Solar System

for the solar system but it has yet to be colonized by humans. Mars has “remains of dried-up riverbed… carved by water” (Sparrow 98) showing that liquid water was once on the surface of Mars but has since disappeared. Mars has had many rovers land on its surface and explore its terrain but all of those rovers have not found anything more than “minerals that can form only in the presence of water” (Bell 31). With more funding, as NASA has gotten “$1.5 billion per year… priorities in our solar…

seventy five million years from now, but Mars will end up having its own ring system like the gas giants. Phobos is only 13.8 miles in diameter and it 5,827 miles away from Mars. As Phobos orbits Mars, a tidal bulge is created and moves along the surface of Mars as the moon rotates around the planet. Phobos only takes seven hours and thirty-nine minutes to rotate around Mars, and is one of the 18 moons in the solar system that has an orbit time faster than its planet. Since its orbital…

paper, roof top stand-alone solar photovoltaic system is considered. Solar photovoltaic system has so many components such as solar panel, charge controller, power conditioning unit, battery. Out of all these components solar power conditioning unit is also one important part of this system. In given system solar energy is use as primary source and supply from main line is use as an auxiliary source of energy. Power conditioning unit selects the power supply such as from solar or main smartly…

nor will we ever. The human race is always looking for a new way to expand our great species. Recently, an entire other planet has been an option. The question is… which one? Mars is the best option in our solar system. But there is still a lot to do before Mars is inhabitable to all humans. Solar energy can be gathered for electrical purposes. Traces of water can be found. Plants inside greenhouses help with greenification of the sand planet. All solutions to the issues found on Mars. Slowly,…

discovery of the storms, imagery showed that both of the storms were missing. Yet, a smaller storm was formed in the Northern hemisphere. Another feature of Neptune includes it's rings. The gas giant is only one of four planets that have rings in our solar system. Like Uranus’s, the rings are made up of clumps of particles. Each of the rings are are named after the people that contributed to Neptune’s discovery. The five principal…

Many scientific theories have caused conflict with the religious beliefs and values of some people. Galileo Galilei’s interest in optics and astronomy drove him to innovative discoveries, His confirmation of Copernicus theory of a heliocentric solar system, caused a clash between faith and science. This refuted Aristotle’s theory that the heavens were perfect and unchanging. The Catholic Church supported this theory. They allowed Galileo to conduct his research as long as he didn’t openly…

Earth. It’s also the second brightest planet in the night sky. Named after the mythological Roman god Jupiter, the gas giant is also the largest planet in the solar system—large enough to fit all the other planets inside it, according to NASA. Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It’s so large that the planet is more than twice as large as all the other planets combined. More than 1,300 Earths can easily fit inside Jupiter.…

How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming By: Mike Brown The solar system most of us grew up with included nine planets, with Mercury closest to the sun and Pluto at the outer edge. Then, in 2005, astronomer Mike Brown made the discovery of a lifetime: a tenth planet, Eris, slightly bigger than Pluto. But instead of its resulting in one more planet being added to our solar system, Brown’s find ignited a firestorm of controversy that riled the usually sedate world of astronomy and launched him…

Planet Nine is a planet thought to be found in the outer region of our solar system, lurking in deep space. Although it is hypothetical, there is evidence that leads us humans to believe it is real. This topic is interesting to me because humans have never seen Planet Nine but it would explain why objects from the Kuiper Belt have extraordinary orbits. This planet is thought to be a rogue planet, one in which has been captured by our sun, and then flung just past where astronomers can view…

planet. Scientists have been debating for years whether Pluto should considered a planet and part of our solar system. Pluto should still be a planet regardless of its size, and there are plenty more information to understand why it should be a planet, especially in our solar system. First of all, according to, Discovery Education, “For 80 years, schoolchildren have been taught that the Solar System has nine planets, from innermost Mercury to outermost Pluto. The astronomers at IAU knew that…