Status: Approved for review release; not yet approved for instructional use. See review-report.md for full findings and outstanding items.
Course Planning
- Syllabus: syllabus.html
- Schedule: schedule.html
- Reference log: reference-log.md
- Review report: review-report.md
- Course manifest: course-manifest.json
Lectures
- Lecture 01: Introduction to Planetary Science and Comparative Planetology — slides · notes
- Lecture 02: The Solar Nebula, Condensation, and Planet Formation — slides · notes
- Lecture 03: Planetary Differentiation and Interior Structure — slides · notes
- Lecture 04: Planetary Heat Budgets, Radiogenic Heating, and Convection — slides · notes
- Lecture 05: Plate Tectonics and Comparative Surface Geology — slides · notes
- Lecture 06: Impact Cratering and Surface Age Dating — slides · notes
- Lecture 07: Planetary Atmospheres I: Hydrostatic Structure and Scale Height — slides · notes
- Lecture 08: Planetary Atmospheres II: Radiative Equilibrium and the Greenhouse Effect — slides · notes
- Lecture 09: Atmospheric Escape and Long-Term Climate Evolution — slides · notes
- Lecture 10: Planetary Magnetic Fields and Dynamo Theory — slides · notes
- Lecture 11: Giant Planet Interiors: Gas Giants and Ice Giants — slides · notes
- Lecture 12: Planetary Rings and the Roche Limit — slides · notes
- Lecture 13: Icy Satellites, Tidal Heating, and Subsurface Oceans — slides · notes
- Lecture 14: Exoplanets: Detection, Characterization, and Comparative Planetology Beyond the Solar System — slides · notes
Labs
- Lab 01: Testing the Condensation Sequence with Ceres and Vesta
- Lab 02: Moment of Inertia and Radiogenic Heat Budget: Earth versus Mars
- Lab 03: Crater-Count Chronology Using Real Lunar Calibration Data
- Lab 04: Scale Height and Equilibrium Temperature for Titan
- Lab 05: Jeans Escape and Magnetopause Standoff: Earth versus Jupiter
- Lab 06: Giant Planet Density and the Roche Limit at Uranus
- Lab 07: Capstone: Tidal Heating and Habitability Synthesis for TRAPPIST-1e
Problem Sets
Source Code and Data
- Generator scripts: src/generate_astr320_content.py (lectures), src/generate_astr320_labs_psets.py (labs/problem sets)
- Datasets: data/README.md