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Outer Solar System Planets / Moons Select the Outer Solar System link to complete this lab. A. Select Jupiter 1. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA01636 . Hit enter View photo Changing Lightning Storm on Jupiter. Q1. What layer of the atmosphere is this lightning in? The water clouds. Q2. How much electricity is produced? as much light energy as 30 million 100 - watt light bulbs burning for one second 2. Select Jupiter from the Image Gallery. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA00832 . Hit enter View photo Mosaic of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. Q3. What is this spot? a 20,000 KM long , huge storm made visible by variations in the composition of the cloud particles . 3. Select Jupiter from the Image Gallery. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA01230 . Hit enter View photo Motion of Jupiter’s Atmospheric Vortices. Q4. Which way do they rotate? Counter clockwise 1 4. Select Jupiter from the Image Gallery.

Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA02584 . Hit enter View photo Eruption at Tyashtar Canter on Io. Q5. What are the white /orange regions on the left side of the photo? The white / orange regions on the left side of the photo are likely plumes of volcanic material ejected from the erupting volcano 5. Select Jupiter from the Image Gallery. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA02567 . Hit enter View photo Giant Lava Flow on Io. Q6. How does this lava flow compare to the eruptions of Kilauea in Hawaii? The eruptions produce lava flows larger than the current eruptions on Earth at Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii . 6 . Select Jupiter from the Image Gallery. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA01403 . Hit enter View photo A Closer Look at Chaos on Europa. Q7. What has happened to the surface of Europa? Irregularly shaped blocks of water ice were formed by the movement of the crust . The blocks were shifted , rotated , and even tipped and partially submerged within a mobile material that was either liquid water , warm mobile ice , or ice and water slush . The surface then froze again into solid , brittle ice . 7. Select Jupiter from the Image Gallery. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA01295 . Hit enter View photo Europa Global Views. Q8. What are the long dark lines? The long dark lines are fractures in the crust . 8. Select Jupiter from the Image Gallery. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA02583 . Hit enter View photo Arbela Sulcus flyover. Select Jupiter from the Image Gallery. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA01620 . Hit enter View photo Perspective view of Bright Ridge in Uruk Sulcus. Q9. How does Ganymede surface appear? The surface has an icy surface that has been broken into many parallel ridges and troughs . 2

9. Select Jupiter from the Image Gallery. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA03456 . Hit enter View photo Global Callisto in Color. Q10. What causes the white markings in the photo? Scientists believe the brighter areas are mainly ice. B. Select Saturn from Image Gallery. 1. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA01380 . Hit enter View photo A View of Saturn’s B Ring Q1. What is the ring composed of? the ring structure is broken up into about 10 times more ringlets . Variations in brightness are due to a combination of differences in ring particle number density and light scattering properties . 2. Select Saturn from the Image Gallery. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA08351 . Hit enter View photo Peeking at Saturn Q2. What is the atmosphere like? The thick , smog - like atmosphere 3. Select Saturn from the Image Gallery. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA09034 . Hit enter View photo Exploring Titan's Surface Q3. What are the main surface features? - The large circular feature near the center of Titan 's disk may be the remnant of a very old impact basin - The mountain ranges to the southeast of the circular feature. - the long dark , linear feature to the northwest of the old impact scar may have resulted from tectonic activity on Titan caused by the energy released when the impact occurred . 4. Select Saturn from the Image Gallery. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA08740 . Hit enter View photo Titan's "Kissing Lakes" Q4. What materials make up the lake's "water"? the lakes likely contain a combination of methane and ethane , not water .

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3 5. Select Saturn from the Image Gallery. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA01968 . Hit enter View photo Saturn’s Moon Mimas. Q5. What large feature does this moon have? Large crater . Impact craters made by the infall of cosmic debris 6. Select Saturn from the Image Gallery. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA02240 . Hit enter View photo Saturn’s moon Rhea. Select Saturn from the Image Gallery. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA01386 . Hit enter View photo High Resolution of Tethys. Q6. What feature dominates the look of both of these moons? The heavily cratered terrain C. Select Uranus from Image Gallery. 1. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA00032 . Hit enter View photo Uranus in True & false Color. Q1. What gives Uranus its blue/green color? Uranus appears blue-green primarily due to the presence of methane in its atmosphere. Methane absorbs red and orange light, allowing blue and green wavelengths to scatter and dominate its coloration. 2. Select Uranus from the Image Gallery. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA01976 . Hit enter View photo Uranus rings. Q2. What is adjacent to the rings that are keeping the rings so narrow? The epsilon ring 3. Select Uranus from the Image Gallery. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA01278 . Hit enter View photo Hubble Tracks Clouds on Uranus. Q3. The rings of Uranus go around what part of the planet? The equator

4 4. Select Uranus from the Image Gallery. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA00042 . Hit enter View photo Miranda- High Resolution Color Picture. Select Uranus from the Image Gallery. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA00140 . Hit enter View photo Miranda Fractures, Grooves and Craters. Q4. What are the major features ? features of different albedos D. Select Neptune from Image Gallery. 1. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA02245 . Hit enter View photo Neptune’s Blue/green Atmosphere. Q1. What is the feature in the center of the atmosphere? The Great Dark Spot 2. Select Neptune from the Image Gallery. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA01996 . Hit enter View photo Neptune - Closest Approach Q2. What goes around Neptune? Broad inner ring inside and faint ring outside 3. Select Neptune from the Image Gallery. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA02208 . Hit enter View photo Triton. Select Neptune from the Image Gallery. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA02213 . Hit enter View photo The Limb of Triton Q3. What seems to be covering the surface of this moon? The colored coating may be a seasonal frost composed of compounds volatile enough to be sublimated at the very low temperatures prevailing near Triton 's surface . Possible compositions of the frost layer include methane . 5

E. Select Dwarf Planets from Image Gallery. 1. Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA19710 . Hit enter View photo the surface of Pluto. Q1. What materials make up the mountains on Pluto? The mountains are probably composed of Pluto 's water - ice " bedrock . Using the Go directly to image (PI XXXXX) box, type in PIA19933 . Hit enter View photo the surface of Pluto. Q2. What four surface features are visible on Pluto’s surface? Mountains, craters, ridges,valleys,valleys 6

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