AST 2002 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Giant Planet, Ammonium Hydrosulfide, Metallic Hydrogen
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These clouds reflect brown light and red light, producing dark colors of. Jovian planet"s atmosphere: uranus and neptune are so cold that any cloud layers similar to those of jupiter or. Great dark spot: uranus not seems to have more frequent storms probably due to its slow but dramatic change of seasons caused by its extreme axis tilt and 84-year orbit of the. 8. 2: a wealth of worlds: satellites of ice and rock. What kinds of moons orbit the jovian planets: jupiter and saturn have more than 60 known moons, two largest moons are jupiter"s ganymede and saturn"s titan, are larger than. Mercury, while four others, jupiter"s io, europa, and callisto and neptune"s. Io has a surface so young that not a single impact crater has survived: volcanic eruptions in progress as the spacecraft passed by. Io is the most volcanically active world in our ss. Io probably has tectonic activity, because tectonics and volcanism generally go hand in hand.
