DailyDirt: Exploring Our Solar System
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
Our solar system is a pretty big place, and we haven’t really seen that much of it. But as we send out more and more probes and get fancier telescopes, we’re learning about a ton of interesting phenomena that occur beyond our own planet. Here are just a few fascinating factoids and links on how we’re exploring space without sending astronauts anywhere (yet).
- While the Earth and other rocky objects in our solar systems aren’t perfectly round, our Sun is remarkably spherical… almost too spherical. The Sun isn’t perfectly spherical, but it’s actually one of the roundest objects humans have ever measured, and it’s a bit puzzling why it should be so round. [url]
- NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has discovered that Saturn’s moon Titan could hold bodies of liquid water under its crust. This could mean there’s yet another place in our solar system with water that could possibly sustain life. [url]
- A geochronometer is an instrument that could help determine how old various things in our solar system are. Portable geochronometers could be sent to other planets (like Mars) to improve our estimates of how long it takes for certain planetary features to develop. [url]
If you’d like to read more awesome and interesting stuff, check out this unrelated (but not entirely random!) Techdirt post.
Filed Under: astronomy, cassini, geochronometer, mars, saturn, solar system, space, sun, titan, water
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Comments on “DailyDirt: Exploring Our Solar System”
AND Curiosity is teasing us now
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-11/what-earth-shaking-evidence-did-mars-rover-curiosity-just-find
Did we just discover signs of life on Mars…?!
Our solar system is a pretty big place, and we haven’t really seen that much of it.
we’ve seen more of our solar system than anything else in the universe, we have not seen much of it !!!! we basically DONT see anything else..
Mr HO, you are not too bright are you !!!!
Thanks for the info, but I think this a very complicated problem.
The Universe Is not so mysterious
I had a chance to read “Life In The Universe”, it paints a very different picture of our solar systems and the universe.
As life long astronomy enthusiast, looking up at the night sky, images, and imagining scale, represented such a source of inspiration and dreaming.
This book has really brought down to anyone’s understanding, that fact that life works according to nature. There is no escaping it. The need for resources, the need for relationship, the need for Knowledge…
We must take care of this “pale blue dot…”
Highly recommended.
clicked a link but
got some add and didnt feel like waiting 5 years for it to jsut go away….
dotn even remember the ad so that was effective wasn’t it…
now ill make sure i never visit that site ….
Re: clicked a link but
I am sorry did you say you clicked the url I posted and it didn’t go there? That is odd. Please let me know if it works now.
Gee, could it perhaps be because the sun was DESIGNED that way? Naaah, we’ve gotta make things more complicated than they really are.