Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Various times it would take to reach the nearest star Proxima Centauri, around 4.24 light years away

Gravitational Assists (150,000 mph) - 18,000 years

Nuclear Pulse Propulsion (31,068,559 mph) - 85 years

Ion Drive Propulsion (35,000 mph) - 81,000 years

Space Shuttle Speeds (17,500 mph) - 162,651 years

Voyager Spacecraft (38,000 mph) - 76,000 years


Speed of Light (186,282 miles per second or 670,616,629 mph) - 4.24 years





Saturday, June 27, 2015

Largest Impact Craters in the Solar System

Caloris Basin in Mercury (963 miles in diameter)

Rembrandt Crater in Mercury (444 miles in diameter)

Vredefort Crater (190 miles in diameter)

Siljan Crater (32 miles in diameter)

Sudbury Basin (160 miles in diameter)

Chicxulub Impact Crater (110 miles in diameter)

Popigai Crater (62 miles in diameter)

Acraman Crater

Charlevoix Crater (34 miles in diameter)

Kara Crater

Karakul Crater (16 miles in diameter)

Manicouaga Crater (60 miles in diameter)

Taihu Crater 

Mead Crater in Venus (174 miles in diameter)