Uranus
... reflector (it took him over 200 attempts to make it!) – Prior to its discovery, Uranus had been seen, but not recognized as a planet (it had been designated 34 Tauri) ...
... reflector (it took him over 200 attempts to make it!) – Prior to its discovery, Uranus had been seen, but not recognized as a planet (it had been designated 34 Tauri) ...
Moons of the Solar System
... – massive and cold, they can retain light elements like hydrogen and helium – their composition is like that of the stars – the smaller terrestrial planets are the abnormal planets in terms of composition – moons ...
... – massive and cold, they can retain light elements like hydrogen and helium – their composition is like that of the stars – the smaller terrestrial planets are the abnormal planets in terms of composition – moons ...
Why are dense planetary rings only found between 8 and 20 AU?
... distribution of dense rings in our Solar System may arise because icy materials are particularly weak around that temperature. Subject headings: planet-disk interactions, planets and satellites: rings 1. INTRODUCTION ...
... distribution of dense rings in our Solar System may arise because icy materials are particularly weak around that temperature. Subject headings: planet-disk interactions, planets and satellites: rings 1. INTRODUCTION ...
The formation and habitability of terrestrial planets in the presence of
... Grey circles represent the positions of giant planets in each simulation and are not on the same scale as the terrestrial bodies. The eccentricity of each body is shown beneath it by its radial excursion over the course of one orbit. Terrestrial planets do form in the habitable zone in the presence ...
... Grey circles represent the positions of giant planets in each simulation and are not on the same scale as the terrestrial bodies. The eccentricity of each body is shown beneath it by its radial excursion over the course of one orbit. Terrestrial planets do form in the habitable zone in the presence ...
Solar System - Manhasset Schools
... On average, Pluto is more than 3.6 billion miles (5.8 billion kilometers) away from the sun. That is about 40 times as far from the sun as Earth. Pluto orbits the sun in an oval like a racetrack. Because of its oval orbit, Pluto is sometimes closer to the sun than at other times. At its closest poin ...
... On average, Pluto is more than 3.6 billion miles (5.8 billion kilometers) away from the sun. That is about 40 times as far from the sun as Earth. Pluto orbits the sun in an oval like a racetrack. Because of its oval orbit, Pluto is sometimes closer to the sun than at other times. At its closest poin ...
Lect10-1001-10-22-07..
... surfaces of the boulder-sized snowballs (mainly of water ice) that are thought to make up the rings. Evidence from the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer on the Cassini spacecraft indicates that the grain sizes in Saturn’s rings grade from smaller to larger, related to distance from Saturn. g ...
... surfaces of the boulder-sized snowballs (mainly of water ice) that are thought to make up the rings. Evidence from the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer on the Cassini spacecraft indicates that the grain sizes in Saturn’s rings grade from smaller to larger, related to distance from Saturn. g ...
Mission: Possible - MESSENGER Education
... determine the pros and cons for different ways we can explore another world, either by observing from the Earth or by sending a spacecraft to fly by, orbit, or land on the world. In Activity 2, the students plan a complete mission to explore another world in the Solar System. By the end of the lesso ...
... determine the pros and cons for different ways we can explore another world, either by observing from the Earth or by sending a spacecraft to fly by, orbit, or land on the world. In Activity 2, the students plan a complete mission to explore another world in the Solar System. By the end of the lesso ...
Black Rain: The Burial of the Galilean Satellites in Irregular
... is disquieting, and potentially provides evidence that the Nice model is deficient in some manner or even wrong. A way out of this conundrum is to assume collision evolution has strongly affected the SFD of the irregular satellites. Consider that the mutual collision probabilities between irregular ...
... is disquieting, and potentially provides evidence that the Nice model is deficient in some manner or even wrong. A way out of this conundrum is to assume collision evolution has strongly affected the SFD of the irregular satellites. Consider that the mutual collision probabilities between irregular ...
The Solar System as an Exoplanetary System
... 0.23. For the transformed data, the mean is −0.22 and the standard deviation is 1.41. Thus, Jupiter lies at 1.44σ and continues to be somewhat of an outlier, but the trend suggests that this is most likely still due to selection effects. The fact that direct imaging repeatedly reveals planets at sep ...
