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 ...
HS The Solar System
... Humans’ view of the solar system has evolved as technology and scientific knowledge have increased. The ancient Greeks identified five of the planets and for many centuries they were the only planets known. Since then, scientists have discovered two more planets, many other solar-system objects and ...
... Humans’ view of the solar system has evolved as technology and scientific knowledge have increased. The ancient Greeks identified five of the planets and for many centuries they were the only planets known. Since then, scientists have discovered two more planets, many other solar-system objects and ...
The Atmosphere of Uranus - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
... general it would be desirable to measure the abundances of all these constituents with an accuracy of 10-~ mole fractions, so as to determine accurately the enrichment of the heavy elements. To determine the structure and dynamics of the atmosphere it will be necessary to measure the temperature as ...
... general it would be desirable to measure the abundances of all these constituents with an accuracy of 10-~ mole fractions, so as to determine accurately the enrichment of the heavy elements. To determine the structure and dynamics of the atmosphere it will be necessary to measure the temperature as ...
Chapter 6 The Outer Solar System © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc.
... • What is special about Titan and other major moons of the solar system? – Titan is only moon with thick atmosphere. – Many other major moons show signs of geological activity. ...
... • What is special about Titan and other major moons of the solar system? – Titan is only moon with thick atmosphere. – Many other major moons show signs of geological activity. ...
Kuiper: A Discovery-class Observatory for Giant Planets, Satellites
... The Kuiper outer solar system observatory will do what no telescope has ever been able to do: observe diverse outer solar system phenomena over long Qme spans – hours, weeks, and years – to learn ...
... The Kuiper outer solar system observatory will do what no telescope has ever been able to do: observe diverse outer solar system phenomena over long Qme spans – hours, weeks, and years – to learn ...
neptune - Robertson County School
... than Earth's Moon and has active volcanoes which erupt like geysers and eject nitrogen frost over the surface. Some of the other moons of Neptune are Nereid, Proteus, Larissa, Despina, Galatea, Thalassa, and Naiad. These moons are much smaller than Triton and, except for Nereid, were not discovered ...
... than Earth's Moon and has active volcanoes which erupt like geysers and eject nitrogen frost over the surface. Some of the other moons of Neptune are Nereid, Proteus, Larissa, Despina, Galatea, Thalassa, and Naiad. These moons are much smaller than Triton and, except for Nereid, were not discovered ...
Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors
... – Most asteroids orbit in a zone between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter called the Asteroid Belt – Ranges 2 - 3.5 A.U. from the Sun. – About 5,000 orbits have been calculated, but 100,000 asteroids may exist. – Orbits are elliptical but nearly circular and near the plane of the ecliptic. – Their orb ...
... – Most asteroids orbit in a zone between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter called the Asteroid Belt – Ranges 2 - 3.5 A.U. from the Sun. – About 5,000 orbits have been calculated, but 100,000 asteroids may exist. – Orbits are elliptical but nearly circular and near the plane of the ecliptic. – Their orb ...
Planetary Ring Systems
... location of clumps within the F rings in the time period between the Voyager 1 encounter (November 2 1980) and voyager 2 encounter (August 6, 1981)” (Ellis D. Miner, Randii R, 2007). Some of the structures couldn’t be explained by the gravitational effects, and additional data from the Cassini Obite ...
... location of clumps within the F rings in the time period between the Voyager 1 encounter (November 2 1980) and voyager 2 encounter (August 6, 1981)” (Ellis D. Miner, Randii R, 2007). Some of the structures couldn’t be explained by the gravitational effects, and additional data from the Cassini Obite ...
Uranus
... elliptical (oval-shaped) orbit, which it completes in 30,685 Earth days, or just over 84 Earth years. As it orbits the sun, Uranus also rotates on its axis, an imaginary line through its center. The planet's interior (ocean and core) takes 17 hours 14 minutes to spin around once on its axis. However ...
... elliptical (oval-shaped) orbit, which it completes in 30,685 Earth days, or just over 84 Earth years. As it orbits the sun, Uranus also rotates on its axis, an imaginary line through its center. The planet's interior (ocean and core) takes 17 hours 14 minutes to spin around once on its axis. However ...
Galileo`s Observation of Neptune 1612-1613
... stars were visible in the constellation of the Pleiades, many more than the nine or so visible to the unaided eye6. Even more astonishing was the report that Jupiter was seen to have four tiny moons in orbit around it. These four moons were discovered between January 10 and January 16 of 16107. Gali ...
... stars were visible in the constellation of the Pleiades, many more than the nine or so visible to the unaided eye6. Even more astonishing was the report that Jupiter was seen to have four tiny moons in orbit around it. These four moons were discovered between January 10 and January 16 of 16107. Gali ...
In Roman mythology Neptune was the god of the Sea. He is known
... Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun and the fourth largest (by size) of the nine planets. Neptune is smaller in size but it's heavier than Uranus. Neptune's blue color is the result of a gas called "methane" in its atmosphere. Like the other gas planets, Neptune has rapid winds trapped in "ban ...
... Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun and the fourth largest (by size) of the nine planets. Neptune is smaller in size but it's heavier than Uranus. Neptune's blue color is the result of a gas called "methane" in its atmosphere. Like the other gas planets, Neptune has rapid winds trapped in "ban ...
