Our Exciting Solar Neighborhood!
... and has one moon named Charon. Scientists voted to call Pluto a dwarf planet because it was really more of a small, round icy object with an orbit that is different from other planets. Astronomers expect that they will find many more dwarf planets in the solar system in the future. Some scientists a ...
... and has one moon named Charon. Scientists voted to call Pluto a dwarf planet because it was really more of a small, round icy object with an orbit that is different from other planets. Astronomers expect that they will find many more dwarf planets in the solar system in the future. Some scientists a ...
EARTH & SPACE SCIENCE
... The orange, gray, blue, and white bands on Jupiter’s surface suggest the presence of organic molecules mixed with ammonia, methane, and water vapor. Jupiter also has lightning storms and thunderstorms that are much larger than those on Earth. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a giant rotating storm – like ...
... The orange, gray, blue, and white bands on Jupiter’s surface suggest the presence of organic molecules mixed with ammonia, methane, and water vapor. Jupiter also has lightning storms and thunderstorms that are much larger than those on Earth. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a giant rotating storm – like ...
Outer Solar System - Effingham County Schools
... Can you name all of the planets in order? Mercury is ...
... Can you name all of the planets in order? Mercury is ...
Space – Homework 1
... task. Space is limited, so select the most important information and present it with zing! Your presentation must include – at least one picture (graphic) Number data – (size, mass, rotation, distance, temperature etc.) Written information – (dates, what something is made of, how and when some ...
... task. Space is limited, so select the most important information and present it with zing! Your presentation must include – at least one picture (graphic) Number data – (size, mass, rotation, distance, temperature etc.) Written information – (dates, what something is made of, how and when some ...
example 2 - space File
... Venus is the second planet from the sun. Venus is named after the roman god of love. Although Venus is around the same size and mass as the earth, Venus' atmosphere is a lot thicker than Earth’s this traps in a lot of heat giving Venus the hottest surface temperature of all the planets. ...
... Venus is the second planet from the sun. Venus is named after the roman god of love. Although Venus is around the same size and mass as the earth, Venus' atmosphere is a lot thicker than Earth’s this traps in a lot of heat giving Venus the hottest surface temperature of all the planets. ...
Jupiter Maddie Hunt
... 46 of them are less than 3 km wide They were all discovered between 1610-2004 Four Biggest moons are called the Galilean moons because he discovered them Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto These are about the same size as Earths moon ...
... 46 of them are less than 3 km wide They were all discovered between 1610-2004 Four Biggest moons are called the Galilean moons because he discovered them Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto These are about the same size as Earths moon ...
Our Solar System
... • Neptune has visual belts of clouds • Interior releases thermal energy to its outer layers. • Use to be the 8th planet after Pluto until 1999. ...
... • Neptune has visual belts of clouds • Interior releases thermal energy to its outer layers. • Use to be the 8th planet after Pluto until 1999. ...
How the Universe Works – Planets Astronomy Name: Date: 1. How
... 7. For a growing planet to become round, it has to become _________________ miles across. Then it has enough gravity to crush it into a sphere. 8. 4.5 billion years ago, about _________________ baby planets circled our sun. 9. Mercury is tiny, bleak, and super _______________...the result of a monst ...
... 7. For a growing planet to become round, it has to become _________________ miles across. Then it has enough gravity to crush it into a sphere. 8. 4.5 billion years ago, about _________________ baby planets circled our sun. 9. Mercury is tiny, bleak, and super _______________...the result of a monst ...
How the Universe Works – Planets
... 7. For a growing planet to become round, it has to become _________________ miles across. Then it has enough gravity to crush it into a sphere. 8. 4.5 billion years ago, about _________________ baby planets circled our sun. 9. Mercury is tiny, bleak, and super _______________...the result of a monst ...
... 7. For a growing planet to become round, it has to become _________________ miles across. Then it has enough gravity to crush it into a sphere. 8. 4.5 billion years ago, about _________________ baby planets circled our sun. 9. Mercury is tiny, bleak, and super _______________...the result of a monst ...
Grade 9 Applied Science – Space
... Our Solar System has eight planets. It also contain a Sun, at least three dwarf planets, over 130 satellites of the planets, and countless comets and asteroids. The planets are grouped into two categories: Inner Planets and Outer Planets. What is the dividing line? In other words, what defines an In ...
... Our Solar System has eight planets. It also contain a Sun, at least three dwarf planets, over 130 satellites of the planets, and countless comets and asteroids. The planets are grouped into two categories: Inner Planets and Outer Planets. What is the dividing line? In other words, what defines an In ...
Lecture Six (Powerpoint format) - FLASH Center for Computational
... Of these, seven are major satellites which are large enough to be spherical. ...
... Of these, seven are major satellites which are large enough to be spherical. ...
The Other Distant Giants Are Kindred Planets with Individual Quirks
... They are made of a higher percentage of water, ammonia, and methane than their larger siblings. The methane absorbs the reds and oranges from sunlight, reflecting blue and green light to back to our eyes to give them their unique blue shades. Deeper inside, hot and dense slushy layers may cover core ...
... They are made of a higher percentage of water, ammonia, and methane than their larger siblings. The methane absorbs the reds and oranges from sunlight, reflecting blue and green light to back to our eyes to give them their unique blue shades. Deeper inside, hot and dense slushy layers may cover core ...
1. Pre and Post test 2. Schedule of the orbits of the planets in our solar
... Pre-Post Test 1. How many planets have been discovered? a) more than 8 b) more than 12 ...
