Search results for "Earth Escape Explorer" - New World Encyclopedia

object, whether it is a planet (like the earth), a planet’s moon (like ... dates from 1958 when the first U.S. earth-orbiting satellite, Explorer ...

experimentation, and monitoring of the Earth's environment and weather ... required for a minimal orbit around the Earth at 8 km/s, and that a multi ...

volt (keV). These particles are able to escape the Sun's gravity, partly ... storms that can knock out power grids on Earth. == History == ...

of the first human-made object to orbit the Earth, the USSR's Sputnik ... the presence of Van Allen belts around the Earth, images of the far side of ...

There is no clear boundary between Earth's atmosphere and space ... older, first used to mean the region beyond Earth's sky in John Milton ...

Lieutenant Abbas Abdul-Manan, managed to escape and rejoin thirty soldiers ... Some managed to escape death by acting dead. The following day, Lieutenant ...

planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. After Earth's ... A terrestrial planet, it is sometimes called Earth's "sister ...

provided airplane that might allow him to escape to England, von Braun was ... launched the West's first satellite, Explorer 1, on January 31, 1958. ...

and his first wife Liv, determined to escape from civilization, and to ... Tiki and his closest companions managed to escape and later arrived on the ...

). Nearly two billion years of Earth's history have been exposed ... area in 1539. The expedition of Spanish explorer Coronado entered the area ...

until morning, the miners managed to escape, never to return to the site ... memory of earlier primates that roamed the Earth, stories passed down from ...

the world, including the deepest known on Earth) at 800 feet (240 m). ... * Drought-escape by growing in small crevices or near persistent water ...

an unexpected kindred spirit in the down-to-earth Henry Ford. Traveling to ... Socialite Evelyn Nesbit, desperate to escape the press, becomes involved ...

(1769-1859), the German naturalist and explorer, and was later adopted by ... Aztec arrived. Another myth describes the earth as a creation of the twin ...