Astro Jovian Planets Vocab
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- Spots on jupiter
- Storms
- Spokes
- Dust particles above the rings held in place with static electricity
- Phoebe
- Saturn moon Orbits retrograde so it is probably captured
- Planet with lowest density
- Saturn
- Reasons the Great Red spot never ends
- Never hits land and is trapped between a belt and a zone
- Titan
- Saturn moon Only moon with an atmosphere
- The three people that discovered neptune
- Adams, Leverrier, and Galle
- Rhea
- Saturn moon Wispy terrain
- Roche Limit
- Gravitational boundry around large planets which destoys anything thats moon sized and creates the rings
- Belts
- Darker, cooler, falling, slower
- Iapetus
- Saturn moon One side has a high albedo and the other has a low albedo
- Differential Roatation
- When a planet roatates at different rates
- Triton
- Neptune moon that has geysers of liquid nitrogen spins and orbits retrograde
- Enceladus
- Saturn moon Has highest albedo of .99
- Europa
- Jupiter moon that is the only other place besides earth that has unfrozen water
- Hershel
- Discovered Uranus
- Miranda
- Uranus moon that went inside roche limit and then back out making it frankenstein
- Hyperion
- Saturn moon Chaotic roatation means no axis
- Jupiters moons formation theory
- Coformation because of circular orbits
- Strongest magnetic field
- Jupiter
- Tethys
- Saturn moon Huge impact that takes up 75% of moons surface
- Nereid
- Neptune moon Largest eccentricity of the moons
- io
- Jupiter moon covered in active volcanoes. Most geolocially active in solar system
- Saturns internal heat source
- Helium Rain
- Differential rotation
- Poles rotate faster than equator exists on Uranus
- Jupiters Magnetosphere
- Metallic Hydrogen layer and spinning fast makes very strong magnetic field
- Ionic Slush
- What causes Neptunes magnetosphere
- Shephard Moons
- Orbit just inside or outside the rings keeping it thin and sometimes braiding it
- Stellar Occultation
- How we discovered uranus has rings
- Callisto
- Jupiter moon that has the largest impact structure in the solar system and many impacts
- Gallalaian moons
- io, Europa, Ganynede, Callisto
- Most massive planet
- Jupiter
- Minus
- Saturn moon Looks like a death star
- Most oblate planet
- Saturn
- Ganynede
- Jupiter moon largest in solar system with "groovy terrain"
- Saturn important moons
- Titan, Rhea, Dione, Minas, Enceladus, Iapetus, Phoebe, Hyperion
- How Uranus's rings differ from saturns
- Thinner, have wide gaps, fainter, and a lot less
- Perturbation theory
- When the gravity of one object affects the orbit of another
- Largest planet
- Jupiter
- Planet with most moons
- Jupiter
- Two different bands of clouds on Jupiter
- Zones and Belts
- Co orbital moons
- Moons that share an orbit
- Zones
- Light colored, hotter gas that is rising, moving faster
- Planet with the largest core
- Saturn
- What saturns rings are made of
- A combo of dust, rock and ice pieces
- Uranus and Neptunes magnetospheres are weird because
- They are off center and off Axis
- Fastest Rotation Rate
- Jupiter