1. 5/5 & 5/6 - 8th Grade Agenda
Learning Objective: Learn about the outer planets
Collect HW: Reading & Notetaking p.246– 248
CST Practice Test
Video: When we left Earth
Textbook Reading: p
HW: Reading & Notetaking p.249– 250

2. Daily Reflection
Prompt: Write 3 questions about the Outer Planets.

3. Mars Atmosphere is 95% carbon dioxide
Large amount of liquid water flowed on the Mar’s surface in the distant past.
There are giant volcanoes
Surface temperature is -140C to 20C

5. Mars Phoenix Lander Landed on May 25th 2008

6. Possible Ice on Mars

7. Photos of Mars from Curiosity Rover (Landed in 2012)

8. What do we know about Jupiter?
5th Planet from the Sun
Largest Planet (300X more massive than Earth)
Many moons (20 + moons)

9. Jupiter’s Storm System

10. Jupiter’s Structure

11. What is the Great Red Spot of Jupiter?
Its like a giant hurricane
This hurricane is bigger than the Earth
Galileo first observed it in 1600s
Its been around for at least 400 years

12. Size of the Earth compared to Jupiter

13. What do we know about Jupiter’s four largest moons?
4 largest moons bigger than our moon
Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto
Io has volcanoes
Europa covered in ice and may have oceans underneath

14. Io’s Volcano

15. Io and Europa

16. Close up of Europa

17. Possible Oceans under Europa