Moons of Jupiter

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…

tumultuous relationship between Gods and Goddesses. This phenomenon is clearly seen in the myth of Io. The most widely known account of the story of Io was written by Roman poet Ovid in 8AD as one of nearly 250 myths in his poem The Metamorphoses. Jupiter, the chief deity, sees the beautiful nymph Io and decides to have his way with her, concealing his adulterous behavior with a dark cloud above them. Despite his intentions, the cloud only advertises the suspicious situation to his wife Juno and…

The names of the moons are Phobos and Deimos; they were named for the two sons of the Greek god Ares and the Greek goddess Aphrodite. The two moons are actually little more than large rocks that happened to get caught in the gravitational pull of Mars, and are no more than a few tens of kilometres across. Out of the two moons, Phobos is the larger rock, being about twenty-eight kilometres long and twenty kilometres wide…

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…

system. Despite being the smallest circumbinary planet detected to this date, the inner planet, Kepler-47 b still has a radius of 3.0±0.1 Earth radii. In addition, too small to be measured directly, has been determined to have a 3-α upper limit of 2 Jupiter masses. This determination is based on non-detection of timing variations of stellar orbit. As the mass of planet is not known which means its density also remains undetermined. This in return means that it’s not…

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…

be the same plane of view as the star that we are looking at, because if we aren’t then we would never see the planet blocking the light from the star. Another downfall to the transit method is that is it more favorable to bigger planets like hot Jupiters, this is because it would a lot easier to see bigger planets blocking light than…

It is the same size and mass as Earth. It takes 700 Earth days to revolve around the sun(360 on Earth), and takes 20 Earth hours to rotate around its axis(24 on Earth). It’s temperatures are about the same as on Earth, and has a tilt of 45º. It’s moon is the same distance away from Earth but it twice the mass and size. Because Yelger takes 20 hours to rotate on it’s axis, one day on Yelger will be 20 hours (4 hours shorter than Earth). The night’s and days will be about 10 hours. A year will be…