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is the planets. Saturn is one of many in our solar system and is so unique in its own way for being the only plant to have rings around it. We all know of this planet due to its spectacular rings. Although this planet has them it poses many other interesting features. The Romans were the people who made Saturn's name come to be to what it is now. The Romans knew there was seven different bright objects that were in the sky. Those seven objects included the moon, the sun, and five planets in the…

The search for viable planets and moons for NASA to colonize may be narrowed to one. The Jupiter moon Europa may be next on the mission list for NASA astronauts. Leaving Mars out in the cold. Recent research from NASA scientists could have found the life sustaining evidence they need on Europa. Or at least under its icy surface. The study is encouraging, now that scientists believe that the Jupiter moon ocean has enough energy to support life. If so, will NASA astronauts find aliens on the…

in this disk forms planets that orbit in the same way that the material from which they are formed orbits. Metals and rocks condense the fastest, while hydrogen compounds and gases condense into ice or never condense at all. • Condensation—the formation of solid or liquid particles from gas. Hydrogen and helium remain gases, but the remaining materials condense and are used to create planets. Each material condensates differently and at a different rate. Typically the rocks and metals that…

awe struck when faced with the vast, gleaming night sky. We have wondered, dreamed, and raised questions as to what lies beyond the stars. However, one particular shimmering dot has invoked the imagination of stargazers time and time again. The red planet, Mars. For countless centuries our understanding of Mars has been significantly limited. Theories of what may rest on the planet’s surface were left unrequited until a handful of scientists and engineers went to work on what would become one of…

theory is that the Moon formed near the Earth and was helped by the dust and gas of the near by planets. The Colliding Planetesimals theory is when the debris compacted together after the planetesimals were slammed together after the beginning of the universe. The last of the theories is the Great Impact theory, which involves a planet sized-body colliding into the new Earth allowing a part of the rock to let loose it’s hold on Earth. There is a better theory that has evidence and one theory…

• page 630 Our moon is the only natural satellite and it accompanies earth in anuual journey around the sun. The earths moon is unusually large compared to its partner planet. Scientists thought that when earth was forming a piece was sliced off. The Diameter of the moon is 3475 and the earths diameter is 12756, Which is about one fourth of the earths diameter. Most information of the moon come from the Apollo moon missions. Between 1969 and 1972 there have been six spacecraft landings.…

The above diagram illustrates the volcanic activity on Venus, it indicates how activity this planet has been and still is. There is no evidence of plate tectonics on Venus along with no long linear volcano chains. There are also no clear subduction zones. Rifts are very common on Venus and they look much like the mid-ocean ridges on Earth. Volcanoes on Venus are much more regional and less organized then here on Earth. Volcanoes on Venus seem to have simple and fewer eruptive styles than the…

universe would be made of only hydrogen and helium and the absent items would range from rocks to trees to humans. Carbon is an important building block of the elements and is essential to almost all life. Not only is the element carbon important in its solid form, but carbon dioxide is a gas that is even more essential to life. It is crucial to not only the survival of humans, but the survival of this entire planet. While carbon plays a big role on Earth, carbon is also important when it comes…

The Gift of Interstellar Travel For centuries humans have lived on earth and growing expanding and claiming this giant space rock a home, but as time goes on planet earth is becoming not enough to sustain mankind’s way of living. Now with the technological advantages of the 21st centuries there is an answer to this problem and it is interstellar travel. With this one form of research mankind can thrive and exist beyond the stars. The earth simply cannot shelter the ever-growing human race,…

The Jupiter Adventures At long last the Jupiter Spacecraft Voyager has finished its exploration of the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter. The Galileo spacecraft was launched on October 19, 1989. It has been through a lot to get to the Jovian system. Even though it had malfunctions in mechanical problems the space probe still managed to survive and keep going on. Very little is known about the outside world, (space) but the discoveries that the Galilean probe has brought back will…