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Could a shuttle ever been hit by a meteorite?
A shuttle could be, in theory but it is much more likely to be hit by a micrometeorite.
Is there dirt or gravel on the Moon?
It depends what you mean by dirt and gravel. On Earth much of the weathering which produces them depends on water. There is no nutrient rich equivalent of soil, nor water-rounded pebbles, but there is dust and breccia. (Breccia is composed of small fragments of broken rock), both of which probably result from micrometeorite impact.
What type of soil did Apollo 11 bring back?
Soil is actually a bit misleading when discussing the moon's samples. The word soil implies moisture and other organic molecules and organisms. The lunar surface is actually covered in what is called regolith. The Lunar Regolith is made up almost completely of pulverized rock from meteorite and micrometeorite impacts.
How are the Moon's rocks that astronauts brought back to earth helped scientists understand the history of the moon?
The type of rock it is, the approximate age of it, evidence of micrometeorite bombardment - or lack of it, trace elements, and dozens of other things can all be told in the "story of the rocks". All of it advances our knowledge of our nearest neighbor, as well as our knowledge of the early solar system itself.
If you built a concrete wall all the way around the Earth's equator that was two feet wide and four feet tall how much more would the Earth weigh?
Unless you're magically making this concrete appear from nowhere or getting the materials from another planet, the overall weight of the Earth plus the wall is going to be exactly the same as the weight of the Earth before the wall was built. (Well, almost. The Earth actually gains about four tons a day from micrometeorite debris and dust.)
What are some risks when exploring space?
Space is a very hostile environment for both humans and unmanned space probes. Some of the most dangerous common threats: -cosmic rays and solar flares can lead to radiation poisoning, cancer or electronic malfunctions -risk of overheating if exposed to the sun -risk of freezing if exposed to empty space -micrometeorite impact Some dangers for humans specifically: -suffocation if the spacecraft has a leak, since there is no air outside -muscle and bone degradation from prolonged weightlessness -sickness or injury that can't be treated with onboard medical equipment
What are some words start with the root micro?
Some words that start with the word micro: microampere. microbalance. microbe. microcapsule. microcassette. microclimate. microcline. microcode. microcrystalline. microculture. microcurie. microcyte. microearthquake. microelectrode. microencapsulate. microfaunae. microfiche. microfilariae. microfilmable. microflorae. microgamete. microgametocyte. microgroove. microimage. micromanage. micromere. micrometeorite. microminiature. micromole. micronize. microparticle. microphage. microphone. micropipette. micropore. microprobe. micropuncture. micropyle. microquake. microscale. microscope. microsome. microsphere. microsporangiate. microspore. microsporocyte. microstate. microstructure. microtechnique. microtome. microtone. microtubule. microvasculature. microwavable. microwave. microwaveable.
Why are the remains of ancient organisms buried so deeply within the earth?
Over time we grow layers on the earth, and the depth of ancient material depends on how long ago it was formed. Some people thought that ancient crust was buried under material that falls to the Earth from space (meteorites and micrometeorite dust). We now know that this space debris falls on the Earth's surface at a rate of roughly 1 million kg to 10 million kg each day. This is a miniscule amount and only adds an invisible layer of dust about 0.000000007 mm thick each day. I would take 4 million years to become 1 cm thick, and in 400 million years would only be 1 m thick, so this is obviously not the answer. The answer turns out to be (1) erosion by wind and water, moving vast amounts of soil from highlands to lowlands, and (2) tectonic movement of the Earth's crustal plates, floating on the Earth's molten rock mantle, causing one plate to slide up atop the adjacent plate, pushing the lower plate deeper and deeper. Not all of Earth's ancient organisms are buried deeply. In places where erosion and tectonic plate collisions are at work, we find dinosaur bones lying exposed on the Earth's surface and coal deposits only a few meters or a few hundred meters below the surface. At the top of Mt Everest climbers have found a huge number of ancient oceanic fossils; the top of Mt Everest was once at the bottom of the ancient Indian Ocean, pushed over 9 km upward by the collision of the Indoaustralian Plate crashing into the Eurasian Plate. So some ancient stuff gets buried deeply by the same forces that push other ancient stuff upwards.
What is the planet Mercury's environment like?
Mercury is un-livable, because it's surface becomes extremely hot and extremely cold. Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, and its slow rotation gives most of the surface 88 Earth days of blistering heat followed by 88 days of incredible cold (on the side not heated by the Sun).
What is a 14 letter word that ends with an e?
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List of words with the prefix micro in them?
micro ; extremely 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What is interplanetary dust?
From just the perspective of "language" here, inter means between, and stellar refers to stars. We use the term interstellar space to talk about the space between stars, which leads to the statement that interstellar space is the space between stars in galaxies. And there's so darn much of that that we'd better take a closer look to lock in the idea.We know that there are large distances between the planets in our solar system. Heck, it takes all day and then some to get from one to the other. Light itself takes about eight minutes to arrive at the earth from the sun. But the "largeness" of the space between the planets in our solar system might be due to "small thinkng" on our part. We know that the sun's light takes about eight minutes to get to earth, but the nearest star is so far away that it takes years for the light from it to get to earth!Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to us (other than our sun) is about 4.2 light-years away! If we ball park the numbers, that's like a quarter of a million times as far as earth is from the sun! The space between the sun and Proxima Centauri is what we're talking about when we use the term interstellar space. There are vast "open" volumes of space between stars in galaxies. We might compare interstellar space to the space between galaxies, which is intergalactic space. And now we're talking reallylarge empty volumes of space and huge distances between the galactic objects!
