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Top 9 Tallest Mountains in the Solar System

When asked the tallest mountain in the world, the most common response is likely Mount Everest. Measured from the base to the summit, Mount Everest has the highest elevation, above sea level, reaching 29,032-feet. However, Mauna Kea is, in fact, the tallest mountain on Earth, rising more than 33,500 feet from the base to the summit. What is even more surprising […]

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Emily Crofton | May 3, 2021
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NASA: A Look At Jupiter’s North Pole

View this post on Instagram The floor is lava! Oh wait, nevermind, that’s just an infrared look at Jupiter’s North Pole 😉 Our James Webb Space Telescope will examine the atmosphere of Jupiter’s polar region, where @NASAJuno discovered the clusters of cyclones seen in this image. @NASAWebb’s data will provide much more detail than has been possible in past observations, […]

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Winter is Coming – Could it Snow on Mars?

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Given that there are ambitious plans to colonize Mars in the near future, it is surprising how much we still have to learn about what it would be like to actually live on the planet. Take the weather, for instance. We know there are wild fluctuations in Mars’s climate and that it is very windy and at times cloudy (though too cold and dry […]

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Steven Agar | August 22, 2017
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Brain Post: Voyager 1 = First Manmade Object to Reach Interstellar Space

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched in 1977.  It has now official entered interstellar space (it outside of the solar system).  Voyager 1 has traveled farther than anyone, or anything in history.  It’s traveled 12 billion miles from the sun or about 130 times the distance of the Earth from the sun.  This must certainly be viewed as one of […]

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Brain Post: How NASA’s Curiosity Has Proven That Mars Once Had an Atmosphere

Why is it significant that NASA’s Curiosity now has more proof that Mars once had an atmosphere?  Because if Mars once had an atmosphere, then there was likely flowing water, and therefore a chance that there could have been life. “Scientists think that the climate on Mars 3.5 billion years ago was similar to that of early Earth: warm and […]

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Miles Clark | April 12, 2013
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