The Universe: 7 Wonders of the Solar System

The Universe : 7 WONDERS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
History Channel
Season. 5 Episode. 1

http://www.history.com/shows/the-universe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Universe_%28TV_series%29



EXCERPTS:

Number 7
ENCELADUS
Moon of Saturn
Cassini, Nov. 2009

"Enceladus has water.
Basically, liquid water coming out and freezing.
so it's called Cryovolcanism.


Number 6
RINGS OF SATURN
"Among the seven main rings,
Its estimated
That the gaseous planet
has thousands of rings comprised of 35
trillion-trillion tons of ice and dust.
containing roughly 26 million times
tha amount of water on Earth.

Scientists have found 62 moons
embedded in Saturn's rings.

DAPHNIS
a moon in Saturn's A ring
2.5 miles


NUMBER 5
Jupiter's GREAT RED SPOT
3 times the size of Earth


NUMBER 4
ASTEROID BELT
"If you're orbiting an asteroid
inside our solar system's Asteroid Belt.
You wouldn't able to see big cratered surfaces
of other asteroids flying right next to you.
In fact, they probably look
just like distant points of light.
That's because the average separations
between most asteroids
in the asteroid belt is much
larger than their actual sizes.
So they'd really just look like dots.

In fact, an average distance between to asteroids
can be one million miles.

CERES is the biggest asteroid in the solar system - a round ball.
The awesome 600 mile wide rock contains
the fourth of entire mass of the Asteroid belt.

Now Dwarf-Planet, like Pluto.

Near Earth Objects strike Earth almost everyday.


NUMBER 3
OLYMPUS MONS
350 miles wide.

"100 million years ago,
hot lava rivers poured down
from its peak to cover
million of square miles
of the red planet.

Today Olympus Mons
is 100 times the volume
of Earth's largest volcano,
Mauna Loa,
located on the big island of Hawaii.


NUMBER 2
SURFACE OF THE SUN

Photosphere

Solar activity runs through an 11-year cycle.
In 2013, our Sun will be
at the peak of this cycle
called the Solar Maximum.
At this time the surface of the Sun
could create the perfect storm.


NUMBER 1
EARTH

"Earliest volcanoes spewed out
massive amount of steam,
which condensed into rain,
and supplied the planet with water.

But recently new sources of water
have been suggested.
Comets.

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