The Deep Impact flyby spacecraft (upper L)
... with Comet Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005! Watch for details to follow as the date approaches… ...
... with Comet Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005! Watch for details to follow as the date approaches… ...
Saturn Entry Probe Science Objectives
... Typical Atm-Relative Entry Speeds At the Giant Planets Speeds in km/s; assume “typical” hyperbolic approach V∞ Entry Orbit ...
... Typical Atm-Relative Entry Speeds At the Giant Planets Speeds in km/s; assume “typical” hyperbolic approach V∞ Entry Orbit ...
Comparative Planetology of the Outer Planets A Travel Guide to the
... Saturn radiates ~ 1.8 times the energy received from the sun. Probably heated by liquid helium droplets falling towards center. ...
... Saturn radiates ~ 1.8 times the energy received from the sun. Probably heated by liquid helium droplets falling towards center. ...
Documents A, b, c page 10
... http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Jupiter&Display=Moons Jupiter: Moons The planet Jupiter's four largest moons are called the Galilean satellites, after Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, who observed them in 1610. These large moons, named Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, ar ...
... http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Jupiter&Display=Moons Jupiter: Moons The planet Jupiter's four largest moons are called the Galilean satellites, after Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, who observed them in 1610. These large moons, named Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, ar ...
the April JJMO Newsletter! - John J. McCarthy Observatory
... since the site had already been explored by arover,workshop participants raised concerns on whether revisiting the site would yield additional fundamental scientific discoveries, particularly if the hot spring hypothesis turned out to be incorrect. Pan The Cassini project is heading for a September ...
... since the site had already been explored by arover,workshop participants raised concerns on whether revisiting the site would yield additional fundamental scientific discoveries, particularly if the hot spring hypothesis turned out to be incorrect. Pan The Cassini project is heading for a September ...
Tides, Moons, Rings, and Pluto
... Flight path included gravity assists from Venus and Earth Passed by two asteroids on its way to Jupiter ...
... Flight path included gravity assists from Venus and Earth Passed by two asteroids on its way to Jupiter ...
The jovian moons
... • The 2nd largest moon in the solar system • Larger than both Pluto and Mercury • The only moon in the solar system with a substantial atmosphere • Mostly nitrogen (like Earth!) • Atmospheric pressure = 1.5 x Earth’s • Wouldn’t need a space suit! (cold though…) ...
... • The 2nd largest moon in the solar system • Larger than both Pluto and Mercury • The only moon in the solar system with a substantial atmosphere • Mostly nitrogen (like Earth!) • Atmospheric pressure = 1.5 x Earth’s • Wouldn’t need a space suit! (cold though…) ...
The Solar System
... than it receives from the sun. It’s HOT under that cold atmosphere top • Why? Heat of formation takes a LONG time to dissipate, but mainly its because it is still slowly collapsing, converting gravitational potential energy into heat • You can see the hotter layers in infrared pictures… ...
... than it receives from the sun. It’s HOT under that cold atmosphere top • Why? Heat of formation takes a LONG time to dissipate, but mainly its because it is still slowly collapsing, converting gravitational potential energy into heat • You can see the hotter layers in infrared pictures… ...
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... The original Voyager mission to Jupiter and Saturn sent Voyager-1 to Jupiter on March 5, 1979 and Saturn on November 12, 1980, followed by Voyager-2 to Jupiter on July 9, 1979, and Saturn on August 25, 1981. The two spacecraft’s paths differed in that: Voyager-1’s trajectory was designed to send the ...
... The original Voyager mission to Jupiter and Saturn sent Voyager-1 to Jupiter on March 5, 1979 and Saturn on November 12, 1980, followed by Voyager-2 to Jupiter on July 9, 1979, and Saturn on August 25, 1981. The two spacecraft’s paths differed in that: Voyager-1’s trajectory was designed to send the ...
Lecture 28: The Galilean Moons of Jupiter
... Ganymede and Callisto are old, geologically dead worlds: mostly ice mantles over rocky cores. Innermost Io is tidally melted inside, making it the most volcanically active world in the Solar System. Europa may have liquid water oceans beneath the ice, making it the most promising place to search for ...
... Ganymede and Callisto are old, geologically dead worlds: mostly ice mantles over rocky cores. Innermost Io is tidally melted inside, making it the most volcanically active world in the Solar System. Europa may have liquid water oceans beneath the ice, making it the most promising place to search for ...
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... • For Uranus and Neptune they are offset from the planet centre. For Neptune this could mean the magnetic axis is slowly reversing (as it has done for the Earth in the past). For Uranus the misalignment could be a further result of the past perturbation that caused its dramatic axial tilt. • The fie ...
... • For Uranus and Neptune they are offset from the planet centre. For Neptune this could mean the magnetic axis is slowly reversing (as it has done for the Earth in the past). For Uranus the misalignment could be a further result of the past perturbation that caused its dramatic axial tilt. • The fie ...
A Brief History of Planetary Science
... Atmosphere composed of nitrogen, methane, hydrocarbons and polymers ...
... Atmosphere composed of nitrogen, methane, hydrocarbons and polymers ...
Current and Future Activities in Solar System Exploration
... of Pluto and Charon – Map surface composition of Pluto and Charon – Characterize the neutral atmosphere of Pluto and its escape rate • “NASA desires, if at all possible, …to have a reasonable plan for visiting one or more Kuiper Belt Objects… Objects…during and extended mission.”” mission. – This is ...
