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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...
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 ...
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...
Big Bang to Present - V3
... orm at around 300 million years after the Big Bang, but the exact time period is
uncertain. At an age of 9 billion years the Solar
System formed. Finally, 13.7 billion years after the Big Bang we arrive at the
present day. The Universe is still expan ...
Keywords:
... stars, formation, inflation, Milky Way, Solar
System, universe ...