Geography 2090A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: New Frontiers Program, Galilean Moons, Solar System

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Lecture 9: exploring the outer solar system: post space race (70s, hubble black and white imagery, we use light to get images of planets, everything emits light so we use the emission of light to create a image. Jupiter: pioneer: first spacecraft pioneer 10 and 11, fly by, craft (cid:272)ould pass through the asteroid (cid:271)elt a(cid:374)d jupiter(cid:859)s radiatio(cid:374, were(cid:374)(cid:859)t sure (cid:449)e (cid:272)ould se(cid:374)d through these radiatio(cid:374) (cid:271)elt. Jupiter(cid:859)s (cid:373)ag(cid:374)eti(cid:272) i(cid:374)terfere(cid:374)(cid:272)e is (cid:1005)(cid:1004)(cid:454) that of earths: worried craft would shut down, learned that jupiter was made up of many lines of various gases, also, it had an atmosphere thick enough to have storms. Images were worse then a modern-day backyard telescope. Jupiter system flyby: saturn flyby, got three out of the 4 galilean moons in one shot (probably not important, titan flyby, voyager 2. In 1989 nasa launched from the space shuttle.

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