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Chapter 9 The Terrestrial Planets

Chapter 9 The Terrestrial Planets. Mercury: The Messenger. Mercury’s temperature range is the most extreme in the solar system. 59 day rotation and lack of an appreciable atmosphere means temperatures vary enormously from one side of the planet to the other.

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Chapter 9 The Terrestrial Planets

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  1. Chapter 9The Terrestrial Planets

  2. Mercury: The Messenger

  3. Mercury’s temperature range is the most extreme in the solar system • 59 day rotation and • lack of an appreciable atmosphere means temperatures vary enormously from one side of the planet to the other. • Temperatures range from -280°F to 660°F

  4. Venus: The Fatal Beauty

  5. Venus: The Fatal Beauty clouds on Venus consists of 96% carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid!

  6. The Temperature of Venus The runaway greenhouse effect heats Venus’s surface to 900oF!

  7. Venus’s Surface: Venera 1981

  8. Venus’s Surface: Radar Mapping Magellan 1990

  9. Mars: The Warrior

  10. Mars’ two moons, Phobos and Deimos, look more like potatoes than spheres

  11. Enormous volcanoes Valles Marineris is many times larger than the Grand Canyon

  12. The Largest Volcano in The Solar System: Olympus Mons

  13. Water on Mars?

  14. Ohio River valley on Earth River channels on Mars Water on Mars?

  15. Spirit and Opportunity 2004

  16. Curiosity lands on Mars, August 5th 2012

  17. Life on Mars? Fossil? Martian meteorite blasted from Mars 15 million years ago and landed in Antarctica 13,000 years ago

  18. Human Exploration of Mars?

  19. Privatization of Space

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