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Astron - Solar Syst
Astronomy Solar System -- Moon, basic planets, and Galilean Moons
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the density of Pluto? | 2000 kg/m3 |
| What is so strange about Pluto's orbit? | It has an elliptical orbit. Sometimes Pluto is closer to the Sun than is Neptune because of this. |
| What are Pluto's physical properties most like? | The ice moons around the Jovian planets. |
| What is the name of Pluto's moon? | Charon |
| Where are the best images of Pluto and Charon from? | The Hubble Space Center. No Probes have been sent to Pluto yet. |
| Uranus and Neptune have similar what? | Properties |
| What is the name of Uranus' moon? | Miranda |
| What is the name of Neptune's moon? | Triton |
| The Great Red spot is associated with what planet? | Jupiter |
| The Great Dark spot is associated with what planet? | Neptune |
| What planet has helium precipitation? | Saturn |
| What is the largest terrestrial planet? | Earth |
| What is the largest planet in the solar system? | Jupiter |
| What is the energy source of the Galilean moons? | Tidal Interactions |
| Which Galilean moon has oceans of water? | Europa |
| What is the order of Galilean from closest to farthest? | Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto |
| How many Earths fill up Jupiter? | 1000 |
| how many Earth can fit across Jupiter? | 10 |
| Callisto is known for its what? | impact craters and dark surface |
| Ganymede's properties are a mixture of which Galilean moons? | Europa and Callisto |
| Io is known for its what? | sulfur volcanoes |
| What planet has a 90 degree tilt | Uranus |
| What planet has retrograde rotation? | Venus |
| What gives Neptune and Uranus their blue green color? | Methane gas |
| Which solar objects have differential rotation? | gas giants |
| What planet has constant clouds? | Venus |
| What is the largest solar highland? | Aphrodite Terra |
| Where is the Aphrodite Terra found? | Venus |
| What space object has synchronous rotation? | the moon |
| What space object has resonance rotation? | Mercury |
| Has a surface dominated by impact craters? | Moon and Mercury |
| Largest solar mountain? | Olympus Mons |
| Where is Olympus Mons found? | Mars |
| What property does the moon have that mars does not? | Maria |
| Who discovered Uranus? | Herschel |
| Who discovered Neptune? | John Couch Adams and Urbain Leverrier |
| Who observed Neptune? | Johann Galle |
| Cassini Division is associated with what planet? | Saturn |
| What are the terrestrial planets? | Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars |
| S & P waves & Seismic waves are what? | Probes for the interior of the Earth |
| What are scarps? | Huge cliffs on Mercury |
| What planet has no atmosphere? | Mercury |
| What planet has a weak magnetic field? | Mercury |
| What is the Caloris Basin? | a large impact crater |
| Where is the Caloris Basin located? | Mercury |
| What is a jumbled terrain? | unusual hilly formation on mercury |
| What planet has a jumbled terrain? | Mercury |
| What are inter crater plains? | smoothed surface regions |
| What planet has inter crater plains? | Mercury |
| What is the Valles Mariners? | Enormous Valley that runs along the equator of Mars |
| What planet has Polar Icecaps? | Mars Earth can be another possible answer |
| What planet is about 50K cooler than the Earth ? | Mars |
| What planet are the Galilean Moons associated with? | Jupiter |
| What is the only terrestrial planet that has a density that is less than 5000? | Mars |
| What is the approximate density of Mars? | between 3000 and 4000 |
| What terrestrial planets have a density of 5000 or greater? | Mercury, Venus, and Earth |
| How much greater is Venus' atmospheric pressure compared to the Earth? | 100 times greater |
| How much less is Mars' atmospheric pressure compared to the Earth? | 100 times less |
| Which planets have a density less than 3000 kg/m3? | Saturn, Pluto, Uranus, Jupiter, Neptune |
| What is the density of the Moon? | around 3000 kg/m3 |
| Name the probes that are associated with Jupiter? | Voyager I & II and Galileo |
| What are the probes that are associated with Mars? | Viking I & II, |
| What are the rovers associated with Mars? | Spirit, Opportunity, CURIOSITY ROVER! |
| What gives Mars is rust like color? | Iron Oxide |
| What planet's motion is most like the Earth's? | Mars |
| What planet's tilt axis is most like the Earth's? | Mars |
| What orbiting probes are associated with Venus? | Magellan |
| What landed probes are associated with Venus? | Venera I&II |
| What planet has no moons? | Venus |
| What is the largest mountain on Venus? | Maxwell Montes |
| What is the highland on the planet Venus that contains Maxwell montes? | Isthar Terra |
| What probe is associated with Mercury? | Mariner 10 |
| What planet has a surface and interior core very similar to Jupiter's? | Saturn |
| Convection in the mantle? | Earth |
| Plate tectonics? | Earth |
| What is the name of Saturn's moon? | Titan |
| which planet's have iron rich cores? | the terrestrial planets? |
| which of the terrestrial planets have HOT iron rich cores? | Earth, Venus |
| Which of the terrestrial planets have COOL iron rich cores? | Mars and Mercury |
| What is the Earth's atmospheric chemical composition? | Nitrogen-78%, Oxygen- 21% |
| What is Venus' atmospheric chemical composition? | CO2 - 95.3%, the rest is Nitrogen |
| What planet does not have a magnetic field? | Venus |
| What is Mars' atmospheric chemical composition? | CO2 - 95.3% |
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