Gases and Atmosphere
The main gas in the Earth’s atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
The only planet with plate tectonics.
What is Earth?
The three ingredients necessary for life.
What are water, CHNOPS, and energy?
The process which changes rocks through heat and pressure.
What is metamorphism?
The study of light and how it interacts with materials.
What is spectroscopy?
The main gas in the Martian atmosphere.
What is carbon dioxide?
The cause of the Late Heavy Bombardment.
What is Jupiter's migration?
The area around a star where liquid water can persist.
What is the habitable zone?
The process by which broken down rocks are moved from their original location.
What is erosion?
The most common method of exoplanet detection.
What is a transit?
This gas can be a byproduct of microbial life using hydrogen and carbon dioxide as an energy source.
What is methane?
The three stages of crater formation.
What are contact and compression, excavation, and modification?
The geological feature that is created when a river empties out onto a plain, depositing sediment in a cone.
What is an alluvial fan?
A group of minerals which are secondary alteration products and have sheet-like structures.
What are clays?
The spectral feature that lets us detect vegetation using NDVI.
What is red edge?
The four lower density materials that were main building blocks in the protoplanetary disk.
What are hydrogen, helium, water, and ammonia?
The two possibilities for why Ceres contains ammonia.
What are migration and cratering?
The mound-shaped geologic feature created by cyanobacteria building up layers of mineral precipitates in the ocean.
What is a stromatolite?
The alteration on Mars is considered this in comparison to Earth.
What is juvenile?
The system that uses radio waves to see features within a planetary body.
What is radar?
The “star tar” on Pluto that is created by atmospheric particles interacting with high energy particles.
What are tholins?
The line in a crater frequency distribution plot that gives you the approximate age of the surface.
What is an isochron?
The period of Mars when water was the most active.
What is the Noachian period?
The reason lava with higher silica content has lower reaction rates.
What is polymerization?
The spectrometer collecting hyperspectral image cubes of Mars.
What is CRISM?