Informações sobre o curso: Learn about the science behind the current exploration of the solar system in this free class. Use principles from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology to understand the latest from Mars, comprehend the outer solar system, ponder planets outside our solar system, and search for habitability in our neighborhood and beyond. This course is generally taught at an advanced level assuming a prior knowledge of undergraduate math and physics, but the majority of the concepts and lectures can be understood without these prerequisites. The quizzes and final exam are designed to make you think critically about the material you have learned rather than to simply make you memorize facts. The class is expected to be challenging but rewarding.
Desenvolvido por: Caltech – Instituto de Tecnologia da CalifórniaCaltech - Instituto de Tecnologia da Califórnia
Ministrado por: Mike Brown, Professor
Planetary Astronomy
| Idioma | English |
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Programa
SEMANA 1
Unit 1: Water on Mars (week 1)
11 vídeos, 1 leitura
- Vídeo: Introduction to Science of the Solar System
- Discussion Prompt: Welcome! Please introduce yourself.
- Vídeo: Lecture 1.01: Early views of Mars
- Discussion Prompt: What's in the sky right now?
- Vídeo: Lecture 1.02: Mars has canals!
- Vídeo: Lecture 1.03: Taking the temperature of Mars
- Vídeo: Lecture 1.04: Mars DOES have water (in the atmosphere)!
- Reading: Note on the next lecture
- Vídeo: Lecture 1.05: Heating and composition of the polar caps
- Vídeo: Lecture 1.06: Let's fly to Mars
- Vídeo: Lecture 1.07: The first missions to Mars
- Vídeo: Lecture 1.08: Water on earth
- Vídeo: Lecture 1.09: Mariner 9 -- Mars had FLOWING water!
- Discussion Prompt: Groundwater sapping or not?
- Vídeo: Lecture 1.10: Viking and the start of modern Martian science
Nota atribuída: Quiz 1
SEMANA 2
Unit 1: Water on Mars (week 2)
10 vídeos
- Vídeo: Lecture 1.11: Craters and surface ages
- Vídeo: Lecture 1.12: Outflow channels
- Vídeo: Lecture 1.13:Valley Networks
- Vídeo: Lecture 1.14: Climate cycles on Mars
- Discussion Prompt: Polar layered terrains?
- Vídeo: Lecture 1.15: Was early Mars warmer and wetter?
- Vídeo: Lecture 1.16: Atmospheric escape
- Vídeo: Lecture 1.17 Martian topography
- Vídeo: Lecture 1.18: Gamma ray spectroscopy and subsurface water
- Vídeo: Lecture 1.19: Glaciers on Mars!
- Vídeo: Lecture 1.20 Origin of low latitude ice
Nota atribuída: Quiz 2
SEMANA 3
Unit 1: Water on Mars (week 3)
10 vídeos, 1 leitura
- Vídeo: Lecture 1.21: Evolution of the interior
- Vídeo: Lecture 1.22: Thermal spectroscopy and mineral identification
- Vídeo: Lecture 1.23: Geology from the Opportunity rover
- Vídeo: Lecture 1.24: Geochemistry from the Opportunity rover
- Vídeo: Lecture 1.25: Introduction to guest lecturers
- Reading: Note on the next lectures
- Vídeo: Lecture 1.26: Mineralogy on Mars, Part 1
- Vídeo: Lecture 1.27: Mineralogy on Mars, Part 2
- Vídeo: Lecture 1.28: Results from the Curiosity Rover, Part 1
- Vídeo: lecture 1.29: Results from the Curiosity Rover, Part 2
- Vídeo: Lecture 1.30: Where was the water on Mars?
- Discussion Prompt: Where was the water on Mars?
Nota atribuída: Quiz 3
SEMANA 4
Unit 2: The insides of giant planets (week 1)
11 vídeos, 1 leitura
- Reading: Note on the next section
- Vídeo: Lecture 2.01: Introduction to Jupiter
- Vídeo: Lecture 2.02: Measuring density
- Discussion Prompt: Transit of Venus!
- Vídeo: Lecture 2.03: Using density
- Vídeo: Lecture 2.04: Hydrostatic equilibrium
- Vídeo: Lecture 2.05: Hydrogen equation of state
- Vídeo: Lecture 2.06: Heat transport
- Vídeo: Lecture 2.07: Theoretical internal structure
- Vídeo: Lecture 2.08: A core from gravity?
- Vídeo: Lecture 2.09: Magnetic fields
- Vídeo: Lecture 2.10: The upper atmosphere and the Galileo probe
- Vídeo: Lecture 2.11: Picture models
Nota atribuída: Quiz 4
SEMANA 5
Unit 2: The insides of giant planets (week 2)
10 vídeos
- Vídeo: Lecture 2.12: Planetesimal formation
- Vídeo: Lecture 2.13: Core formation
- Vídeo: Lecture 2.14: Core-collapse vs. Disk instability
- Discussion Prompt: Core collapse vs. disk instability?
