NASA Earth Science

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331Exoplanetology / Astrobiology / SETI / Space colonization / Planetary science / Kepler / Habitable zone / Super-Earth / Planet / Astronomy / Spaceflight / Space

Earth-like Planets by the Score! Table of Candidate Planet Sizes Size Class Size Number of (Earth Radius)

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Language: English - Date: 2011-02-15 12:24:16
332Celestial mechanics / Moons / Mass / Natural satellite / Solar System / Planetary ring / Planets in astrology / Gravity of Earth / Planet / Astronomy / Planetary science / Space

Exploring Your Weight Across the Solar System 18 One of the best ways to explore the effects of gravity on different bodies in the

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Language: English - Date: 2013-07-29 08:31:42
333Planetary systems / Extrasolar planets / Transiting extrasolar planets / Cygnus constellation / Lyra constellation / Kepler-9c / Johannes Kepler / Kepler-5 / Kepler / Astronomy / Planetary science / Exoplanetology

Comparing Planets Orbiting other Stars This diagram shows disks representing the planets discovered in orbit around 8 different stars all drawn to the same scale. Earth and Jupiter are also shown so that you can see how

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Language: English - Date: 2013-01-08 09:54:04
334Astronomy / Solar System / Rings of Saturn / Saturn / Mimas / Mass / Natural satellite / Cassini–Huygens / Enceladus / Moons of Saturn / Planetary science / Planemos

How Saturn’s Moon Mimas created the Cassini Division 31 The Cassini Division is easily seen from Earth with a small telescope, and splits the rings of Saturn

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Language: English - Date: 2013-08-12 05:34:52
335Volcanology / Geyser / Enceladus / Volcano / Io / Cryovolcano / Saturn / Cassini–Huygens / Geology / Planetary science / Planemos

Exploring Volcanos and Geysers Across the Solar System For decades, astronomers thought that the only geologically active object in our entire solar system was Earth. During the last 50 years of spacecraft studies, we no

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Language: English - Date: 2013-07-29 08:30:18
336Plasma physics / Astronomy / Planetary science / Light sources / Jets / Magnetosphere / Aurora / Coronal mass ejection / Solar wind / Space plasmas / Physics / Astrophysics

10 Name ________________________________ A Bird’s-Eye Look at the Sun-Earth System Solar flares are powerful releases of energy in the tangled A_magnetic fields of the sun, thousands of kilometers above certain

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Source URL: spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov

Language: English - Date: 2006-09-29 09:53:00
337Structure of the Earth / Moons of Jupiter / Planemos / Plate tectonics / Crust / Io / Solar System / Planet / Mantle / Astronomy / Planetary science / Space

14 Name ________________________________ Astronomers can often make an estimate of what the interior of a planet looks like by carefully measuring the mass of the planet and its radius. They then create a model of the i

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Language: English - Date: 2006-10-18 16:19:30
338Planetary science / Astrobiology / Planetary systems / SETI / Kepler / Habitable zone / Planet / Solar System / Super-Earth / Astronomy / Space / Exoplanetology

The Goldilocks Planets - Not too hot or cold! Once you have discovered a planet, you need to figure out whether liquid water might be present. In our solar system, Mercury and Venus are so close to the sun that water ca

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Source URL: spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov

Language: English - Date: 2011-02-15 12:26:30
339Impact event / Planetary science / Space / TNT equivalent / Meteoroids / Joule / Tunguska event / Units of energy / Astronomy / Measurement

The Frequency of Large Meteor Impacts On February 14, 2013 a 10,000 ton meteor about 17-meters in diameter entered Earth’s atmosphere over Russia traveling at 40,000 mph (18 km/s). It detonated in the air over the town

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Language: English - Date: 2013-02-19 11:03:54
340Light / Planetary science / Astronomical unit / Speed of light / Planet / Sun / Earth in science fiction / Astronomy / Physics / Space

Visiting the Planets at the Speed of Light! 2 The fastest way to get from place to place in our solar system is to travel at the

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Language: English - Date: 2013-07-22 06:33:28
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