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Exploring Our Solar System - with Stuart Eves

The Royal Institution via YouTube

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This talk surveys the solar system and uses spacecraft observations to explore unresolved questions about planetary surfaces, atmospheres, formation, and evolution.

Syllabus

Intro
Mariner 10 at Mercury
Messenger's multispectral sensors
Possible hydrogen geysers on Mercury
The Surface of Venus
Magellan
Venus without clouds
Venus' Surface
Vulcanism on Venus
Viking
Terrain on Mars
Mars Avalanches
Curiosity Rover
Mount Sharp
Unexplained minerals?
Methane Concentrations on Mars?
Did Mars once have an ocean?
Occator Crater
Mountains on Ceres
Galileo's Stuck Antenna
Galileo Probe Impact Point
Juno Juno's primary objective is to collect data to study the formation and
Juno Image Of Jupiter's South Pole
Saturn by Cassini
Strange Hexagon at Saturn
Voyager 2
Uranus and its Epsilon Ring
Neptune
New Horizons Mission to Pluto
Pluto in false colour
Nitrogen Glaciers
Pluto - Surface Close-Up
Sunset on Pluto

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