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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.
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Answer provided by Ed Frederick, Ph.D.
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... 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 ...
... , the Russian rovers on the Moon, were both around the same size: 1,850 pounds. Compared to the two Martian rovers, Spirit and Opportunity that are each only 400 pounds, it is easy to see which are the biggest. CanadArm 2, on the ISS ...
... size to the airlock on the Space Shuttle. On the Russian side there is a combination docking and airlock module called Pirs, which means "pier" in Russian. It has a mass of around 8,580 pounds, is 13.45 feet long and 8.53 feet in diameter.
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Answer provided by Russell Romanella
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... RINGS AROUND THE WORLD'''
by Gartmann, H.
''New York, 1959: William Morrow and Co., 366 pages, $5.95''
This interesting book relates space travel to mankind's scientific progress (the sub-title is "Man ... Steam Engine to Satellite").The last two chapters, entitled "Penetration into Space" and "The Race to the Stars," cover rocket history, basic astronautics, Sputniks, Explorers, and the future.
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When you orbit the Earth just above the atmosphere it takes 90 minutes to go once around. So that means in a 24-hour day, if you look down from orbit, you ... —and they are all particularly beautiful in space
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Answer provided by Derek Webber & Capt. USN (Ret.) William Readdy
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The largest asteroids are a few hundred miles across. From there they go down to about the size of rocks that we find here on Earth—and everything in between.
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Answer ... .D. & Capt. USN (Ret.) William Readdy
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... see within our Universe (due to the limiting factor of the speed of light) is about 13.7 billion light years That number is so big that I can't even come up with a comparison to make it meaningful.
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Answer provided by Jim Zebrowski
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... stop the baskets as they slide down the wire. The angle of the slide wire causes the baskets to move the astronauts as far away from the Space Shuttle as possible. The braking system stops the baskets from hitting the ground too hard. Once launched, the ...
No, the rings of Saturn are chunks of ice and/or ice-covered rocks.
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Answer provided by Ed Frederick, Ph.D.
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