14 results for “moons”
Planets & the Solar System
The Moon
Moon does something subtler too: it steadies Earth's tilt. Without a large moon, the gravitational
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Planets & the Solar System
Saturn
moon, Titan, is bigger than Mercury and the only moon in the solar system with a thick
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Planets & the Solar System
Jupiter
moons that may hide oceans of liquid water. If the planets were gathered in one place
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Space & the Universe
Space Exploration
Moon. Twelve people walked on the Moon between 1969 and 1972 and brought back 382 kilograms
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Planet Earth
The Oceans
Moon's gravity, and in some bays the water climbs more than fifteen metres between low and high
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Matter, Energy & Physics
Gravity
Moon in its orbit. Every object attracts every other, with a pull that grows with their
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Planets & the Solar System
Uranus and Neptune
moons and rings are tilted with it. The consequence is bizarre seasons: as Uranus makes its 84-year
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Planets & the Solar System
Mercury and Venus
Moon, covered in craters from the heavy bombardment of the early solar system, including the Caloris
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Planet Earth
Inside the Earth
Moon. It is solid despite being hotter still, around 5,400 degrees, as hot as the surface
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Matter, Energy & Physics
Light
Moon in 1.3 seconds and to the Sun in eight minutes. Nothing with mass can reach
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Planets & the Solar System
Comets, Asteroids and Pluto
Moon. Asteroids are made of rock and metal, the stuff of the inner solar system. Some
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Planets & the Solar System
The Sun
Moon. The corona is so hot that it constantly leaks into space as the solar wind
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The Human Body
The Heart and Blood
Moon in a few dozen people, driven by a pump that never stops. It is the most
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Space & the Universe
Nebulae
Moon, with a knot of brilliant young stars at its heart. That cloud is the Orion
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