Notes
Outline
The Outer Solar System
The “Gas Giants”
Jupiter – King of the Planets
Hydrostatic Equilibrium – Pressure balance
Giant Interiors
Atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn
Colorful Clouds
Red Spot Movie
Banded Structure of Clouds
Jupiter’s Magnetosphere – Bigger than the Sun
Making Magnetic Fields
Auroral Zones
Saturn
The Cassini Mission to Saturn
Uranus
The Interior of Uranus (and Neptune)
A Very Tilted Pole
Neptune
Clouds and Storms on Neptune
Pluto
Pluto and Charon
What Pluto probably looks like
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