Solar System

Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun in our solar system right in front of Venus. Mercury was named after a Roman god but is also called Hermes in Greek mythology who is the messenger of the gods. This relates to Mercury because it orbits the sun faster than all the other planets. Mercury is an extremely interesting planet in our solar system. Ancient people who lived in Mesopotamia(current day Iraq) called the Sumerians, first saw the planet Mercury in 3rd millennium B.C. Many old…

gravitational pull. This was the first-time ion engines were used to send a spacecraft to orbit around a distant object in our solar system. Folger lets us know that in the beginning NASA canceled the Dawn mission because of how expensive it would be to support the mission and additionally they were concerned with the technical problems that could occur to the novel propulsion system. Charles Elachi was determined to Save the Dawn mission and was able to have NASA review the Dawn mission one…

25% helium and approximately 1% methane. Its atmosphere also contains icy clouds and the fastest winds recorded in the solar system. Particles of icy methane and minor gases in the extremities of the atmosphere give Neptune its deep blue colour.” Even though Neptune is far from the sun it has winds that can reach up to 1500 mph. The fastest winds detected in the solar system.…

years ago.8 Everything that makes up who we are and what surrounds us started then, as an infinitely small volume that continued to expand in a ridiculously fast rate, where within a matter of minutes the universe became the size of our solar system. Our solar system is only dated to be about five billion years old.1 One second after the big bang, the universe was filled with neutrons, protons, anti-electrons, photons, and neutrinos.4 Still, thousands of years later, it continues…

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 It is the fourth brightest item in the sky (after Venus) Its atmosphere is composed mainly of hydrogen and helium. Stripes can be observed on the surface, they’re…

billion kg. Mercury is smaller than the Earth. A year on Mercury is about 88 (Earth) days. Mercury is very dense. Mercury is the second hottest planet in the world. Two spacecrafts have gone to Mercury. Mercury has the most craters in the Solar System. Mercury was named after the Roman god of messenger. Mercury is 15 million kilometers from the sun. The temperature of Mercury is 427 degrees Celsius to -173 degrees Celsius. Venus Venus’s atmospheric pressure is 92 times greater than…

In modern world, people still observes stars at night to discover what is in the universe. People sent probe outside of the Earth to study what is in the outside of the Earth and beyond the solar system where human being are living. Nine planets formed a solar system. Pluto is the farthest planet on solar system. At the end of 19th century astronomers were observing planets with telescope on a ground “Ground-based telescopes…

Nicolaus Copernicus was an astronomer, mathematician, translator, artist, and physicist. Nicolaus Copernicus is the first astronomer to discover that earth and the other planets within the solar system all revolve around the sun. As before the discovery, astronomers believed that earth was the center of the solar system and everyone revolved around it. Therefore, based on Nicolaus Copernicus discovery, it has contributed to astronomical history Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer,…

of our Solar System for which scientists have about information due to the distance from this planet and Earth (a minimum of 1.6 billion miles [51]). Up until recently, our ability to observe it from afar was near non-existent. This icy gas giant experiences periods of day and night which last for 42 Earth years due to its 110 degrees axis tilt [14]. Uranus is not as stormy as Jupiter or Saturn, but within the 'Spring' section of the plant, where both cold and warm air meet, storms systems are…

Mercury: Mercury is the first planet and the closest planet to the sun. It has a very thin atmosphere. It has a temperature range of 800 degrees Fahrenheit to -280 degrees Fahrenheit. In this passage, there will be many other facts about Mercury such as the characteristics of the planet and how it compares to our planet Earth. Mercury was not discovered by one single person. Since it was discovered before history was written. It is approximately 35.98 million miles away from the sun and has…