The Length of a Day on Mars: Sidereal and Solar Days Compared

The Length of a Day on Mars: Sidereal and Solar Days Compared

Jakarta – The time cycle for a day and a night on Earth lasts 24 hours. So, what about other planets like Mars? Are the numbers the same, less, or even more? Reporting from detikEdu, the length of time in a day can be determined from the daily cycle on planet Earth which rotates counterclockwise … Read more

Saturn’s Summer to Autumn Transition Observed by Sophisticated Space Telescopes

Saturn’s Summer to Autumn Transition Observed by Sophisticated Space Telescopes

Using sophisticated space telescopes, astronomers watched the change from summer to autumn on the planet Saturn. Photo/NASA/Space FLORIDA – Using sophisticated space telescopes, astronomers watched summer change to fall season on the planet Saturn. Each season on the planet Saturn lasts 7.5 years, because one year on this ice ring planet is the same as … Read more

Scientists Discover Possible “Ocean” on Exoplanet K2-18 b

Scientists Discover Possible “Ocean” on Exoplanet K2-18 b

Scientists have found evidence that suggests there may be an “ocean” on the exoplanet K2-18 b, which is 120 million light-years from Earth. Scientists at the NASA space agency have announced they have found evidence that it is possible that there may be an “ocean” on the exoplanet known as “K2-18 b,” which is millions … Read more

Factors Preventing Astronauts from Landing on Saturn: Gas, Electric Current, Temperature, and Pressure

Factors Preventing Astronauts from Landing on Saturn: Gas, Electric Current, Temperature, and Pressure

Jakarta – Pre-astronauts have successfully carried out various space missions. However, the mission to land on the planet Saturn was never successful. Reporting from detikEdu, Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system. Saturn is so big that it can fit 760 Earths inside it. The distance between Saturn and Earth is about … Read more

The World’s Longest Aircraft and Largest Spherical Structure: Pathfinder 1 and MSG Sphere

The World’s Longest Aircraft and Largest Spherical Structure: Pathfinder 1 and MSG Sphere

The 122-meter-long, 28-ton Pathfinder 1 aircraft, which is scheduled to take off in test mode later this year, is expected to revolutionize air travel as it will be the longest aircraft in the world. It should be noted that the longest aircraft currently in operation is the “Boeing 747-8” with 76 meters. Airship “Pathfinder 1” … Read more

10 Planets Most Like Earth: List of Earth-like Planets Discovered by Scientists

10 Planets Most Like Earth: List of Earth-like Planets Discovered by Scientists

Jakarta – So far scientists have discovered more than 4,000 exoplanets. Some of them have been identified and some have similarities to planet Earth. Is it livable? In fact, to qualify as a potentially life-worthy planet, a planet must be relatively small (and therefore rocky). Then the planet must also orbit in the habitable or … Read more

Why Astronauts Have Never Landed on Saturn: Gas Giant, Temperature, and Electric Current

Why Astronauts Have Never Landed on Saturn: Gas Giant, Temperature, and Electric Current

Jakarta – Of the many outer space missions that have been carried out, planet Saturn never made a destination. What is the reason? Saturn is a very large planet, the second largest in the solar system. The size of Saturn can contain as many as 760 Earths in it. The distance from Saturn to Earth … Read more

Hidden Planet in the Outer Solar System: Explaining Strange Orbits and Behavior

Hidden Planet in the Outer Solar System: Explaining Strange Orbits and Behavior

Jakarta – Astronomers have long been puzzled by space objects that behave strangely and are largely unexplained in their outer reaches Solar systembeyond the orbit of Neptune. Observations show that this trans-Neptunian object (TNO) moves as if it were pulled by the gravitational force of a large invisible mass. One theory is that there is … Read more

Possible Ninth Planet in the Solar System: New Theory on Strange Space Objects

Possible Ninth Planet in the Solar System: New Theory on Strange Space Objects

Jakarta – Astronomers have long been puzzled by space objects that behave strangely and are largely unexplained in their outer reaches Solar systembeyond the orbit of Neptune. Observations show that this trans-Neptunian object (TNO) moves as if it were pulled by the gravitational force of a large invisible mass. One theory is that there is … Read more