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The last frontier...the new age explorer...aliens...humans...meta humans...dimensions...time warps...black holes...novas...super novas...the mercury project...the apollo project...star wars...astronauts...predators and victims...the stuff movies are made out of...capturing our hearts, our minds, and our imaginations, while we speed off into the unknown with abandon looking to see why we are here and where we belong in this vast Universe we call home.
Almost all of the Oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere has been produced by living organisms. Oxygen accounts for 21% of our atmosphere, with Nitrogen making up 78%, and a mixture of other gases composing the remaining 1%. Oxygen only occurs as a minor constituent in the atmospheres of other planets in our Solar System.
The Earth has the highest average density (5.52 g/cubic cm) of any planet in our Solar System. Saturn has the lowest (0.69 g/cubic cm). For reference, the density of liquid water is 1 g/cubic cm.
Jupiter's moon Io, less than 1/3 the size of Earth, puts out twice as much heat as the Earth. This is primarily due to tidal forces from Jupiter's enormous gravitational field causing a constant squeezing and stretching of Io. Heat generated by that squeezing and stretching accounts for Io being the most volcanically active body in the Solar System.
Did you know that water ice may exist in the bottoms of craters at Mercury's poles, based upon radar data taken in recent years. Even though Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, and extremely hot over most of its surface, ice may exist at the bottoms of some polar craters because the crater floors are permanently shadowed by the crater rims.
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