AST101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Meteorology, Spheroid, Ring System
31 May 2016
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Properties of the gas giants compared to earth. Uranus was discoverd by herschel in his sweep of the skies . (1781) Neptune was predicted to exist by leverrier and adams by studying the perturbed motion of uranus. (1846) Pioneer 10, 11 - jupiter and saturn - 1973. Galileo at jupiter (1995-1997) - nished primary mission in. Dec. the orbital tour - about 12 orbits of jupiter with multiple encounters with the moons uses gravitational assists in a complex orbital pattern extended to study europa in detail - galileo europa. Mission (gem) probe released into atmosphere on arrival - sampled atmospheric composition, cloud structure and temperature and pressure variation. Cassini mission to saturn - launched oct. 1997 - arrives. Titan - probe release sample the atmosphere and land on the surface - radar mapping of titan. Spectroscopy spectroscopy of re ected sunlight in the infrared reveals the atmospheric composition.
