Reta Beebe (2000) The Voyager craft were designed to maintain a stable orientation in space, so that onboard cameras and other imaging instruments could be used to map Jupiter in ultraviolet, visible, and infrared light. The visual images provided detailed maps of Jupiter's cloud deck. ... Small craft could be used to map Jupiter's gravitational and magnetic fields, sample its atmosphere, or perform other tasks. ...
The greenhouse effect occurs when gases such as methane, carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide and CFCs trap heat in the atmosphere by acting as a pane of glass in a car. The glass lets the sun light in to make heat but when the heat tries to get out the gases absorb the heat. Holding this heat in causes h...
The article "Plate Tectonics on Mars" written by Ron Cowen, was about how the magnetic map revealed ancient activity on Mars. At first the scientists first anticipated the movement in 1912, but wasn't established until the late 1960's. Plate tectonics are the theory that explains the tecton...
His maps were used for almost 50 years. ... Beginning in March 1974, Mariner 10's three flybys past Mercury mapped about half of the planet's surface, during which time a thin atmosphere and a magnetic field were discovered. ...
Our earth is huge, made up of many different layers, the inner core, outer core, mantle and crust, yet most of it is unexplored to this day. And near nothing beneath the surface is known to man. Its way too dense for man to travel far into the earth- the crust itself is 3.0 grams per centimeters squ...
December 5, 2001 San Andreas Fault Introduction The San Andreas Fault is a geologic fault zone between two tectonic plates that runs from San Francisco south to San Diego in California. It is an area of frequent earthquakes caused by the plates sliding past each other. It is so called be...
Olivine is one of the earth's most abundant minerals. It shines like glass, however it is hard enough to cut glass. I was able to trace the earliest date I could find on the mineral to be 1500 BC. During this time, it was mined by the Egyptians in the Red Sea. This mineral is used in some jewelry a...
SOUTH SISTER Redmond Oregon is where my brother lives. The town is located near the Oregon's cascade range where there are several large snow covered volcanoes. I well be focusing on the south sister, which is the youngest and highest of a trio of closely grouped volcanoes called the three siste...
His massive work on the subject, which summed up and criticized the work of earlier writers, offered instruction in laying out maps by three different methods of projection, provided coordinates for some eight thousand places, and treated such basic concepts as geographical latitude and longitude. ...
Population growth affects world development. When talking about development, we usually refer to the economic development of a city, country, or even the whole world. Before the industrial revolution, the world's population stood at around 1 billion, not more. After the rapid economic change, the po...
