Exam 8: The Jovian Planets: Giants of the Solar System

Alternating zones of rising and sinking gas in Jupiter's atmosphere

Jupiter's darker _ are complex in color and origin, with complex organic molecules including carbon, sulfur, and nitrogen.

Name two space probes to the jovian planets and their destinations.

In brightness, Jupiter is second only to the planet most of the time.

The Galileo probe into Jupiter's atmosphere found more water than expected.

There is a clear relationship between the interior and atmospheric rotation rates of the jovian planets.

Cometary impacts with Jupiter

Studying the magnetospheres of the jovian planets has allowed us to measure their

The only probe into the atmospheres of any jovian planet was launched by

Galileo's early telescopes revealed the four large moons of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn, and its large moon Titan.

All four jovian planets are made primarily of hydrogen and oxygen.

Why was Voyager 2 an extremely efficient and productive probe?

A "gravitational slingshot" enables a spacecraft to

Discuss the roles that ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, and methane play in the appearances of the jovian planets.

The magnetic field tilts of which two bodies are the most unusual?

There is less ammonia in the atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune than in Jupiter or Saturn.

Our most detailed knowledge of Uranus and Neptune comes from

The Great Dark Spot of Neptune is probably just as long- lived as the more famed Great Red Spot of Jupiter; both lie at about the same latitudes, and are about the same size, relative to their planet.

Most of Jupiter's volume is probably in the form of liquid metallic helium.

Methane absorbs red light readily, so we would expect a planet with a mostly methane atmosphere to appear blue.