Category: Elements

NASA’s Perseverance extracts another rock from Mars

March 12, 2022

NASA’s Perseverance Rover collects another sample from Mars. This is the seventh rock to be collected from the surface of Mars. This sample was taken from the Jazero crater on Mars. Perseverance is the size of a car. It will collect one more sample from the current area. After that we will travel to the…

Why saturn have rings?

March 6, 2022

There are two main theories about the origin of Saturn’s rings.1) A satellite of Saturn’s orbit shrinks and eventually reaches the Roche limit, causing Saturn’s tidal force to scatter and orbit Saturn’s. The gravitational pull of the planet facing the moon facing it is greater than the gravity on the opposite side, causing the moon…

What will happen to you when you land on Jupiter ….. about that exciting journey that is not possible …

March 1, 2022

Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System. About 1325 Earths can fit on Jupiter very easily. Suppose you decided to land on Jupiter to learn more about the mysterious planet Jupiter. What will happen? Jupiter is a gas giant with no ‘soil’ to trample on. Will you go straight down there? What do…

It rains like precious gems on this planet

February 28, 2022

Can you imagine living on a planet (Rains Precious Gems) with precious gems instead of water? Scientists have now discovered these new features in an exoplanet that previously discovered clouds made of metal, rain and gems. Called ‘WASP-121b’, the gas giant orbits a star about 855 light-years from Earth. This is according to a study…

Marie Curie was the first and only woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry.

February 22, 2022

For more than 100 years, Curie’s clothing, furniture, books, and laboratory notes have been radioactive. Curie’s laboratory notebooks are still housed in lead – lined boxes in museums in France. Marie Curie’s goods will still be radioactive for 1500 years.

An object older than Earth has been found in the Sahara Desert.

January 27, 2022

The meteorite found in the Sahara last year was estimated to be about 4.56 billion years old. The age of the Earth is 4.54 billion years. The asteroid named EC002 or Erg Chech 002 is amazing. The study of the rare meteorite was published in the journal PNAS. It is thought to be part of…

Cope-Echchels effect

January 26, 2022

When Michael Yon, an American war correspondent and photographer, accompanied American troops to Afghanistan in 2009 to begin photographing soldiers and their equipment there, he noticed an unusual phenomenon. As the helicopter took off or landed, the blades of the rotors began to shine like “distant galaxies” as the air filled with a lot of…

Volcanic eruption and Earth climate

January 18, 2022

Many people have seen pictures of a volcanic eruption called Tonga in the Pacific Ocean. The epicenter was reported below the Pacific Ocean floor, however; no tsunami alert was issued. With each volcanic eruption, large amounts of ash, dust, and vapor are released. Depending on their strength, these dust particles can reach very high altitudes….

Scenes of a submarine volcanic eruption off the coast of Tonga.

January 16, 2022

Satellite images collected over a period of 2 hours show the ash and vapors emitted following the volcanic eruption. Images taken by Himawari 8, Japan’s meteorological satellite. The epicenter was reported below the Pacific Ocean floor, however; no tsunami alert was issued.