Close Encounter with Pluto – NASA
After 9 years of travelling, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is preparing to encounter Pluto on January 2015. The closest approach has been expected to happen on July 2015, when the New Horizons spacecraft reaches...
Category: The Planets
Could Enceladus Contain Any Life Form?
In search for new life forms outside the Earth, scientists explore the conditions of Saturn’s moon, Enceladus. Enceladus is very small, icy moon, which size is about the size of North Dakota. A huge...
Flight over Mars’ Becquerel Crater – ESA
This video clip is a compilation of images of Mars’ Becquerel crater, captured by high resolution cameras. Becquerel crater is located in the Arabia Terra region on Mars. The images clearly show structure and...
Mars’ Gigantic Volcano – Olympus Mons
Tharsis Montes is a volcanic region on planet Mars, which is known for Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in our Solar System. Its surface is about the same size as Arizona and is three...
Jupiter and Its Red Spot
The great red spot on Jupiter is enormous anti-cyclonic storm twice size the Earth. According to scientists, this storm is not red by its nature, but gases in Jupiterain atmosphere are red when exposed...
How to Define a Planet
During technological evolution, our idea about the Solar System has been also greatly evolved. Technological progress enables us to discover new planets, which makes a lot of confusion among scientists in the past. Introducing...
Highlights of the December Sky 2014
The following video lists the most important events and highlights for December 2014. The month starts with Mars as a morning star, and Venus will join him later in the month.
Is There a Ninth Planet in Our Solar System?
Far away from our Sun, Kuiper belt stretches out beyond Neptune, containing a lot of dwarf planets with peculiar orbits. According to new evidence, scientists start to speculate that there can be a real...
Ocean World of Jupiter’s Moon, Europa – NASA
According to many studies, scientists believe that there is an ocean in our Solar System, ten times deeper than the Earth’s oceans, with two to three times the Earth’s water volume. They assume that...
Mercury, Extremely Polarized Planet
The smallest planet in our Solar System, Mercury, is at the same time the closest one to the Sun. Its dayside surface is exposed to the Sun in a very long period of time,...
Delicate Rings of Jupiter
Jupiter, the most massive planet in our Solar System, has very delicate rings, consisting of particles that are the size of the fine dust. These faint rings spread around Jupiter within 3.000 miles in...
Jupiter’s Ocean Is the Largest One in the Solar System
In our Solar System, Jupiter is the planet that contains the most immense liquid seas beneath its gas atmosphere. As the planet that is 1400 times larger in volume than the Earth, Jupiter is...
Highlights of the November Sky 2014
The following video lists the evening planets, constellations and deep-sky objects, morning planets and events during November 2014. We can expect to see bright Jupiter early in the mornings, and the Leonid meteor shower...
All about Mars
Marc Kaufman, author of the book “Mars Up Close”, explores in depth all details that are known till today about the Red Planet, or about the blue-green planet, as he said. His presentation begins...
Uranus – the Second Planet with Rings
In 1977, the small team of researchers was about to study Uranus atmosphere. They were waiting for a moment when a distant star passed behind Uranus. Unexpectedly, the team found out the second planet...
Saturn’s Rings – the Key to Its Beauty
The following video explores the Saturn’s rings in depth. The scientists try to answer the questions about its composition. Saturn has the seven main belts around its equator. But, what is inside them?
Europa, Jupiter’s Strangest Moon
Europa is the sixth moon that orbits around Jupiter. This moon is very specific, unique and fascinating. For scientists, it represents the real enigma. Europa has been molded by gravitational tides from Jupiter and...
Mars’ Chaotic Surface
When the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter has gathered data on Mars’ surface, they have been used to simulate the flight over Mars’ chaotic terrain, which consists of the hundreds of mountains that...