... Pre-Post Test 1. How many planets have been discovered? a) more than 8 b) more than 12 ...
Lec22_2D
... Io is continually stressed by the tides of Jupiter. Its interior is kept entirely molten. Europa feels some tidal stress as well. However, since it is further away, the stress is less. Europa’s interior is probably warm enough to melt ice into liquid water. Ganymede has been thermally stressed ...
... Io is continually stressed by the tides of Jupiter. Its interior is kept entirely molten. Europa feels some tidal stress as well. However, since it is further away, the stress is less. Europa’s interior is probably warm enough to melt ice into liquid water. Ganymede has been thermally stressed ...
Solar System Planet Summary
... MARS: Terrestrial, thin CO2 atmosphere (less than 1/100 atm), cold, polar caps, “started” plate tectonic activity, may have had life in past, about half the size of Earth, Viking Landers, and most recently being explored by Rovers. PHOBOS – captured asteroid (17 mi x 12 mi) DEIMOS – captured asteroi ...
... MARS: Terrestrial, thin CO2 atmosphere (less than 1/100 atm), cold, polar caps, “started” plate tectonic activity, may have had life in past, about half the size of Earth, Viking Landers, and most recently being explored by Rovers. PHOBOS – captured asteroid (17 mi x 12 mi) DEIMOS – captured asteroi ...
The Inner and Outer Planets
... •It needs to be in orbit around the Sun – Yes, so maybe Pluto is a planet. •It needs to have enough gravity to pull itself into a spherical shape – Pluto…check •It needs to have “cleared the neighborhood” of its orbit – Uh oh. Here’s the rule breaker. According to this, Pluto is not a planet. What d ...
... •It needs to be in orbit around the Sun – Yes, so maybe Pluto is a planet. •It needs to have enough gravity to pull itself into a spherical shape – Pluto…check •It needs to have “cleared the neighborhood” of its orbit – Uh oh. Here’s the rule breaker. According to this, Pluto is not a planet. What d ...
How mighty Jupiter could have changed Earth`s habitability
... a strong implication that compact solar systems are how the Earth's orbit behaves over time." less likely to have planets with stable axes, which The model showed that most of Jupiter's locations makes them less likely to be habitable." resulted in little change in Earth's orbit and tilt, That said, ...
... a strong implication that compact solar systems are how the Earth's orbit behaves over time." less likely to have planets with stable axes, which The model showed that most of Jupiter's locations makes them less likely to be habitable." resulted in little change in Earth's orbit and tilt, That said, ...
The Outer Planets
... last for 100s of years (GRS) Largest planet Over 60 moons, most in our solar system ...
... last for 100s of years (GRS) Largest planet Over 60 moons, most in our solar system ...
Planetary Two-Step Reshaped Solar System, Saved Earth?
... lion years the disk’s gas dissipates, and but there are all these ways of moving the planets settle down into stable orbits. planets around early in the solar system’s An inward-then-outward two-step history, when there was a lot going on.” does produce a small Mars. And it proAN EARLY SOLAR SYSTEM ...
... lion years the disk’s gas dissipates, and but there are all these ways of moving the planets settle down into stable orbits. planets around early in the solar system’s An inward-then-outward two-step history, when there was a lot going on.” does produce a small Mars. And it proAN EARLY SOLAR SYSTEM ...
Our Solar System - McEachern High School
... Chunks of rock and metal that orbit around the Sun; Scientists think that they are loose material that never formed into planets. The Main Asteroid Belt is located between Mars and Jupiter. The total mass of all the asteroids combined is less than that of the moon. There are 26 known asteroids large ...
... Chunks of rock and metal that orbit around the Sun; Scientists think that they are loose material that never formed into planets. The Main Asteroid Belt is located between Mars and Jupiter. The total mass of all the asteroids combined is less than that of the moon. There are 26 known asteroids large ...
PLANETS
... participant. The frosting is placed on the waxed paper. 4) Using the knife, put some frosting "glue" on one side of the butterscotch candy, representing the Sun. Place this candy at the center of the plate. 5) Using the same method, have students affix each of the eight planets to its appropriate or ...
... participant. The frosting is placed on the waxed paper. 4) Using the knife, put some frosting "glue" on one side of the butterscotch candy, representing the Sun. Place this candy at the center of the plate. 5) Using the same method, have students affix each of the eight planets to its appropriate or ...
Day-37
... They revolve around their planets in the same direction that they rotate. Almost all are tidally locked, meaning one hemisphere always faces the planet the moon is orbiting. ...
... They revolve around their planets in the same direction that they rotate. Almost all are tidally locked, meaning one hemisphere always faces the planet the moon is orbiting. ...
Planets
... iv. Structure—inner iron +/- sulfur core, rocky mantle, ice crust d) Callisto i. Outermost Galilean moon— ii. slightly smaller than Mercury, 1/3 Mercury’s mass iii. Densely cratered—most densely in solar system iv. composed 40% ice, 60% rock/iron; CO2 atmosphere c. Ring system 1) dark, composed of d ...
... iv. Structure—inner iron +/- sulfur core, rocky mantle, ice crust d) Callisto i. Outermost Galilean moon— ii. slightly smaller than Mercury, 1/3 Mercury’s mass iii. Densely cratered—most densely in solar system iv. composed 40% ice, 60% rock/iron; CO2 atmosphere c. Ring system 1) dark, composed of d ...
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.