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The surface is pretty strange. We know from analyzing the infrared light reflected from Pluto that its surface is a mixture of a lot of different sorts of ice (ordinary water ice, plus frozen ... by Dr. John Spencer, Ph.D.
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... , the Milky Way, it is so much more immense that we have to use different ways to describe distances. So we use light years. That sounds like a measurement of time, but it is not. It is a distance. A light year is about six million million miles, and the Milky Way is 100,000 light years across ...
Like the airline industry, it is expected that technology will make it possible for almost anyone of any age, who is physically able, to travel in space.
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... the crewmembers put on and take off their spacesuits. It's also the primary area for servicing and stowing the spacesuits. After exercising on the bicycle, spacewalkers float into the equipment lock where the ambient pressure is gradually lowered to 10.2 psi to help prepare their bodies for the even lower ...
... deg; F to over 200° F in the direct sunlight. If the Sun is in a very active part of its cycle, giant outbursts from the Sun called coronal mass ejections (CME) ... have some early warning from monitoring spacecraft like the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) so they could take shelter in the better radiation-shielded parts of the ISS.
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Because there is no atmosphere, the Moon does not have weather like the Earth. However, it is exposed to solar radiation storms which are considered to be a form of space weather. ... Matula, Ph.D. & Kenneth J. Murphy
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... stars. It has four arms that wrap around a large core of stars. At the center of the core is a massive black hole.
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The dark areas on the Moon are known as maria (MAHR ee uh). The word maria is Latin for seas; its singular is mare (MAHR ee). The term comes from the smoothness of the dark areas and their resemblance to bodies of water. The maria are cratered ...
Space weather is vastly different than terrestrial weather. It generally involves storms on the Sun—enormous masses of plasma (electrons and protons) impacting the Earth and creating electrical currents high in the atmosphere (aurora) and in the ground along pipelines. The plasma from the Sun penetrates satellites, causes radiation damage to ...
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