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Atmosphere: The atmosphere of Pluto is complex in many ways. It is made of nitrogen with very small amounts of methane and carbon monoxide, which are all vaporized from ice on Pluto's surface. When Pluto is closer to the Sun in its orbit the Sun heats up the ice on PLuto and releases nitrogen, methane and carbon monoxide on Pluto's surface. These ice vaporizes and forms a temporary atmosphere. When Pluto moves farther from the Sun the atmosphere freezes and goes back onto Pluto's surface.…

The Moon is a natural satellite of Earth. Earth only sees one face of the Moon at all times because of the Moon's synchronous rotation. This is due to the fact that the Moon rotates on its axis the same amount of time that it takes to complete an orbit around Earth. The current explanation for the formation of the Moon is called the giant impact hypothesis. Which proposes that an object the size of Mars collided with Earth, blasting Earth's outer layers into space. These layers would…

NASA has recently found 7 new earth sized planets on February 22, 2017. They were orbiting what looks like a star similar to the Sun only 40 light-years away from the solar system. NASA believes that the planets could sustain liquids, the only downside is the amount of time it would take to travel to the Trappist-1. It would take 700,000 years just to travel to the Trappist-1. NASA believes that the 7 planets could sustain liquids just based off of the densities of the planets. The reason why…

The seasons are caused by tilt of Earth's rotational axis away or toward the sun as it travels on its year long path around the sun. The Earth has a tilt of 23.5 degrees relative to the “ecliptic plane” the imaginary surface formed by its almost circular path around the sun the tilt towards the sun is maximised during northern hemisphere summer in late June the summer solstice. There are so much stars in the galaxy that some of them we can not discover in the universe.At night you can see some…

Modeling Periodic Phenomena: The Orbit of Mars Introduction Billions of years old, Mars is the 4th planet from the sun in our solar system and the last of the terrestrial planets before the asteroid belt. The planet neighbors Earth and has seen a plethora of exploration craft from our planet. Mars orbits around the Sun on an ellipse, as dictated by Kepler’s laws (which state that all orbits are ellipses). Mars’ elliptical shape is a lot less circular than Earth, due to its high orbital…

Mercury is a rocky planet and is the closest celestial body to the sun in our solar system. The planet is covered in many craters, boulders and pulverized dust. The planet lacks an atmosphere to help dictate temperature changes throughout a day, so the planet can experience many temperature swings multiple times per day. After a number of observations, it has been inferred that the planet has been geologically inactive for billions of years. There are no signs of dust storms, clouds, rivers…

Do you ever think about the mysteries of space? Have you ever wondered if there’s water somewhere besides Earth? Do you think there’s possibly more to the solar system than we know? Mars is the famous red planet we all know of, but it may be more than it seems. To understand the planet of Mars, one must know about its various geographical features, types of weather, and signs of water.The first key of knowledge that you should know about Mars is its many geographical features. Mars is home to…

Mercury There are no seasons on the surface. The colour of the surface is grey with white spots. On the surface there are craters. The mass of Mercury is 330,104,000,000,000 billion kg. Mercury is smaller than the Earth. A year on Mercury is about 88 (Earth) days. Mercury is very dense. Mercury is the second hottest planet in the world. Two spacecrafts have gone to Mercury. Mercury has the most craters in the Solar System. Mercury was named after the Roman god of messenger. Mercury…

Have you ever wonder why the planets are in the order they are in? What makes an inner planet? Are the inner planets the only ones found with life? The four inner planets are called terrestrial planets and they are the four closest to the sun. There are four inner planets: mercury, venus, earth, and mars. They are the closest to the sun. inner planets exist around stars and each one of them has a central care mostly made of iron. They are called inner planets because they are closer to the sun…

Pathway 1’s concept is a regimented mission set upon a regulated time frame designed to span every destination from Earth to Mars. This Pathway opens up various amounts of benefits. Not only does this Pathway span all possible destinations but it also aids in startup of bases that would become the starting grounds for new launches and explorations. According to Goodliff, Troutman, Craig, Caram and Herrmann (2016), “This concept is success-oriented, in that it assumes a successful sequence of…