Slide 1 - Red Hook Central Schools
... • Uranus’ axis of rotation is tilted almost on its side • Venus rotates backwards (clockwise) • Earth has a very large moon • A few Jovian moons orbit opposite direction from their planet’s rotation ...
... • Uranus’ axis of rotation is tilted almost on its side • Venus rotates backwards (clockwise) • Earth has a very large moon • A few Jovian moons orbit opposite direction from their planet’s rotation ...
ADDITIONAL NOTES THE JOVIAN PLANETS AND SOME OF
... to its orbital plan. The ring system and many of its satellites orbit around its equator. ...
... to its orbital plan. The ring system and many of its satellites orbit around its equator. ...
Answers to Question #`s 6-16 only. What two forces keep the solar
... 8. If inertia were the only force acting on a planet, how would the planet travel? ...
... 8. If inertia were the only force acting on a planet, how would the planet travel? ...
The_Solar_System
... It has thousands of rings. Saturn revolves around the sun once every 29 years. ...
... It has thousands of rings. Saturn revolves around the sun once every 29 years. ...
Current and Future Activities in Solar System Exploration
... asteroid belt to the Kuiper belt) provide a means to gain information about the early solar system and how it has evolved --Origins:: Presence of primitive materials and dynamic --Origins processes provide insight into how the solar system formed --Volatiles:: Bodies rich in water ice and evidence f ...
... asteroid belt to the Kuiper belt) provide a means to gain information about the early solar system and how it has evolved --Origins:: Presence of primitive materials and dynamic --Origins processes provide insight into how the solar system formed --Volatiles:: Bodies rich in water ice and evidence f ...
THE INNER PLANETS
... Today, liquid water cannot exist on Mars for very long. Since Mars’s atmosphere is so thin, liquid water would quickly turn into gas. Much of the water on Mars exists in its polar ice caps. ...
... Today, liquid water cannot exist on Mars for very long. Since Mars’s atmosphere is so thin, liquid water would quickly turn into gas. Much of the water on Mars exists in its polar ice caps. ...
Inner Planets
... Outer Planets (Gas Giants) Jupiter largest planet 63 moons “Great Red Spot” – giant storm on surface fastest rotation has rings ...
... Outer Planets (Gas Giants) Jupiter largest planet 63 moons “Great Red Spot” – giant storm on surface fastest rotation has rings ...
Inner Planets
... Venus second closest to Sun thick atmosphere traps solar energy = greenhouse effect hottest planet – about 470 C Earth’s “sister planet” – similar size slowest rotation Earth 3rd planet from Sun protective atmosphere allows life to flourish water exists as solid, liquid, & gas Mars ...
... Venus second closest to Sun thick atmosphere traps solar energy = greenhouse effect hottest planet – about 470 C Earth’s “sister planet” – similar size slowest rotation Earth 3rd planet from Sun protective atmosphere allows life to flourish water exists as solid, liquid, & gas Mars ...
The Planets
... Has seasons, polar ice caps, volcanoes, and wind storms just like Earth A day is very similar to Earth’s day (24 hours 37 minutes) Has Water (frozen in the polar ice caps) Is a cold, dry, desert Average surface temperature is -55 degrees Celsius Has a thin atmosphere made of 95% carbon dioxide (CO2) ...
... Has seasons, polar ice caps, volcanoes, and wind storms just like Earth A day is very similar to Earth’s day (24 hours 37 minutes) Has Water (frozen in the polar ice caps) Is a cold, dry, desert Average surface temperature is -55 degrees Celsius Has a thin atmosphere made of 95% carbon dioxide (CO2) ...
Chapter 9
... in the solar system with an equatorial diameter of 119,300 kilometers (74,130 miles). Much of what is known about the planet is due to the Voyager explorations in 1980-81. Saturn is visibly flattened at the poles, a result of the very fast rotation of the planet on its axis. Its day is 10 hours, 39 ...
... in the solar system with an equatorial diameter of 119,300 kilometers (74,130 miles). Much of what is known about the planet is due to the Voyager explorations in 1980-81. Saturn is visibly flattened at the poles, a result of the very fast rotation of the planet on its axis. Its day is 10 hours, 39 ...
27.4 Directed Reading Guide
... Original content Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Additions and changes to the original content are the responsibility of the instructor. ...
... Original content Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Additions and changes to the original content are the responsibility of the instructor. ...
The Solar System
... Part of the reason that the storm never goes away is that it never passes over land – on Earth hurricanes lose much of their force as they move over the land ...
