For years Mars has been known to have water in the form of ice. The first signs of trickling water are dark stripes or stains on crater wall and cliffs seen in satellite images. Due to Mars’ atmosphere this water would have to be salty to prevent it from freezing or vaporising. One ...
21. On February 14, 1990, the Voyager 1 took the first ever image of the solar system known as the “family Portrait” from a distance of 6 billion kilometers. It features individual images of six planets (Mercury and Mars excluded). It is also the source of the most distant image of...
Mars Facts Jupiter Facts Saturn Facts Uranus Facts Neptune Facts The Solar System Dwarf Planets What is Outer Space Space is the area beyond the upper limits of Earth’s atmosphere. It is where all of the asteroids, comets, planets, stars, solar systems and galaxies in our universe are found...
Mars has a red hue to it which is the result of an iron-oxide rich surface. You might known iron-oxide by its more familiar name of rust. It is about half the size of Earth but does have some familiar surface features. Volcanoes pepper the surface...
While the existence of ozone in Venus’ atmosphere is helpful in understanding the chemistry of the planet’s atmosphere better, some astronomers are touting the discovery as a means to detectlife on exoplanets. However, as with the ozone on Mars, the ozone in Venus’ atmosphere has a non-...
And here are10 Interesting Facts About Planet Earth, and1o Interesting Facts About Mars. For more information, check out theHubblesite’s News Releases about Jupiter, and NASA’sSolar System Exploration. We’ve also recorded an entire show just on Jupiter for Astronomy Cast. Listen to it here...
Neptune's upper atmosphere hosts constantly changing clouds and other features. This shows the atmosphere in visible light and with a blue filter to bring out details.NASA/ESA STSCI Neptune is an incredibly lovely blue color. That's largely because of the tiny bit of methane in the atmosphere...
Jupiter is believed to have played akey rolein the formation of the Solar System, as its massive gravity influenced the orbits of other objects and prevented the formation of a planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Despite its massive size, Jupiterrotateson its axis at an incr...
On Earth, there are 1,500 known active volcanoes, and Mars is best known for the largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons. However, Venus has over 1,600 known major volcanoes, and that's not including the smaller ones or any that haven't been detected yet. 8. No companion...
2.The Mars Volta were one of the first El Paso bands to be featured in a video game: Fans of Guitar Hero might remember a long time ago a game called Guitar Hero World Tour. On the game features a song by both The Mars Volta & At The Drive-In:L'Via L'Vasquez&One Armed Scissor...