... increase in temperatures (Hubblesite Home Page) In this southern hemispheric phase huge dust storms usually occur. The period of aphelion occurs when Mars is farthest from the sun. This takes place in the northern hemisphere. Water ice clouds commonly develop during this period because it is much cooler than perihelion. ... the plains have a texture that was possibly created due to ground ice processes. White thin clouds form in this hemisphere and are produced by the shrinking of polar ice caps. Storms The storms on Mars are not hurricanes or thunderstorms. Dust storms occur on Mars. S...

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... produce belts of streak-like swirls surrounding the planet. The swirls are a series of storms on the planet's surface. The atmosphere of Saturn has weak bonds and there is a high haze, perhaps composed of crystals of ammonia ice, above the clouds. Apparent high-speed jet streams were also detected in the atmosphere. ... rings were compressed into a single body it would be no more than 100 km across. The ring particles seem to be composed primarily of water ice, but they may also include rocky particles with icy coatings and are extremely cold. An extensive cloud of hydrogen was also dis...

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... meters in size. The rings on Saturn are very thin. Even though they are 250,000km in diameter, they are less than one kilometer thick. The rings are mostly water ice, but include rocky particles with icy coatings. Saturn's rings are as followed: D-Ring, Guerin Division, C-Ring, Maxwell Division, B-Ring, Cassini Division, Huygens Gap, A-Ring, Encke Minima, Encke Division, F-Ring, G-Ring ... 't completely unseen. The edge of the planets rings catches the sunlight and reflects of a dark band across the middle of it. Storms are a rare thing on Saturn but do occur. Storms occur when warm air ...

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... night. Because astronomers have never seen this be4 it was refered to as aguest star?. SUNSPOTS dark, usually irregularly shaped spots on the sun's surface that are actually solar magnetic storms. The Chinese recorded dark features on the sun seen with the naked eye in 28 B.C. Sunspots are not permanent since the sun's surface is gaseous. Because the sun rotates on ... its axis, a sunspot cannot be observed continuously for more than about two weeks Sunspot activity produces various disturbances on earth-these include magnetic storms which manifest themselves as aurorae, interference wi...

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... BioDome will also need to be gravitated and pressurised as Mars's gravity is 0.4 of Earths and its pressure is 0.007 of Earths. It will also protect you when global dust storms occur. If you are sick of birthdays coming so quickly this is the place for you as one Mars year is 687 Earth days! On Mars water is either gas ... (vapour) or Solid (ice) so machines will be made to melt part of the ice caps to supply water. Transport to and from Mars will be via the Global Surveyor which is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Planned launches are ... ...

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... to observe from Earth with current technology because of its closeness to the sun. Mercury's surface is similar to the moon and there is no signs of clouds, rivers, dust storms or other evidence of a weather cycle. Mercury has many craters, but it has very little lava flow regions, which we call scarp. The prominent feature on the surface is the ... meteor impacts. The atmosphere on Mars is mostly carbon dioxide and it contains a troposphere, which rises to an altitude of about 30 km. It occasionally contains clouds of water and ice above the troposphere, which is called the stratospher...

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... , which contains hydrogen, helium, and trace amounts of methane extends about 3,100 miles above the planets ocean. The atmosphere of Uranus is relatively calm and inactive, with few clouds or storms. There are eleven rings of debris encircling Uranus's equator. These extremely dark, narrow ring s orbit the planet in the plane of it's equator. Many of these rings are made of ... ice and rock boulders about the size of beach balls. What I learned about this research was that the body of liquid on Uranus accounts for most of the planets volume. I also ... ...

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