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caused by small variations in the Earth's orbit, but climate changes we know of today are characterized by an increase in the Earth temperature. According to NASA’s Earth Observatory it is estimated to have gotten 1.2 - 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in just the last century, 10 out of the last 13 years were the warmest on record. Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that this new phenomenon is not caused by the variations of the Earth's orbit but rather very likely caused by human…

Like Earth, who has a core, mantle, and outer crust, Mars has a similar layout with a central, dense core, rocky mantle, and a solid crust. Since Mars is the fourth planet in the solar system, its rotation, degree, and seasons are similar to Earth’s patterns. According to NASA, Mars has a degree tilt of twenty-five degrees, which is not that far off from Earth’s tilt at twenty three and four tenths degrees. Although these numbers seem not that far apart, a…

effect on the overhead position toward the earth. If the sun is at a thirty-degree angle of the earth and lets say the ray from the sun is only five miles long. At an angle like such they ray would be spread over maybe a ten-mile stretch providing the energy only meant for a certain spot the energy for twice as much (the sun and the seasons, 2010). When sun beams travel to earth, some must travel further than others. The beams traveling at an angle to the earth are the ones that reflect back…

Earth is a planet that has relatively stable temperatures. This is possible because of Earth’s atmosphere as it consists of a thin layer of gases that forms a “cloak” around the planet. There are 97 percent of climate scientists that agrees that people on Earth has changed its atmosphere in a considerable way over the past two centuries. The results of this is due to the greenhouse effect that causes global warming (Lallanila, 2015b). But what is the greenhouse effect? What is the greenhouse…

still remains debatable as some believe that the resources spent on space technology could be used to solve existing problems on Earth such as poverty. Conversely, space technology is the catalyst to form other technologies and innovations that are beneficial to our society. For example, the first satellite, 'Sputnik', used to study the orbital measurements of earth had provided new knowledge to develop satellites that are used for telecommunication, navigation…

universe looks like up close? If you thought that our world was as small as Earth, that’s nothing compared to the universe that can be explored with a Hubble telescope and the radio telescope. Space craft and technology provides the world with astronomical information, discovering information that is beyond our capabilities on Earth capabilities to discover with our eyes alone. Two major telescopes that have been in orbit around the Earth’s Atmosphere discovering new information are the Hubble…

Earth sized storms continuously rage in the Neptune’s atmosphere. Winds on Neptune can reach up to 1,500 kilometers per hour, which is the fastest on any planet. The heat inside the planet causes these violent conditions. Temperatures in Neptune range from…

or prevents it from getting out, meaning that day is 100 degrees and night is 173 degrees below zero! The number one thing that stops people from going to the moon is the cost. It costs $10,000 just to put something that weighs one pound into orbit around something. And it costs ten times that much to put that thing on the moon. That shows you how expensive moon exploration is, just to get there. The surface of the moon is made mainly of aluminum. It has a tough landscape. If you…

Rocks brought back by Neil Armstrong proved that the chemistry these rocks had was very different from the one on Earth, scientists said that all the theories they had about the moon formation took a different turn when they kept analyzing these rocks. It took decades for scientist to come up with a whole new theory. Studies suggest the moon contains materials that was once part of the earth. Then there’s Mars the Red Planet; which is only 1/3 of our home it has the most extraordinary features…

Thinking about the universe can be a difficult task for countless amounts of human beings. When you factor in that earth is our home, also that that we have been here since the day we were born; it can be a hassle to explain to an individual that in addition to us there are possibly space inhabitants in the universe. This could possibly be a highly advanced being or maybe a Black Hole. Innumerable amounts of people have grown a phobia of black holes. This can mainly be blamed on the fact that…