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The Inner Planets
Mercury
Innermost
Cratered surface
No moon
Venus
Active Surface
Retrograde rotation
Greenhouse Effect
Planet Earth
Mars
The Red Planet
Viking 1 & 2
Pathfinder
Olympus Mons
Evidence of Water
Polar Ice Caps
Moons- Phobos and Deimos
Inner Planets
Small
Rocky- terrestrial
Only Earth and Mars have moons
Make-up- more dense elements
Outer Planets
Jupiter
Largest planet
Atmosphere of methane, water and ammonia
Emits more energy than gets from sun
Jupiter’s Ring
Voyager 1 & 2
The Great Red Spot
Huge storm in atmosphere
Galilean Moons
Io, Ganymede, Callisto, Europa
Saturn
Still forming as methane rains from atmosphere
Spectacular Rings
Auroras
Saturn’s Moons- Titan
Uranus
Uranus’ Rings
Miranda
Neptune
The Great Dark Spot
Triton
Retrograde Rotation
Pluto and Charon
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