What is a Planet
... •Mars’s surface is covered in steep valleys, craters and large volcanoes. •Mars’s contains the solar systems’ largest volcano- Olympus Mons (larger than Colorado!) •Mars does show evidence of ancient water flows in water created valleys. But now the surface is too cold for water in a liquid state. • ...
... •Mars’s surface is covered in steep valleys, craters and large volcanoes. •Mars’s contains the solar systems’ largest volcano- Olympus Mons (larger than Colorado!) •Mars does show evidence of ancient water flows in water created valleys. But now the surface is too cold for water in a liquid state. • ...
Integrated Science
... accretion” in the order of events that form planetesimals and protoplanets? A) Planetesimals grew into protoplanets B) Planetesimals became large enough to exert gravity on nearby objects C) Ball of gas and dust collided and grew ...
... accretion” in the order of events that form planetesimals and protoplanets? A) Planetesimals grew into protoplanets B) Planetesimals became large enough to exert gravity on nearby objects C) Ball of gas and dust collided and grew ...
Classifying the Solar System
... Scientists classify planets in many different ways. Today you work for NASA and will use information you gather from the Solar System Data Sheet to make decisions on how you will classify the planets. ...
... Scientists classify planets in many different ways. Today you work for NASA and will use information you gather from the Solar System Data Sheet to make decisions on how you will classify the planets. ...
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... Now tell students that they will represent their group’s object by choosing appropriate items from different “planet stations.” One station has a variety of round objects – they can look for something to represent their planet’s size, on the same scale where a grape represents Earth. The second stat ...
... Now tell students that they will represent their group’s object by choosing appropriate items from different “planet stations.” One station has a variety of round objects – they can look for something to represent their planet’s size, on the same scale where a grape represents Earth. The second stat ...
Planetary Sciences
... Name your 3 favorite things that you learned in ASTR 8850 this year. 1. Io torus happens 2. more than 700,000 asteroids have a < 5.2 AU 3. Antarctica is weighted down by ice on top of it 4. Mercury is in a 3:2 spin:orbit resonance with the Sun 5. on the equator during the day, Mars can be as warm as ...
... Name your 3 favorite things that you learned in ASTR 8850 this year. 1. Io torus happens 2. more than 700,000 asteroids have a < 5.2 AU 3. Antarctica is weighted down by ice on top of it 4. Mercury is in a 3:2 spin:orbit resonance with the Sun 5. on the equator during the day, Mars can be as warm as ...
Chapter 1 Questions
... d. Mars’s northern hemisphere is composed of rolling volcanic planes, similar to the Moon’s planes, which are much less cratered than the southern hemisphere. e. While Mars today is dry and desolate, there are hints in features such a runoff channels, that there was once running water. f. Mars does ...
... d. Mars’s northern hemisphere is composed of rolling volcanic planes, similar to the Moon’s planes, which are much less cratered than the southern hemisphere. e. While Mars today is dry and desolate, there are hints in features such a runoff channels, that there was once running water. f. Mars does ...
Scale
... planets in our solar system. Voyager II, traveling at nearly 50,000 mph took 12 years to reach the planet Neptune! This gives you an idea of just how far our planets are from each other. However, we can make a scale model of the distances between the planets using almost anything as our reference. I ...
... planets in our solar system. Voyager II, traveling at nearly 50,000 mph took 12 years to reach the planet Neptune! This gives you an idea of just how far our planets are from each other. However, we can make a scale model of the distances between the planets using almost anything as our reference. I ...
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... by Cyril Ponnamperuma revealed the presence of 6 amino acids commonly found in protein and 12 that did not occur in terrestrial life. All of these amino acids appeared in both dextrorotatory (right-handed) and laevorotatory (left-handed) forms, suggesting that they were not the result of Earthly con ...
... by Cyril Ponnamperuma revealed the presence of 6 amino acids commonly found in protein and 12 that did not occur in terrestrial life. All of these amino acids appeared in both dextrorotatory (right-handed) and laevorotatory (left-handed) forms, suggesting that they were not the result of Earthly con ...
14mars3s
... Mars must have had a thicker, warmer atmosphere in the past since there is substantial evidence for water flows Early thicker CO2 greenhouse atmosphere ...
... Mars must have had a thicker, warmer atmosphere in the past since there is substantial evidence for water flows Early thicker CO2 greenhouse atmosphere ...
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... smallest planet in the solar system. It is named after a roman god. Mercury is the first planet of our solar system and it is next to the sun. Mercury characteristics it has 2 sides once that is very hot that facing to the sun and one is very cold in facing opposites ways. Mercury, the innermost pla ...
... smallest planet in the solar system. It is named after a roman god. Mercury is the first planet of our solar system and it is next to the sun. Mercury characteristics it has 2 sides once that is very hot that facing to the sun and one is very cold in facing opposites ways. Mercury, the innermost pla ...
lecture01_2014_Intro_to_SS_reduced
... B) Sketch where the Sun sets, relative to buildings, this thu, fri, or sat. Wait 4-10 days. Sketch where the Sun sets again. Turn in both sketches, with time and date of observation. Write three sentences about any change in the position of sunset. Did it change? What direction? By how many degrees ...
... B) Sketch where the Sun sets, relative to buildings, this thu, fri, or sat. Wait 4-10 days. Sketch where the Sun sets again. Turn in both sketches, with time and date of observation. Write three sentences about any change in the position of sunset. Did it change? What direction? By how many degrees ...
