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The main asteroid belt extends from somewhat outside Mars' orbit to somewhat inside Jupiter's orbit. There are quite a few asteroids in various other places as well, including some that are within Earth ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here
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The Moon actually has three lengths, and its shape is technically known as a triaxial ellipsoid. As you look at the Moon, there is an axis that runs straight through it at the center pointing towards Earth (the longest one), one ... don't have adequate maps yet of the Moon to have an exact number for the diameters noted above, but on average the diameter of the Moon is about ~ 2,160 miles. http://www.nasa ...
No. The asteroid belt, which is between the planets Mars and Jupiter, is ten times closer to the Sun than Pluto and the asteroids are very small, so they would be lost in the glare of the Sun.
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Several spacecraft have already done so. Even though there are a lot of asteroids, they are actually quite far apart from each other. If we wanted to pass by ... special equipment to pass through the asteroid belt.
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Answer provided by Alan Hale, Ph.D. & Capt. USN (Ret.) William Readdy
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... years However, this is all in the future when scientists have developed a way to stop the human body from degrading in the weightless environment. This is the main limitation to safe, long-duration human spaceflight—if we aren't using our muscles against gravity like we do here on Earth everyday, they waste away. Also there is harmful ...
... only 400 pounds, it is easy to see which are the biggest. CanadArm 2, on the ISS, is still the largest in mass and length, at 3,530 pounds and 56 feet long. Of course, it ... either the Moon or Mars rovers. It is an important fact that the farther away a robot has to travel, the lighter it should be. The lighter something is, the cheaper it is to send into space. The smallest is the ...
... structure on the Moon, and possibly in the solar system, is the Aitken Basin on the far side of the Moon. This impact was so large that it punched through the crust of the Moon and exposed the relatively warmer, softer mantle material underneath. It is ...
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... cannot answer this question easily because time is part of space. A quick investigation shows that it will last for an incredibly long time, perhaps trillions of years.
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... you mean the edge of space as in the edge of the Universe, then that's a very different question, but the short answer would be that the journey would take a very, very long time—a far longer time than there have been humans on the Earth We cannot even see the edge of the ... yet There are many things about the Universe that we still do not understand, and its shape is one of them. It is even possible that there is no 'edge of space' like we ...
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