Exam 9: Moons, Rings, and Plutoids: Small Worlds Among Giants

Like Titan, Triton has a nitrogen atmosphere.

Inside the Roche Limit

In terms of composition and density, the atmosphere of Titan is closer to our own than any other place we have found in the solar system.

Like our Moon and most others, all four large Jovian satellites have one side constantly fixed toward Jupiter as they revolve and rotate.

The processes which produced Ganymede's groove terrain are on- going, according to the latest Galileo images.

How were the rings of Uranus discovered?

The element erupting from the volcanoes of Io is .

The two names most associated with the discovery of Pluto are

It appears that while they are similar in size, Ganymede is much more differentiated than Callisto.

Cassini's probe Huygens returned images of what may have been a shoreline on Saturn.

The erupting geysers of nitrogen gas on Triton

Saturn's rings appear to be brighter and younger than the dirty, dark rings around Uranus and Neptune.

The maria on Ganymede were formed by

Because of its small size, the surface of Pluto was found by New Horizons to be old and geologically dead.

Of the Jovian satellites, which shows the oldest, most cratered surface?

A resonance with Mimas clears out the ring particles from Cassini's Division.

For a moon the same density as its planet, the Roche limit lies at times the radius of its planet.

What statistic below has changed the most in the last decade?

Pluto was named after the Roman god of the dark underworld, and also for _ .

Ganymede is the largest satellite in the solar system.