unit 8 test Flashcards
(42 cards)
copernicus
heliocentric model
brahe
first observatory/ spent 20 years mapping the location of the stars
kepler
3 laws of planetary motion
galileo
first telescope/ jupiters moons
newton
3 laws of motion
all info at space comes frokm
light
3 examples of invissible radiation
radio waves
UV light
x-rays
reflecting telescope
mirrors
refracitng
lenses
radio
radio waves (dishes)
advantage of hubble telescope
allowed astronomers to study radiation that would otherwise be blurred by the atmosphere
mission of the voyager space probes
to fly by in our solar system
first amaercans landed on the moon
apollo 11
highlands
mountanous / light in color
maria
smooth and dark in cololr
rilles
deep narrow valleys
capture theory
earths gravity pulled random space object
simultaneous creation
moon and earth created at the same time
impact theory
large object clrashed into earth and debris became the moon
rotation
spinning on axis
revolution
orbiting an object
moon’s synchronous rotation
earth revolves and rotates 29 1/2 so the same side of the moon always faces earth
how fast is the earth revolving
67000
northern hemisphere is tilted toward the sun
summer