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Mercury and Venus

Mercury and Venus. Mercury. Mercury. Messenger of the gods. General Features. Only visible just before or after sunset Smallest by far Fastest moving No atmosphere Looks like our Moon!. Up Close Craters. Caloris Basin. Large impact crater Created shock waves all over the planet!

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Mercury and Venus

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  1. Mercury and Venus

  2. Mercury Mercury Messenger of the gods

  3. General Features • Only visible just before or after sunset • Smallest by far • Fastest moving • No atmosphere • Looks like our Moon!

  4. Up Close Craters

  5. Caloris Basin • Large impact crater • Created shock waves all over the planet! • Weird features on the opposite side of the crater

  6. Opposite side • Wave interference • Weird- unusually hilly!

  7. Scarps of Mercury • Like a shrinking apple • Cooled quickly creating long cliffs

  8. Other information … • Small magnetic field • Temperature range is 1080 degrees! From 800F to -200 F

  9. Venus Goddess of Love and Beauty

  10. General Features • Only Visible before and after sunset • “Morning or Evening Star” • Very bright • Hottest planet • Retrograde rotation

  11. Venus’ Clouds • Thick swirling clouds • Full of concentrated sulfuric acid • Taken by Venus Express- ESA space probe • In Ultraviolet

  12. Russian Space probe

  13. Venus’ surface

  14. Venus Shoebox Topography Lab Directions: • Answer the pre-lab questions, be sure to have a hypothesis before you move on to the activity. • Poke your stick through the holes in the top of the shoe box and record your depth by holding the stick with your fingers as close to the lid as possible. • Measure the distance from the tip of the stick to your fingers. • Graph this • When graph is complete, remove lid and check your drawing. • Answer the post-lab questions.

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  16. Groups of 3-4 • Get supplies • 1 box • 1 skewer • 1 ruler GO!

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