What’s Cool About That Moon?

• Michael C. LoPresto ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

     University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

     City of Ann Arbor, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 63, Nº. 9, 2025, págs. 727-730
• Idioma: inglés
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  • During the solar system portion of an introductory astronomy general education course, what to cover or leave out can be a difficult decision. This is true for the entire course, as a semester is a very limited amount of time for all the interesting topics available in astronomy. This is still true even for a solar system or, more commonly now, planetary science course of a two-semester introductory sequence. What follows is a description of some of the more interesting topics associated with the moons of our solar system’s giant, Jovian, planets that could be useful when deciding which of them to discuss.