... 0.23. For the transformed data, the mean is −0.22 and the standard deviation is 1.41. Thus, Jupiter lies at 1.44σ and continues to be somewhat of an outlier, but the trend suggests that this is most likely still due to selection effects. The fact that direct imaging repeatedly reveals planets at sep ...
Uranus Neptune Pluto
... 14. The discoveries of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto all came long after the death of Isaac Newton. How was Newton involved in the discovery of a new planet? a. It was the application of Newtonian gravity to the problem of the orbit of Uranus that led to the discovery of Neptune. b. It was with a refle ...
... 14. The discoveries of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto all came long after the death of Isaac Newton. How was Newton involved in the discovery of a new planet? a. It was the application of Newtonian gravity to the problem of the orbit of Uranus that led to the discovery of Neptune. b. It was with a refle ...
Article PDF - IOPscience
... close to 70 K? The topography of Methone and Pallene are well below what one would expect based on extrapolations from small asteroids like Steins and Itokawa (Thomas et al. 2013), and so it does appear that small objects in orbit around Saturn are weaker than asteroids. Unfortunately, there are no ...
... close to 70 K? The topography of Methone and Pallene are well below what one would expect based on extrapolations from small asteroids like Steins and Itokawa (Thomas et al. 2013), and so it does appear that small objects in orbit around Saturn are weaker than asteroids. Unfortunately, there are no ...
Project Pan-STARRS and the Outer Solar System - UCLA
... First, the observing cadence will be determined largely by fast-moving NearEarth Objects, which must be observed at short intervals in order to provide orbital linkage between separated nights. This means that we will obtain more than enough repeated astrometry of the slow-moving KBOs for their orbi ...
... First, the observing cadence will be determined largely by fast-moving NearEarth Objects, which must be observed at short intervals in order to provide orbital linkage between separated nights. This means that we will obtain more than enough repeated astrometry of the slow-moving KBOs for their orbi ...
Lecture 24: Saturn The Solar System Saturn`s Rings
... •Because Saturn has a lower surface gravity at the cloud level, it’s cloud deck is thicker (200 km) than Jupiter’s (80 km) •This allows us to see the colorful, underlying layers more easily in Jupiter’s atmosphere •The temperature at the cloud tops on Saturn is 97 K •The predicted equilibrium temper ...
... •Because Saturn has a lower surface gravity at the cloud level, it’s cloud deck is thicker (200 km) than Jupiter’s (80 km) •This allows us to see the colorful, underlying layers more easily in Jupiter’s atmosphere •The temperature at the cloud tops on Saturn is 97 K •The predicted equilibrium temper ...
Slide 1
... B.) Orbits sun 165 Earth Years C.) Softest winds in the solar system of 12 mph D.) 4 faint rings. E.) 13+? Moons ...
... B.) Orbits sun 165 Earth Years C.) Softest winds in the solar system of 12 mph D.) 4 faint rings. E.) 13+? Moons ...
20091127131747!Lecture-23-2009-ASTR111-Weigel
... Triton is a frigid, icy world with a young surface and a tenuous atmosphere • Neptune has 13 satellites, one of which (Triton) is comparable in size to our Moon or the Galilean satellites of Jupiter • Triton has a young, icy surface indicative of tectonic activity • The energy for this activity ma ...
... Triton is a frigid, icy world with a young surface and a tenuous atmosphere • Neptune has 13 satellites, one of which (Triton) is comparable in size to our Moon or the Galilean satellites of Jupiter • Triton has a young, icy surface indicative of tectonic activity • The energy for this activity ma ...
Lecture-23-2009-ASTR111-Weigel
... Triton is a frigid, icy world with a young surface and a tenuous atmosphere • Neptune has 13 satellites, one of which (Triton) is comparable in size to our Moon or the Galilean satellites of Jupiter • Triton has a young, icy surface indicative of tectonic activity • The energy for this activity ma ...
... Triton is a frigid, icy world with a young surface and a tenuous atmosphere • Neptune has 13 satellites, one of which (Triton) is comparable in size to our Moon or the Galilean satellites of Jupiter • Triton has a young, icy surface indicative of tectonic activity • The energy for this activity ma ...
