a walking tour of the solar system lou mayo, nasa, goddard
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A Walking Tour of the Solar System
Lou Mayo, NASA, Goddard
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How Did the Solar System Form?
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0.4AU 0.7AU 1AU 1.5AU
5AU 10AU 20AU 30AU
-185C/370C 600C -70C /50C -161C/0C
-153C -180C -210C -210C
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Mercury
•Density = 5.4 cm-3 implies a metal-rich interior, perhaps 70% iron-nickel and 30% silicate
•Because of the relatively large density of Mercury, the core must occupy a larger fraction of the planet than is the case for the Earth.
•Mercury is smaller than the Earth, it should have cooled more rapidly and its solid inner core should be an even larger fraction of the radius of the liquid core than is the case for the Earth.
•Day and night side temperatures vary greatly!
•Tenuous oxygen, sodium, helium, and potassium atmosphere is created by solar wind blasting particles off the surface which quickly escape into space
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VenusVenus weak magnetic field is an induced field from direct interaction between the solar wind and the ionosphere.
Equator to pole temperatures vary by only a couple of degrees
Thick CO2 and H2SO4 atmosphere obscures the surface in visible light
The solar wind and high atmospheric temperatures contributed to the almost complete loss of any water.
Size and Mass ~ Earth’s
Magellan Radar Images show evidence for vulcanism
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Earth
WATER
HEAT
ATMOSPHERE
LIFE
MAG FIELD
CIRCULAR ORBIT
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Mars - Predictor of Earth’s Future?• Mars no longer has a dynamo to generate a global magnetic field. Strong localized magnetic fields imbedded in the crust provide some protection for the atmosphere against disassociation and mass loss
• But Mars probably lost most of its atmosphere and oceans from solar wind particle collisions
Dead Volcanos
CO2, H2O Ice caps
River beds
2 Moons
Dust Storms
Thin CO2 atmosphere
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Exploring Mars
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Jupiter and its Moons
Lou Mayo
NASA GSFC
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Io• Orbits within intense Jovian radiation belt • Jovian magnetosphere strips away about 1 ton per second of volcanic gases and other materials. • Causes auroras on Jupiter
• Most volcanic body in Solar Systen• Sulfurous plumes reach over 500 kilometers. • Generates electric current (3M amperes that flows along Jovian magnetic field
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Europa• Must occasionally be resurfaced by tidal warming of its global ocean. • Conditions under ice crust may be suitable for life.
• Completely covered with a frozen ocean 100 kilometers thick. • Few craters are visible. • Surface ice has been resurfaced, fractured, and rearranged in "recent" history.
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•Old, dark and cratered terrain. •Grooved with few craters terrain. •Thick water mantle which may have behaved like the Earth's mantle.•Crust thickened more slowly than Callisto's. •Slightly larger size yields greater heat retention. •Ganymede was closer to Jupiter -- which was very warm initially from the heat of its formation. •May have experienced some tidal heating.•Active geology persisted for the first billion years until the crust thickened to the point that it could no longer be fractured through to the water mantle.
Ganymede
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Callisto• Callisto is heavily cratered
and shows now signs of significant ice volcanism or tectonism on its surface.
• Callisto's crust formed early and thickened quickly.
• Callisto formed farther from Jupiter where the "proto-jovian" nebula was cooler.
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Cassini SaturnMarch 27, 200430 million miles
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Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS)
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Titan
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Latest Cassini Images of Titan
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•Titan’s surface is visible only in certain infrared frequency bands and in radar •SS objects look different in different wavelengths of light
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UranusThe Uranian magnetic field is tilted 60 deg. from its rotation axis
The magnetotail is twisted by the planet's rotation into a long corkscrew shape behind the planet.
•Tipped on its side
•11 Known Rings
•Magnetic Field
•Aurora
•H2, He, CH4, NH3
•15 moons
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NeptuneMagnetic field generated by motions of conductive material (probably water) in its middle layers. Tilted (47 deg)
Auroras occur over wide regions of the planet
700mph winds detected
3 rings - composed of dark material
8 moons (7 + Triton)
H2, He, CH4, NH3
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Pluto
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Comets
Comet tails provided the first evidence for a solar wind
Composed of water and CO2 ice, NH3, silicates, organics
Dust tail
Ion tail
Comet Hale Bopp Originate outside the orbit of Pluto in Kuiper belt and Oort cloud
Likely a prime source of water on Earth and perhaps amino acids
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Heliosphere(Where the solar system ends)