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The theory of how the planets formed is very complicated and still not fully understood by scientists. However, we should expect the planets to be different from each other, as different as rocks of different sizes and shapes in a field.
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Answer provided by Ed Frederick, Ph.D.
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... themselves together the same way that our Sun did. However, because they were so much smaller and less dense than the dust-cloud that formed the Sun, they did not generate the same intense heat and pressure ... oxygen, and other gases around the planet. On those planets, unless water or water-ice is in cold-traps or regions hidden from their sun's energy (usually in deep craters at the planet's poles) ...
There is gravity in space. Indeed, the Sun's gravity extends all the way out to the farthest planets and beyond. That is what keeps the planets from escaping from our solar system. And they do not bump into ... apart.
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Answer provided by Ed Frederick, Ph.D.
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... in the country, late on a summer night, you will see how the Milky Way got its name. There are so many stars, so close together and so far away, that they look like a creamy band across the sky.
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Answer provided by Jim Zebrowski
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... series of robotic spacecraft before Project Apollo. They were Ranger, Lunar Orbiter and Surveyor. Rangers 7-9 photographed the Moon up close before crashing on it. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary ... by Thomas Matula, Ph.D. & Kenneth J. Murphy
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... in the 1898 H.G. Wells novel The War of the Worlds, where Martians were described as an ancient, advanced race with a tentacled, squidlike appearance. Since that time, many authors have used Mars and Martians in their fiction ...
... the Moon since there is no atmosphere to absorb the light from the Moon reaching the eyes of the astronauts.
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Answer provided by Thomas Matula, Ph.D. & Kenneth J. Murphy
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The planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are the closest in character. They are very large, cold, gaseous planets. The other five planets are very different in character from the gas giants and are also very different from each other.
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Answer provided by Ed Frederick, Ph.D.
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... after the king of Olympus, a powerful figure in Roman mythology—also known as Zeus to the Greeks. However, because Jupiter is visible to the naked eye, even the ancient Sumerians and Babylonians knew of the planet. The ancients referred to the planet as Enlil ...
... need spacesuits and artificial environments to survive on the planet Mars. There have been many debates and studies about artificially engineering an Earth-like environment on Mars (called terraforming). However, many challenges and ethical issues ... happen.
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Answer provided by Laura Peckyno & Robert Peckyno
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