can see Jupiter from Earth with the naked eye. The red spot on Jupiter is a storm that has raged for 350 years. It has a very thin system of rings that are smaller than Saturn’s rings. Eight different spacecrafts have gone on missions to Jupiter. The Juno is now on its way to Jupiter and will get there next year. Future missions will focus on Jovian moons. It has 2.5 times the mass of all the other planets in the solar system combined. Jupiter is 318 times the mass of Earth. The gas giant has at
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Impact Hypothesis” the theory that during the formation of the Solar System when Proto-Earth was being formed a proto-planet the size of Mars, named Theia (named after the Greek god Theia who was the mother of the goddess of the moon.) was on a collision course with the earth, which impacted and broke off a part of the top hemisphere of earth. The debris of the collision soon solidified into a flat disk around the earth and eventually all the debris formed into the Moon. During this time the moon was
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carbon dioxide in atmosphere, completing the cycle .Greenhouse effect is a natural process which made life on Earth feasible. Our planet's surface temperature would have been 33 degrees Celsius cooler, -18 C instead of present 15 C, if not for naturally occurring greenhouse gases . The temperature of Earth's atmosphere is regulated by a process in which the quantity of energy Earth gets from the Sun is poised by the amount returned back into space. Greenhouse gases in atmosphere let the energy
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space • The study of the earth and its features and of the distribution of life on the earth, including human life and the effects of human activity. Latitude: is a geographic coordinate that specifies the north-south position of a point on the Earth's surface. Latitude ranges from 0° at the Equator to 90° (North or South) at the poles. Latitude is used together with longitude to specify the precise location of features on the surface of the Earth. [pic] Some important Latitudes
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other reservoirs include the atmosphere, lakes, rivers, soils, glaciers, and snowfields. What causes the hydrologic cycle to continue from day to day? The answer would be the sun, because the sun provides the energy needed for evaporation. The reason for the water cycle is so that the Earth does not go dry and that there is continuous water flow every day, one way or
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Although the idea of an asteroid colliding with Earth is common trope in science fiction, the threat of such an event is very real. Thousands of asteroids and comets in our solar system have been identified as possible threats known as near-Earth objects, or NEOs. Though many are relatively small, even small asteroids can cause disproportionate devastation. Due to the threat NEOs pose, they are being monitored by government agencies. Several methods of protecting the planet from collision have
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woman, Eve, eats the forbidden fruit, though expressly told not to. Her action dooms humanity to become mortal, and to be cast out of the Garden of Eden. Similarly in “The Diver”, a godlike woman causes trouble in heaven and falls from the sky down to Earth, and "Here, mysteriously, she gave birth and from her children came all human beings”. “Pandora’s Box” also follows the same pattern of a curious woman ruining life for men. Pandora, "The first woman, created by the gods to look beautiful and possess
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different rate than the poles of the Sun. The poles take about 11 more days to spin than the equator. Even though it is not a planet, it is orbited by 8 different planets, 5 dwarf planets, 10000 asteroids, and 100000-3 trillion comets and icy bodies. Now knowing a bit about what the Sun is composed of, we can talk about how the Sun affects our everyday life. Without the Sun, life on earth would not exist. If the Sun were to “disappear” one day, we would notice a temperature drop within a week. Our average
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There are various ecological processes that affect our life on Earth. The water cycle, phosphorus cycle, nitrogen cycle and carbon cycle are only a few examples of these processes; but are all equally important in the function of our atmosphere. The carbon cycle is vital to the flow of carbon through the Earth system. An individual carbon atom compacted in a leaf on a bush may move to the body of an animal that eats the leaf. When the animal dies, this carbon atom could link with oxygen to form
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swinging comes to an end. This principle was applied to the movement of the Earth and it helped prove that our planet is indeed turning. Mercury Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and the smallest planet in our solar system. The ratio of days to years on Mercury is very different from the ratio on Earth. On Mercury, it takes 88 Earth days to revolve around the sun, but with regards to its much slower rotation speed, 3 days on Mercury is equal to 2 orbits (or years) around the sun. One of the
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