Showing posts with label Planets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Planets. Show all posts

Wednesday 25 March 2015

How Jupiter could have destroyed our solar system?


Jupiter, the worlds largest planet in our solar system, known for its unpresidented gravitational force wasn't as dosile as the planet is today. Jupiter during the inception of the solar system wasa violent beast calling for destruction. Jupiter had a powerful whirling spiral that was the product of the large gravitational force the planet posseses. This whirling spiral was known to suck and throw objects into Space and towards other planets. It might have been a very scary site from Earth but to be fair human civilization didn't exist during the time.

According to Scientists, the only thing that saved the entire solar System was the planet Saturn. Saturn was known to also posses a very strong gravitational force that maybe was even more powerful that the gravity on Jupiter. This gravitational fource from Saturn helped Jupiter to get rid of that devestating whirlwind spiral. The forces of saturn also caused Jupiter to be placed behind mars in our Solar System.

Jupiter's gravitational force has never reduced as even today anything coming even remotely close to the planet is sucked in by it. The gravitational forces have also caused continuous sandstorms and the infamous red dot on the planet is actually a sand storm that has existed for centuries. Apart from this the planet has also been known for changing the course of many flying objects and also caused the formation of many other celestial bodies. Now thats a lot of creation and or destruction from one planet. 

Saturn on the other hand might have lost some of its gravitational force as it isn't as powerful as before. But it still is able to hold its rings and moons which makes it the most beautiful planet in our solar system. Its fascinating to think about the history of these planets and the kind of activities our solar system has gone through.

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Sunday 22 March 2015

Why are all planets round?



There was the medieval times when people believed the earth to be flat but now that we know our planet is round, a quetion rises in my mind. We see our eintire solar system and all the planets are round. There isnt a single square or flat planet. Even our sun is round which is why I was wondering why everything is round?

According to scientists, the shape was just ment to be. Durng the big bang, all the debris floating around Space came together to form round planets. I believe the shape of our planets is the way it is because of the shape of a higher power. The Sun is also round and I believe thats what caused the shapes of all the planets to be round. Thats why the debris from the big bang went around the sun. If the Sun were square there wouldnt have been the possibility of something orbiting the star.

When planets were forming and there was constant collision of debris, it was causing these new cellestial objects to revolve on their own axis. This also is a reason for the spherical or round shape of the planets. The debris were mended to take a circular shape due to the forces acting on them during the revolution. Another reason could be that it is the easiest of all geometrical shapes to just form on its own.   
  
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Friday 6 March 2015

Was there ever life on Mars?


The red planet as it is called, Mars sits just at the edge of the habitable zone in our Solar system. NASA's curiosity rover has found traces of water on the red planet. Speculations suggest that there once was a time when there were seas or rivers on the red planet and that the planet was exactly like Earth. Which further gives us a clue that maybe humans to existed on the planet.

Ancient paintings on caves have shown people flying into space. It shocks us that if people could draw something like that on caves it suggests that the technology did exist during the time and it was used repeatedly. Some experts suggest that human life began on Mars. When the planet became barren the human race left it and settled on Earth. If this were true, the technology that existed such a long time ago is way ahead of what we have today.

Could Mars have been a part of Earth?

The earth was much bigger than what it is today. There was a collision which caused the Earth to loose a lot of mass. This formed the moon. Some say the moon actually collided with the Earth and thats what caused the tilt on its axis. Anyway what I believe is that the collision caused a lot of debris to fall into space. The debris must have come together to form the red planet or at least part of what the red planet is today. The rest of it might have come from other planets like Jupiter or the asteroid belt. Why did I come to this conclusion? Maybe because the planet is around half the size of Earth.

It is very much possible that there was life at Mars as there have been traces of water. But if my conclusion were true, the water found at Mars was just a part of Earth a long time ago which means that Mars was always the red planet with similar conditions that exist on the planet today.

The question came to my mind when I was reading about the findings of NASA. The comments section is open for your opinions. And as always...........

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