PHY 133 - Planetary Science (3)

This course reviews our current knowledge of the non-terrestrial bodies in the solar system, including the planets, moons, and other satellites, asteroids, comets, and other small solar system bodies. Currently, the field of planetary science is expanding rapidly with many tens of spacecraft, landers, and rovers actively exploring a myriad of objects in the solar system. This course will also explore the astrophysical and geophysical processes that are currently occurring on other bodies in the solar system and what we have been able to infer about their histories, along with the structure and origin of the solar system, with emphasis on recent discoveries. Same as GOL 133.