Search results for "Earth Observing System" - New World Encyclopedia
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- the Moon passes through some portion of the Earth's shadow. This can occur ... times a year, whenever some portion of the Earth's shadow falls upon ...10 KB (1,531 words) - 10:38, 9 March 2023
- roughly equal to the mean distance of the Earth from the Sun. The currently ... of the Earth's elliptical orbit around the Sun. In 1976, the ...8 KB (1,072 words) - 18:25, 19 August 2023
- When an eclipse occurs in a stellar system such as the Solar System ... when the Moon's shadow crosses the Earth's surface, or a lunar ...20 KB (3,193 words) - 18:01, 12 February 2024
- was the first astronomer to use the telescope for observing. ... imagers, spectrographs, and an adaptive optics system. ===Construction=== ...11 KB (1,644 words) - 17:07, 10 November 2022
- Located near the center of the far side of Earth's Moon, its diameter ... celestial phenomena that originate outside Earth's atmosphere. It gives ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 18:26, 19 August 2023
- 3000 km², was still the largest iceberg on Earth, until it ran aground and ... Before 1912, there was no system in place to track icebergs to guard ...12 KB (1,760 words) - 17:16, 10 February 2024
- in 1683, he introduced the first national system for weights and measures ... of Jupiter, in essence using the Jovian system as a cosmic clock. This method ...15 KB (2,454 words) - 00:06, 18 November 2022
- light-years (ly) (2 kiloparsec (kpc)) from Earth, the nebula has a diameter ... in 1758 by Charles Messier as he was observing a bright comet. Messier ...23 KB (3,450 words) - 06:15, 11 January 2024
- innovative geocentric model of the Solar System in which the Sun and Moon ... Tycho developed a theory of the solar system in which the sun circled ...28 KB (4,358 words) - 00:39, 3 May 2023
- that his analog pen-and-paper recording system kept recording a repeating ... of widely separated radio telescopes observing the same object that are ...12 KB (1,739 words) - 22:45, 7 December 2022
- experiment is to introduce a change in a system (the independent variable ... on observations of the variables of the system under study, rather than ...15 KB (2,257 words) - 23:56, 24 March 2024
- the most massive objects in the Solar System outside the Sun and the eight ... bodies orbiting something other than the Earth dealt a serious blow to the ...25 KB (3,695 words) - 03:54, 18 April 2024
- A binary star is a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around ... appear to be close together as seen from Earth, but are not bound to each ...43 KB (6,669 words) - 17:43, 31 October 2023
- * Emitted radiation (for example Earth's infrared glow) ... :# The Sun and the Earth both radiate as spherical black bodies. ...23 KB (3,522 words) - 18:09, 31 October 2023
- The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. Natural satellites ... The average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,403 kilometers ...39 KB (6,162 words) - 13:13, 10 March 2023
- of invisible energy coursing through the earth. Presently, people also are ... pieces of gold or jewels into the fluid, observing the figures that were formed ...16 KB (2,402 words) - 15:31, 29 January 2024
- experimentation, and monitoring of the Earth's environment and weather ... map making etc. (See especially Earth Observing System.) ...35 KB (4,993 words) - 00:11, 8 January 2024
- The Sun is the star at the center of the Earth's solar system ... wind that carry material through the solar system. The effects of solar activity ...52 KB (7,953 words) - 22:23, 26 February 2023
- from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. Jupiter and the other gas ... center). It is 318 times more massive than Earth, with a diameter 11 times ...33 KB (5,055 words) - 06:44, 28 February 2023
- A comet is a small body in the solar system that orbits the Sun and ... nebula that collapsed to produce the solar system, about five billion years ...28 KB (4,322 words) - 00:05, 8 January 2024
