Web Assignment 2.

A (Virtual) Tour of (Part of) the Solar System

 

This is an excerpt of the pages 11-14 in the lab manual. Get to the links here, but answer the questions in the lab manual and turn in those pages next week.

 

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/our_solar_system/solar_system.html

http://www.nineplanets.org

 

 

I.  Solar System Overview

This site http://www.troybrophy.com/projects/solarsystem/planetaryscale.html shows the correct relative sizes of the planets. This site http://www.nineplanets.org/overview.html schematically shows the distances among the planets. Note that the top two diagrams are not to the same scale.

 

A more rigorously accurate depiction of the distances among the Sun and planets is here:

 

http://www.troybrophy.com/projects/solarsystem/index.html

 

II.  Venus

7. VenusÕ surface temperature is hotter than MercuryÕs, even though Mercury is much closer to the Sun. What causes the anomalously hot conditions on Venus?

 

8. This oblique view http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/venus/mgn_eistla_regio2.jpg

 

III.  Mars

Other sites needed for this section:

 

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050228.html

 

http://www.exploringmars.com/science/olympus_mons.html

http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/june2000/labeled/

http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/june2000/sp_pit/index.html

http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/E01_E06_sampler2002/nirgal/

http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/8_2002_releases/dustdevil/

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/mars/images/marineris_close_image.html

 

 

 

IV.  Jupiter

 

http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/images/full/jupiter/febgrs.jpg

 

This photo http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/jupiter/jupiter_io.jpg shows the moon Io (EYE-oh) to the right and the shadow of Ganymede to the left.

 

 

V.  Io

Other sites needed for this section:

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00583

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02584

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02550

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02599

  

 

VI.  Europa

Other sites needed for this section:

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01126

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01403

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01127

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00597

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01178

 

(For more Europa images, go to NASA: http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/europa.cfm )

 

 

VII.  Saturn & Titan

Since late 2004, NASAÕs satellite Cassini has studied Saturn, its spectacular rings, and its moons: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/image-details.cfm?imageID=1246

 

 

Other sites needed for this section:

http://www.nineplanets.org/saturn.html

http://www.nineplanets.org/titan.html

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/overview/index.cfm

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/SEMHB881Y3E_0.html