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... motion around it. So, the Earth always spins in the same direction once a day, around an imaginary axis which lines up with the Pole Star. The tilted axis (23 degrees) gives ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here
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Earth is about 8,000 miles across from side to side, or 25,000 miles around the equator, which is pretty big—a modern jetliner takes nearly two days to fly around ... are bigger planets such as Jupiter, which is 11 times bigger than Earth. The Earth is almost a perfect sphere but is slightly flattened at the poles, so there is a difference of 25 miles in the ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here
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... to be able to see the whole Earth at once. But they could certainly see that the Earth is round because they can see that the horizon is curved instead of straight, and because they kept coming around it every 90 minutes The Apollo astronauts, who went to the Moon, could see the whole Earth in their sky, just as we can see the whole Moon in our sky at night. It certainly looks perfectly round, but precise measurements show that it is slightly ...
Yes, we believe it is. We are working right now to design and construct a ribbon that will be attached to an anchor on Earth and extend up to space. This ribbon will be strong and tight, allowing us to climb from Earth to space.
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Answer provided by Bradley C. Edwards, Ph.D.
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... not know yet whether that is true. We have only just begun to develop the technologies to check. Life grows in amazing places all over the Earth, even in deep dark caves ... us humans busy for a long time exploring. If this "pale blue dot" called the Earth is the only place in the vastness of space which has living things, will that make ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here
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... at night. You can see other lights, too. Sometimes you can see an aurora, which is a ghostly light effect near the poles, and sometimes you can see lightning in the ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here
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... the speed of light it takes eight minutes to get between the Sun and the Earth. Our whole solar system sits somewhere near the outer edge of the fairly average spinning ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here
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... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here
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... Galactic has already sold many tickets for its first space flights. There is a family from France who is making a reservation and hopes to be the first family in space, and ...
To move faster, you need more fuel, which means you have to carry it. So the more fuel you can carry, the faster you can go. To go really, really fast, we have to invent a new rocket engine that gives us a lot of power for a little bit of fuel, any ideas?
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Answer provided by John Cavallaro
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