The Solar System consists of the Sun, the nine planets and their satellites; the comets, asteroids, meteoroids, and interplanetary dust and gas. It is composed of two systems, the inner solar system and the outer solar system. The inner solar system contains the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Ma...

Voyage to the Planets The solar system holds many scientific mysteries. It is a universe full of wonder. What exactly is it? How was it created? When? Why? These are just a few of the many questions we ask ourselves all the time. In the following, the mysteries of this solar system, how...

OZONE LAYER The ozone is made from oxygen, but for billions of years there was no actuall oxygen in the earth's atmosphere. The earth's primitive atmosphere is said by scientist that it was composed of water vapor,carbon dioxide,sulfur dioxide, nitrogen,and other gases released by volcanic and oth...

The human conceptualization of the solar system dates back to the beginning of time. The early Egyptians worshipped the sun as a source of life and then the area called space was becoming a curiosity to humans. Throughout history, our knowledge of the solar system has increased and there is stil...

Every single society in the world has had the innate necessity to find out the origin of their existence and the world that surrounds them. Several American Indian tribes have done it through stories which narrate the beginning of human beings, the earth, the sun, the moon, the stars, death and al...

Alex Provencal April 19, 2004 Professor Mobius Comets: The Known and Unknown Long ago comets were understood by people to be a sword or as a symbol for death, while others thought it was the appearance of the head of a woman with streaming hair which symbo...

The Moon The moon is the most noticeable feature in the night sky and it is also the brightest, but it doesn't give off its own light. It is, actually, reflecting the light given off by the sun. Only seven percent of the light from the sun is reflected. Sometimes, the moon appears to chan...

The greenhouse effect being a natural phenomenon is directly affected by human activities such as new industrial processes, more extensive agriculture and a rapid increase in the world's population causing global warming. Greenhouse effect is like a "double jeopardy". Without the natural ...

The aurora borealis is one of the most compelling heavenly phenomena because of its stunning aesthetic display and because of its relatively unpredictable appearance in the northern hemispheric skies. Also known as the Northern Lights, the aurora borealis also has a lesser-known southern hemispheric...

Mars, otherwise known as the "red planet", is approximately 227,940,000 km from the sun (Arnett 2000). It has two moons, Phobos and Deimos, which are believed to have been asteroids captured by the planet's gravity (Sheehan 220). Mars is the 4th closest planet to the sun and it ...

Saturn Saturn is the sixth planet in our solar system and is the second largest planet. The only planet larger then Saturn is Jupiter. Saturn is commonly noted for its phenomenal system of rings surrounding this gaseous planet. It is also one of the outer planets. Saturn's pe...

Global warming is the heating of the earth. This heating occurs because of the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is when carbon dioxide and other gases (methane and nitrous oxide) trap energy from the sun in our atmosphere. Most of the energy we receive from the sun is absorbed by the sur...

With a population of over 55 million, global warming affects many of the French people. France is in the middle of Globalization, from an economy that featured widespread government ownership to one that relies more on a market system. The earth's climate is predicted to change because human a...

The Ozone Layer The ozone layer is part of the atmosphere of the Earth. The Earth's atmosphere is a mixture of gases that surround it, they are held around the Earth by the effect of gravity. The atmosphere provides protection to life on Earth, without it the changes in temperature during ...

The question of a higher power has been one that humankind has been trying to answer for ages. Is the universe a collection of random products of other random events? Or is there order and structure to it, suggesting a created universe? Many academics and laypersons have tried to prove the exist...

Introduction The environment of planet earth is heavily dependent on a stable climate. The stability of this climate has been continually compromised since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Poor pollution controls and the ever-increasing human industrial activity are causing...

Scientists and geologists often discuss issues concerning the environment on Earth. What causes the greenhouse effect and global warming are issues that geologists talk about all the time. Global warming is the term used to describe increases in the temperature of the Earth. The greenhouse effect i...

Astrology has been around 2300 BC (). Philosophers and Astrologers wheeled their lives around man and star relations. Astrology started of how the sun, moon, planets, and stars, are supposedly related to life events (). The key word supposedly. Astrology is nothing more than a psychological a...

I am often asked this question by members of the general public, and, since I am known to most people who meet me as an enthusiast for space exploration and colonization as well, the question is put to me even more forcefully. Let us face this question head on. Firstly, there are several lessons to...

Evaluation of Sidereus Nucius I feel that the motivation of Galileo's pursuits in Astronomy and stargazing was driven by his desire to be financially successful. Galileo was an extremely ambitious and clearly independent individual whose methods of generating scientific data epitomizes a...

The moon has fascinated humanity for many thousands of years. It has assumed a role in legend and lore alike, being worshiped as a god, and feared as a demon. Indeed, from the days when man first looked skyward, he knew the moon served some important purpose, one he could not yet comprehend. Durin...

When we think of this world and its origins, we as human tend to think in one of two ways religiously or scientifically. Those of us who think religiously obviously go with our religious affiliations. For example, Christians tend to think about the story of creationism in the seven-day time frame ...

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The Greenhouse Effect is a naturally occurring process that has occurred on Earth for millions of years. For ages it has helped to keep the temperature of our planet much warmer than it would otherwise be- about sixty degrees warmer than it would otherwise be. Thanks to the Greenhouse Effect, living...

Scientists have predicted that the earth's climate will change because human activities are altering the chemical composition of the atmosphere through the buildup of greenhouse gases – primarily carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. The global warming property of these gases is und...