Chapter 18: Worlds of the Outer Solar System
Ice+Rock Core H+He “Atmosphere”
Jupiter-Cassini Movie Mercator Projection
Air circulation for very slowly rotating planet
Jupiter has multiple cloud decks as air rises in low pressure “zones”
Magnetic fields and trapped particles
Satellites orbiting through radiation belts lose particles which become ionized and trapped.
Effects of T (and E) on Atmospheres
Implications of M, r for nebula
The Jovian planets are miniature solar systems
The Roche Limit
When can tides tear a moon apart?
Saturn as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope
Rings are individual particles all orbiting separately
Resonances: Properly timed gravitational “pushes”
Cassini division at 1:2 resonance with Mimas
Jupiter as a miniature solar system
Io, Europa break rules about activity