... of Pluto and Charon – Map surface composition of Pluto and Charon – Characterize the neutral atmosphere of Pluto and its escape rate • “NASA desires, if at all possible, …to have a reasonable plan for visiting one or more Kuiper Belt Objects… Objects…during and extended mission.”” mission. – This is ...
14. 1 A Travel Guide to the Outer Planets 14.2 Jupiter 14.3 Saturn
... Jupiter and Saturn, usually called "gas giants;' are composed mostly of liquid hydrogen and might instead be called "liquid giants:' Uranus and Neptune contain water in liquid and solid form and therefore are sometimes called "ice giants:' All of the Jovian worlds have large systems of satellites an ...
... Jupiter and Saturn, usually called "gas giants;' are composed mostly of liquid hydrogen and might instead be called "liquid giants:' Uranus and Neptune contain water in liquid and solid form and therefore are sometimes called "ice giants:' All of the Jovian worlds have large systems of satellites an ...
Big Moons in the Outer Solar System
... Cold ! 94 K at the surface. Titan may possess oceans of liquid hydrocarbons, with continents of organic sludge. Conditions possibly like the early Earth, except for temperature. The Huygens probe landed on Titan in January 2005, producing the first image from the surface of a moon other than ...
... Cold ! 94 K at the surface. Titan may possess oceans of liquid hydrocarbons, with continents of organic sludge. Conditions possibly like the early Earth, except for temperature. The Huygens probe landed on Titan in January 2005, producing the first image from the surface of a moon other than ...
Today`s Powerpoint
... It takes 8 minutes for light to travel 1 AU, how long does it take for light to travel from Earth to Jupiter at its closest point to Earth ...
... It takes 8 minutes for light to travel 1 AU, how long does it take for light to travel from Earth to Jupiter at its closest point to Earth ...
Today`s Powerpoint
... Radii range from 1570 km (Europa, slightly smaller than our Moon), to 2630 km (Ganymede - largest moon in Solar System). Orbital periods range from 1.77 days (Io) to 16.7 days (Callisto). The closer to Jupiter, the higher the moon density: from 3.5 g/cm3 (Io) to 1.8 ...
... Radii range from 1570 km (Europa, slightly smaller than our Moon), to 2630 km (Ganymede - largest moon in Solar System). Orbital periods range from 1.77 days (Io) to 16.7 days (Callisto). The closer to Jupiter, the higher the moon density: from 3.5 g/cm3 (Io) to 1.8 ...
Three basic types of asteroids
... reflect about 15 to 20% of the sunlight hitting them. Most of them appear to be primitive and they make up a smaller fraction of the asteroids than the C types. Gaspra and Ida, explored by the Galileo spacecraft on its way to Jupiter, are examples of ...
... reflect about 15 to 20% of the sunlight hitting them. Most of them appear to be primitive and they make up a smaller fraction of the asteroids than the C types. Gaspra and Ida, explored by the Galileo spacecraft on its way to Jupiter, are examples of ...
Missions To Planets In Our
... Dec 1990 and again in Dec 1992. Galileo released an atmospheric probe on July 13, 1995, when the spacecraft was still 85 million kilometers from Jupiter. The probe hit the atmosphere on Dec 7, 1995 and returned valuable data for 58 minutes as it plunged into the Jovian cauldron, indicating an intens ...
... Dec 1990 and again in Dec 1992. Galileo released an atmospheric probe on July 13, 1995, when the spacecraft was still 85 million kilometers from Jupiter. The probe hit the atmosphere on Dec 7, 1995 and returned valuable data for 58 minutes as it plunged into the Jovian cauldron, indicating an intens ...
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... The Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter in 1995 and has been studying the moons from Jupiter orbit ever since ...
... The Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter in 1995 and has been studying the moons from Jupiter orbit ever since ...
Topic: Moons of our Solar System
... 1. Which planets have moons? Do any planets have more than one moon or none at all? Record your findings in the table below. ...
... 1. Which planets have moons? Do any planets have more than one moon or none at all? Record your findings in the table below. ...
The Jovian Planets + Pluto and the TNOs Jupiter 12 of Jupiter`s
... diam. (from angular size and distance) 142,800 km; mass (from 3rd law) 318 x Mearth ...
... diam. (from angular size and distance) 142,800 km; mass (from 3rd law) 318 x Mearth ...
Uranus
... It takes 8 minutes for light to travel 1 AU, how long does it take for light to travel from Earth to Jupiter at its closest point to Earth ...
... It takes 8 minutes for light to travel 1 AU, how long does it take for light to travel from Earth to Jupiter at its closest point to Earth ...
Juno (spacecraft)
Juno is a NASA New Frontiers mission to the planet Jupiter. Juno was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on 5 August 2011 and will arrive on 4 July 2016. The spacecraft is to be placed in a polar orbit to study Jupiter's composition, gravity field, magnetic field, and polar magnetosphere. Juno will also search for clues about how the planet formed, including whether it has a rocky core, the amount of water present within the deep atmosphere, how its mass is distributed, and its deep winds, which can reach speeds of 618 kilometers per hour (384 mph).The spacecraft's name comes from Greco-Roman mythology. The god Jupiter drew a veil of clouds around himself to hide his mischief, but his wife, the goddess Juno, was able to peer through the clouds and see Jupiter's true nature.