Slide 1 - The Planets

Slide 3 - The two primary motions are revolution and rotation. All planets, satellites, and Sun revolve and rotate counterclockwise (except Venus’ rotates clockwise).

Slide 4 - The Terrestrial Planets

• Mercury
• Venus
• Earth (of course)
• Mars

Slide 6 - MercurySmallCratersNo atmosphereDay temp 801 degree FNight temp -279 degree F

Slide 8 - VenusRotates BackwardTemp 864 degree F167 VolcanoesAll volcanoes bigger than HawaiiAtmosphere of CO2Clouds of Sulfuric Acid

Slide 9 - Surface of Venus

Slide 10 - MarsTilted similar to Earth’s tiltCO2 atmosphereLargest Mt in Solar SystemCanyon System (2,500 miles long, 4.5 miles deep)Grand Canyon is 500 miles long, 1 mile deep

Slide 12 - Olympus Mons

Slide 13 - Asteroid BeltBetween Mars and Jupiter

Slide 14 - CeresLargest Asteroid or Dwarf Planet590 miles across

Slide 15 - Jovian Planets

Slide 16 - Jupiter

Slide 17 - Giant Red SpotStorm

Slide 18 - Interior of JupiterRocky CoreMetallic HydrogenLiquid HydrogenHydrogen-Helium Gas

Slide 19 - Jupiter has 65 MoonsTwo are IO and Europa

Slide 20 - IOin True Color400 Volcanoes

Slide 21 - EuropaIcy Surface with liquid water under the surface

Slide 22 - SaturnWinds of 1120 miles per hourLarge and powerful magnetic fieldAuroras

Slide 23 - RingsPieces of ice form the rings

Slide 24 - Interior of SaturnRocky CoreMetallic HydrogenLiquid HydrogenHydrogen Gas

Slide 25 - TitanLarger than MercuryHas an atmosphere of NitrogenClouds of hydrocarbon molecules

Slide 26 - Uranus was discovered in 1781 by Sir William Herschel using a telescope.

Slide 27 - UranusRotates on its side

Slide 28 - Uranus and Neptune’s InteriorDense mixtures of water, ammonia, and methaneIce Giants

Slide 29 - On September 23, 1846 Johann Galle discovered the predicted planet, Neptune.

Slide 30 - NeptuneTilt is similar to Earth thus it has seasonsLarge storms with winds of 1300 mph17 times the size of Earth

Slide 31 - TritonOne of Neptune’s 13 moonsLarger than Pluto

Slide 32 - A tiny perturbation in Neptune’s orbit suggested another unknown planet, Pluto, discovered in 1930.

Slide 33 - PlutoPlane of orbit is tiltedOrbit is very ellipticalCharon is larger than Pluto

Slide 34 - Pluto’s Plane of Orbit

Slide 35 - Charon - Pluto

Slide 36 - Kuiper BeltPlanetesimals left over from the formation of the Solar SystemEris is a large planetesimal outside the Kuiper Belt

Slide 38 - Oort CloudRemains of the original protoplanetary disk

Slide 41 - Homework # 3