Orbit of the Moon

with stars dancing along with the silky white moon. For hundreds of years humans studied these stars and on May 25, 1961 President John F. Kennedy had a challenge at the ready, to land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth before the end of the decade, this inspired series of missions called Apollo. It took NASA six years to land a human being on the moon and fulfill President Kennedy’s challenge along with bringing pride and of course moon rocks to America. First of all, Apollo 11…

“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” This quote by Neil Armstrong marked the end of the Space Race. The space race was a competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to see who could land a man on the moon first. It originally began as an arms race to build destructive missiles. But over the years, the main objective has changed. Even though the competition lasted a little more than a decade, it led to major contributions to the exploration of space. After World…

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.…

Apollo 11 mission carried three astronauts toward the moon. Two astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz aldrin set foot on the moon for the first time in human history as 530 million people around the world watched their mission on television. The first moon landing was launched on july 16 1969 in order to complete a national goal set by President John F. Kennedy. Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. The first steps on the moon were taken by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on…

I decided to research about the missions to bring man to land in the moon. President Kennedy raised a goal to the United States on May 25, 1961. That goal was that before the sexties decade got ended they should land a man to the Moon and bring him back safe to the Earth. That goal was the motivation to the scientists overcome all trobles they had. The firsts paragrapfs of the article states this goal with the Kennedy own words to show the importance it has in the achievement. There were…

those spacecrafts that NASA decided to construct Galileo to discover more information on Jupiter and its moons. The journey to Jupiter itself was a hard one, with Galileo not having enough fuel to complete the expedition however, it could use energy from Venus and Earth to make the journey. NASA named this route VEEGA (Venus Earth and Earth Gravity Assist). Galileo would slingshot around Venus’ orbit (the regularly…

In the 4th century BC, Plato and Aristotle published studies based on geocentrism and believed that Earth was stationary at the centre of the solar system, and stars and planets rotated around the Earth on concentric spheres arranged in the order: Moon, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and the fixed stars were located on the celestial sphere aligned with the north and south pole of Earth. According to the Aristotelian system, the uniform circular motion of bodies around the Earth can…

Review of Literature I. Introduction- History of Ganymede Ganymede is the largest moon of Jupiter and in the entire Solar System. Ganymede is also the only moon to have a magnetosphere, which according to NOAA is the region of space surrounding an astronomical object in which charged particles are controlled by that object's magnetic field. Ganymede was discovered on January 7th, 1610 by Galileo Galilei, an Italian astronomer that played a huge role in the scientific revolution during the…

The moon has been a natural phenomena for as long as humans have been on this Earth. Even though humans have been studying this natural satellite for many, many years, and even stepping on its surface, its origins remain a mystery. Many theories have been proposed over the years, Some considered reasonable, and some not so much. There are possibilities such as the co-formation, Capture, Fission and Giant impact theories. The most accepted and reasonable being the Giant impact theory. The…

giant in orbit. It is made entirely of gases, and has no surface. Jupiter has the most moons out of any of the planets, and is also the largest planet in the solar system. Jupiter is one of the most interesting planets due to it’s intriguing properties such as its unique size, Red Spot, composition, and other things. The first person to actually view Jupiter in a telescope was Galileo. Even with his rudimentary telescope, he was able to see bands across the planet and the 4 large Galilean moons…