The Outer Planets

A name for the outer planets

• Gas Bubbles

• Gas Giants

• Liquid Gas

• Giant Planets

a storm of swirling gases on the Jupiter’s surface

• Great Red Spot

• Great Red Storm

• Great Stormy Cloud

• Great Stormy Gases

the four largest moons of Jupiter—lo, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto

• Jupiteran Moons

• Galilean Moons

• Superior Moons

• Saturn's Moons

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Titan, Rhea, Dione, Iapetus, and Tethys

• Superior Moons

• Galilean Moons

• Jupiteran Moons

• Saturn's Moons

the space probe that landed on Titan in 2005

• Huygens

• Voyager 2

space probe that explored Uranus when it flew by in 1986

• Huygens

• Voyager 2

The two largest moons are Titania and Oberon

• Galilean Moons

• Jupiter's Moons

• Saturn's Moons

• Uranus's Moons

Neptune's largest moon

• Triton

• Titan

• Oberon

• Ganymede

All the outer planets have solid surfaces and liquid cores. 

• True

• False

The strong gravity of the outer planets creates tremendous atmospheric pressure that changes gases to liquids.

• True

• False