Saturn’s largest moon. It is bigger than our moon and Mercury. Another is that streams, rivers, lakes, etc. are found here like ours. (not water.. made of ethane, methane) It has a thick atmosphere, one and a half times the Earth’s atmospheric pressure.None of the other 177 known moons in the Solar System have an…
Enceladus is Saturn’s sixth largest moon, only one-seventh the diameter of our Moon. Perhaps the mysterious sphere in the solar system where extraterrestrial life is most likely! In 1789, British astronomer William Herschel was the first to discover Enceladus, one of Saturn’s inner moons. This discovery was made with the 47 inch telescope he built….
But let’s see how long it has been since our spacecraft reached their destination. Launched on November 3, 1973, Mariner10 took 147 days to reach Mercury on March 29, 1974. But the speed still needs to go down a bit to reach the orbit. It took Messenger 1260 days to reach orbit. It will still…
Let’s get acquainted with some of the giants in our galaxy, many of which are the largest and brightest known in the universe. Maggie – The longest structure in the milkyway It is the largest object or structure in our galaxy. Although many isolated large clouds can be seen, this cloud, which is continuous at…
Bagnold dunes are a 35 km long dark gray mud / sand dune in the Gail Crater on Mars. They are named after Ralph Alger Bagnold, one of the first explorers to explore the physics behind the sand dunes across the Libyan desert.
Aren’t you confused ..? This is not the case with the venus we are familiar with. Then how can this be fixed ..? All those images were taken to study the surface of the venus and clouds in the UV and IR spectrum. These are the pictures of venus that we are familiar with on…
The Dwarf Planet was named after the famous Indian musician Pandit Jasraj by the International Astronomical Union. Pandit Jasraj is a 2006 dwarf planet orbiting Mars and Jupiter named VP32. This is the first time an Indian object has been named after a space object. There are space objects named after Mozart and Beethoven. According…
