Orbit of the Moon

One of the pieces of evidence we have is that all of the planets orbit the Sun in the same direction. Most of their moons orbit this way also. This would make sense if they all formed from a disc of remains around the proto-Sun. Another one of the pieces of evidence we have is that all of the planets have the correct characteristics that convey…

the solar system.Saturn was known to the ancients, including the Babylonians and Far Eastern observers. Saturn is the flattest planet. Its polar diameter is 90% of its equatorial diameter, this is due to its low density and fast rotation. Saturn orbits the Sun once every 29.4 Earth years.Saturn’s upper atmosphere is divided into bands of clouds.The planet also has a vortex over its south pole that resembles a hurricane-like storm. It exists in layers that get denser farther into the planet.…

the oldest. There are many easily recognizable features on Mars, including the Tharsis Bulge, Hellas Basin, Borealis Basin, Valles Marineris. For long, it was thought there was water on Mars because we could see what looked like canals. Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos, which are irregular (not spherical) Jupiter 5th planet from the Sun Named after the Roman God of Thunder Jupiter is the biggest planet of the Solar Sytem, and makes up 90% of the mass of it (Sun excluded) It is a Gas Giant…

Apollo 11 JFK said to the crowed in the 1960’s “We will land on the moon in the next decade!”. On the Date of July 16 1969 The apollo 11 astronauts boarded the saturn V rocket. The mission crew sets up and get’s ready for launch in one hour. Thirty minutes later the astronauts: Akerman Armstrong and Buzz Lightyear step onboard of the rocket. “Alright let's keep this mission on track, start launch!” said Camron of the mission crew. Launching in 5 the rocket started. 4 flames shot out of the…

Between 1300’s and 1700’s was the time of the Renaissance. During this time, astronomy blew up with discoveries. There were multiple advanced astronomers; two astronomers who made an enormous influence on the Copernican theory were Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler. Although the Copernican theory was established by Nicolaus Copernicus, it was Kepler and Galileo who greatly impacted it. Without the help of Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler, the Copernican theory would not have been proven and…

The website states that Gene was a former NASA astronaut who remains the last human being to date to set foot on the surface of the moon. The website goes on to talk about how Gene first went to space as a crew member aboard the Gemini 9A. On this mission particular mission, he became the second American, and third person ever, to exit his spacecraft while in orbit-what is most commonly known as a spacewalk. It was a risky endeavor: NASA was still working out how to outfit and astronaut for…

among with one of his most famous questions, “If the apple falls, does the moon also falls?” Born on December 25, 1642, Sir Isaac Newton was a renowned english physicists and mathematicians, who was best known for his law of gravitational forces. In 1665, as young Isaac sits under an apple tree, he realized the fall of an apple. He proclaimed that the force pulling the apple onto the ground and the force keeping the moon in orbit around earth are the same. In addition, he came up with the…

first law, Kepler rejected Copernicus and the Ptolemaic Conception when stating that, “ …the orbits of the planets around the sun were not circular, but elliptical, with the sun at one focus of the ellipse rather than at the center.” According to the Ptolemaic Theory and Aristotle, the planets moved in the most perfect circular and uniform motion. However, Johannes Kepler argued that the planets do not orbit in circles, but in ellipses. His second law demonstrated that the speed of a planet is…

Earth, Moon and Sun; gravity. Newton went into the study of gravitational force in the late 1600s. The result of Newton's research was his great work published in 1687, the Principia, thought to many as the…

are smaller Earth-like planets that consist of solid surfaces, few moons point, they have topological features such as peaks and valleys, and are most notably before the freezing point in the solar system. In Mercury’s case, the planet is the closest to the sun, giving it a very thin atmosphere which causes it to shift between very hot days and very cold nights. The planet also has days that are 58 earth-days long. Mercury orbits around the sun in 88 days which is the fastest out of any other…