Prelim 3 is next week!

• Mars climate change

• Jupiter and Saturn

• Uranus and Neptune

• Asteroids, comets, impacts

• Pluto, trans-Neptunian region, Kuiper Belt, Oort Cloud

• Outer planet satellites and rings

Kuiper Belt vs. Oort Cloud

http://boojum.as.arizona.edu/~jill/NS102_2006/Lectures/Lecture6/kuiper3.jpg

The Pluto system

Nix and Hydra:discovered in 2005

Charon:discovered in 1978

Pluto:discovered in 1930

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/plutos_moons.html

The best picture we have of Pluto

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/pluto-20100204.html

Dwarf planets are small

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/our_solar_system/dwarf_planets/images/five_dwarfs_earth_luna_big_jpg_image.html

The Galilean moons

From http://www.physast.uga.edu/~jss/1010/ch11/ovhd.html

Europa, Ganymede and Callisto

Image from http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~barnes/ast110_06/gphah.html

Close-up of Europa

Image from http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~barnes/ast110_06/gphah.html

Io’s tidal heating

Images from http://www.physast.uga.edu/~jss/1010/ch11/ovhd.html

Elliptical orbit caused by orbital resonance

Synchronous rotation

Titan

Images from http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=2783, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6851959/, and http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/saturn/moons/images/titan_surface_huygens_ground_color_big_jpg_image.html&edu=high

Enceladus

Images from http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=4023, http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/saturn/moons/images/enceladus_geyser_plumes_pia08386_big_jpg_image.html&nl=2and http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2008/enceladus_flyby.html

Hyperion

Image from http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07761

Hyperion as seen by Voyager 2

Image from http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~ipswich/Miscellaneous/Intro_to_Solar_System/Solar_System.htm

Miranda

Image from http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01490

Miranda: 5km-high scarp (cliff)

Image from http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpegMod/PIA00044_modest.jpg

Miranda: Chevron grooves

Image from http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00038

Triton

Image from http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap991010.html