Looking For Interesting Facts About The Solar System.........

[ToraToraTora]

I'll start....The Jovian Moon IO is so close to Jupiter that it has tides in rock. The moon is continually stretched into an Oviod and thus the friction causes lots of volcanoes.

[ToraToraTora]

nescio, like it, knew it! keep em comming!

[ToraToraTora]

Come on I need something I didn't know.....

[Atheist]

You could try googling 'lagrange points'

These are places where the gravitational pulls of Earth, the moon and the sun cancel each other, and so satellites can be 'parked' there.

[maggiebee]

The Clangers live on the moon. Their friend The Soup Dragon does too and he eats blue string soup.

[ToraToraTora]

well , thanks for the inpout mags, you've certainly helped us identify theh most imbicilic in the solar system. Here's a tip love if you want to have a pop do it in CB. This is science a place you clearly do not belong.

[maggiebee]

Oh, get over yourself numpty

 

[Ellipsis]

Mimas, one of Saturn's moons, looks just like the Death Star from Star Wars. And at a diameter of 246 miles, it's the smallest object in the solar system that has pulled itself into a spherical shape from its own gravity. Perhaps it's no moon after all ...

[drmorgans]

 

Uranus (probably because it was hit by something) spins on a horizontal axis (relative to the Sun) unlike Earth which is about 23 degrees off vertical, hence we have seasons.

 

[Mozz71]

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

[jno]

is Mercury still shrinking? I recall it used to be but I haven't kept up.

[ToraToraTora]

22:58, Uranus is actually tilted at nearly 98 degrees. Yes the theory is that it's the result of a collision.

[ToraToraTora]

jno, yes Mercury is shrinking essentially the heat in its core is ebbing away.

[mibn2cweus]

The Sun you see is no longer there.

[ToraToraTora]

yes we see it as it was 8 mins ago, the solar system indeed  the whole galaxy has moved a lot in that time.

[William51]

 Why is Mars red or known as the red planet?.

[douglas9401]

After Captain Scarlet, scourge of the hated rock snakes, William.

[ToraToraTora]

The main reason is that the soil is full of Iron Oxide.

[PsalmEquipt]

Genesis 1:14 "And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:"
If the Bible is correct, in addition to the sun and moon's motion and appearance, planetary motion and appearance as viewed from Earth are predetermined by God and have significance corresponding to Biblical persons and happenings. The King Planet, Jupiter, and the Morning Star, Venus, are each mentioned in the Scriptures.
Matthew 2:2 "Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him."
Revelation 2:16 "I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star."

[drmorgans]

 

Think the question was about facts rather than outdated superstition.