Earth Sciences 1086F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Pioneer 11, Pioneer 10, Lightning
13 Jan 2020
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Has hurricane-force winds that could swallow the continent of asia. Lightning bolts capable of vaporizing a small city rip open the sky. Swirling vortex of clouds (the great red spot) larger than earth has been raging for at least. Around 67 satellites orbit the planet, but are 4 are of particular interest: Io most volcanically active body in the solar system. Europa has significant liquid water ocean beneath its ice surfaces - ganymede has a water slush ocean beneath a solid ice cover. Callisto a body that apparently never chemically differentiated. It was discovered that jupiter has rings when the voyager 1 spacecraft sent back photos in 1979. The rings are very tenuous and are composed of dust particles that are kicked up as interplanetary meteoroids smash in jupiter"s four small inner satellites (metis, adrastea, Pioneer 10 returned 500 images of jupiter and its satellites family. Pioneer 11 took better pictures and measured jupiter"s intense charged-particle and magnetic field environment.
