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Monthly Archives: March 2016
These Are Not the Droids We’re Looking For
Knowledge is power. We want more and more of it. It’s no surprise, then, that we see the Solar System as a well full of knowledge we’ve never encountered before. So, we send spacecrafts out into the Solar System, looking for information. We want pictures, data, surprises, and (now) sound. We’re obsessed. But we too often […]
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What the Heck is a Pulsar?!
Have you ever heard of something called a pulsar? If not then you are missing out because they are one of the strangest and most fascinating objects in the universe. A pulsar is a special kind of neutron star, that means that the star is pretty much entirely made up of only neutrons held together […]
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What the Heck is a Pulsar?!
Have you ever heard of something called a pulsar? If not then you are missing out because they are one of the strangest and most fascinating objects in the universe. A pulsar is a special kind of neutron star, that means that the star is pretty much entirely made up of only neutrons held together […] Continue reading
Look Back at It
The surfaces of the terrestrial planets tell us a lot about their histories. The geological surface features of the planets give insight into the geological processes that have occurred in the planets’ pasts. There are four main processes that have lasting geological impacts on the terrestrial planets in our solar system. The processes are impact … Continue reading “Look Back at It”
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Why We Should All Love Earthquakes
Earthquakes are one of the most obvious consequences of Earth’s plate tectonics. The crust slowly moves along the with the “current” of the mantle as the Earth surface constantly rearranges itself. Without plate tectonics, it is very possible that life could not have taken a foothold on Earth. On Mars, which does not have plate […]
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The Sun is still really big and still really hot, in case you forgot
captain’s blog, Stardate 69641.9 Spring Break has just ended. And, while I try to reacclimate to school life, my mind naturally drifts back to the days of Spring Break, laying on a beach in Miami without a care in the world. I miss Spring Break. Something I thought about a lot during the week of vacation […]
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Planet 9
It was a sad day when the powers that be decided that Pluto was no longer fit to be called a planet. However, this January, in a shocking turn of events, scientists at Caltech may have discovered (or somewhat indirectly presume) the existence of a real ninth planet, an ice giant by the incredibly original […]
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Positivity is Key
Nuclear fusion is the process by which the Sun survives. During fusion, the Sun converts its mass into energy that powers the Sun itself. Fusion is unique to the Sun’s core because in order to occur high densities and temperatures are needed. In the core, there are high densities of positively charges hydrogen nuclei. In … Continue reading “Positivity is Key”
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The Stardust Mission
Missions that deliberately bring back extraterrestrial material to Earth are rare. The NASA Stardust, a probe that launched in 1999, sought to collect dust samples from the comet Wild 2’s tail. Prior to the mission, experts believed that the dust in comets’ tails would be pre-solar particles. Instead, what they found from the particles retrieved […]
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Earth’s Changing Magnetosphere
One of Earth’s most important features is its Magnetosphere. This magnetic field that surrounds Earth deflects Solar wind that could slowly widdle away our atmosphere. Without an atmosphere, life would not have been able to develop on Earth. In addition, if we were to suddenly lose our magnetosphere, then our power grids and other electronics […]
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