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I know that Venus is closest to what i could imagine hell to look like (or Jupiters moon Io) but i think Venus is more extreme then Io, over all yet Io have the most violent vulcano in the solar system (as far as i know)
 
I think Venus is very fascinating, i like how infernossitiv (is that a word) it is.
 
Venus and Trition are the Total oppesits in the solar syste
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Originally posted by aginor aginor wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

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I voted for Mercury couse it is the bravest planet of them all, so close to the sun and scolded by its heat, yet by night is the 4th coldest planet in the Solar system.
I've recently been working on testing an ADC for a scintillometer that's going to be on the BepiColombo Mercury mission in the near future. (My part in this is really tiny and inconsequential, I just wrote some test software Embarrassed).
  is it possible witha man lead mission to Mercury if you stay on its,s dark side Evil Smile all the time or is that just to difficult, how fast do Mercury spin around it self to be safe for not having to suffer 400++ C, or is the travvel to get their a torture not  worth pursuing
Isn't a Mecurian day 1.5 times longer than a Mecurian year? I think that means staying on the dark side is pretty easy (you could probably walk it), though the -200°C surface temperature is just as inhostpitable to human life.
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by aginor aginor wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

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I voted for Mercury couse it is the bravest planet of them all, so close to the sun and scolded by its heat, yet by night is the 4th coldest planet in the Solar system.
I've recently been working on testing an ADC for a scintillometer that's going to be on the BepiColombo Mercury mission in the near future. (My part in this is really tiny and inconsequential, I just wrote some test software Embarrassed).
  is it possible witha man lead mission to Mercury if you stay on its,s dark side Evil Smile all the time or is that just to difficult, how fast do Mercury spin around it self to be safe for not having to suffer 400++ C, or is the travvel to get their a torture not  worth pursuing
Isn't a Mecurian day 1.5 times longer than a Mecurian year? I think that means staying on the dark side is pretty easy (you could probably walk it), though the -200°C surface temperature is just as inhostpitable to human life.
i know that a Venus day is longer then a Venus year, i also know that Mercury uses aprox  85 days around the sun while Tellus Wink uses 365,  but i would not suggest to have a man led expedition to Venus, you will get tanned, bacon tan  
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by aginor aginor wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

 
Originally posted by aginor aginor wrote:

 
I voted for Mercury couse it is the bravest planet of them all, so close to the sun and scolded by its heat, yet by night is the 4th coldest planet in the Solar system.
   
I've recently been working on testing an ADC for a scintillometer that's going to be on the BepiColombo Mercury mission in the near future. (My part in this is really tiny and inconsequential, I just wrote some test software Embarrassed).
 
 is it possible witha man lead mission to Mercury if you stay on its,s dark side Evil Smile all the time or is that just to difficult, how fast do Mercury spin around it self to be safe for not having to suffer 400++ C, or is the travvel to get their a torture not  worth pursuing
   
Isn't a Mecurian day 1.5 times longer than a Mecurian year? I think that means staying on the dark side is pretty easy (you could probably walk it), though the -200°C surface temperature is just as inhostpitable to human life.
 
As far as I'm informed, a Mercurian day is approximately 2/3 of a Mercurian year.
It would take a stroll of about 261 km (162 miles) during an earthly day to stay on the edge of the dark side, where the temperatures may be bearable to human beings. Maybe a well-trained long distance walker could perform it.


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Saturn because of the ring.

Venus is second because of the interesting surface colours.
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Tellus isn't Earth's real name btw - it's just the Latin name for Earth - since every language has its own name for this planet all can be said to be the "real name". However, honour should be given to nationality the first person that recognised Earth as a planet, and I don't think that Copperknickers was a Roman Wink 
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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Isn't a Mercurian day 1.5 times longer than a Mercurian year? I think that means staying on the dark side is pretty easy (you could probably walk it), though the -200°C surface temperature is just as inhostpitable to human life.
 
As far as I'm informed, a Mercurian day is approximately 2/3 of a Mercurian year.
It would take a stroll of about 261 km (162 miles) during an earthly day to stay on the edge of the dark side, where the temperatures may be bearable to human beings. Maybe a well-trained long distance walker could perform it.
LOL I *knew* I should have checked before posting Embarrassed
 
errata: One Mercurian year is ~88 Earth days and it takes ~59 Earth days to spin once on its axis (a sidereal day) - this means that from sunrise to sunrise (ie the day-length that concerns our astronaut walker) on Mercury takes approximately 176 Earth days (or 2 Mercurian years... Wink).
 
This equates to a walking speed of 5km/h (3mph), which in Mercury's reduced gravity would be pretty easy to achieve for even the least trained of walkers.
 
 
 
 
/edit: I must get the "r" key fixed on this PC....
 
/edti 2: ... and before anyone else says it - 3km/h in low gravity would probably result in "a run" rather than "a walk" (technically speaking)


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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Tellus isn't Earth's real name btw - it's just the Latin name for Earth - since every language has its own name for this planet all can be said to be the "real name". However, honour should be given to nationality the first person that recognised Earth as a planet, and I don't think that Copperknickers was a Roman Wink 
he was a Polish i think (or danish Ermm),
i kay from now i will call it Erde
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The one with the Funny name
















Jupiter of course, so silly of a name LOL


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The following Prog artists have Minor Planets (well, big asteroids maybe) named after them:
 
Pink Floyd
Yes
Peter Gabriel
Frank Zappa
Neal Pert,
Alex Lifeson
Geddy Lee
Mike Oldfield
Carlos Santana
 
 
Proto & Prog Related:
The Beatles
Paul McCartney
John Lennon
Ringo Starr
George Harrison
Vangelis
Jean Michel Jarre
Jimmy Page
 
 


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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

The following Prog artists have Minor Planets (well, big asteroids maybe) named after them:
 
Pink Floyd
Yes
Peter Gabriel
Frank Zappa
Neal Pert,
Alex Lifeson
Geddy Lee
Mike Oldfield
Carlos Santana
 
 
Proto & Prog Related:
The Beatles
Paul McCartney
John Lennon
Ringo Star
George Harrison
Vangelis
Jean Michel Jarre
Jimmy Page
 
 
 
you can tell that a researcher is A rush fan and another a Beatles fan
 
A Freudian slip, though.... Ringo's Star takes two "r"WinkTongueWink  Maybe it should be changed to Ringo PlanetCoolWink
 
 
 


Edited by Sean Trane - September 30 2011 at 06:26
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
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^ yup a silly typo, I know full well that all the Beatles had double letters in their surnames. Embarrassed
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Pluto. Because I pity him, that he was deprived from his planet status. Tongue
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I like Neptune and I've done multiple presentations about it in high school. I've always been attracted to water, ice, winter, and the color blue, and Neptune reminds me of all of those things. Not to mention that Poseidon is one of the coolest of gods of Greek mythology.
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Yep, Neptune for me too. It has a shroud of mystery and wonder surrounding it, as do the other planets, but I really like the look of Neptune.
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Saturn for me.
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Saturn or Jupiter. I like Saturn for the rings. But I like Jupiter because there have been times on a very clear night high in the Sierra Nevada you can actually make out a couple of its moons with the naked eye.

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Venus is global warming on steroids. So Venus
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I am genuinely astonished that Uranus isn't winning.
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I am a Sagittarius, and Sagittarius is ruled by Jupiter, so I will go with that


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