Physical Science

There is no real evidence of a Martian civilization. But that doesn’t meant that there ISN’T one yet to be discovered. There are three things to consider when examining this topic: 1) Was life on Mars at one time possible?…
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We all know the story. In July 1947 something crashed in the New Mexico desert outside the town of Roswell. The Army Air Forces went out to investigate the incident. The 509th Bomb Group, the first nuclear bomber group in…
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The Rosetta mission was decided as part of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Horizon 2000 programme as a planetary cornerstone mission. Approved in November 1993 it builds upon the success of its predecessor mission GIOTTO which provided data from flybys…
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Sunspots are large dark spots that appear on the sun’s surface due to reduced temperature in that area. They move across the surface of the sun and appear near the equator. High magnetic activity present temporarily in an area on…
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Sunspots and their effects on earth Yes, our Sun has spots, and of course, they are called sunspots. They were first observed by Galileo as he observed the sun through a telescope, but they look darker, even to the naked…
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For time immemorial, when men or women gazed up into the heavens, they wondered if we are alone, if anyone or anything lived anywhere else. Near the end of the 19th century, a time of great scientific curiosity, astronomers aimed…
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To obtain a complete picture of how Sunspots develop, it’s important to understand the Sun itself: how heat is generated and transported through the Sun’s different layers, its rotation, its magnetic field and its surface. The Sun is a huge,…
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A sunspot is defined as a cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the sun’s photosphere; associated with a strong magnetic field. Sunspots have been appearing on the sun for as long as astronomers can remember however; it wasn’t until late…
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I was eight years old when John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth. Glued to the television set, my mind was made up. I was going to be an astronaut. Of course my parents thought it was…
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According to the Mayan long count calendar the world as we know it ends on December 21, 2012. New age groups believe it will bring spiritual awakening while a number of people believe it will bring global chaos in the…
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