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... that the Moon came from an enormous impact long ago in Earth's history—the big whack theory—is that the abundance of elements in the Moon's crust are very similar to those found in the Earth's crust. These chemicals are all mixed together in the form of different ...
The Sun is our nearest star and is composed of mostly hydrogen and helium. It is a giant ball of incandescent gas 872,000 miles in diameter, which gives off energy across the entire electromagnetic spectrum.
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White light is a combination of all the wavelengths emitted by the Sun in the visible spectrum. When we see a material that is black, it is absorbing most of the light hitting its surface so it appears black ... eyes. You might think of black in space as an area of space which is not illuminated by our Sun or another star, so the black in space is actually the absence of any light as interpreted ...
... know what the core of the Moon consists of. However, they suspect that is not a large iron one like Earth's because of the Moon's low density and lack of a magnetic field. http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/moon_worldbook ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here
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The Moon is thought to be mostly made up of rocks and debris blown into orbit when a very large planetoid—at least as large as Mars— smacked into the Earth. Over time this ... and cooled and created the Moon. Since then it has been hit many, many times, by comets and asteroids, and most of that material will remain on the Moon. Sometimes the impact is big enough to blow ...
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 ...
... in an arc trajectory, like a ball flying through the air (this when the rocket is not powerful enough to reach orbit). The first sub-orbital hop was by astronaut Commander Alan ... number of people who have completed sub-orbital hops, including the SpaceShipOne pilots Mike Melvill and Brian Binnie. The shortest duration flight for someone reaching orbit was the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the ...
Flying in space is dangerous, and always will be. It's an unforgiving environment. Currently we have lost one ... . Col. USAF (Ret.) William G. Gregory
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... of sleep a night. This is probably due to a variety of factors, such as a busy schedule, and the adaptation to spaceflight. On longer duration missions they can get six to eight hours of sleep a night, depending on the person.
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... horizontally at speeds of at least 17,500 miles per hour (mph) but remain under the influence of Earth's gravity. When the calculations are done correctly, there is a tug of war between the tendency to speed off in a straight line, and Earth's attraction, which results in pulling the spacecraft back into a circuit of the Earth. At the lowest orbital ...
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