Stargazer Quiz 5: Chapters 9-10 Flashcards
Planets lie roughly in the ___, which marks the path that the sun appears to travel.
Ecliptic
Only Venus, the moon, and the sun shine brighter than _______.
Jupiter
The zones on Jupiter consist of higher altitude clouds made primarily of ______.
Ammonia
The four most visible moons of Jupiter are called the _____ satellites.
Galilean
The red spot ______ time is the time the red spot on Jupiter will be centered best for viewing.
Transit
Jupiter had a nearly ____-year orbital period.
12
Venus is often called “the evening star” or “the morning star” since it dominates the sky when near greatest ______.
Elongation
_____ of Venus happen only twice per century, and the two events are always separated by eight years.
Transits
Saturn is physically about _____ times the diameter of Earth.
Nine
The division or “gap” between the A and B right of Saturn is called the ______ _____.”
Cassini division
One can observe a “ring-less” Saturn when the planet is _____-_____.
Edge-on
Mars only looks good when it is very near ______.
Opposition
The ______ Crater was the landing site for the science lab Curiosity.
Gale
On Mars, the valley ______ often fills up with fog and so appears almost white.
Hellas
Mars has two tiny moons: _______ and ________.
Phobos and Deimos
