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Planets study outline Know the general character of the planets: Craters, liquid flow, atmosphere & major components, motion (spin, axis orientation, ...) volcanoes, moons, rings, surface features, possible internal structure. For instance: Planets : Mercury small, cratered, orbit slightly out of plane of ecliptic Venus Cloudy, hot, sulfuric acid/dense CO2 , greenhouse runaway. Slow daily rotation (retrograde : pole inclined almost 180 deg.) Volcano Earth Oxygen in atmosphere, water, volcanoes, tectonics Mars canyon, dry riverbeds, volcanoes (largest in solar system-Olympus Mons), dunes, water ice present, thin atmosphere, cratering Jupiter Bands, storms in atmosphere; largest planet, 4 large moons + more Io volcanoes, small ring system, high wind velocity; Saturn Rings, hazier atmosphere, many moons, Titan: largest moon in solar system, has atmosphere; most flattening of all planets Uranus Pole tipped into plane of ecliptic (90deg), moons still equatorial orbit. Miranda with mixed features. Methane atmosphere Neptune Methane atmosphere (blue), storm spots, several moons, ring arcs Pluto small, irregular rock, moon Charon almost as big. Orbit very elliptical, well out of ecliptic. The characteristics and differences of Terrestrial & Jovian planets are: Describe and define: Asteroids – Comets - Principle of superposition Erosional features : Gravity effectsMode locking or resonance (moon, mercury, Kirkwood gaps) Ring stabilization (shepherding satellites) Plane of ecliptic (with angular momentum conservation) Describe the evidence of the formation of the solar system provided by each of the items listed here. Briefly describe the simplest whole picture which ties these together. Shape of planets Cratering Differentiation – internal, planet/moon systems Orbit, rotation orientation Molten cores Atmospheres – Gravity-Temperature & chemistry, stripping, …