Planet Rock

discarded planet (Space.com, 2015). Nine years later on July 14th 2015, the probe had finally reached its destination. Pluto, the hypothesised biggest dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt. Our Young Solar System written by Wayne Spencer specifically states “the Kuiper Belt objects we know of are actually much larger than comets” (Clayton, 2011). When in actual fact this probe has managed to uncover that not only does the Kuiper Belt house the already known dwarf planets and smaller icy rocks which…

The blue planet…Third rock from the Sun…Spaceship Earth… Big Bang… Creation… There are many ways to describe our home environment, or beliefs about how it came into existence. Whatever description you use, no one can deny that our human interaction with the planet and its dizzying array of inhabitants and ecosystems is unique. Throughout history, humans have asked questions about the earth and our relationship with it. As societies and cultures grow and change, so do the questions, but…

preparing to travel to Venus. In this paper, I wall talk about the Soviet Venera 9 mission. My science fiction paper will consist of ways for probes to survive on Venus long enough to work and restore Venus to what it is believed it was: an Earth-like planet. It will talk about the silicon carbide transistors which can withstand the extreme heat, nuclear batteries that can work on Venus as an alternative to solar and carbon sequestration, which involves pumping carbon dioxide underground in…

a slide show about space. It wouldn’t have been so bad if the ceiling wasn’t the screen. The Planetarium is dome shaped, so we had to lean back in our seats and look up at the ceiling. It wasn’t very fun, but I did learn that Venus is the hottest planet. The scavenger hunt was alright. It wasn’t my most favorite activity, but it wasn’t my least favorite either. I learned that we live in the Cenozoic era. Overall, the Thronateeska was interesting, but it wasn’t very exciting. Aside from the…

His first stop, earth’s moon. Shoemaker postulated that we could extrapolate our knowledge of earth’s processes to other planets and moons in the solar system. He believed that the earth and moon’s craters were two examples of the same phenomenon. Mapping the moon was something that Eugene did eventually accomplish, however; his larger dream of visiting the moon would have…

Have you ever worried about aliens invading? What about being abducted? What is our plan for any extraterrestrial event coming to earth, either in peace or harm, and making contact with us humans (Murphy)? Aliens are known to have a multitude of different characteristics and features. There are many examples and forms of proof that extraterrestrials have an existence. Multiple sightings and stories have been proven hoaxes. Popularization of aliens through media greatly accounts for widespread…

radar, military radar and similar applications are still using these frequencies, too, so our planet continues to radiate them. Take this in contrast to the shift to internet communications from television, causing demand for TV broadcasts to go down, and satellite radio and internet radio potentially killing the radio transmissions we once thought would cause aliens to discover Earth by listening to old rock…

evolution on rocky planets Life on Earth, how is it possible? Why is it only Earth? This is a common question asked by many scientists around the world, and one which we may not find the answer to for a long while yet. It is very interesting to look at our own world, but what makes it so special? What about Mars and Venus? Our two closest neighbours, surely they could or could have held the possibility of life on their surfaces? It is very intriguing that even though these planets are in such…

Astronomy is an ongoing process. It is always changing and improving as we discover new stellar objects and use more advanced technology. For example, people once believed that the Earth was flat, and the sun and other planets orbited around us. As we advanced in technology, we proved both of these ideas to be false. Even today there is still work to be done, ideas and theories to confirm and disprove, and plenty of other things to explore. One scientific discovery that influence society was…

observation in December 1612, Neptune was stationary in the sky because it had just turned retrograde that very day. This apparent backward motion is created when the orbit of the Earth takes it past an outer planet. Since Neptune was only beginning its yearly retrograde cycle, the motion of the planet was far too slight to be detected with Galileo's small telescope.[21] In July 2009 University of Melbourne physicist David Jamieson announced new evidence suggesting that Galileo was at least…