THE SUN
Welcome to the Solar System Scroll!
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Embark on an scrolling experience that takes you on a voyage through our solar system. You will travel from the Sun all the way to Pluto. This website allows you to explore the vast distances between planets, offering a sense of the enormity of space.
Approximate Scrolling time to Earth: 90 Seconds.
Approximate Scrolling time to Pluto: 1 Hour.
If the sun disappeared we wouldn't notice immediately. 8 minutes later, though, we'd find ourselves in complete darkness. If it was already dark on our side of the world, we'd notice the Moon suddenly disappear.
Your body would cope better than expected in space without a spacesuit. Well, you'd still die, but at least you wouldn't explode! Your blood holds enough oxygen for about 15 seconds of brain activity. After that you’d black out, with complete brain death following within three minutes.
The sad, sad story of Laika, the space dog, and her one-way trip into orbit. A stray Moscow pup traveled into orbit in 1957, even if everything had worked perfectly, and if she had been lucky enough to have plenty of food, water and oxygen, she would have died when the spaceship re-entered the atmosphere after 2,570 orbits. Ironically, a flight that promised Laika's certain death also offered proof that space was livable.
Water was once considered a rare substance in space. In fact, water ice exists all over the solar system: It's a common component of comets and asteroids, for starters. Water can be found as ice in permanently shadowed craters on Mercury and the moon, although we don't know if there's enough to support prospective human colonies in those places. Mars also has ice at its poles, in frost and likely below the surface dust.
We've been exploring space for more than 60 years, and no extraterrestrial life yet
The first woman to travel in space was Soviet cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova. On 16 June 1963, Tereshkova was launched on a solo mission aboard the spacecraft Vostok 6.
The Universe expanded by more than 5,707,762,557 meters while you finished reading this text.
The Voyager spacecraft did the distance between Earth and Pluto in about 12.5 years and if you keep scrolling you soon will arrive.
The first man-made object on the Moon was Soviet Luna-2, which touched the lunar surface on 13 September 1957. This was unmanned spacecraft that transmitted first signals from Moon back to Earth.
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