EAS206- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 40 pages long!)
16 Feb 2018
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Magellan radar images, bright = rough and dark = smooth surface. Some current or future missions: moon, chandrayaan-2 (india; orbiter, lander, rover, chang"e (china; relay orbiter, lander, rover, mars. Our solar system: planets: [mercury - venus - earth - mars] - [jupiter - saturn - uranus - neptune, dwarf planets: cores - pluto - 2003 ub313 - oort cloud. Gas giants (outer planets): relatively large planets that have deep atmospheres and no solid surfaces; may have liquid or rocky cores; have rings of particles around them, and many icy/rocky satellites. Jupiter, saturn, uranus, neptune: jupiter, largest planet (0. 13% of solar system mass, colourful bands of h, he, ammonia clouds, active weather, 4 large moons, same or larger than earth"s moon! Neptune"s orbit: some have orbits that cross the inner planets where they become visible (eg. halley, Hale-bopp: sources in the kuiper belt and oort cloud, ex.
