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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...
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 ...
Coronal Mass Ejection - V2
Illustration of a coronal mass ejection emanating from the Sun. These events, CMEs
for short, are powerful releases of solar charged particles (plasma) and magnetic
field, travelling on the solar wind. When a CME hits Earth, it can cause a
geomagneti...
Keywords:
... ctivity, solar flare, solar prominence, solar
system, star, sun, surface ...
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...
Weighing Planets
Animation showing how the planet Jupiter out-masses all of the other planets in the
Solar System combined....
Keywords:
... mass, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, scale, Solar
System, Uranus, Venus, weighing ...
Vermin of the Skies
Digital artwork depicting a pair of asteroids in the mail belt between Mars and
Jupiter. Asteroids are lumps of rock, carbon, and metal that are the leftovers from
the process that created the Sun and all the planets of the Solar System; Astronomers...
Keywords:
... lender 3D, lens flare, metallic, rocky, Solar
System, sun ...
Asteroid Mining - V1
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:
asteroid, Blender 3D, future, machinery, minerals, mining, ore, RedBubble, Solar...
Asteroid Mining - V2
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:
asteroid, Blender 3D, future, machinery, minerals, mining, ore, Solar System, te...
Uranus from Miranda - V2
... ureless atmosphere, and an axial tilt close to 100 degrees. Miranda's odd surface
- including the highest cliff in the known Solar
System - suggests that the world was broken apart in a collision and later
reassembled. ...
Keywords:
... te, planet, planetary rings, RedBubble, Solar
System, the Sun, Uranus, Uranus sa ...
Juno at Io
On 30 December 2023, the Juno spacecraft, exploring the Jovian system, approached the
volcanic moon Io at a distance of just 1500 km (930 miles). A similar encounter is
scheduled to take place on 3 February 2024. The probe is monitoring the moon's vo...
Keywords:
... , planetary, planetary system, science, solar
system, space craft, spacecraft, s ...