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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. http://www.spaceweather.com/ (See CDROM ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here
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... in space but they are unlike storms on Earth which can be a combination of high wind, rain and even oppressive heat. In space, which is a pretty good vacuum, extremes ... 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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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 ...
There is no dark side of the Moon. This is a term often used to refer to the far side of the Moon. The far side is always pointed away from the Earth because of the rotation period of the Moon matching that of Earth's. However it receives as much sunshine as the side of the Moon facing the ...
... is hardly addressed; the tax-paying public is expected to pay for almost all of the program's financial cost.
Finally, what is the fundamental purpose of the initial human Moon activity that is planned? Is ... economic globalization and its likely influence on the U.S. economy. (The Internet: www.nationalacademies.org; The New York Times; October 13, 2005; page A16; The Washington Post; October 13, ...
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 ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here
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The human body likes room temperature around 70° F. People live with arctic gear at temperatures down to -80° F and below. There are inhabited regions of the Earth where temperatures ... by Robert P. McCoy, Ph.D.
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The planets show weather that is vastly different and yet strangely similar to the Earth's. For example, the red spot on Jupiter is a large cyclone, like a hurricane on the Earth, but the size is enormous and the Jovian storm lasts for hundreds or thousands of years
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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. We are about 20,000 light years from its edge.
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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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