In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were given to the Planets, as being the names of their principal heroes and divinities. In the present more philosophical era it would hardly be allowable to have recourse to the same method a...
Planet Facts Let's learn all about the planets of our solar system! There are eight planets in our solar system, but did you know there used to be nine of them? Let's dive right in and explore the planets. Quick Planet Facts Only a very small portion of
It is the second closest planet to the sun and is the hottest planet – even hotter thanMercurywhich is the closest planet to the sun! Wow, that must be hot. The reason for this is that Mercury can’t retain or keep heat, because it has no atmosphere. Venus has a very dense, rapid...
Although it looks small from Earth, the sun can fit around 1.3 million squashed Earths inside it or about 960,000 if the planet retains its spherical shape Because of their close distance to the sun, Mercury and Venus don’t have moons – the sun’s gravity is too strong and will pull...
Mercury mission to take long, cool look at a hot planetWarren E. Leary
Facts, rumors, and distortions have been flying for months, and heating up even more in the past few weeks, about the on and off switches of the US Legislature regarding rules for energy efficiency of light bulbs. It’s a light issue next to the question of whether the United States will...
Well, we certainly wouldn't be as close to that sort of a star as we are to the sun, but life evolves on the planet that is just the right distance form the star. Venus and Mercury have surface temperatures that are over 4 times as hot as boiling water. Mars and the Galilean moons...
Katharine and her husband, evangelical pastor Andrew Farley, have authored the defining book for the planet-loving believer, A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions. I got to know Katharine as we worked on Showtime’s climate documentary Years of Living Dangerously. ...
in astatement. “Also, if the magnetic field is too strong, it would push the core into the white dwarf, destroying it. Hence, we should only look for planets around those white dwarfs with weaker magnetic fields at a separation between about 3 solar radii and the Mercury-Sun distance.”...
pantaloons sailed around the planet, ordering up silk and spices. Yet drones and robots are ushering in a new era of investigation, enabling mankind to go farther out in space,dive deeperdown into the ocean, and even uncover new facts in places where researchers have looked many times before...