Astronomy 1021 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Flattening, Oort Cloud, Immanuel Kant
16 Dec 2017
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What does the solar system look like: pretty much all of the planets rotate in the same direction and on the same plane, the sun. Largest and brightest object in our solar system. Temperature and pressure increase with depth: mercury. Desolate, no wind, no rain, no life, no active volcanoes. No air to scatter sun or put colour in the sky, you could see stars on mercury even in the daytime if your back was to the sun. Has three month periods of days" and nights". Shows evidence of past geological activity, such as plains created by ancient lava flows: venus. It rotates on its axis very slowly and in the opposite direction of earth"s rotation. Days and nights very long with sun rising in west. Extreme greenhouse effect turns venus"s surface to. As well the thick atmosphere on the surface with a pressure equal to a kilometer under earth"s ocean: earth.
