Be overwhelmed by the majestic beauty of the 7 wonders of the Solar System

From the storm that can swallow Earth on Jupiter, up to 19 km high vertical cliffs in the satellite, natural marvels in the Solar System will make you ecstatic.

Large solar system with 8 planets, hundreds of satellites and countless small objects floating around in space. Each of these objects is different in each world, and they have very unique characteristics.

If the Sun is a giant plasma ball, the Earth is a sphere with a multitude of life forms that share space together, and Jupiter is the place made up of countless thin, clear clouds. when Sao Hai Vuong had an axis with a very large inclination, this place became very harsh.

The following is a list of wonders beyond the imagination of the Earth man, which exists throughout the bodies of this Solar System.

Collision crater in the Utopia Plain, Mars

Located between the spacious and flat Utopia Plains, there is the largest impact crater in the Solar System with the widest area stretching up to 3,300 km. This is one of the places where the interaction from the earliest meteorite was received, so it is likely that this place was once an ocean in the past.

The Utopia Plain Crater, captured by HiRISE imaging equipment, is equipped on NASA's MRO orbiting probe.(Photo: NASA / JPL / University of Arizona / USGS).

In 2016, NASA's MRO ship was responsible for surveying Mars from orbit, found a large amount of ice in the area, reinforcing the belief in the former ocean hypothesis on Mars. Estimates of ice volume up to 12,000 cubic kilometers, located about 1 to 10 meters from the surface. This may be a reserve source of water for people in future Mars exploration missions.

 

Believed to have existed for hundreds of years, the Great Red Spot is a super-fast storm that has a counterclockwise twist. The size of this storm is about 1.3 times as large as the Earth, which means we can put the Earth inside it.

Big Red Trace on Jupiter was taken by Voyager 1 in 1979. (Photo: NASA, Caltech / JPL).

Although the cause of this storm has not been fully understood, we know this storm is shrinking. The first observations in the 1800s show that its size is about 56,000 km, which is four times the diameter of the Earth.

But when Voyager 2 flew over Jupiter in 1979, it was reduced to twice the size of the globe. According to scientists, this storm will disappear completely from about 20 years to 30 years.

System

Saturn's rings have an estimated diameter of 386,000 km, made up of 99.99% pure water in the form of ice and dirt. Although they have very large diameters, they are very thin, the thickness is only about 9 to 90 meters. They were made up of at least 4.5 billion years ago, the same time when Saturn was formed.

All belts in Saturn's belt system were taken from the other side of the planet by Cassini spacecraft, compared to the Sun, on July 19, 2013 when the ship was about 1.2 million away from Saturn. kilometer.(Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute).

Beautiful things are often very mysterious, so is Saturn's belt, we still know too little about it. In September 2017, before the Cassini spacecraft rushed to Saturn to finish his life, it was able to observe the scene of a 10-ton material rain falling into Saturn's atmosphere from belt D (belt located closest to the planet). What is special is that the amount of material is composed of organic molecules, not just ice and dirt.

Vertical cliffs at Miranda

In Miranda, the smallest satellite of Uranus, there is the largest and steepest cliff in the Solar System with a height of up to 19 km. Called Verona Rupes, this cliff was observed and photographed by Voyager 2 when it flew across the planet in 1986.

Verona Rupes vertical rock cliff was taken by Voyager 2 in 1986. Existing in the Miranda satellite of Uranus, this geological wonder is estimated to be as high as 19km.(Photo: NASA).

To make it easier to imagine, the highest cliff on Earth at Mount Thor in Canada is only about 1,250 meters high. If you jump down from this cliff, it will take you 12 minutes to reach the ground. But because Miranda has a weak gravitational force, you will even survive safely after landing.

The ice mountains of Callisto

Calisto, Jupiter's second largest satellite, is one of the oldest geologically active places in the Solar System. In 2001, NASA's Galileo spacecraft flew over the satellite at a distance of only 137km from its surface, and found ice mountains about 100 meters high that protruded.

Giant ice mountains up to 100 meters high are on the surface of the Callisto moon.(Photo: NASA).

The researchers said that the material that made those mountains was pushed out when an asteroid hit it in the past. Over time, erosion caused them to have a jagged shape like the present. This is an eternal wonder, like Jupiter's Great Red Stain, because the process of erosion still takes place and will completely disappear in the future.

 

Enceladus, Saturn's second largest moon, is a place of quite strong geological activity and is covered by cold frost. Beneath the thick ice, is an estimated liquid water ocean up to 10 km deep. However, the most special thing is its geysers.

So far, we have discovered more than 100 geysers in Enceladus, they take water from below the surface and erupt most impressively into space. In 2015, NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew by here and discovered inside these waters that there was molecular hydrogen and the chemical properties of the hydrothermal activity.

The graphic simulates the vents that erupt from Enceladus' icy surface, estimating each such column to be about 135 km high and appearing at the southern end of the satellite.(Photo: NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute).

Molecular hydrogen and hydrothermal activity are essential energy sources to support microbial life forms. Thus, Enceladus's powerful sprays are not only beautiful and impressive, but they are also one of the places with high ability to form and develop life in the Solar System.

on Earth

You may not know yet, but nowhere in the Solar System can you see the total solar eclipse as perfectly as on Earth. Solar eclipses can also be observed in other planets in the Solar System, but the astounding perfection of the total solar eclipse makes them a true wonder.

The Moon's diameter is about 400 times smaller than the Sun and coincidentally when the Sun is about 400 times farther away from the Earth than the Moon away from us. This makes the size of the Sun and Moon in the sky relatively equal, causing the Moon to completely cover the Sun when a solar eclipse occurs.

The coincidence of the distance and size of the Sun and the Moon compared to the Earth makes the total solar eclipse observed from our planet a rare wonder.(Photo: Ted Hesser).

In addition to completely masking the surface of the Sun, the Moon also partially obscures due to the immobility in its orbit around the Earth, creating an eclectic, eclectic eclipse.(Photo: TIME).

However, the Moon's orbit around the Earth is not a perfect circle, so sometimes they lie farther or closer to us, resulting in a solar eclipse and an annular eclipse. The eclipse of the moon took place when the Moon was farther away, its size was smaller and it did not fully cover the Sun, leaving the Sun's remains in the sky to form an impressive fire ring.

About 1 billion years ago, we wouldn't be able to observe the solar eclipse because the Moon was 10% closer to the present, it would always obscure the Sun when a total solar eclipse occurred. At present, the Moon is about 3.8 cm away from us every year, so in the next 600 million years, the Moon will be too small to obscure the Sun.