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Solar System and Oort Cloud
... un distance). Evidence for it comes from the orbits of long-period comets, which
seem to hail from a great distance from the Solar
System. This schematic shows how the Solar System is
an insignificant part of the Sun's family. ...
Keywords:
Adobe Photoshop, inner solar system, Oort Cloud,
outer solar system, planet, sch...
Space Solar Power - V1
Space-based solar power. Illustration of satellites
harvesting energy from sunlight and beaming it down to Earth, perhaps via microwaves.
Such satellites would likely be in highly elliptical orbits, ensuring that they
stayed above the same hemisphere...
Keywords:
... ower generation, power grid, renewable, solar
power, space-based solar power, te ...
Space Solar Power - V2
Space-based solar power. Illustration of satellites
harvesting energy from sunlight and beaming it down to Earth, perhaps via microwaves.
Such satellites would likely be in highly elliptical orbits, ensuring that they
stayed above the same hemisphere...
Keywords:
... ower generation, power grid, renewable, solar
power, space-based solar power, te ...
Solar System - V10
Artwork of the Solar System, showing the paths of
the eight major planets as they orbit the Sun, as well as Pluto and Eris, which are
dwarf planets. The four inner planets are, from inner to outer, Mercury, Venus, Earth
and Mars. The four outer plane...
Keywords:
... anetary, planet Earth, planets, Saturn, Solar
System, the Earth, the Sun, Uranus ...
Solar System Flight
Animation of a flight through the Solar System
starting from the Oort cloud. We pass through the Oort cloud and into the Kuiper
Belt. The gas planets come into view next, finishing with Jupiter on the outer edge
of the asteroid belt. Finally we pass ...
Keywords:
Adobe After Effects, animation, asteroids, Blender 3D, Oort cloud, Solar System ...
Magnetosphere - V6
Earth's magnetosphere. Computer artwork showing the interaction of the solar wind with Earth's magnetic field (not to scale). The
solar wind is made up of charged particles emitted
by the Sun (right). The Earth's magnetic field deflects these particl...
Keywords:
... ar cusp, protect, radiation, shielding, solar
system, solar wind, sun ...
Heavy Bombardment
Between 4.1 and 3.8 billion years ago, the Solar
System was in turmoil. Known as the Late Heavy Bombardment, the period was
characterized by an enhanced rate of asteroid impacts in the inner Solar System - remnants from the planet building processes
...
Keywords:
... ent, impact, planetesimal, protoplanet, Solar
System, volcanic, volcanism ...
Asteroseismology
Illustration depicting asteroseismology - the study of oscillations inside stars.
Because a star's different oscillation modes are sensitive to different parts of the
star, they inform astronomers about the internal structure of the star, which is
ot...
Keywords:
... e, press release, radiative, schematic, solar,
Solar System, sunspots, the Sun, ...
Dangers of Low-Earth Orbit
Artwork showing two of the potential dangers of low-Earth orbit. Since the late
1950s, the amount of junk in orbit around the Earth has escalated dramatically. The
debris includes pieces of old spacecraft and objects accidentally dropped by
astronaut...
Keywords:
... et, planet Earth, press release, probe, solar
flare, Solar System, spacecraft, s ...
Asteroid Mining
Asteroid are potentially very lucrative and rich sources of precious metals and
minerals, available in abundance in the Solar
System. A future technology might be able to identify suitable asteroid targets, and
then mine them for their resources. Thi...
Keywords:
animation, asteroid, Blender 3D, future, machinery, minerals, mining, ore, Solar...