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Solar System: What’s New? What’s Cool?

Solar System: What’s New? What’s Cool?. Ardis Herrold Grosse Pointe North High School March 2008. MESSENGER at Mercury. First of 3 flybys Next flyby is October 6, 2008 March 2011 is final orbit insertion. Mercury Crater Questions. LRO returns to the Moon Launches October 28, 2008.

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Solar System: What’s New? What’s Cool?

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  1. Solar System:What’s New? What’s Cool? Ardis Herrold Grosse Pointe North High School March 2008

  2. MESSENGER at Mercury • First of 3 flybys • Next flyby is October 6, 2008 • March 2011 is final orbit insertion

  3. Mercury Crater Questions

  4. LRO returns to the MoonLaunches October 28, 2008 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will be in a polar orbit, imaging potential landing sites and searching for deposits of water ice, ilmenite and olivine.

  5. The Moon:Our Next Frontier (Again) • The Moon will be the “next step” in getting humans to Mars. • Ilmenite contains He-3 and represents a potential “gold rush” for nations.

  6. Spirit at Home Plate

  7. Opportunity in Victoria Crater Victoria Crater at Meridiani Planum(TRA_000873_1780) Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Cape St. Mary. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University

  8. Odyssey: Caves on Mars • Seven caves are on the slopes of a volcano • Of interest because they are entrances to the subsurface of Mars Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/USGS

  9. MRO and HiRISE Complex folded terrain shows rock types in false color

  10. Avalanches and Gullies on Mars

  11. Phoenix, MSL 2009 on the rise

  12. DAWN for two asteroids Check out the Dawn Interactives (especially ion propulsion) on the website.

  13. Saturn’s new ring • Discovered between the G and E rings in Sept. 2006. • Now there are 8 - 9 rings, if you include this (the Janus ring) and the Pallene ring.

  14. Earth from Saturn Three views from the same image: Top: Earth to scale in the rings Top right: Earth and Moon magnified Right: Earth’s ocean blues are evident.

  15. Cassini and CiCLOPS

  16. Deep Impact becomes EPOXIComet Hartley 2 • Is attempting to image extrasolar planetary systems • Will encounter Comet Hartley 2 in Oct. 2010

  17. Stardust: Complicated Crystals • Crystals in comet tell the story of the early solar system. • Composed of: Ca, Al, V, Ti, N, Pt, W, Os, Ru, Mo.

  18. Stardust to revisit Comet Tempel 1 • Deep Impact blew the hole, but Stardust will revisit the comet in 2011 to check for changes.

  19. New Horizons Still on track for a Pluto encounter on July 14, 2015. Stay tuned…

  20. Credits • Beatty, Kelly, “Deep Impact’s New Assignments”. Dec. 13, 2007, Sky & Telescope News blog: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/newsblog/12493661.html • CiCLOPS Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations: http://ciclops.org/index.php • Dawn mission: http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/ • EPOXI Mission Overview: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/epoxi/index.html HiRISE: High Resolution Image Science Experiment: http://marsoweb.nas.nasa.gov/HiRISE/ • HiRISE Online Image Viewer: http://marsoweb.nas.nasa.gov/HiRISE/hirise_images/ • Jaggard, Victoria, “First Mars Avalanches Seen in Action”. March 3, 2008, National Geographic News: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080303-mars-avalanche.html • JPL 2001 Mars Odyssey videos: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey/gallery/video/video.html • JPL Multimedia page: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/ • JPL Solar System Simulator: http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/ • Lovett, Richard A. , “Dry Debris, Not Water, Caused Recent Flows on Mars”. March 3, 2008, National Geographic News: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080303-mars-water.html • Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter: http://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov/mission.html

  21. Credits • Mars Exploration Rovers Mission: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html • Marsoweb Landing Sites for 2009 MSL: http://marsoweb.nas.nasa.gov/landingsites/index.html • Mars Student Imaging Project: http://msip.asu.edu/ • Mining and Manufacturing on the Moon: http://aerospacescholars.jsc.nasa.gov/HAS/cirr/em/6/6.cfm • NASA Orbiter Finds Possible Cave Skylights on Mars: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey/newsroom/pressreleases/20070921a.html • NASA Views Landing Site Through Eyes of Future Moon Crew: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/exploration/mmb/moon-20080227.html • New Horizons: NASA’s Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/index.php • Phoenix Mars Lander: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/main/index.html • Philips, Tony, “Blowing a Hole in a Comet, Take 2”. Sept. 26, 2007. Science@NASA:http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/26sep_next.htm • Stardust’s Big Surprise: http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news113.html

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