Mission Name: Juno Objective: To improve our understanding of the solar system’s beginnings by revealing the origin and evolution of Jupiter. Mission Type: Orbit. Encounter date: July 2016 Operational dates: August 2011- October 2017 Launch Vehicle: United Launch Alliance Atlas V-551 Lab/Agency: Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California/ NASA Scientific Instruments: - Microwave Radiometer – analyze the deep atmosphere at radio wavelengths of 1.3 cm to 50 cm. Uses
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The Milky Way Galaxy * A spiral type of Galaxy * composed of 200 billion stars. * One revolution every ~200 million years. * 100,000 lights years long * 3000 light years wide Our Solar System is mainly composed of: * STARS * PLANETS * SPACE DEBRIS STARS - are luminous heavenly bodies which have their own light. We can see near about 2500 stars on a clear night with our naked eye. But in actual, total no of stars are countless. The star which is nearest to earth
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Casandra Lopez Korenic-Astronomy Sun I will be writing about the Sun, and how it plays a part in our Solar System. Starting with what our Sun is composed of, being that it is not a planet. It is a star, since it has no solid surface. It’s made of gases, 7.8 percent of Helium and 92.1 percent of Hydrogen. Being that it is not a solid body, the equator of the Sun spins at a 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
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ORBIT: Rosetta has a complex trajectory which includes four gravity assist maneuvers (3 x Earth, 1 x Mars) before finally reaching the comet. On arrival at 67P Rosetta will enter orbit around the comet and stay with it as it journeys in towards the Sun. MILESTONES: To study the origin of comets, the relationship between cometary and interstellar material, and its implications with regard to the origin of the Solar System. The measurements to be made to achieve this are: Global characterisation
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Discussion Board NO MISSION TO MARS Many points could be made about benefitting from a human mission to Mars and back, but I believe this type of mission would be a waste of valuable money. With our country already facing so many financial problems, it is in my mind, one of the least logical decisions to keep pumping money into this program. Besides discovering another life form or valuable resource, what would we have to gain from a human mission to Mars. Yes, of course
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Living on Mars project By Jason Abraham Mr Selmanoski 04.01.2016 In my Living on Mars project on sketchup, I have included the basic requirements needed for a family of four to be able to live on Mars. I have included all of the mandatory rooms needed and I have added a separate space shuttle landing bay. For my renewable energy source, I have used solar panels on top of the shuttle. Since there is not that much atmosphere on Mars, more of the Suns radiation will come onto Mars so by using solar
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earth) is made of nothing but imperfect copies of what was imagined to be perfect. Also, the perfect World of Forms (heavens) was where ideas, thoughts, concepts, imagination, reason, etc. exists. The seven planets ((in order; Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn) were intangible gods; therefore, they were part of the World of Forms. Plato taught that when people acted on perfect ideas (i.e., built stuff), the outcome, in the material world, must be imperfect. [Socrates taught
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QUALITY MANAGEMENT PLAN In quality management, the MediWatch project team identified the quality requirements and standards that are relevant to the project and how to satisfy them. (Schwalbe, 2014, p. 315). The MediWatch quality management plan includes creating and following policies and procedures to ensure that our project meets the defined needs it was intended to meet from the customer's perspective. The objective of this plan is to identify all relevant standards and requirements for the
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For my topic I am talking about Venus, Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It also is the second brightest object in the night sky after the moon. Venus was named after the Roman Goddess of love and beauty. Venus is known for as the second largest terrestrial planet it also is referred as Earth’s sister because of the size and mass of the planet. The surface of Venus is surrounded by an opaque layer of clouds made up of sulfuric acid. Venus is also known as the hottest planet in our solar system
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Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, is a rocky, solid planet and is therefore called a terrestrial planet. It was once volcanic. As such, it... Due to a thin atmosphere, the surface also shows evidence of many impacts, as it has many craters. Temperatures can vary between 90 and 700 Kelvin. Because of the wildly fluctuating conditions caused by these temperatures, and also due to any life-sustaining elements (although there is some evidence of water at the poles), there is almost certainly no
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