The Planets

The terrestrial planets differ from the Jovian planets, but in between the types there are similarities. The terrestrial planets have rocky surfaces and are similar in size, density, and radius. They also all have a similar core that is made out of mostly iron. The Jovian planets are composed of mostly hydrogen and helium. They also all have some type of water, usually as water vapor. When it comes to magnetic fields, all of the planets have one except for Venus and Mars. They do have some type…

The planets in the solar system are divided into terrestrial and jovian planets. They are different in their position, composition and other features. First of all, let us see what are the jovian and the terrestrial planets. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are the jovian planets. Mercury, Venus and Earth are the terrestrial planets. One of the main differences that can be seen between terrestrial and jovian planets, is their surfaces. While the terrestrial planets are made of solid surfaces,…

The connection between my article Mars, the red planet and The Martian by Andy Weir is that Mark Watney uses Mars’s two moons Phobos and Deimos to help him travel to the Pathfinder so he can communicate with NASA for help.When he travels at night he can’t see any of the landmarks like the craters to help him know the direction he is going so he uses Phobos and Deimos to help him travel. “Mars doesn’t have a magnetic field.So I navigate by Phobos. It whips around Mars so fast it actually rises…

recently found 7 new earth sized planets on February 22, 2017. They were orbiting what looks like a star similar to the Sun only 40 light-years away from the solar system. NASA believes that the planets could sustain liquids, the only downside is the amount of time it would take to travel to the Trappist-1. It would take 700,000 years just to travel to the Trappist-1. NASA believes that the 7 planets could sustain liquids just based off of the densities of the planets. The reason why this is…

Planet Midnight What happens when the Earth becomes uninhabitable?Where we anywhere to live?The planet Midnight is very similar to Earth. Our planet Midnight is habitable because of the sun planet system and seasons, water availability, and our animals ,adaptations and evolution.The atmosphere on Midnight traps heat and blocks the dangerous rays from its solar system star, Hansen that is 92.96 mi away from Midnight. Hansen is identical to The Sun. Our Star is a yellow dwarf that produces…

Mercury:The surface geology of the planet Mercury can be very easily described as - Rocky. Because of this it bears as strong resemblance to the earths moon. This is due the the heavily cratered surface which has been caused by asteroids which has caused these giant craters in the planets surface, leaving pulverized dust and boulders behind. The reason all of the asteroids were able to hit the surface of this planet is because its magnetic field is not strong enough to deflect or slow them down…

Mercury is a rocky planet and is the closest celestial body to the sun in our solar system. The planet is covered in many craters, boulders and pulverized dust. The planet lacks an atmosphere to help dictate temperature changes throughout a day, so the planet can experience many temperature swings multiple times per day. After a number of observations, it has been inferred that the planet has been geologically inactive for billions of years. There are no signs of dust storms, clouds, rivers…

After watching the "What You Aren't Being Told About Astronomy DVD" I choose to talk about Venus and the Moon. Venus, the hottest planet and scientifically the most similar to earth. Science used to call Venus "The Sister Planet" because it's made about the same stuff earth. The Evolutionary Model tells that Venus was formed by the same natural processes as the earth, at the same times, same place and from same materials. (Psarris, 2017) But in fact, Venus is very different from earth. Being in…

the dwarf planet known as Pluto was discovered! It was discovered by an astronomer named Clyde Tombaugh and named by an 11-year-old girl. It was the farthest planet and the smallest. However when it was discovered it was named a planet because they did not have much information about it. They assumed it was a planet. It looked like a planet so they thought it was a planet. 76 years after Pluto was discovered on August 24th, 2006 astronomers demoted Pluto from planet status to dwarf planet. Till…

about Pluto's classification as a planet. In 1930, Pluto was discovered 400 billion miles away from the sun by Clyde Tombaugh. "Clyde Tombaugh was an American astronomer who worked for the Lowell observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona" (Wikipedia). When Pluto was discovered it was classified as a planet, it became the 9th planet in the solar system. It wasn't much longer before its classification was in questioned, as a result people started saying that it was not a planet no more, but the…