... of their "great difference and inequality of color." This shows the pilgrims own intolerance of differences as well as racial prejudice. However, it also shows that the Europeans themselves come away with only a vague idea of the Iroquois creation story, even though they do not stop to question why that may be. In "Indians of New Netherlands Account for the Creation," the writer describes that the Iroquois disjointedly claim......"then all was water ... , or the water covered all ... ...

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... about 75% hydrogen and 25% helium by mass with traces of methane, water, ammonia, and "rock"(Jupiter"). This is close to the composition of the primordial Solar Nebula from which the entire solar system was formed. Atmosphere The atmosphere of Jupiter is composed mainly of hydrogen, helium, methane, and ammonia. It appears that the atmosphere is divided into a number of light and dark bands, which are parallel to its equator, and ... and Thebe (see Table 2). The main and halo rings consist of dust ejected from the moons Metis, Adrastea, and other unobserved satellites as the result of h...

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... 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 ... ...

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... is just a big star though, so it is really only made up of the 9 planets and stars. Pluto is also the coldest planet, that is because it is the farthest from the sun than all the rest of the planets, and Mercury is the hottest planet because it is the closest to the sun. There are a few planets that have rings around them. Saturn has 2 large rings around it that are ... know this one, but 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 ...

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... 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 and at the winter poles it is almost about 27 C. There are four major land forms on Mars. Olympus Mons is the largest mountain in the solar system rising 24 ... km above the surrounding plain ... hours and 37 minutes. The lengths of each day in Mars and Earth are almost the same. Mar's seasons are also similar to the Earth's. Unlike the Earth Mars has two moons rather t...

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... soil on Earth. The surface 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...

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... . miles from the sun. It takes Uranus eighty four years to circle the sun once. Uranus lies on it's side and 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...

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... , we are already thinking of ways to reduce the effects it is causing; hoping that the processes will end. The Earth's atmosphere is divided into several layers. The lowest region, the troposphere, the next layer, the stratosphere, and the most atmospheric ozone are concentrated in a layer in the stratosphere, about 15-30 kilometers above the Earth's surface. Ozone is a molecule containing three oxygen atoms. It is blue in color and has a strong ... greenhouse gases. . It is caused by increased amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2). The effect of CO2 is amplified by the atmosphere (especially ...

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... These gases and clouds travel faster at the equator than at higher latitudes. The gases and clouds of the atmosphere are thrown outward as the planet rotates, similar to the manner in which mud is thrown outward from a spinning wheel. Jupiter's outer layer, composed of a gaseous mixture of hydrogen, helium, and traces of hydrogen-rich compounds such as ammonia, methane, and water vapor, is about 600 miles thick. ... Stripes, Rings, and Moons From a distance Jupiter appears to have horizontal stripes, which result from winds that shear its cloud layers into sharply defined bands. These ba...

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... will probably be terraforming efforts starting during the first week. These efforts will consist of trying to establish a form of life 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 ... ...

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... atoms disintegrate into electrons and nuclei. What was hydrogen becomes a gas of electrons and protons called plasma. Plasma escapes from the sun's atmosphere through a hole in the sun's magnetic field. When they escape they are thrown out by the rotation of the sun in a spiral called the garden-hose effect. The name comes from the pattern of water droplets formed if you swing a garden hose around and around above ... your head. When the northern lights are seen, it happens in a pattern, this pattern changes a great deal. The outbursts start with a phosphorescent glow over the horizon in...

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... 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 cover the globe of Mars and last for months. At other...

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