planet before 2016. Sending a craft to Jupiter entails many technical difficulties, especially due to the probes' large fuel requirements and the effects of the planet's harsh radiation environment.The first spacecraft to visit Jupiter was Pioneer 10 in 1973, followed a year later by Pioneer 11. Aside from taking the first close-up pictures of the planet, the probes discovered its magnetosphere and its largely fluid interior. The Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes visited the planet in 1979, and studied its moons and the ring system, discovering the volcanic activity of Io and the presence of water ice on the surface of Europa. Ulysses further studied Jupiter's magnetosphere in 1992 and then again in 2000. The Cassini probe approached the planet in 2000 and took very detailed images of its atmosphere. The New Horizons spacecraft passed by Jupiter in 2007 and made improved measurements of its and its satellites' parameters.The Galileo spacecraft is the only one to have entered orbit around Jupiter, arriving in 1995 and studying the planet until 2003. During this period Galileo gathered a large amount of information about the Jovian system, making close approaches to all of the four large Galilean moons and finding evidence for thin atmospheres on three of them, as well as the possibility of liquid water beneath their surfaces. It also discovered a magnetic field around Ganymede. As it approached Jupiter, it also witnessed the impact of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9. In December 1995, it sent an atmospheric probe into the Jovian atmosphere, so far the only craft to do so.Future probes planned by NASA include the Juno spacecraft, launched in 2011, which will enter a polar orbit around Jupiter to determine whether it has a rocky core. The European Space Agency selected the L1-class JUICE mission in 2012 as part of its Cosmic Vision programme to explore three of Jupiter's Galilean moons, with a possible Ganymede lander provided by Roscosmos. JUICE is proposed to be launched in 2022. Some NASA administrators have even speculated as to the possibility of human exploration of Jupiter, but such missions are not considered feasible with current technology; such as radiation protection.