Mercury Mountaineer

All Summer in a Day The short story, “All Summer in A Day”, by Ray Bradbury, was written in 1954. This story is about how people live in a planet called Venus. In Venus, it always rains. The last time the sun came out was seven years ago. It is always rainy there and people are tired of seeing it rain. One of the major events that happens in this story is that one day the sun comes out, but not for long. The mood in the story shifts from exciting to defeated to remorseful. In the beginning of

During this time period, Ptolemy’s geocentric theory of the solar system was accepted. Ptolemy’s theory stated that Earth is at the center of the universe and stationary; closest to Earth is the Moon, and beyond it, expanding towards the outside, are Mercury, Venus, and the Sun in a straight line, followed by Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and the “fixed stars”. The Ptolemaic system explained the numerous observed motions of the planets as having small spherical orbits called epicycles (“Astronomy” 2). Kepler

Mercury Poisoning The article “Our Preferred Poison” in the March 2005 issue of Discover magazine brings up the issue dealing with mercury poisoning. The author, Karen Wright, writes, “Mercury is unimaginably toxic and dangerous. A single drop on a human hand can be irreversibly fatal. A single drop in a large lake can make all the fish in it unsafe to eat.” This was the opening statement in the article which first grabbed my attention, because I had not thought mercury to be such a deadly

Kepler’s Laws Johannes Kepler formulated the Three Laws of Planetary Motion. The first is the Law of Orbits, stating that all planets move in elliptical orbits with the sun at one focus. The second law is the Law of Areas. This is the idea that a line that connects the planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in the plane of the planet’s orbit in equal time intervals. Last is the Law of Periods which states that the square of the period of any planet is proportional to the cube of the semi major

Planets on YouTube will help us to explore our options. This video looks at 6 other Planets that may or may not be possibilities of sustaining life. The first planet was Mercury. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and one day on mercury lasts up to 58 days on Earth due to its slow rotation. There is one positive aspect of Mercury,

Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun, right behind Saturn, and in front of Neptune. Uranus is considered a Jovian planet alongside with Jupiter, Saturn & Neptune. In 1781, a British astronomer named William Hershel discovered the planet of Uranus. Hershel discovered the planet through his 6-inch telescope and thought it moved relative to the star, but noticed it traveled rather slow to be a star of some sort. Hershel originally wanted to name the planet Georgium Sidus, which is Latin for “George’s

Family can be defined in a verity of different ways and depending who you ask, the answer will vary. A 5-year-old can have a different definition than an adult. Our book Understanding families defines family as “any unit that defines itself as a family, including individuals who are related by blood or marriage as well as those who have made a commitment to share their lives” (Hanson, 2). The definition of family will be viewed differently in school systems, hospitals, and even legally. Society

Wei Jiang ESS 102 Instructor: Erika Harnett November 18, 2016 Manned Mission to Mars The year is 2045, a time when the earth is in great turmoil. Tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, famines… all the impacts of global warming are just starting to disrupt life. Europe and North America are experiencing immigration in unprecedented numbers, neither because the migrants are escaping persecution, conflicts and wars in their countries, nor because they are pursuing economic prospects; but because

From the time of Aristotle in 300 B.C.E. until the mid-sixteenth century, there was an unbreakable connection between religion and the understanding of the universe. It isn’t until the Renaissance that the breakthrough that leads to our modern sciences begins. This breakthrough is a change in the way that people thought about the big questions of the day. Instead of basing theories on religious notions and first principles, men like Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, and Isaac Newton sought real answers

solar system are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. There are also many other minor planets, which are also in our solar system, but they are unimportant compared to the nine major planets. Mercury, which is the planet that is closest to the sun, is the first and smallest of the inner planets. It is speculated that the heat from the sun made it impossible for the gases present to become part of the planetary formation. The surface of Mercury is extremely hot