Dwarf planet

Europa is on of the most recognizable moons in our solar system. This moon is the sixth (6th) closest to Jupiter and the fourth (4th) smallest of the Galilean moons ("Moons of Jupiter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia," n.d.). When this moon was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei, he decided to name it after Europa, meaning or daughter of the King of Tyre. Over the last forty (40) years, there have been multiple spacecraft that have raised speculation that Europa has internal convection due…

After arriving on Planet 451 in the Kuiper belt, I would assess the problems of the colony according to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. According to Maslow’s hierarchy, the basest needs of the colony have already been covered – the physiological necessities like food, water, and sleep. I would make sure the communications with mission control was working well in case of an emergency. I would create a socialist government, with jobs and resources distributed equally among all members. Next, I would…

On September 28th of 2015, NASA officially confirmed liquid water existing on Mars. Water is pretty common here on Earth, so why is this such a big deal? The big deal is that this is one of the biggest discoveries in Mars history. The discovery of liquid water, provides limitless options from colonization, to the fact that there may be life there now. But how did the media impact this disclosure? Normally space discoveries never get extremely popular. I thought to myself what was so different…

All summer In a Day. Was Margot really lying? Or, was she telling the truth? The story takes place on Venus, where it rains non-stop, everyday. Margot used to live on Earth, where she could see the sun every day. She, unlike the others, remembers what the sun not only looks like, but also the happiness that the sun brought to her. In the story, the kids locked her in a closet, afterwards, when they saw the sun, the realized she was right all along, which is when the start feeling empathy towards…

Henrietta Swan Leavitt was a female astronomer who lead the way for the ability to measure the distance between two planets, along with many other. Leavitt was born to a minister in Lancaster, Massachusetts in 1868. She attended a a higher education at Society for the Collegiate Instruction for Women, now named Radcliffe College. She graduated the college with a Bachelor's degree, but it was not in astronomy, which she would later dedicate her life to. She did take an astronomy class in her…

turned into a motion picture that was released on October 2, 2015, which stars Academy Award winning actor Matt Damon as the main character, Mark Watney. The Martian is about six scientists who travel to Mars aboard a NASA spacecraft to check the planet and it characteristics. While they are there collecting dust, taking pictures, and recording data everything seems to be fine; then tragedy strikes. Scientist Mark Watney is going to have to fight for his life if he wants to make it home. The…

Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun with the largest ring system, which makes it one of the most easily identified planet for stargazers (figure 1). How Saturn got these fascinating rings around it is still a mystery to scientists today. There are many theories that will be discussed in this paper, but it is possible that no one could ever really know for sure. However, Saturn is not the only planet with a ring system, there are a few others but nothing as extravagant as what Saturn has.…

to incur their patriotism protection. On October 18, 1989, two space craft’s took off to Jupiter for Galileo’s mission. To study the design of the planets, atmosphere, satellites and surrounding magnetosphere. IO is the innermost, which is named after a priestess of Hera who became Zeus’ lover. With a diameter of 3,642…

In his article Pluto and Us (2015), Charles Krauthammer claims most people on this world believe we are so advanced in the knowledge of science, yet we still have to further our knowledge of space because there are a plethora of knowledge to be learned still, and on occasion to the little knowledge we possess currently of the outer world, we still manage to soar. Krauthammer supports his claims about our little knowledge of the outer world by stating logical information by pointing out that we…

sun. Galileo was that there were multiple moons were orbiting Jupiter. He observed Venus moving through phases much like Earth’s moon. This information persuaded Galileo that Copernicus was right. Just as Jupiter’s moons orbited that giant planet other planets like Earth and Venus must orbit the sun. Galileo’s findings were explosive; they helped Copernican theory, which the government of the Catholic Church, the Vatican, condemned. With science, scientist proved the Church wrong with the most…