Pluto and the Dwarfs - Rappahannock Astronomy Club
... Complaints about the new definition Mostly focus on the third part, “Has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.” All planets, including Earth and even Jupiter, have some smaller objects remaining in their orbits. ● This is sensitive to how you define “cleared the neighbourhood.” The mass remai ...
... Complaints about the new definition Mostly focus on the third part, “Has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.” All planets, including Earth and even Jupiter, have some smaller objects remaining in their orbits. ● This is sensitive to how you define “cleared the neighbourhood.” The mass remai ...
Investigation of evolution of orbits similar to that of (4179) Toutatis
... and 1:1, concentrations of asteroids are observed. These values of semimajor axis have been shown to be stable for small eccentricities by Yoshikawa (1989). On shorter timescales, mean motion resonances can be stable by protecting the asteroid from close approaches: for example, a resonance state w ...
... and 1:1, concentrations of asteroids are observed. These values of semimajor axis have been shown to be stable for small eccentricities by Yoshikawa (1989). On shorter timescales, mean motion resonances can be stable by protecting the asteroid from close approaches: for example, a resonance state w ...
Ch. 11 - Astro1010
... Jupiter is surrounded by belts of charged particles, much like the Van Allen belts but vastly larger Magnetosphere is 30 million km across ...
... Jupiter is surrounded by belts of charged particles, much like the Van Allen belts but vastly larger Magnetosphere is 30 million km across ...
Uranus
... Uranus is the 3rd of the Gas Giant planets. Unlike the other planets of the solar system, Uranus is tilted so far that it essentially orbits the sun on its side, with the axis of its spin nearly pointing at the star. This unusual orientation might be due to a collision with a planet-size body, o ...
... Uranus is the 3rd of the Gas Giant planets. Unlike the other planets of the solar system, Uranus is tilted so far that it essentially orbits the sun on its side, with the axis of its spin nearly pointing at the star. This unusual orientation might be due to a collision with a planet-size body, o ...
Chapter 27 - Rocklin High School
... planets were forming in the outer regions, as shown in Figure 2. Small bodies from which a planet originated in the early stages of formation of the solar system are called planetesimals. Some planetesimals joined together through collisions and through the force of gravity to form larger bodies cal ...
... planets were forming in the outer regions, as shown in Figure 2. Small bodies from which a planet originated in the early stages of formation of the solar system are called planetesimals. Some planetesimals joined together through collisions and through the force of gravity to form larger bodies cal ...
The Solar System: Terrestrials versus Jovians and Planetary Evolution
... Average temperatures on Mars are cooler than on Earth, as you would expect for a planet 50% further from the Sun. With almost no appreciable atmosphere to insulate it, the temperature range (-140◦ C to +20◦ C ) is large - up to 100◦ between night and day at the equator. Mars has been visited by nume ...
... Average temperatures on Mars are cooler than on Earth, as you would expect for a planet 50% further from the Sun. With almost no appreciable atmosphere to insulate it, the temperature range (-140◦ C to +20◦ C ) is large - up to 100◦ between night and day at the equator. Mars has been visited by nume ...
Hubble observations of Ceres and Pluto:
... Canaveral on January 19, 2006. The fastest spaceship ever launched – it is already beyond Mars and the Asteroid Belt, and it has an encounter with Jupiter coming up on February 28, 2007. Not bad for it’s first year of flight, right? But the long haul to Pluto will take another 8 years – yes, the Sol ...
... Canaveral on January 19, 2006. The fastest spaceship ever launched – it is already beyond Mars and the Asteroid Belt, and it has an encounter with Jupiter coming up on February 28, 2007. Not bad for it’s first year of flight, right? But the long haul to Pluto will take another 8 years – yes, the Sol ...
Uranus
... six moons (see below) and perhaps even a ring. For nearly 50 years, Herschel's instrument was the only one with which the moons had been seen. In the 1840s, better instruments and a more favorable position of Uranus in the sky led to sporadic indications of satellites additional to Titania and Obero ...
... six moons (see below) and perhaps even a ring. For nearly 50 years, Herschel's instrument was the only one with which the moons had been seen. In the 1840s, better instruments and a more favorable position of Uranus in the sky led to sporadic indications of satellites additional to Titania and Obero ...
Lecture13.v3 - Lick Observatory
... gravity strongly perturbed the orbits of almost all the asteroids • Most of them got nudged into highly eccentric orbits, from which they either leave the Solar System or head inwards toward the Sun • A fraction of the asteroids headed inwards may have hit the early Earth! Page 26 ...
... gravity strongly perturbed the orbits of almost all the asteroids • Most of them got nudged into highly eccentric orbits, from which they either leave the Solar System or head inwards toward the Sun • A fraction of the asteroids headed inwards may have hit the early Earth! Page 26 ...
Saturn - Kansas City Public Schools
... gradual burn, slowing itself enough that it could be captured by Saturn’s gravity. ...
... gradual burn, slowing itself enough that it could be captured by Saturn’s gravity. ...
cassini, rømer and the velocity of light
... But because one cannot find copies of this report anymore and since it is very short, we thought it opportune to reproduce it here. Selected observations of Jupiter’s satellites made by the Academy during the past five years have displayed a new inequality common to all of these satellites, and whic ...
... But because one cannot find copies of this report anymore and since it is very short, we thought it opportune to reproduce it here. Selected observations of Jupiter’s satellites made by the Academy during the past five years have displayed a new inequality common to all of these satellites, and whic ...
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.