* As a physical body: * Small (about 0.055 Earth’s mass) * No permanent atmosphere; thin envelope of gas temporarily trapped from the solar wind * Surface covered with craters (caused by meteoroids) * Lacks maria like the moon‚ however * Intercrater plains – craters are less densely packed than the moon * No evidence of plate tectonics like on Earth * Scarps – surface ridges/cliffs (think shriveled apple effect) * Caloris Basin – huge
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After 45 years‚ the moon landing hoax is still a prominent debate. On July 20‚ 1969 America changed forever. This remarkable event had not taken not because of any event that took place here on earth‚ but a remarkable event that happen in the heavens‚ when man first walked on the moon. At this time our world was changing in leaps and bounds and it was a time of endless opportunity. In spite of all the evidence to the contrary‚ theorists say the moon landing was stage The U.S. government‚ desperate
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days – around 90 Earth days)‚ but it’s been overstaying its welcome to this day‚ operating for over 4‚000 days [10]. After its initial landing‚ Opportunity searched through rock and soil in a crater (which it happened to land in) and take high-resolution photos of its site. Next‚ it traveled to the Endurance crater and the location of the impact of its own heat shield‚ where it found an intact meteorite on the planet’s surface [11]. Early in the rover’s life‚ disaster struck as Opportunity lodged itself
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The Dinosaur’s Demise About 65 million years ago‚ a huge asteroid about 10 kilometers (6 miles) in diameter supposedly struck the Earth and caused the extinction of dinosaurs (Than). But is it really possible that one meteor could kill over 700 different species of dinosaurs? Could the asteroid really have been so big that it devastated the entire world? Is there any explanation to why the asteroid hit in the first place? There is no way that scientists could truly find the answer to any of these
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Venus: Death of a Planet Objectives The mission’s major objective is the first global examination of the atmosphere of Venus. The very hot and dense atmosphere appears to be completely different from the one around Earth. Existing meteorological models fail to predict the behavior of Venus’ thicker blanket of gases. Venus Express’ objectives include the study of the huge greenhouse effect on Venus (the strongest found in the Solar System); the hurricane force winds that permanently encircle
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Crater Lake partially fills a type of volcanic dejection called a caldera that formed by the collapse of a volcano identified as Mount Mazama during an colossal eruption approximately 7‚700 years ago. Located on the Cascade- Sierra Mountains Plateau area of southern Oregon‚ “Mount Mazama is one of the major volcanoes of the Cascades Arc” (USGS) that extends from northern California to British Columbia. the devastating eruption of Mount Mazama altered the landscape all around the volcano. Pyroclastic
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increasingly recognized as an important role in adaptive radiation. The plasticity leads to the production of phenotypes that are well suited for the ecological niches. The Midas cichlid fish‚ which are distributed in the Nicaraguan great lakes and several crater lakes‚ have been known for their intraspecific polymorphism‚ and phenotypic plasticity. The lower pharyngeal jaw of the Midas cichlid fish Amphilophus citrinellus was tested in different diets for its phenotypic plasticity. The study found that different
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Chapter 1 1.1 Earth Science & the Earth System -Earth science is the study of Earth and the processes that shape it -The earth system is composed of four principal components: atmosphere (air‚ weather)‚ hydrosphere (water‚ ice)‚ biosphere (plants‚ animals)‚ and geosphere (land‚ rocks). - Earth science can be broadly defined as the investigation of interactions among the four parts of the earth system. - The second largest earthquake ever recorded buckled the seafloor west of Sumatra‚ Indonesia
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The City of Bandung The City of Bandung is a city and also is a capital city of West Java Province This city at the past is known as Paris van Java (Dutch) or “Paris from Java Because it is located in the highlands‚ Bandung is known as an air cool. City of flowers is another name for this city‚ and also Bandung is known as the shopping city‚ with malls and factory outlets are widely spread in the city. And in 2007‚ the British Council made the city of Bandung as the most creative pilot project
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rain and storm; in the second Millennium it would have risen just before the autumnal rainy season. John H. Rogers observed that Hydra signified Ningishzida‚ the god of the underworld in the Babylonian compendium MUL.APIN. He proposed that Corvus and Crater (along with Hydra) were death symbols and marked the gate to the underworld.[1] These two constellations‚ along with the eagle Aquila and the fish Piscis Austrinus‚ were introduced to the
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