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Vocab 27 Chp.
Chapter 29 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Electromagnetic spectrumm | All types of electromagnetic radiation arranged according to wavelength an frequency. |
Refracting telescope | Telescope that uses lenses to focus visible. |
Reflecting telescope | Telescope that uses mirrors to focus visible light |
Interferometry | Process that links separate telescopes so they act as one telescope producing more detailed images as the distance between them increases. |
albedo | Percentage of sunlight that is reflected by the surface of a planet or a satellite such as the Moon. |
highland | Light-colored, mountainous heavily cratered area of the moon composed mostly of lunar breccias. |
maria | Dark-colored smooth plains on the Moon surface. |
impact crater | Crater formed when space material impacted on Moon's surface. |
ejecta | Material that falls back to the lunar surface after being blasted out by the impact of the space object. |
ray | Long trail of ejecta that radiates outward from a moon crater. |
rille | Valley Like structure that meanders across some regions of the moon's maria. |
regolith | Layer of loose ground up rock on the lunar surface. |
ecliptic plane | Plane of Earth's orbit around the Sun. |
solstice | The sun is overhead at its farthest distance either north or south of the equator |
equinox | Time of year during which Earth's axis does not point directly toward the sun;; both hemispheres receive exactly 12 hours of sunlight and the Sun is directly overhead at the equator |
synchronous rotation | The state at which the moons orbital and rotational periods are equal. |
solar eclipse | When the moonpasses between earth and the sun and the moon casts a shadow on earth blocking earth's view of the sun can be partial or total |
perigee | closest point in the moon's elliptical orbit to Earth. |
apogee | Farthest point in the Moon's elliptical orbit to Earth. |
lunar eclipse | When Earth passes between the Sun and the Moon and Earth's shadow falls on the Moon occurs only during a full Moon. |