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    The solar system consists of the Sun at the center and the planets revolving around it. In the past, it was difficult to determine anything about the objects but their path around the Sun. Now, with telescopes, probes, and other devices, scientists can uncover much more information about objects in the solar system. One of the most important things that scientists uncover about objects are the properties of them. Some of these properties that scientists deduce are geologic activity, magnetic field

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    eight equally beautiful and diverse planets. The eight planets are separated into two groups: Inner Planets and Outer Planets. The Inner Planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, are the four planets closest to the Sun. The Inner Planets, also known as the Terrestrial Planets because of their similarities to Earth, all have rocky surfaces. They are much smaller than the four Outer Planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The Outer Planets and the Inner Planets are separated by the Asteroid Belt

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    The Four Terrestrial Planets A planet consists of a solid body that revolves around a star and shines by reflected light. The sun is the only star known to have planets, although certain other stars have companions that may be planets. The sun, nine known major planets, in order of increasing distance from the sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. The planets are divided into two groups according to their size and structure. In our solar system, the terrestrial

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    Mars Basalt

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    currently is whether we are alone in the universe. All the terrestrial planets, such as Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, show evidence of volcanic activities in their past.1,2 Mars is the only location where budgetary and technological constraints permit access and is also considered as having had the most likely planet for sustaining life.1–5 The surface conditions of Mars presently appear hostile to life,6 and thus we rely on evidence that the planet has been more hospitable to life in the past.7 such

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    Earth Bound Telescopes

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    even closer to other matter – whether that be planets, stars, comets, asteroids, etc. The textbook also notes radial velocity and how the gravitational pull of a planet results in the star wobbling. “If the wobble happens to occur along our line of sight to the star, then we see small fluctuations in the star’s radial velocity, which can be measured using the Doppler effect” (Chaisson & McMillan, 2014, p 371) allowing us to estimate the mass of the planet (Chaisson & McMillan, 2014, p 371). I found

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    Mars Red Planet

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    Mars, The "Red Planet" Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. Mars is also the second-smallest planet in the Solar System. Mars was named after the Roman God of War. This planet is sometimes referred to as the "Red Planet." The shade of Mars is red, because of all the iron oxide present on its surface. Mars is a terrestrial planet. This means it is a planet that is mainly created out of silicate rocks or metals. The terrestrial planets in our Solar System, along with Mars, are the inner

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    Mercury Origin

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    predominantly iron, surrounded by a mantle of silica and a solid outer crust. What group it’s belong to: Terrestrial When was it discovered/named: Timocharis made the first recorded observation of Mercury 265 BC. Some other observations of Mercury include Zupus in 1639, who studied the planet’s orbit.
 Origin of the name: As Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, thus the fastest planet to orbit it, Mercury was named after the Roman messenger god, Mercury. According to mythology, along with

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    TEST formula The TEST formula will be applied to assess the theories of UFO’s being extra-terrestrial or of natural phenomena such as reflection of sunlight, mirages, the northern lights, and any other unknown natural occurrences. Step One: Checking for consistency The theory that unidentified flying objects (UFO’s) are extra-terrestrial is consistent with the belief that flying saucers are aliens to planet Earth. UFO’s sightings from around the world are consistent because nothing else on earth

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    The Fermi Paradox

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    of extra-terrestrial life and the probability of their existence to which Fermi supposedly responded with the question "Where is everybody?". This response was the start of what continues to be one of the most existential scientific questions we know of. If there are billions of planets that can support life and the universe has given these planets enough time to allow life to form, then why have none visited earth. If there are approximately forty-billion earth-size habitable planets in the habitable

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    The first planet in our solar system, Mercury, is a very rough, jagged planet, complete with many craters and has many large rocks and dust. This dust is very fine, and small, like grains of sand. It has no atmosphere, so intense temperature fluctuations occur from day to night. The temperature ranges goes from 90K to 700K. However, due to much studying, we can concur that this planet is geologically dead, and hasn’t been ‘alive’ for an extended period of time. Also on this planet are no signs of

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