Planets Flashcards
(74 cards)
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fastest orbiting
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Mercury
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longest day (2 years)
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Mercury
3
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Caloris Basin (800mi impact crater)
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Mercury
4
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visited by Mariner 10
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Mercury
5
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BepiColombo mission to start in 2025
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Mercury
6
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MESSENGER probe crashed here in 2015
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Mercury
7
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3:2 spin-orbit resonance with the Sun
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Mercury
8
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smallest planet
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Mercury
9
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“Weird Terrain”
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Mercury
10
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hottest planet
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Venus
11
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carbon dioxide atmosphere with possible sulfuric acid clouds
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Venus
12
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visited by Mariner 2
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Venus
13
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pancake domes
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Venus
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mapped by the Magellan probe
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Venus
15
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Ishtar Terra
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Venus
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Maxwell Montes
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Venus
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Aphrodite Terra
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Venus
18
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Alta Regio and Beta Regio volcano clusters
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Venus
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moons are Phobos and Deimos
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Mars
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Olympus Mons (largest in SS)
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Mars
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carbon dioxide atmosphere with water polar caps
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Mars
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Pathfinder mission
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Mars
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Viking probes
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Mars
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red planet
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Mars
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Curiosity rover
Mars
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Giovanni Schiaparelli made sketches of this planet that incorrectly depicted canals
Mars
27
Tharsis Bulge
Mars
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the rocks Barnacle Bill and Yogi were analyzed by the Sojourner rover
Mars
29
equator features the Valles Marineris
Mars
30
Great Red Spot
Jupiter
31
gossamer rings
Jupiter
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the moons Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa discovered by Galileo
Jupiter
33
largest planet
Jupiter
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planet’s gravity creates Kirkwood gaps in the asteroid belt
Jupiter
35
Shoemaker-Levy 9 broke up and collided
Jupiter
36
clouds of this planet are made up of frozen ammonia crystals
Jupiter
37
shortest day and longest year
Jupiter
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a group of exoplanets named for this planet prefixed 'hot'
Jupiter
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gas giant along with Saturn
Jupiter
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A and B rings separated by the Cassini Division
Saturn
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gas giant along with Jupiter
Saturn
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Enke and Keeler Gaps in the A rings
Saturn
43
gaps named for Columbo, Maxwell, and Huygens
Saturn
44
hexagonal storm along the North Pole
Saturn
45
“String of Pearls” storms
Saturn
46
Titan is its largest moon
Saturn
47
moons of Rhea, Enceladus, Mimas, Iapetus
Saturn
48
“Great White Spot”
Saturn
49
retrograde orbit
Uranus
50
coldest atmosphere in the solar system
Uranus
51
42 years of light then 42 years of darkness at the poles
Uranus
52
moons of Oberon, Miranda, Titania, Umbriel and other Shakespeare characters
Uranus
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has extreme axial tilt
Uranus
54
not much known about the surface due to a thick cloud layer
Uranus
55
methane in the atmosphere absorbs red light giving the planet a blue-green hue
Uranus
56
ice giant along with Neptune
Uranus
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ice giant along with Uranus
Neptune
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Great Dark Spot
Neptune
59
highest wind speeds in the solar system
Neptune
60
moons of Triton, Nereid, Proteus
Neptune
61
The Mazomba impact crater
Neptune
62
fast-moving storm named Scooter
Neptune
63
The Wizard's Eye
Neptune
64
location predicted by Urbain Le Verrier
Neptune
65
plutinos and twotinos share orbital resonance with the planet
Neptune
66
outermost rings called the Adams Ring
Neptune
67
arcs of the outer ring named Fraternité, Égalité, and Liberté
Neptune
68
still considered the ninth planet by those who are based
Pluto
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said to be the first Kuiper Belt Object discovered
Pluto
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heart-shaped Tombaugh Regio
Pluto
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moons of Charon, Styx, Nix
Pluto
72
its moon is The Moon
Earth
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a collision with Theia may have created its only satellite
Earth
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Chicxulub crater
Earth
