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There are many unique contrasts between Jovian and Terrestrial Planets. Firstly, Jovian Planets are visibly bigger than the Terrestrial Planets, which, are notably smaller. The reason, a Jovian Planet is bigger than a terrestrial planet due to its closeness to the sun as well as its chemical composition. Secondly, A Jovian Planet has rings while a Terrestrial Planet has none. A Jovian Planet’s rings have a composition of rock and ice that orbit the sun. However, A Terrestrial Planet does not…

Mercury There are no seasons on the surface. The colour of the surface is grey with white spots. On the surface there are craters. The mass of Mercury is 330,104,000,000,000 billion kg. Mercury is smaller than the Earth. A year on Mercury is about 88 (Earth) days. Mercury is very dense. Mercury is the second hottest planet in the world. Two spacecrafts have gone to Mercury. Mercury has the most craters in the Solar System. Mercury was named after the Roman god of messenger. Mercury…

Galileo Galilei, a man known for greatly improving the telescope, discovering Jupiter’s four moons, and being the guy who experimented with falling objects at the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Born on February 15th of 1564 in Pisa, Italy, Galileo was the first child of Vicenzo Galilei and Guilia Ammannati. Galileo started going to school at the Camaldolese Monastery at Vallombrosa when he and his family moved to Florence in 1574. For college, Galileo went to the University of Pisa to study medicine,…

Have you ever wonder why the planets are in the order they are in? What makes an inner planet? Are the inner planets the only ones found with life? The four inner planets are called terrestrial planets and they are the four closest to the sun. There are four inner planets: mercury, venus, earth, and mars. They are the closest to the sun. inner planets exist around stars and each one of them has a central care mostly made of iron. They are called inner planets because they are closer to the sun…

Pathway 1’s concept is a regimented mission set upon a regulated time frame designed to span every destination from Earth to Mars. This Pathway opens up various amounts of benefits. Not only does this Pathway span all possible destinations but it also aids in startup of bases that would become the starting grounds for new launches and explorations. According to Goodliff, Troutman, Craig, Caram and Herrmann (2016), “This concept is success-oriented, in that it assumes a successful sequence of…

billion miles [51]). Up until recently, our ability to observe it from afar was near non-existent. This icy gas giant experiences periods of day and night which last for 42 Earth years due to its 110 degrees axis tilt [14]. Uranus is not as stormy as Jupiter or Saturn, but within the 'Spring' section of the plant, where both cold and warm air meet, storms systems are active [25]. Uranus' atmosphere is mostly composed of 82.5% Hydrogen 15.2% Helium And 2.3% Methane [7]. This elements are the…

be the same plane of view as the star that we are looking at, because if we aren’t then we would never see the planet blocking the light from the star. Another downfall to the transit method is that is it more favorable to bigger planets like hot Jupiters, this is because it would a lot easier to see bigger planets blocking light than…

Neptune is one of the four large planets in our Solar System known as Gas Giants. It is the eighth planet in order from the Sun, and was seen through a telescope for the first time on the 23rd of September 1846. Keeping to the traditional naming system used for all the previous planets, Neptune was given its name based on the Roman god of the sea, in reference to Greek and Roman mythology. General Information: Neptune has a vivid blue colouration to its layer of cloud cover. Higher…

NASA has recently discovered a new planet Yelger in the Andromeda Galaxy. It is the right distance from the sun to support life. It is the same size and mass as Earth. It takes 700 Earth days to revolve around the sun(360 on Earth), and takes 20 Earth hours to rotate around its axis(24 on Earth). It’s temperatures are about the same as on Earth, and has a tilt of 45º. It’s moon is the same distance away from Earth but it twice the mass and size. Because Yelger takes 20 hours to rotate on it’s…

Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun in our solar system right in front of Venus. Mercury was named after a Roman god but is also called Hermes in Greek mythology who is the messenger of the gods. This relates to Mercury because it orbits the sun faster than all the other planets. Mercury is an extremely interesting planet in our solar system. Ancient people who lived in Mesopotamia(current day Iraq) called the Sumerians, first saw the planet Mercury in 3rd millennium B.C. Many old…