The Solar System
... degrees Celsius. Neptune’s gravity is %14 stronger than Earth’s. Neptune has 13 moons. Neptune has the most violent weather in our Solar System. It has a giant storm on it. ...
... degrees Celsius. Neptune’s gravity is %14 stronger than Earth’s. Neptune has 13 moons. Neptune has the most violent weather in our Solar System. It has a giant storm on it. ...
How Was the Solar System Formed?
... forming larger and larger bodies. Eventually they formed the rocky inner planets. These include Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. They are the closest planets to the sun. Farther from the Sun, the temperature was very cold. Water froze into ice. Chunks of ice bumped into each other. Gas and dust were ...
... forming larger and larger bodies. Eventually they formed the rocky inner planets. These include Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. They are the closest planets to the sun. Farther from the Sun, the temperature was very cold. Water froze into ice. Chunks of ice bumped into each other. Gas and dust were ...
Solar System
... 3. Is the gravitational force weak or strong? Justify (look at one specific term of its definition to help answering this question). 4. Is the gravitational force between two massive objects, separated by a certain distance, stronger or weaker if the distance is double? And if so, by which factor? P ...
... 3. Is the gravitational force weak or strong? Justify (look at one specific term of its definition to help answering this question). 4. Is the gravitational force between two massive objects, separated by a certain distance, stronger or weaker if the distance is double? And if so, by which factor? P ...
Creature Adaptations for the Universe
... dioxide, some nitrogen, and a little water vapor. The pressure on Mars is only 1/100th of an atmosphere, yet there are strong winds that kick up the red dust into storms than can cover the entire planet and last for a year or more. The average temperature is a 40-degrees below zero. Most of that wat ...
... dioxide, some nitrogen, and a little water vapor. The pressure on Mars is only 1/100th of an atmosphere, yet there are strong winds that kick up the red dust into storms than can cover the entire planet and last for a year or more. The average temperature is a 40-degrees below zero. Most of that wat ...
How Was the Solar System Formed? Questions
... Eventually they formed the rocky inner planets. These include Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. They are the closest planets to the ...
... Eventually they formed the rocky inner planets. These include Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. They are the closest planets to the ...
Document
... The Sun is a star: a ball of (mainly) hydrogen gas, 700,000 km in radius (about 100 Earth radii) It generates heat and light through nuclear fusion: Surface temperature = 5800K Central temperature = ~15 million K Balance (hydrostatic equilibrium) maintained between pressure and gravity ...
... The Sun is a star: a ball of (mainly) hydrogen gas, 700,000 km in radius (about 100 Earth radii) It generates heat and light through nuclear fusion: Surface temperature = 5800K Central temperature = ~15 million K Balance (hydrostatic equilibrium) maintained between pressure and gravity ...
Planetary Configurations
... - namely that the object with the shorter period has completed one more orbit than the other planet. This equation can be rewritten in a more convenient form as 1/P synodic = 1/Pshorter - 1/Plonger As it happens, outer bodies in our solar system (or in any other system) have longer orbital periods t ...
... - namely that the object with the shorter period has completed one more orbit than the other planet. This equation can be rewritten in a more convenient form as 1/P synodic = 1/Pshorter - 1/Plonger As it happens, outer bodies in our solar system (or in any other system) have longer orbital periods t ...
Ch 27-Planets of Solar System
... • Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune • Formed in colder regions of solar nebula • Retained their lighter elements-helium and hydrogen and ices-water ice, methane ice and ammonia ice • Gas giants-composed mostly of gases, low density and huge • Jupiter is 11 times Earth’s diameter • What about Pluto? – ...
... • Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune • Formed in colder regions of solar nebula • Retained their lighter elements-helium and hydrogen and ices-water ice, methane ice and ammonia ice • Gas giants-composed mostly of gases, low density and huge • Jupiter is 11 times Earth’s diameter • What about Pluto? – ...
slides
... • Nearly identical in size to Earth; surface hidden by clouds • Hellish conditions due to an extreme greenhouse effect: • Even hotter than Mercury: 470°C, day and night ...
... • Nearly identical in size to Earth; surface hidden by clouds • Hellish conditions due to an extreme greenhouse effect: • Even hotter than Mercury: 470°C, day and night ...
4. THE SOLAR SYSTEM 1.1. THE SUN - Ciencias SEK
... We rarely see a comet because its orbit is so eccentric, so elongated, that it takes a lot of time to complete it. For this reason, it have to spend many years (even hundred years) to see a comet again. c) What is an asteroid? And a meteor (or shooting star)? An asteroid is a small celestial body, m ...
... We rarely see a comet because its orbit is so eccentric, so elongated, that it takes a lot of time to complete it. For this reason, it have to spend many years (even hundred years) to see a comet again. c) What is an asteroid? And a meteor (or shooting star)? An asteroid is a small celestial body, m ...
1. Phonetic exercise. Listen to me and repeat after me. Then practice
... brightest object in Earth’s sky, after the Sun, the Moon, and Venus. The Romans named it for their god, Jupiter, because of its prominence in the sky. Jupiter is a ball of gas and has no solid surface. ...
... brightest object in Earth’s sky, after the Sun, the Moon, and Venus. The Romans named it for their god, Jupiter, because of its prominence in the sky. Jupiter is a ball of gas and has no solid surface. ...
Solar System Brochure.notebook
... Ch 3.1 Observing the Solar System p. 7277 • Listen to Ch 3.1 • Geocentric Model: Page 2 ...
... Ch 3.1 Observing the Solar System p. 7277 • Listen to Ch 3.1 • Geocentric Model: Page 2 ...