Up close with Craters.

Have you ever wonder what the moon would look up a little closer.  Seeing all those marking dark and lighted, during the full Moon, and hopefully not expecting Lycians, werewolf or of course Team Jacob to appear.  Wether that the face of the moon that you’re looking at or making out looking to see if there’s an image of the Easter rabbit  giving away easter eggs.   The moon have been around (about 4.5 billion years ) with us for very long time since the creation of the second Earth that were living on after the collision off two major almost Earth size Planets one called Terra Firma (and the other which I couldn’t put a name on it), then later forming  Earth a much crack one,  aswell the formation of  moon too, but less cracked.

Earth is ever so explain of having earthquakes, silent temper volcanos,  which the collision many so Billion years ago it’s left it quite  pathological plate tectonic crack.  Unlike its warring Brother Mars, is ever constantly building up Volcanos  mountains, like  mounting more armies mount Everest High than it’s Sister Earth having been so left pathological it creates beautifully green,  life for the family could see.

When we think of craters we think of the Moon, which is littered with thousands of them. Craters are dominant impact depression ( natured, man-made ) they come in all sort of sizes. They are made due to the impacts of asteroids or comets that come in the direct path of the Moon.  Once they impacted it forms a crater, a depression, then follow by the remnants of the impacts have impacted slowly again due to the moon’s gravity, much to the same case as  making smaller ones in the process.

One natural defense that Earth can avoid or try to avoid of being struck by an asteroids or comets is the outer gaseous planets in the Sol system. Jupiter, Saturn provide the best cover protection  for this planet. Given to that the two largest ones, Jupiter, Saturn  gravity  them into the  path of  the massive planets, due to the nature of the large gravity excursion of the two it performs.

On Earth we also are littered with them, they range in different sizes, and variants of them.  Many of the variants ranges from Volcanos, to ancient doomsday craters. The ones on Earth are well more hidden due to the  natural elemental erosion of by wind, weathering through time.  Some are hidden cratered on the ocean floors, and some are exposed in the barren field like the ones on Earth. On Earth they are discovered using various means by surveying equipment from  satellites, to taking soil samples which determine its scienitific orgins.

So the next time you decide to trek around Earth you might be in surprise when you see a large depression in the ground……….

Postcards from Jupiter.

Jupiter is offered as seen in the night sky of Auckland. Which is an indicator that summer is beckoning. With that in mind that could means suggestions of the swimming, surfing,  the beach and warm weather activities. For us Southern Hemisperers more sunshine after two seasons of deprive sunlight. Yes!…. more sunlight, thawing us out from winter. I can hear the dripping water drops already!

When viewing Jupiter for the very first time, it’s is breathtaking as to for Saturn, Omega Centauri, Orion’s Nebula, and many more in the night sky. For the very first time, you could see band of divisions colours pallettes of browns  to light kakai, when looking further, with a stronger lens, you could make out the, storms, the layering of sheer gaseous steaming atomsphere. Other thing is that it’s one of the brightest stella objects in the night sky due to it’s large reflective sphereical volume.  next to Venus, making the rusty Mars looks, well light red dull in comparsion.

Other mind numbing  breathtaking aspect is looking back in time, due to that it takes time for packets of light/ photons to travel over extended distance to reach to your eyes.  For Jupiter it’s only least two hours reflect one way, so when  texting, Facebooking, twittering back expect delays, and a very large power and phone bill. But if you do the math of considering that the velocity of light is constant, using Velocity= Distance over Time, figuring out time is Time=Distance over Velocity! and there you go the Time it takes to your messaging from Jupiter.

Being the fifth planet in the Solar system. Jupiter can be seen during the night sky rising from the east to west like most other planets, behaves in the same manner in the Southern Hemisphere. Unless you’re Pluto, which decides to be the cool trendy, rebellious one out there having it’s own slightly angle  path from the others.

Jupiter’s atmosphere is not Kyoto Protocol friendly. The atmospheric gases contains Methane, Ethane, Hydrogen, Ammonia, water, and other minor gases.  Jupiter itself is pretty much of a violent environmental beautiful disater, then again Jupiter hardly sign up for the Protocol after all, then again it’s a gasous Planet.

 Within the shears of layers of Jupiter’s atmosphere, it become even more dense. An internal  core  containing seas of  liquid metallic Hydrogen.  Other features of Jupiter is the red-eye which is the best feature of the Planet, which is an ongoing storm having a size of larger than Earth, which definitely out storm any Earth’s  cyclone or hurricane.

Jupiter has four main moons, which is larger than our, Earth’s own moon Lunar. the first four Castillo, Ganymede, Europa, and Io plus sixty other moons.  Some are susceptive of containing the traces of life forms.  Some say that Jupiter and Saturn are keeping a tally of saying whom have the most moons! Then again the numbers are ever so rise on discovery.

Jupiter itself is a natural defensive system for Earth, it deters asteroids into itself, away from Earth. This is due to the immense nature of Gravity it has to pull objects into clouded stomach, something like a big brother protecting  it’s smaller brothers and sisters. like the Shoemaker Levy incident which has been one of the astronomical highlights of the late twentieth Century   One unquiet aspect of Jupiter, it has a ring which expanse ever so slim that its other brother Saturn which is ever so promenade profound. Hadn’t for the largest two Planets Jupiter and Saturn Earth would be a different place right now, past,  present and future.

Jupiter will be up for till the end of the Auckland’s summer night season, till then another promande object in the night sky will prevail Saturn, with is own story… that’s yet to be fortold!