The Solar System

One of the main benefits of satellites is the lack of atmospheric disturbances, whether heat/cold, dust, clouds, light, air/pollution that can cause minor fluctuations in your equipment or of having a clear view. Space is a more stable and clear observation location.

Earth is the only planet in the solar system that likely has soil because of its unique combination of atmosphere, water, and geological processes that have fostered the development of soil through weathering and the decomposition of organic matter. Other planets in the solar system lack these conditions necessary for soil formation.

many things could damage planets in our solar system, there could be the explosin of our sun, lage metiorites ,exterestrial invasions(unlikely), we are damaging our planet and it wont last forever

For in and out, above, about, below,

'Tis nothing but a magic shadow show,

Played in a box whose candle is the Sun

Round which we phantom figures come and go.

(It's a quatrain from Omar Khayyam's The Rubaiyat)

There is no planet within our Solar System that starts with a "t".

Mercury

Venus

Earth

Mars

Saturn

Jupiter

Uranus

Neptune

We rotate around the Sun once per year.

The solar system formed from a rotating cloud of gas and dust called the solar nebula about 4.6 billion years ago. Gravity caused this cloud to collapse and form the sun at its center, with the remaining material forming the planets, moons, asteroids, and other objects in the solar system.

The force is gravity. Gravity is the force of attraction between two objects with mass, and the sun's gravitational pull keeps the members of the solar system bound to it, causing them to orbit around the sun.

The ancient models of the solar system showed that the sun and all the planets they could see, orbited the earth. And on top of that the distances between all the planets and the sun where all wrong, and weren't set at the right angle.

Saturn is a gas giant planet primarily composed of hydrogen and helium. It has a dense core made of rock and metal like iron and nickel, surrounded by layers of metallic hydrogen and liquid hydrogen. Its iconic feature is its prominent ring system, made up of ice and rock particles in orbit around the planet.

In fact, the Sun accounts for over 99.8% . Most of the rest is contained in Jupiter.

The formation of the solar system occurred around 4.6 billion years ago. The process began with the gravitational collapse of a giant molecular cloud and eventually led to the formation of the Sun, planets, and other celestial objects.

Comets are considered primitive bodies that have remained relatively unchanged since the formation of the solar system, providing valuable information about its early history. By studying the composition of comets, scientists can learn about the conditions and materials present in the solar system when it was forming, shedding light on its evolution over time. Tracing the trajectory of comets can also reveal clues about the solar system's ancient environment and the processes that have shaped it.

Gravity plays an important role in maintaining the shape of the solar system by keeping the planets in their orbits around the Sun. The gravitational pull of the Sun is what keeps the planets moving in their paths without drifting off into space.

SETI is an initalism for Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life. Their primary goal is to observe and record radiation emissions to determine if they are originate from a non-human intelligent species.

Andromeda is not a stellar system, but rather a galaxy. It's incredibly far from Earth: we could technically send something there, but at speeds currently available to us, no person could live long enough to reach it.

Sedna is the most distant solar system object discovered so far. It is about three times farther away than Pluto currently is. Because it is so far away, scientists are not sure if it has enough mass to be classified as a dwarf planet.

Considering that grams are a unit of mass, their mass would still be 100g. If you used a unit of weight, such as pounds, the relative weight of an object would change from planet to planet. On Mercury, a person who weighed 100 lbs normally would instead weigh 38 lbs.

There are no double planet systems in our solar system. The closest to being considered a double planet are Pluto and its largest moon Charon, but since Charon is significantly smaller than Pluto, it is not classified as a double planet system.

The Copernican theory challenged the popular notion that the earth was at the center of the solar system, and instead proposed that the Sun was; ("Heliocentric") and indicated that observations of motions of other planets and stars was consistent with the Earth itself being the object that moved.

An organized system of thought is called a philosophy. It includes beliefs, values, principles, and theories that guide one's understanding of the world.

The planets in our Solar System that are rocky are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. These inner planets are also called "Terrestrial Planets."

The most immediate origin of the Solar System, was as a cloud of dust, gases, and rocks, resulting from the explosion of a super nova. Probably in the Orion Arm of our Milky Way Galaxy.

These gradually accumulated in one region, and the Sun grabbed most of the Hydrogen and helium. The Sun is over 99.8% of the mass of the whole Solar System.

Eventually these materials clumped together by gravity.

The best date we have for the Solar System; the oldest dated rocks (actually zircons within the rocks); is about 4.5 x 109 years.

Gravitational pressure eventually heated the Sun's material enough that Fission process began and things looked up from that point.

Have a look at the Hertzsprung Russell Diagram, which indicates the position our Sun has in the Universe.

By the 'BIG BANG'! [NO]

The Cassini-Huygens mission, a joint project between NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency, is the only spacecraft to have visited Saturn. It orbited Saturn for over 13 years, providing valuable data and images of the planet, its rings, and its moons before its intentional crash into Saturn in 2017.

We (and the sun) are on a far arm of the Milky Way Galaxy. If you look up in the sky on some clear nights, you can see an almost greenish cloud-like mass. That's the rest of the Milky Way Galaxy. Since we're out on a limb, we can see the rest of it. If that doesn't make sense, think of it this way- If you are at the top on the far west side of a football stadium, then you can see the whole stadium, top and bottom, in a pretty much unobstructed view. That's about where we are in the galaxy. Of course, we are constantly spinning and moving, but we'll be in the same relative place for quite a while.