The Ice Giants Uranus and Neptune are the outermost major planets of our
Solar System. Internally they small rocky cores surrounded by deep,
slushy ice mantles and shallow hydrogen atmospheres, quite unlike the
massive cores and deep metallic hydrogen mantles of Jupiter and Saturn.
This lecture describes their basic properties: the origin of their vivid
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Nov 2007
Lecture 36: Worlds in Comparison - The Terrestrial Planets
Having completed our tour of the Terrestrial Planets, we want to step
back and compare their properties. In particular, we will wi review the
processes that drive the evolution of their surfaces, their interiors,
and their atmospheres. Recorded 2007 Nov 13 in 1000 McPherson Lab o ... Show More
42m 25s
Nov 2007
Lecture 35: The Deserts of Mars
Mars is a cold desert planet with a thin, dry carbon-dioxide atmosphere.
The geology of Mars, however, shows signs of an active past, with
hot-spot volcanism, and tantalizing signs of ancient water flows. While
a cold, dead desert planet today, Mars' past may have been warmer and ... Show More
43m 45s