... Part of the reason that the storm never goes away is that it never passes over land – on Earth hurricanes lose much of their force as they move over the land ...
Planet Highlights
... • Sometimes its orbit crosses that of Pluto, making it farther away from the sun than Pluto • Visited only once by Voyager • Gas Giant with a Gas surface of hydrogen and helium, and then a rocky, icy core • 13 Moons and faint rings ...
... • Sometimes its orbit crosses that of Pluto, making it farther away from the sun than Pluto • Visited only once by Voyager • Gas Giant with a Gas surface of hydrogen and helium, and then a rocky, icy core • 13 Moons and faint rings ...
The Universe
... background star - second known planet with rings 5 planetary rings discovered Second set discovered by HST in 2005 Composed of very small dust particles Moon System ~27 moons 13 small and in very close orbit Some orbital periods 12-24 hours Collisions may have supplied material for rings Some collis ...
... background star - second known planet with rings 5 planetary rings discovered Second set discovered by HST in 2005 Composed of very small dust particles Moon System ~27 moons 13 small and in very close orbit Some orbital periods 12-24 hours Collisions may have supplied material for rings Some collis ...
The Solar System
... Neptune is often called a twin to Uranus because they are about the same size, mass, and temperature. Neptune’s surface is probably and ocean of water and liquid methane, covering a rocky core. Data was also found to indicate that Neptune has five rings made of dust particles. Neptune also has at le ...
... Neptune is often called a twin to Uranus because they are about the same size, mass, and temperature. Neptune’s surface is probably and ocean of water and liquid methane, covering a rocky core. Data was also found to indicate that Neptune has five rings made of dust particles. Neptune also has at le ...
Chapter 9
... • Deeper still, liquid hydrogen compresses into liquid metallic hydrogen, a material scientists only recently created in tiny high-pressure chambers • An iron rocky core, a few times bigger than the Earth, probably resides at the center ...
... • Deeper still, liquid hydrogen compresses into liquid metallic hydrogen, a material scientists only recently created in tiny high-pressure chambers • An iron rocky core, a few times bigger than the Earth, probably resides at the center ...
Today`s Powerpoint
... - Zones and belts mark a convection cycle. Zones higher up than belts. - Zones were thought to be where warm gas rises, belts where cooled gas sinks. Now less clear after Cassini, which found numerous upwelling white clouds in the dark belts. ...
... - Zones and belts mark a convection cycle. Zones higher up than belts. - Zones were thought to be where warm gas rises, belts where cooled gas sinks. Now less clear after Cassini, which found numerous upwelling white clouds in the dark belts. ...
How do the planets vary in size?
... Answer: Jupiter is the largest planet. Mercury is the smallest planet. ...
... Answer: Jupiter is the largest planet. Mercury is the smallest planet. ...
Contents - davis.k12.ut.us
... (Deimos and Phobos) thought to be captured asteroids.[77] Jupiter Jupiter (5.2 AU), at 318 Earth masses, is 2.5 times the mass of all the other planets put together. It is composed largely of hydrogen and helium. Jupiter's strong internal heat creates a number of semipermanent features in its atmosp ...
... (Deimos and Phobos) thought to be captured asteroids.[77] Jupiter Jupiter (5.2 AU), at 318 Earth masses, is 2.5 times the mass of all the other planets put together. It is composed largely of hydrogen and helium. Jupiter's strong internal heat creates a number of semipermanent features in its atmosp ...
Jovian Planets
... • Herschel had to observe Uranus long enough to be sure it orbited the Sun – no easy task since Uranus’s orbit is 84 years! – obviously he didn’t watch it for its entire orbit, but he watched it long enough (a year or so) to prove that it was orbiting the Sun ...
... • Herschel had to observe Uranus long enough to be sure it orbited the Sun – no easy task since Uranus’s orbit is 84 years! – obviously he didn’t watch it for its entire orbit, but he watched it long enough (a year or so) to prove that it was orbiting the Sun ...
lecture15_2014_giant_planets
... • If Jupiter had 10x its mass, it would have same radius ! Add even more mass, and Jupiter would get smaller ! • Jupiter is as large as a planet can get. • Uranus & Neptune have less mass than Saturn, yet they have higher densities • They must be made of denser material: More Rock & Water ! ...
... • If Jupiter had 10x its mass, it would have same radius ! Add even more mass, and Jupiter would get smaller ! • Jupiter is as large as a planet can get. • Uranus & Neptune have less mass than Saturn, yet they have higher densities • They must be made of denser material: More Rock & Water ! ...
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.