I am going to kickstart this blog (other than my welcome post) with telling you a little bit about a site that I put together on a particular science category that I really love. "Space the Final Frontier......" I love space and everything to do with whats out there beyond our atmosphere. The thought of being able to fly by the rings of Saturn or descending through the clouds of Venus really get me excited. It is so hard to understand and put our solar system into perspective.
People just can't imagine the vast distances between planets or the immense size difference between Jupiter and Earth. Yes, we can understand the concept of huge distances but without experiencing it for ourselves it is really hard to understand. We know a lot about our neighborhood of planets and we are even finding out a lot about planets outside our solar system, but how much more could we discover if we were able to visit these other planets? Does anyone know the names of all the planets? They are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Pluto used to be the Ninth planet but now it is no longer classed as a planet, it is now a plutoid.
What we know of these planets is limited but still a lot to learn, so I put together a Page on Fun Facts About Our Solar System.
I have so many questions about what is out there, the one I really want answered is, is there any other life out there? I love to think that yes there could quite possibly be life elsewhere in our solar system, or at the very least once have been somewhere other than on earth. What do you think, could there possibly be life on Europa the ice moon of Jupiter, or perhaps under the surface in underground water on Mars? Remember if you have any questions feel free to post them as comments.
Have Fun!
http://www.squidoo.com/the-solar-system-planets
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