Test #2 Objectives: 1 Flashcards by Ryan McHale | Brainscape

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What’s a Terrestrial Planet?

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Diameters: 3000-8000 miles
Rocky surface

High densities

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What’s a Jovian Planet?

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Diameters: 30,000-90,000 miles
Gaseous

Low densities

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Mercury’s Atmosphere…

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Has none

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On Mercury the Sun Comes…

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Up twice a day

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Mercury Revolution Time…

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88 days

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What is Vulcan?

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The “planet” to explain the Mercury’s orbit

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Two Moonless Planets?

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Mercury and Venus

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Venus’ Rotation is…

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Retrograde, opposite.

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Hottest planet?

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Venus, because of Greenhouse Effect and dense atmosphere

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Microbiological Planetary Engineering

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Making organisms on Earth to make another planet more Earth-like

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Mars is Red, Why?

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Because of the iron and oxygen (rust)

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Most Earth-Like Planet?

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Mars

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Biggest Volcano in the Solar System?

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Olympus Mons on Mars

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Mars’ Moons?

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Phobos and Deimos

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Phobos and Deimos May Be?

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Captured asteroids

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Large Mars Canyon?

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Valles Marineris, 3000 miles long, 4 miles deep.

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Weird Thing about Phobos?

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It revolves faster than Mars

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Weird Thing About Deimos?

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It rises in the West and sets in the East