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The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains

In order to understand some of the traits of real Americans, the current paper focuses on the character named Dorinda Cayce in Charles Egbert Craddock’s novel, The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains.

Review of Planet Earth

The given documentary shows the planet’s most massive mountain chains and the unique animals dwelling there. It explores the peaks of such mountains as the Ethiopian Highlands, Andes, American Rockies, Alps, Karakoram, and the Himalayas.

Mars Orbiter

Investigation of the Solar System planet is an important part of scientific research. Thus, the calculations and measurements for space missions should very accurate and should not contain any mistake since it would lead to mission failure and the loss of great sums of money spent on the mission. The effect of a single failure on the spacecraft mission is in detail described by Robin Lloyd in the article “Metric mishap caused loss of NASA orbiter.”

Gas Giant Planets

The Gas Giants are huge if to compare to inner planets, and are made up mostly out of gas, so they do not have the solid surfaces. Despite some similarities, every planet in the outer system has its own characteristics, but none has the ability to support life, but the Earth.

The Planet Mars

Mars is one of the four terrestrial planets in our solar system. The scientific explorations that have been conducted about the planet Mars have revealed a lot of exciting findings. These findings have raised the interest of scientists to explore, through space technology, the ability of this planet to sustain life. There are findings that Mars might have harbored water in oceans and seas because of the presence of craters and valleys. The presence of water might have provided good conditions for life to exist. Though Mars is cold, it is believed life can still exist beneath it.

Astronomy - Solar System

This study gives a boost to the stellar evolution theory. It gives additional information on binary systems and their implications to the solar system