A belt of asteroids (fragments of rock and iron) between Mars and Jupiter separate the four inner planets from the five outer planets. Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, was named…
The Question: How does Kansas rank as far as miles of road per state? The Answer: According to national transportation statistics (Table HM-10), as of 2004,…
WHO DISCOVERED URANUS? WHAT ARE URANUS’S MOONS LIKE? FIND OUT MORETilted at 98°, Uranus seems to be spinning on its side. As it moves in its orbit, first one pole and then the other points straight…
CLOUDY ATMOSPHEREFIND OUT MOREVenus is only a little smaller than Earth, is made up of rock, and has an atmosphere, but it is otherwise quite unlike our planet. Its surface is covered with…
DOES THE ATMOSPHERE REMAIN THE SAME FROM EARTH TO SPACE? WHAT IS ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE? FIVE ATMOSPHERE LAYERSOZONE LAYERFIND OUT MOREMost life on Earth depends on the atmosphere, a bubble of gases…
jazz saxophonist, composerBorn: 9/23/1926Birthplace: Hamlet, North Carolina Jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist and composer who was a leader of the New Wave jazz movement. Coltrane began his…
The Endurance Shackleton's expedition trapped by an iceberg in the South Atlantic by Susan Hyde On December 5, 1914, Ernest Henry Shackleton, an Irish explorer, and 27 men set sail on…
A-B | C-G | H-S | T-Z ablation: The loss of snow cover from any snow or ice surface by melting, evaporation, or calving. abrupt climate change: Climate change…
