The planet zips around the sun at more than 18 miles per second 29 km per second. The fourth planet from the sun is Mars, and it's a cold, desert-like place covered in dust. This dust is made of iron oxides, giving the planet its iconic red hue.
Mars shares similarities with Earth: It is rocky, has mountains, valleys and canyons, and storm systems ranging from localized tornado-like dust devils to planet-engulfing dust storms.
Substantial scientific evidence suggests that Mars at one point billions of years ago was a much warmer, wetter world. Rivers and maybe even oceans existed. Although Mars' atmosphere is too thin for liquid water to exist on the surface for any length of time, remnants of that wetter Mars still exist today. Sheets of water ice the size of California lie beneath Mars' surface, and at both poles are ice caps made in part of frozen water.
In July , scientists revealed that they had found evidence of a liquid lake beneath the surface of the southern pole's ice cap. It's the first example of a persistent body of water on the Red Planet. Scientists also think ancient Mars would have had the conditions to support life like bacteria and other microbes.
Hope that signs of this past life — and the possibility of even current lifeforms — may exist on the Red Planet has driven numerous space exploration missions and Mars is now one of the most explored planets in the solar system. The fifth planet from the sun, Jupiter is a giant gas world that is the most massive planet in our solar system — more than twice as massive as all the other planets combined, according to NASA.
Its swirling clouds are colorful due to different types of trace gases. And a major feature in its swirling clouds is the Great Red Spot, a giant storm more than 10, miles wide.
It has raged at more than mph for the last years, at least. Jupiter has a strong magnetic field, and with 75 moons, it looks a bit like a miniature solar system. The sixth planet from the sun, Saturn is known most for its rings. When polymath Galileo Galilei first studied Saturn in the early s, he thought it was an object with three parts: a planet and two large moons on either side. Not knowing he was seeing a planet with rings, the stumped astronomer entered a small drawing — a symbol with one large circle and two smaller ones — in his notebook, as a noun in a sentence describing his discovery.
More than 40 years later, Christiaan Huygens proposed that they were rings. The rings are made of ice and rock and scientists are not yet sure how they formed.
The gaseous planet is mostly hydrogen and helium and has numerous moons. The seventh planet from the sun, Uranus is an oddball. It has clouds made of hydrogen sulfide, the same chemical that makes rotten eggs smell so foul. It rotates from east to west like Venus.
But unlike Venus or any other planet, its equator is nearly at right angles to its orbit — it basically orbits on its side.
Astronomers believe an object twice the size of Earth collided with Uranus roughly 4 billion years ago, causing Uranus to tilt. That tilt causes extreme seasons that last plus years, and the sun beats down on one pole or the other for 84 Earth-years at a time.
The collision is also thought to have knocked rock and ice into Uranus' orbit. These later became some of the planet's 27 moons.
Methane in the atmosphere gives Uranus its blue-green tint. It also has 13 sets of faint rings. The eighth planet from the sun, Neptune is about the size of Uranus and is known for supersonic strong winds. Neptune is far out and cold. My favorite show so far. I like this idea of starting from scratch to understand the roots of astrology. I often use keywords or concepts without knowing why, and even it works, I feel something is missing. Love listening to you three riff. Thank you!
I have Jupiter retrograde in Sagittarius in the natal chart, and figure that this concept applies much better, especially when the planet is supposed to be quieter. Love love love these podcasts. Most other practices associate the moon with a silvery white. Thank you. Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube. Search Search. Finalized a translation of Valens 1, 1 on the natures of the planets. Important for astrologers to get a good grasp of the 7 traditional planets on their own, and not be overly dependent on the outer planets, like a crutch.
How would one generate them from scratch? While mythology is relevant, it is not as important or resorted to as frequently in the early tradition as one might expect. Only in modern times that this becomes the primary go-to for meanings.
Allows for contrasts between polar opposites. Moral opposites. Subjective opposites. Contrariety becomes a core concept more broadly. At the same time, no half is an island, it still encompasses both polarities from within. Every woman has a degree of masculinity inside, and every man has a feminine side. Similar with the seasons and the whole of the Zodiac circle.
Why did you [or others] discard this idea? Taking your good comment into consideration I have updated that part of the article with the goal to further explain why the planets were assigned this way. I have also specified that this article has been written in accordance with the teachings of Ptolemy who lived approximately in years AD — and considered to be the father of the Western astrological thought.
There are certainly other plausible versions and explanations, for example the one that you are referring to, originated by Joseph Crane who is a modern author. Time Nomad blog is based on the classical astrological works that are often centuries old and passed the period of hot debates and a certain equilibrium of consensus has been reached.
The binary of light and dark is built into the natural design of the universe-the values assigned to them are cultural constructs. It is tedious and so limiting to constantly see this kind of sex-role stereotyping of the universe portrayed as if it is a fixture of nature, which it is not! But aside from this filter …I like your overall summary of the structure of reality based on the map of the zodiac! Reply to Tony. Reply to thread started by Tony. Reply to Confused. Reply to thread started by Confused.
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