... Voyager 2 missions of 1979. Reta Beebe (2000) The Voyager craft were designed to maintain a stable orientation in space, so that onboard cameras and other imaging instruments could be used to map Jupiter in ultraviolet, visible, and infrared light. The visual images provided detailed maps of Jupiter's cloud deck. In 1990 NASA launched the spacecraft Ulysses from an orbiting space shuttle to ... explore more efficiently are needed, including improved spacecraft power systems, ion drive engines, miniaturization of instruments, and upgrades to Earth-based radio receiving equipment. Small c...

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... the world where earthquakes have occurred in the past, although there are places in the world where they are most likely happen on a regular basis. The red areas on the map show places where earthquakes are most likely to occur. The red areas are mainly spread across the west of South America, the west of North America, Japan, Turkey, Iraq, Iran ... Zealand. This tells us that these countries therefore will most probably lie on plate boundaries, or be near to an underground volcano. As you can see by looking at the map of plate boundaries the countries listed before as being the countri...

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... . It isn't fair and it means that if people don't share out the resources properly and evenly, the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. This base map shows the number of children per family across the world. You can clearly see that the countries with more children are definitely in Africa and parts of Asia, whereas the ... ...

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... it is protected by the government by being a part of the national park Elba. This mineral is found in so many other places as well. I was able to find on a map over 40 major mines for olivine. My favorite part about this mineral is how it could possibly affect our future. With major problems and concerns with growing C02 levels in ... ...

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... and just before the last ice age 30,000-15,000 years ago. These larger eruptions produced pyroclastic flows that covered over a very large area from sisters to bend(see map) and tephra fallout deposits as thick as 42 feet. Such an eruption would be catastrophic today due to the mass population located near the base of the volcano. The wilderness ... ...

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The greenhouse effect occurs when gases such as methane, carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide and CFCs trap heat in the atmosphere by acting as a pane of glass in a car. The glass lets the sun light in to make heat but when the heat tries to get out the gases absorb the heat. Holding this heat in causes h...

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The article "Plate Tectonics on Mars" written by Ron Cowen, was about how the magnetic map revealed ancient activity on Mars. At first the scientists first anticipated the movement in 1912, but wasn't established until the late 1960's. Plate tectonics are the theory that explains the ... ...

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... seismic tomography to figure what's going beneath the surface. As for the places on the surface that are hard to explore, mainly underwater areas, sea surface topography is used to map underwater landscapes. But I only said that it's hard to explore, not that it hasn't been explored. This story is the most famous of a fierce crew of subaqueous pirates who have ... ...

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... the northern lights should have been able to be seen but the sun was less active and the northern lights didn't show up. Lars Vegard was the first scientist to map colors in the aurora and it helped to build the Auroral Observatory in Tromsx. He used a spectrograph to record the waves of the lights and found out the main green ... ...

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... 's gravitational pull while passing within 36,650 miles of the moon (Pioneer 4); established a record of 106 days of functionality at a record distance of 22 ½ million miles from earth while reporting a map of the interplanetary magnetic field (Pioneer 5). Pioneer's 6-9, which were launched between 1965 and 1968, are known for recording the first detailed measurements of solar wind, solar magnetic field and cosmic ... ...

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