... it 28,000 feet above the ocean floor where it started. From the base underwater to the summit above water, this volcano stands higher than Mount Everest. There are two main types of volcanoes out there in the world today, the first is felsic, and the second is mafic. Felsic volcanoes have ... a high silica content and a light color to the lava. The second, mafic, has just the opposite, a low silica content and a darker color. Then there are underwater volcanoes ... ground. Underwater volcanoes produce some things called black smokers, they are basically just ash as well as black smoke t...

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... Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. The outer planets travel slower around the sun and it spins a lot slower. Earth is a little different from the rest of the planets. This is the only planet that is known to have living life on it. Earth has air that humans can breath. Not many people will know this ... it is the only planet names after a Greek god. Earth is also the only planet that has bodies of water like the ocean and rivers. People have studied the other planets and have not found life on any of them. There are some interesting facts about the solar system.. If the earth ...

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Mars The planet Mars is nicknamed the god of war. The Planet probably got its name from its red color, Mars is sometimes called the red planet. Mars" orbit is significant because it is elliptical. Mars average temperature is about -55C ... than the earth's and a thin crust. With Mars relatively low density compared to the other planets its appears that its core probably contains a relatively large fraction of sulfur in addition to iron. Mars also appears to lack active plate tectonics . Having no lateral plate motion, hot spots under the crust stay in a fixed ... position relative to the su...

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... rocks resemble basalt lava, and the soil chemistry is like that of weathered, altered basalt. There are water and sulfur compounds in the soil. The sky is not blue but pink, its color caused by fine suspended particles of red dust. The polar caps are largely made of water ice. The winds at the surface of Mars are light, 15 miles per hour. The surface temperature ranges ... from about -120 •X F ! at night to -20 •X F in the afternoon. Fog and clouds occur despite the fact that the water content of the atmosphere is less ... than 0.1 percent that of the air on Earth. The surface pres...

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... it is thirty one thousand miles across. Uranus has fifteen moons. Now I"m going to answer my questions. Uranus contains mostly rock and water, with hydrogen and helium, and trace amounts of methane in its dense atmosphere. The blue-green color of this planet comes from the methane gas present in Uranus's cold clear atmosphere. Uranus probably has a small rocky core smaller than Earths with ... a radius no larger than 1240 miles. The cores temperature is about 12,000 degrees f. The body of liquid on Uranus accounts for most of the planets volume. The atmosphere of Uranus, which contains ...

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... on a planet to see if humans can exist on another planet. The dispensing of certain gasses into the atmosphere to support the greenhouse affect and the search for water is one of the primary objectives of this new frontier. The dispensing of the gasses will change to color of the plant from a red to a blue-green planet similar to earth. After these years, the terraforming effort will ... probably be taken on by large business for whatever reason they have. These businesses will take on large efforts to help raise the temperature and the amount of ... surface, but it would burn up in th...

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... at the north and south poles of Mars. These caps grow and shrink throughout the Martian year, just as the polar caps of Earth do. The darker areas of Mars's surface may look greenish, but this is an optical illusion caused by the contrast in color between the dark patches and brighter ... areas. Scientists believe that the dark areas are regions of bare rock. Then bright areas are regions with deposits of weathered material. At certain times of the year like spring and summer when Mars is closest ... to the sun, great dust storms appear as yellow clouds. The largest of these storms can ...

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