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Our closest celestial neighbor might seem tiny in comparison to Earth, but the Moon is in fact the biggest satellite in relation to its planet. It is also the 5th largest moon in our solar system, preceded by Jupiter’s moons Ganymede, Callisto, and Io, and Saturn’s giant moon Titan....
How fast does the Earth spin? Earth: Earth is one of eight planets that belong to the Solar System and orbit around a large star that is often called the Sun. Not only is the Earth orbiting around the Sun, but it also revolves about its own axis, or in other words, spins. ...
How does Earth compare to the other planets in the solar system? This illustration shows the sizes of the inner terrestrial planets (left to right: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars). (Image credit: NASA) Earth is the fifth-largest planet in the solar system, behind Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ...
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Photo: Piston engine: One way to make lots of power, consistently, is to use lots of cylinders. This classic Bristol Jupiter piston engine has nine cylinders arranged at the center of a hub, like the spokes in a bicycle wheel, all pushing into a central crank. Known as a radial design...
How does our moon compare to others in the solar system? According to the science education website The Nine Planets (they still love Pluto), our moon is the biggest in the solar system relative to the size of its planet, it is the fifth-biggest overall. Jupiter's moon Ganymede is th...
000 feet below the surface. The data and images these robots report will help scientists study the deepest corners of the ocean. Orpheus could pave the way for exploring other planets and moons suspected to have water on them, including Saturn’s moon Titan and Jupiter’s moon Europa. Robots...
Plug in a planet's distance from the sun for d (in AU), crunch the numbers, and you'll get the length of its year in terms of Earth years. For example, Jupiter's distance from the sun is 5.2 AU. That makes the length of a year on Jupiter equal to: ...
thatlightcan travel is about 27,000 million miles away. Thelight-year is shorter than a million miles, but the longer it is, the greater the distance it travels. In astronomy, alight-year is equivalent to more than five billion kilometers, which is the distance between Earth and Jupiter....