ASTR 1210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Structure Of The Earth, Asteroid Belt, Outflow Channels

• School: University of Virginia
• Department: Astronomy
• Course: ASTR 1210
• Professor: Murphy Edward

Document Summary

Emphasis on stuff since after last quiz. Things lectures on class, homework assignments, previous quiz, and book, learning catalytics: ex) celestial sphere. Giant planets in the solar system, knowledge from the book. No plans for spacecraft around mercury in the near future. Akatsuki in orbit around venus: doesn"t have radar to penetrate atmosphere. Mars fleet of robots around mars and on the surface of mars: mro high res pictures of surface, odyssey pictures. Comet cg european space agency landed on the surface disappeared on the surface. Asteroid belt dawn: ceres largest asteroid in ss. Saturn u. s. casseni mission, 11 years. Why do we have rovers and what are they doing there: outflow channels. Is there the possibility that life developed elsewhere: liquid water evidence of life. Only know how to find carbon based life forms: dendritic channels looks like rivers on the surface, craters catastrophic floods, floodwaters flow around crater.