Early Spring Late Spring Late Summer Credits: (all three) NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STSci/AURA) left (taken Sept. 18, 1996) and middle (taken Feb. 25, 1995), P. James (U of Toledo) & S. Lee (U of Colorado) right (taken May 12, 2016), J. Bell (ASU) & M. Wolf (Space Science Institute)
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Q: Why does Venus appear so bright to the naked eye?
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Q: Describe the planet Venus. Attributes like atmosphere, rotation, etc. should be included in your…
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Q: Use Stefan-Boltzmann equation and the definition of albedo to derive the equation that provides the…
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Q: What are two reasons why Mercury's surface gets so cold at night?
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Q: Why does Mercury have lobate scarps but Earth, Venus, and Mars do not?
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Q: Why is infrared radiation emitted from earth A) the earth cannot absorb or emit infrared radiation…
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Q: What evidence do we have that Mars was once much wetter and hotter than it is today?
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Q: The Soviet Venera landers found rocks on Venus that were over 4 billion years old. True False…
A: Venera was a soviet venus mission to study the surface and atmosphere of venus. It investiagted the…
Q: At a given point, venus is 37.5 million miles from the earth. How long does it take for light to…
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Q: The 1919 Red Scare - the craziest year in America Which of the following processes are a result of…
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Q: Which of the following incidents will cause the solar constant of a planet to decrease? Select all…
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Q: What will you notice as you fly over the surface of Venus?
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Q: How will Carbon Dioxide help the Martian atmosphere?
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Q: What is the range of density for the outer planets (in g/cm3)? 1.2 to 5.5 2.2 to 5.5 2.2 to 6.5 3.3…
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Q: Going back to Figures 3 and 4, Mercury’s surface appears very detailed in these photos. Not so for…
A: when the planet is visible, it is positioned at a low altitude where it is the condition of haze and…
Q: Which of the following is NOT best explained by Venus's extreme greenhouse effect? a. its…
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Q: 1. Draw and label a model of Mars and Earth that shows their orbits around the sun. Include their…
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Q: What two factors influence whether gas particles stay or leave a planet's atmosphere? A)…
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Q: The speed of the solar wind is approximately 400 km/s. How many days does the solar wind take to…
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Q: The clouds that surround Venus are so thick that the planet actually absorbs less sunlight than the…
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Q: Which of the following could explain a gradual warming trend in a planet's climate? O A decreasing…
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Q: Differences in surface conditions on Earth and Venus are caused by different surface temperatures.…
A: 1.) The surface of Mercury and Earth are different. Mercury does not have an atmosphere. Which leads…
Q: alculate polar flattening for Mars with polar radius 3376.2 km, and equatorial radius 3396.2 km.
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Q: Calculate the Roche limit of the Earth-Moon system.
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Q: CO2 and planetary warming: understanding Earth’s complicated atmosphere Mars has an atmospheric…
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Q: Earth formed in a swirling disk of matter surrounding the sun. As particles in the disk collected…
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Q: Venus exosphere has a temperature of about 347 K. What is the thermal speed of hydrogen in km/s in…
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Q: Why did Venus suffer from the runaway greenhouse effect but Earth has avoided it so far?
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Q: Why are the atmospheres of Venus and Mars mostly carbon dioxide?
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Q: (not "a booklet question") 12.2. What is the relative ratio of energy received at the top of Mars's…
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Q: Question 2 Consider a planet orbiting its star at some distance. What surface temperature do you…
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Q: According to http://hyperphysics.phy-str.gsu.edu/hbase/solar/venusenv.html, the atmosphere of Venus…
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Figure 9 shows photos of Mars taken by the Hubble Space Telescope during the planet’s spring and summer seasons.
Briefly describe the changes you notice on the planet’s surface.
How do these changes compare to the seasonal changes on Earth?
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- If the cloud layer of Venus is so thick, how is it possible for any sunlight to reach the surface planet theNot including technology and instruments, give 2 reasons why our knowledge of the solar system has increased considerably in the past few years.Astronomers solved this puzzle when they observed a rare transit of Venus in front of the Sun (Figure 5). What could they learn about the planet’s atmosphere from this photo?
- Phobos, one of Mars’ moons, is very slowly spiraling down towards the planet. Do you think that Mars will one day have rings? Explain your reasoning,Why is Mars red?Out of the inner planets in the solar system (Mercury, Venus and Mar) which do you think is the most likely to be colonized? Explain why?