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Without planets there would be no life. ---- Answer provided by Ed Frederick, Ph.D. Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

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. ---- Answer provided by Ed Frederick, Ph.D. Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the ...

The ice rings are only around the gas giants. The gas giants are very, very big compared to the Earth. Because each set of rings has to be bigger than the planet they surround, the rings are very, very, very big. ---- Answer provided by Ed Frederick, Ph.D. Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to ...

The planets are not floating because to do so, they would need to float on a liquid or in a gas. They are moving through empty space. ---- Answer provided by Ed Frederick, Ph.D. Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - PLANETS

... -"We are third generation star stuff " He meant that two other stars lived their lives and ended their lives by spewing the atoms of creation throughout our solar nebula neighborhood, which helped the ... from carbon to oxygen to silicon and iron were made within the fiery core of ancient stars. Look around you. We are all here because of distant stars that lived and ended their lives. We are indeed "star stuff" and it is no wonder that we are struggling to take the first small steps back into space, to begin the exploration of what was once ...

... on board your spacecraft. These tanks are used to re-fill the oxygen used on an EVA. Some very intelligent people on the ground know in advance how much oxygen you will need during your space trip and will make sure you have enough stored oxygen to last. The oxygen tanks on board the spacecraft are pretty large and will not be changed out once you leave the Earth. In the future, you may have personal oxygen ...

When you orbit the Earth just above the atmosphere it takes 90 minutes to go once around. So that means in a 24- ... —and they are all particularly beautiful in space ---- Answer provided by Derek Webber & Capt. USN (Ret.) William Readdy Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to ...

... space there is a wind called the solar wind. It originates on the Sun and blows past the Earth at thousands to millions of miles per hour. The solar wind speed can range from ... by Robert P. McCoy, Ph.D. Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer Image:9781894959421.jpg '''Buy This ...

... those planets that form close to a sun because they will be very hot and will usually also lack atmospheres that are dense enough to hold hydrogen, oxygen, and other gases around the planet. On those planets, unless water or water-ice is in cold-traps ...

... the Shuttle or on the Space Station. Things have mass all the time because mass is the amount of matter we are made up of. Weight, then, is the pull of gravity on that mass at the planet ... important thing to remember in space is that inertia is a function of mass, not weight. Changing direction while walking on the ... the mass of the Moon with the mass of the Earth shows how much less massive the ...

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