ASTRONOMY 3: Introductory Astronomy: The Solar System

Winter 2012

Lecture 11
Jupiter and its Satellites


Discovery and characterization:

Galileo's observations

Space age discoveries

Atmosphere:

Zonal winds: rotation plus heating

redspot, hurricanes

composition

aurora and magnetic field

Internal structure

density and temperature distribution

compositional core

convection

Satellites

resonant moons

Io's volcanic activities and tidal heating

Europa's water ice cover

Ganymede's crater chains

Callisto's undifferentiated interior

tenuous rings and small moons