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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The Universe: Jupiter: The Giant Planet

The Universe : JUPITER: The Giant Planet
History Channel
Season. 1 Episode. 4

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


EXCERPTS:

JUPITER - THE GIANT PLANET

"Jupiter is 84% hydrogen and almost 14% helium,
(a failed star!)

"... and you could take a thousand Earths and stuff them inside Jupiter comfortably.

"about 70% of the mass in all the planets (in solar system) is in Jupiter.


"
LARGEST PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
A DAY ON JUPITER IS 9.9 HOURS
ORBITS THE SUN IN 11.86 YEARS
150 LBS ON EARTH = 350 LBS ON JUPITER
"

"its electromagnetic radiation is intense.
It could kill a traverler to the planet in an instant."


"some believe Jupiter may have been a failed star.
like the sun, it had the right ingredients, H and He,
But not enough mass to create the internal pressure and temperature
necessary to have nuclear fusion.


"Jupiter is like a big brother in the schoolyard,
protecting you from bullies that might wreak havoc on your existence.


"By cleaning some of the debris up,
kicking some of it out, shooting some of it into the Sun,
where it would be lost forever,
Jupiter cleaned out a path that the other planets could exist in some sort of peace.

So dominant is this Frisbee phenomenon,
Earth may owe its very existence of Jupiter."

"... presence of jupiter may be one reason why we have life on Earth.


[July 1994, a comet hit the Juipter, if Jupiter wasn't there, it might happen that comet to hit Earth, and We'll no longer exist.]


Bibilically: Jupiter -  a star of Behtlehem


Jupiter's Huge Giant Eye is 12000 miles wide, while whole Earth is 8000 miles wide.



"The fastest wind ever recorded here on Earth was 175 miles an hour."
Hurricane Wilma, 2005, Yucatan.
At Jupiter wind speed is 360 miles an hour.


"Earth has just one primary jet stream,
it moves eastward,
and another major flow that blows westward,
the trade winds.
Triple that power and you've got the jet streams of Jupiter."


"if i understood what's going on on Jupiter,
Earth would be just a piece of cake."
- NEIL deGRASSE TYSON


Jupiter has several dozen of moons (more than 60)
Jupiter is like mini solar system, an planet orbitted by many moons


"Four of Jupiter's prominent moons were discovered by Galileo."
Io: acive place, lot of volcanoes.

"Io is a wonder pockmark with over a hundred volcanoes.
some the size of California.

"Ganymede is the largest moon in our solary system.
five times the size of Earth's moon."

"Callisto is the most heavily cratered."

"Europa, the ice queen to Jupiter's king."

DepthX:(hydrobot)
"If everything went according to the plan we would launch around 2017.
It would be at Europa by 2018...
and y 2019 for certain we'd know whether there's life off Earth.

"DepthX robot or more accurately hydrobot,
is being designed to ultimately think, move and explore
without help from  man."


JUPITER'S MAGNETOSPHERE
"The magnetosphere of Juptier is the biggest object in the solary system.
It's a lot bigger than the Sun."


Jupiter has a ring, may be debris of some destroyed moon.

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