The Solar System
... technique for observing solar features. SDO sees the entire disk of the Sun in extremely high spatial and temporal resolution, allowing scientists to zoom in on notable events such as flares, waves, and sunspots. ...
... technique for observing solar features. SDO sees the entire disk of the Sun in extremely high spatial and temporal resolution, allowing scientists to zoom in on notable events such as flares, waves, and sunspots. ...
Jupiter`s Galilean Moons
... • The plane of our solar system lies in these constellations • The plane of our Galaxy is different • Right now, for example, Saturn can be found in the constellation Leo http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/IU/ISTAT/astross/activities/sky_coord2.gif ...
... • The plane of our solar system lies in these constellations • The plane of our Galaxy is different • Right now, for example, Saturn can be found in the constellation Leo http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/IU/ISTAT/astross/activities/sky_coord2.gif ...
The populations of comet-like bodies in the Solar system
... & Duncan 1997). Centaur orbits are typically planet-crossing and have relatively short dynamical lifetimes (∼106 yr). Chiron, which is one of a number of exceptionally large minor bodies with perihelia close to or within the orbit of Saturn, exhibits cometary activity (e.g. Luu & Jewitt 1990) and ev ...
... & Duncan 1997). Centaur orbits are typically planet-crossing and have relatively short dynamical lifetimes (∼106 yr). Chiron, which is one of a number of exceptionally large minor bodies with perihelia close to or within the orbit of Saturn, exhibits cometary activity (e.g. Luu & Jewitt 1990) and ev ...
Jovian Planet Systems
... large tectonic features and few craters (possibly indicating an episode of tidal heating in past). © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. ...
... large tectonic features and few craters (possibly indicating an episode of tidal heating in past). © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. ...
The dynamics of Jupiter and Saturn in the gaseous protoplanetary disk
... in their mutual 2:3 resonance, their outward migration is rather fast. Jupiter increases its orbital radius by ∼40% in 1000 orbits. If this really occurred in the Solar System, Jupiter would have been at some time in the middle of the asteroid belt. The properties of the asteroid belt (in particular ...
... in their mutual 2:3 resonance, their outward migration is rather fast. Jupiter increases its orbital radius by ∼40% in 1000 orbits. If this really occurred in the Solar System, Jupiter would have been at some time in the middle of the asteroid belt. The properties of the asteroid belt (in particular ...
13. Remnants of Rock and Ice: Asteroids, Comets, and Pluto
... • Both its composition and orbit are more similar to Kuiper belt comets than to other planets. Even its size is not that much bigger than other known Kuiper belt comets, and it is smaller than one object that almost certainly once roamed the Kuiper belt – Neptune’s moon Triton. © 2004 Pearson Educat ...
... • Both its composition and orbit are more similar to Kuiper belt comets than to other planets. Even its size is not that much bigger than other known Kuiper belt comets, and it is smaller than one object that almost certainly once roamed the Kuiper belt – Neptune’s moon Triton. © 2004 Pearson Educat ...
NEPTUNE*!
... and Uranus. But here's the funny thing, Neptune is actually more massive than Uranus by about 18%. Since it's smaller but more massive, Neptune is much more dense than Uranus. ...
... and Uranus. But here's the funny thing, Neptune is actually more massive than Uranus by about 18%. Since it's smaller but more massive, Neptune is much more dense than Uranus. ...
The Interior Structure, Composition, and Evolution of Giant Planets
... fits to more recent shock compression data resulting into larger (smaller) compressibility at ∼0.5 (10) Mbar. In this article we call this improved version H-Sesame-K03. Saumon and Guillot (2004) patched the original version at pressures between 100 bar and 0.4 Mbar with another EOS in order to repr ...
... fits to more recent shock compression data resulting into larger (smaller) compressibility at ∼0.5 (10) Mbar. In this article we call this improved version H-Sesame-K03. Saumon and Guillot (2004) patched the original version at pressures between 100 bar and 0.4 Mbar with another EOS in order to repr ...
PPT Format - HubbleSOURCE
... Will their spaceship come in? Most Solar System objects will be explored using only Earth-based resources, until those observations justify new probes sent to explore them in greater detail… ...
... Will their spaceship come in? Most Solar System objects will be explored using only Earth-based resources, until those observations justify new probes sent to explore them in greater detail… ...
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.