Fix, Chapter 7.2 (gases) and 15.6 (impacts)
Manicouagan crater: shown and explained
K/T mass extinction: Chicxulub then and now
Buckyballs and noble gases: Was the Permian-Triassic mass extinction impact-related?
Have we found the actual P/T impact crater?
Optional:
More satellite images of terrestrial impact craters
Was Chicxulub really what killed the dinosaurs?
More on Bedout
Why biblical literalism is lousy science
Fix, Chapter 5.5 (tides) and all of 9 (Moon)
Evidence for a Lunar Cataclysm (a.k.a. Late Heavy Bombardment)
Optional:
Moon overview
More general moon links: one and two
Yes, Virginia, the Apollo astronauts really went to the Moon
Fix, Chapter 6.1 - 6.2 (electromagnetic waves and photons)
The giant impact theory of lunar formation
Tides as the cause of synchronous rotation (and here's an animation)
Lunar absorption spectra and a global magma ocean
Fix, Chapter 10.2
How radar works
Radar altimetry and synthetic aperture radar
Terrestrial vs. Venusian topography
Goldilocks links one, two, and three
Optional:
General overview of Venus (click the "Next" button until you reach Mars)
Another look at the greenhouse effect
Evidence for Venus' young surface
In-depth treatment of Venusian volcanoes
Remote sensing and false-color images
Fix, Chapter 11
Thermal emission spectroscopy (TES)
Rovers: their scientific instruments and their discovery of past water in Meridiani Planum
Mars Odyssey finds indirect evidence for subsurface ice
Phoenix Mars finds ice and also clays and calcium carbonate
Optional:
More on Opportunity and past water
Spirit's discovery of silica-rich soil
Martian meteorite ALH 84001: The hypothesis of life in 1996 and 2002
Shockwave: Using neutrons to detect ice near our Moon's poles
Detailed treatment of Mars Odyssey and subsurface ice
Images taken by Mars Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and Mars Express
Fix, Chapter 12
Weather basics on Earth and Jupiter
Liquid metallic hydrogen in Jupiter's interior
Jovian aurorae
Origin and chemical similarity to the Sun
Optional:
The Galileo mission
Another origins page
Fix, Section 14.4
Evidence for a subsurface liquid ocean:
- ice rafts
- possible salt deposits
- induced magnetic field
Life (?) residing on Europa either within surface cracks or else deeper within the ocean
tidal heating
Optional:
Another general overview of Europa
Io and its volcanoes
Gravity assists
Gravity assist animation
Titan overview
Huygens landing
Using radar to detect methane lakes that contain much more liquid hydrocarbons than Earth does
Saturn's rings
Optional:
Parts one, two, three, and four of a Huygens lecture
Cassini Web site
Images of moons: Enceladus, Iapetus, Mimas, Hyperion, and Phoebe
Images of the rings
Fix, Sections 15.2 and 15.3
Meteorite classification (first half of page only)
Vesta viewed with the Hubble telescope
Main-belt asteroid Ida visited by Galileo
NEAR's flyby of main-belt object Mathilde
Near-Earth asteroid Itokawa orbited and (perhaps) sampled by Hayabusa
Radar analysis of Kleopatra
Optional:
More Mathilde images and description, plus a movie of the flyby encounter
NEAR eventually orbited and landed on Eros, one of the largest near-Earth asteroids
NEAR Eros images
Radar analysis of binary near-Earth asteroid 1999 KW4 (and a radio interview)
Fix, Section 15.4
General info on Centaurs, the Kuiper Belt, and the Oort Cloud
Discovery images of the first known Kuiper Belt object
Diagram of Trans-Neptunian objects
2003 UB313 (
Read through "Is this object really a planet?")
Pluto
Optional:
Eris' moon Dysnomia
Sedna
Another perspective on Sedna
Some methods for finding extrasolar planets (turn on your sound)
Transit method (and an animation of the spectrum of an evaporating planet)
Gravitational microlensing
First direct images of exoplanets (?)
Optional:
An almost Earth-sized planet found via gravitational microlensing
Nulling interferometry (and the figure that goes with the article)
Online practice with scientific notation and the metric system
Online practice with rounding off computations (and a full discussion of rounding rules)
Light (including Kirchhoff's laws) and spectral lines
Reflectance spectroscopy
Optional:
The electromagnetic spectrum
Emission and absorption lines
Blackbodies
PHY 101: Previous Links
Written by Chris Magri
URL: http://academic.umf.maine.edu/~magri/phy101/prevLinks.html