- Vídeo: Lecture 2.15: Saturn and the ice giants
- Vídeo: Lecture 2.16: Discovering hot Jupiters
- Vídeo: Lecture 2.17: Densities of hot Jupiters
- Vídeo: Lecture 2.18: Inflating hot Jupiters
- Vídeo: Lecture 2.19: Kepler and the sub-Neptunes
- Vídeo: Lecture 2.20: Exoplanet spectroscopy
- Vídeo: Lecture 2.21: Juno and future exploration
- Discussion Prompt: Juno results?
Nota atribuída: Quiz 5
SEMANA 6
Unit 3: Big questions from small bodies (week 1)
12 vídeos
- Vídeo: Lecture 3.01: Introduction to the small bodies
- Vídeo: Lecture 3.02: The formation of small bodies
- Vídeo: Lecture 3.03: The formation of terrestrial planets
- Vídeo: Lecture 3.04: The surface density of the solar system
- Vídeo: Lecture 3.05: An ode to comets
- Vídeo: Lecture 3.06: The composition of comets
- Vídeo: Lecture 3.07: Where do comets come from?
- Vídeo: Lecture 3.08: The formation of the Oort cloud
- Vídeo: Lecture 3.09: Meteorites and the beginning of the solar system
- Discussion Prompt: Lead-lead dating
- Vídeo: Lecture 3.10: Types of meteorites: Chondrites
- Vídeo: Lecture 3.11: Types of meteorites: Achondrites
- Vídeo: Lecture 3.12: Asteroids and meteorite delivery
Nota atribuída: Quiz 6
SEMANA 7
Unit 3: Big questions from small bodies (week 2)
9 vídeos
- Vídeo: Lecture 3.13: Asteroid compositions
- Vídeo: Lecture 3.14 : Pictures of asteroids
- Vídeo: Lecture 3.15: Asteroid hazards
- Vídeo: Lecture 3.16: The Kuiper belt
- Vídeo: Lecture 3.17: Properties of dwarf planets
- Vídeo: Lecture 3.18: Dynamical instabilities
- Discussion Prompt: Lucy!
- Vídeo: Lecture 3.19:The Grand Tack
- Vídeo: Lecture 3.20: Planet Nine
- Vídeo: Lecture 3.21: A trip to the Subaru telescope
Nota atribuída: Quiz 7
SEMANA 8
Unit 4: Life in the solar system (week 1)
10 vídeos
- Vídeo: Lecture 4.01: Introduction to life
- Discussion Prompt: Life as we do (or don't) know it
- Vídeo: Lecture 4.02: Photosynthesis
- Vídeo: Lecture 4.03: Water
- Vídeo: Lecture 4.04: Alternative energy sources
- Vídeo: Lecture 4.05: History of life on Earth
- Vídeo: Lecture 4.06: Mars -- The Viking experiement
- Vídeo: Lecture 4.07: Mars -- Microbial hitchhikers
- Vídeo: Lecture 4.08: Mars -- Methane?
- Vídeo: Lecture 4.09: Mars -- Methane!!
- Vídeo: Lecture 4.10: Mars -- a habitable environment
Nota atribuída: Quiz 8
SEMANA 9
Unit 4: Life in the solar system and beyond (week 2)
11 vídeos
- Vídeo: Lecture 4.11: Oceans on Europa
- Vídeo: Lecture 4.11: Energy on Europa
- Vídeo: Lecture 4.12: Exploring Europa
- Discussion Prompt: Europa Clipper!
- Vídeo: Lecture 4.13: Enceladus
- Vídeo: Lecture 4.14: Introduction to Titan
- Vídeo: Lecture 4.15: Weird life on Titan
- Vídeo: Lecture 4.17: Habitable zones
- Vídeo: Lecture 4.18: Detecting exo-life
- Vídeo: Lecture 4.19: Looking around M-dwarfs
- Discussion Prompt: Planets!
- Vídeo: Lecture 4.20: A mission to find life in the solar system
- Vídeo: Lecture 4.21: All good things must come to an end
Nota atribuída: Quiz 9
SEMANA 10
Final exam
4 vídeos, 1 leitura
- Reading: Bonus material
- Vídeo: Bonus: The formation of the moon
- Vídeo: Bonus: What we used to think about Sedna (before we knew about Planet Nine!)
- Vídeo: Bonus: Seasons on Titan
- Vídeo: Bonus: Why Pluto had to die
Nota atribuída: Final exam
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This course is really outstanding. Thank you, Professor Mike. I'm pleased to learn from you.
Great course and superb teaching!
Awesome! Highly recommended to anyone interested in astronomy. Thank you Prof. @plutokiller!
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Amazing! I've enjoyed very much the course and Mike's explanations. He is a great teacher!