MERCURY Mercury is the first planet from the sun and the smallest planet at the moment. Its revolution period is 88 earth days and its ration time is 59 days. Mercury is made up of core-iron-nickel alloy, mantle, and then the crust which is silicate. During the day mercury’s temperature reaches 800°F and at night it goes down to -279°F. Mercury looks similar to earth’s moon; it is covered with craters which are made from meteors, asteroids, and comets and it covers 70% of mercury. Its diameter
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Weir definitely made The Martian one of the most suspenseful and funny books of its time. There are not many characters incorporated into this book, but the main focus is on Mark Watney. The predicament that Mark gets into is that he gets stuck on Mars. The Martian is about Mark trying to get back to Earth and the people at NASA. The key things that strike the reader in The Martian are the great use of suspense and humor. Andy Weir also has an interesting backstory before he started writing The Martian
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e,The Solar System * The Solar System consists of the Sun and the astronomical objects bound to it by gravity, all of which formed from the collapse of a giant molecular cloud approximately 4.6 billion years ago. Of the many objects that orbit the Sun, most of the mass is contained within eight relatively solitary planets whose orbits are almost circular and lie within a nearly flat disc called the ecliptic plane. THE SUN The Sun is the most prominent feature in our solar system. It is the
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EARTH PERSPECTIVES The biological and geological future of the Earth can be extrapolated based upon the estimated effects of several long-term influences. These include the chemistry at the Earth's surface, the rate of cooling of the planet's interior, the gravitational interactions with other objects in the Solar System, and a steady increase in the Sun's luminosity. An uncertain factor in this extrapolation is the ongoing influence of technology introduced by humans, such as geoengineering, which
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1024 | 7 | Venus | 4.8685 x 1024 | 8 | Mars | 6.4185 x 1023 | 9 | Mercury | 3.3022 x 1023 | 10 | Moon | 7.349 x 1022 | 11 | Pluto | 1.25 x 1022 | Volume of the Planets and the Sun | Rank | Name | Volume (cubic km) | 1 | Sun | 1.409 x 1018 | 2 | Jupiter | 1.43128 x 1015 | 3 | Saturn | 8.2713 x 1014 | 4 | Uranus | 6.833 x 1013 | 5 | Neptune | 6.254 x 1013 | 6 | Earth | 1.08321 x 1012 | 7 | Venus | 9.2843 x 1011 | 8 | Mars | 1.6318 x 1011 | 9 | Mercury | 6.083 x
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before I go in I did this sky journal. The Moon’s phase is waxing crescent and very bright. The location of the moon is 80° SW. The planets that I found were Venus, Mars, and Jupiter again. With a very bright white light Venus is located about 20°-25° SW. Mars as usual this month is really close to Venus just about 1° NE of Venus. Mars location is about 18°-23° SW and blinking a shiny red. Jupiter on the other hand is just rising. The time reads 6:57 p.m. and it’s located about 45° E. The constellations
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1. Theme – Understanding the environment of Mars Abstract Recent success of 'Mangalyan' (Mars Orbitor Mission) has made all of us proud of our scientists and engineers. The study of Mars' environment will help us in understanding more about our own environment. This text gives inputs on environment of Mars which can be correlated to the concepts learned by the students in class IX Science. The students are not supposed to memorize the facts and figures mentioned in the text, rather study the facts
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Settlers on Mars Mars the red planet. A distant planet not so far from Earth was the next great step in mankind’s evolution. As the great Neil Armstrong once said “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. Being the first settlers on mars for a three year course, my life was now a roller coaster ride. I had the fear of the cart derailing at any moment before the end of the track surging within me. How will our first days go? What problems will we face in the months to come? Will
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New Planet Jane Doe Some University New Planet Coming into this technologically and scientifically-advanced time has gradually become a constructive and exciting time for scientists and the rest of humankind. In addition to the new technology that has come about, over time there’s no denying that we have uncovered an increasing number of planetary bodies; be it stars and or planets that could possibly sustain life or not at all. Since 2005, scientists have found a vast amount of “super-Earths”
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an infinite amount of theories that Scientist and Physicist alike are still trying to overcome. Which planet would we want to live on? We chose a moon proven to have liquid water under its surface, Enceladus. With other living options out there like Mars, or Titan (one of Saturn’s larger moons) we chose in our opinion one of the least taxing and more accommodating locations. Where and Why Enceladus? Enceladus is a one of the Saturn’s moons. Enceladus measures about 500 km (310 miles) in diameter
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