Mars

Getting back on track to the solar system topic, Mars.

Mars is the fourth planet in the solar system, between the asteroid belt and Earth. It is a hub for rovers exploring it's surface, and hopes of finding water on it. Mars has the largest volcano in the solar system, Mount Olympus. Mars has two moons, Phobos and deimos, in which one will fly into deep space and one will crash into mars.

Curiosity Rover "Roving along"

The curiosity rover, a state of the art rover is currently on Mars studying rocks and mountains.

Mars is nicknamed the red planet due to it's red like rocks and dust.
Mars is also thought to have once had water, due to smoothed down stones on its surface.

Well that's it peeps, see you tomorrow!

Mars as pictured by a sattilite

Picture-Saturn's southern lights

Because we're not the only ones!

The Higgs Boson

A bit late, but this discovery is going change astronomy forever. It was discovered in March when the large hadron collider was performing  an experiment, in which scientists discovered a bit of matter which matched the properties when it was first thought of. So what is a higgs boson, you ask?
Well, its a type of atom, when it decays, releases around 100,000 normal atoms or matter. An X boson, is antimatter, which releases 99,999 antimatter when decayed, which is why we have a matter universe.
I was really inspired when this discovery came out, and really happy that it has been proved.

Well that's my article today, g'bye peeps :)

Picture- sombrero galaxy

A normal sombrero is big, but this is overkill!

Earth part 2

Sorry i have not posted in a while, but anyway, we had some basic facts in part 1, well now I'll be talking about the underground of earth and many other things associated with that subject. So without further a do, lets go.

So the Earth has a mantle, which is split into two parts, the upper  and the lower, which are 2,900km deep combined and normally 500 to 900 degrees Celsius. The temperature is around Then the crust, which we stand on and is about 70 kilometres deep, the temperature varies. next is the outer core which is liquid and 2,216km deep and is made out of iron and nickel, it is around 5000 degrees Celsius. The inner core is solid and is again, made out of iron and nickel and is 1,220 km deep and is around 5000 degrees Celsius. well that's it, here is a little diagram to help you. Bye peeps!

Photo- Arches Star Cluster

Here is the photo of the day from NASA's website's photo of the day.

Earth

Well, here we are, Earth, we've travelled 150,000,000 (150 million) and 2 posts to get here-Home!
This is going to be a two part (possibly three) part series about Earth.

The time it takes for one  Earth day (just pretend your martians, I know you know this) is actually 23 hours 57 minutes, but we round it up (I never knew that, did you!?)

One year is 365 days and a quarter, so every four years, so we have a leap year to make up for the quarters.

Basic interesting facts

Picture of Earth
from NASA.

• The Earth has one moon

• Someday the moon will fly off into deep space as the gravitational pull of Earth will loose it's grip.

• The Earth's surface is two thirds water, but compared with the whole inside of the Earth it only covers a measly 0.0002 of Earth's mass.

• Earth is not the only planet that had or has water, Mars used to have water too, but I'll explain that when I get to the Mars section.

OK, well goodbye peeps ;)