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Inner Solar System Planets
Select the Inner Solar System link to complete this lab.
A. Select Mercury 1. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA02943
. Hit enter
View the photo 300 km Long Scarp.
Q1. What caused this feature?
These structures are believed to be formed by the compressive forces due to crustal
shortening.
2. Select Mercury from the Image Gallery.
Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA02438
. Hit enter
View the photo Heavily Cratered Terrain and Smooth Plain.
Q2. These features make Mercury look similar to what other member of the solar system?
The Moon
B. Select Venus from the Image Gallery 1. Venus has three main surface features are volcanoes, highlands and rolling plains
. Identify these three features in the following two photos. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA00093
. Hit enter. View the photo Perspective View Ishta Terra.
Q1. What are the red areas shown in this photo?
High elevations
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2. Select Venus from the Image Gallery.
Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA00159
. Hit enter
View photo Hemisphere View of Venus Centered 180 degrees.
Q2. What is the large red/pink region?
High elevation
Q3. What is the blue/green area?
Low elevation
3. Select Venus from the Image Gallery.
Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA00103
. Hit enter
View photo Venus 3D Perspective View of Lavinia Planitia.
Q4. What is the large central object?
Howe crater
4. Select Venus from the Image Gallery.
Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA00102
. Hit enter
View photo Venus 3D Perspective View of Estla Regio.
Q5. What is the elevated object in the top left of the photo?
Gula mons
5. Select Venus from the Image Gallery.
Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA00268
. Hit enter
View photo Venus 3D Perspective of Latona Corona & Dali Chasma
Q6. What mineral is found on the scrap?
Pyrite
6. Select Venus from the Image Gallery.
Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA00246
. Hit enter
View photo Venus 3D View of Eastern Edge of Alpha Regio.
Q7. What is the cause of these “hills”?
They may be the result of viscous or think eruptions of lava coming from a vent on the relatively level ground, allowing the lava to flow in an even lateral pattern.
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7. Select Venus from the Image Gallery.
Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA00072
. Hit enter
View photo Venus Cloud Patterns (colorized & filtered)
Q8. From what are the clouds made?
Sulfuric acid
C. Select Mars from Image Gallery
1. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA01004
. Hit enter
View photo ASI / MET within color-enhanced panorama.
Select Mars from the Image Gallery.
Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA00979
. Hit enter
View photo Roadrunner Flats
Q1. What is the color of the Martian soil?
Red
2. Select Mars from the Image Gallery.
Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA01466
. Hit enter
View photo Improved MPF 360 degree color Panorama.
Q2. What features and rocks are seen in this photo?
“
Couch”, “Twin Peaks”, Lander petal, “Barnacle Bill”, “Yogi”
3. Select Mars from the Image Gallery.
Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA00407
. Hit enter View photo Global Color View of Mars.
Q3. What is the top feature?
Ice caps
Q4. What is the feature in the center just below the equator?
Galapagos Islands
4. Select Mars from the Image Gallery.
Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA00422
. Hit enter
View photo Valles Marineris.
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Select Mars from the Image Gallery. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA00006
. Hit enter
View photo Oblique View with Altimetry of Valles Marineris.
Q5. What formed this feature?
Erosional collapse and structural activity
5. Select Mars from the Image Gallery.
Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA02844
. Hit enter
View the photo Sediment History Persevered in Gale Crater.
Select Mars from the Image Gallery.
Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA02824
. Hit enter
View the photo Channeled Aprons
Q6. These photos show evidence of what flowed on Mars?
A liquid, most likely water
6. Select Mars from the Image Gallery.
Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA02806
. Hit enter
View photos Major Martian Volcanoes from MOLA
Q7. What is this?
Two views of Olympus Mons
7. Select Mars from the Image Gallery.
Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA01476
. Hit enter
View the photo Olympus Mons.
Q8. How tall and wide is it?
8. Select Mars from the Image Gallery.
Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA00784
. Hit enter
View the photo Clouds over Mars.
Q9. What are the clouds composed of?
Water ice condensed on reddish dust particles 4
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Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA00915
. Hit enter
View the photo Violet Martian Sky
Q10. What size are the particles?
A tenth the size of the Martian dust or one-thousandth the thickness of a human hair
10. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA01334
. Hit enter
View the photo High- Resolution MOC Image of Phobes
Q11. What is the name of the largest crater on Phobes?
Stickney
Q12. What is the size of this crater?
10 kilometers in diameter
D. Select Small Bodies from the Image Gallery
1. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA00333
. Hit enter
View the photo Asteroid Ida and its satellite.
Q1. From what material is this asteroid made?
Rock or metal
2. Select Small Bodies from the Image Gallery
Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA03109
. Hit enter
View photo Hint of Structure.
Q2. What caused the odd features?
The knobs sticking out of the surface near the top are probably remnants of ancient impact craters and the faint grooves along the surface may have formed during a collision between the asteroid and a smaller body.
3. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA15678
. Hit enter
View photo Full view of Vesta.
Q3. How tall is the mountain at the south pole?
More than twice the height of Mount Everest
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