Mars is a fascinating planet full of interesting surprises. Mars is the 4th planet from the Sun, right after Earth. When Mars is the very closest to Earth it can be only 33.9 million miles from Earth (54.6 million kilometers). This happens every two years and is the best time to send a spacecraft to Mars. Even at its closest point a trip to Mars is 300 days or 10 months. However, when it is the furthest away it’s almost 250 million miles from Earth (401 million km). But on average it is about 140
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The Earth is going to be a very different place 250 million years from now. Africa is going to smash into Europe as Australia migrates Southward to merge with Asia. Meanwhile the Atlantic Ocean will probably widen for a spell before it reverses course and later disappears, forming a cluster of land at the median of Earth and expanding the vastness of the oceans.Two hundred and fifty million years ago the landmasses of Earth were clustered into one supercontinent dubbed Pangea. After looking at this
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Joined together with fire 1.So you may ask yourself who likes to play with fire so much that they do it for their job? well welders do so now you may be asking yourself what's a welder? well a welder is someone who fuses two pieces of metal together or disconnects using a welder or welding torch. the reason I chosen this is because not only is it an exciting job but it pays well and is just something I've been interested in for a long time. it is a dangerous job but is also well worth it. 2. This
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As inky darkness sank into the sky,black clouds sprawled across the sky. The city was a labyrinth of lights and noise with twinkling lights. The maze of the buildings and streets were packed with businessmen furiously pushing past each other to get to their offices. The buildings were tinted bronze in the faltering light, the gloomy mood of the sky spreading over the city. A small slender figure stared at the sky while entering a building which was a jungle of steel and glass and
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solidifying the fact that an official set of constellation boundaries were necessary. As history progressed, the Greek Zodiac eventually came to be, which is a circle of twelve 30-degree divisions of celestial longitude centered upon the apparent path of the sun (Merriam-Webster). Cancer is one of these twelve constellations, stemming from the Latin meaning ‘crab,’ as it is commonly represented as one. With an area of 506 square degrees, Cancer is considered a medium-size constellation as well as one of the
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The Lost Light: The Mystery of the Missing Cape Hatteras Fresnel Lens: A Civil War History of Extinguished Southern Sentinels and Hidden Lighthouse Lenses written by Kevin Duffus is a chronicle of his search for the lens. Kevin Duffus is a North Carolina historian and author of four books. He, as a teenager, became intrigued by the mystery of the missing light. But, Duffus says that, as time went by and other opportunities took precedence, “Those words eventually became a vague and distant image
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Meow and Wolverine War On a night like any other night, work seemed the same I went to work as a maid to the houses near the volcano. I travel down the side of the street because I don’t have a car I lost it in the divorce with my ex-husband. On the other hand, the view is so nice at night and it makes me feel good inside, but this night I wasn't feeling good like I usually do maybe I'm not feeling good today all I really know is I have to go to my crappy job for a dollar and some change. For
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Using a small black cloth, provided by John, I wrapped it around my head, preventing from any further sandstorms to whip the grains into my eyes and nose. It was able to protect my nose, and only times when I needed to cover up my eyes, I extended the cloth to the top of my eyebrows. There was little conversations among John and I, just the simple questions and answers when we rode our horses throughout the Joavudd territory. The sound of the occasional wind and scurrying of animals- the sound
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A. Constellation: Libra, The Scales Libra represents a balance scale. They gave it this name because the sun passed across the face of the constellation at the time of the autumnal equinox in September, when day and night are of roughly equal length, so the heavens are balanced. (StarDate, Website) Libra is the only zodiac constellation that represents an object, not an animal or a character from mythology. This constellation is best seen in June at 9:00 PM. B. Stars/Galaxies The Libra constellation
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1. The earth’s heat imbalance is due to a heat surplus and a heat deficit. The tropical regions receive more heat energy from the sun when compared to the Polar Regions due to factors such as distance from the sun, atmospheric depletion, unit surface area and angle of strike. 2. This heat imbalance may be transferred across the earth in order to try and stabalise this imbalance. This is done by ocean currents and winds. Warm ocean currents transfer warm water from warm, tropical regions to cold Polar
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