Ellora is an archaeological site, 30 km from the city of Aurangabad in Maharashtra.It is well-known for its monumental caves. Ellora is also world famous for the largest single monolithic excavation in the world, the great Kailasa. The 34 caves, Buddhist, Hindu and Jain rock cut temples and monasteries, were built between the 5th century and 10th century. The Buddhist caves were the earliest structures.
In the next post the topic will be TAJ MAHAL so be sure to visit.
Hello people.The topic for the next few days is—
WORLD HERITAGE SITES IN INDIA
It starts from now on
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT AGRA FORT
Built in red sandstone the Agra Fort is also known as Lal Qila. Akbar chose this city on the bank of River Yamuna as his capital and proceeded to build a strong citadel for the purpose. It is about 2.5 km northwest of its much more famous sister monument, the Taj Mahal. The fort can be more accurately described as a walled palatial city. The great Mughals Babur, Humayun, Akbar, Jehangir, Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb lived here and the country was governed from here.
In the next post the topic would be Ellora Caves so be sure to visit.
The “dwarf planets” are all of those objects which are not one of the eight dominant bodies yest still, at least in one way, resemble a planet. The IAU currently recognizes five dwarf planets: Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris. However, only two of these bodies, Ceres and Pluto, have been observed in enough detail to demonstrate that they fit the definition. Eris has been accepted as a dwarf planet because it is more massive than Pluto. It is suspected that at least another 40 known objects in the Solar System are Dwarf planets, and estimates are that up to 200 dwarf planets may be found when the entire region known as the Kuiper belt is explored, and that the number might be as high as 2,000 when objects scattered around the Kuiper Belt considered.
Neptune is the fourth and outermost of the gas giant planets and also has rings. Its atmosphere is mostly hydrogen and helium. Neptune is also known as the Blue Giant. It takes 164.8 Earth-years to complete an orbit around Sun.
Neptune has a giant storm much like the storm on Jupiter. This storm is often called The Great Dark Spot. We do not know how long this storm has been active,because it is so far away that we could not get a good view of Neptune until modern time we began to send robot explorers.
For many centuries people did not know that this planet even existed. It was discovered by Johann Galle and Heinrich D’ Arrest in 1846. Neptune has six rings which circle the planet. Scientists think there is a very large water ocean under Neptune’s clouds.
Neptune has 13 moons that we know of. Because Neptune is so far away, it is difficult to see any of these worlds.
In the next post I will give information about Dwarf Planets.
Uranus is the third largest planet in the solar system and is a Gas Giant. It was discovered by William Herschel om March 13, 1781 and was the first planet discovered with a telescope as opposed to the naked eye. It takes 84 earth years to complete an orbit around Sun.
Uranus is very odd. Unlike all the other planets and most of the moons in our Solar System, Uranus spins on its side. It is believed that long ago a very large object smashed into this planet. The crash was so powerful that it completely changed the direction of Uranus’ spin. Uranus may have an ocean of water beneath its clouds. It has a large rocky core, and because of the tremendous pressure could possibly contain trillions of large diamonds. Scientists think Uranus has a huge water ocean underneath its cloud.
Uranus is almost identical to the planet Neptune. Uranus has 27 moons.
Next post will be about Neptune.
Saturn is the second largest planet. It is the next planet after Jupiter. It is a giant gas planet which is made up of about 75% hydrogen and 25% helium. It takes about 29.5 Earth years to orbit the Sun.
Saturn has several hundred rings. However it is not the only planet with rings. Jupiter,Uranus, and Neptune also have rings. Saturn’s rings are made up mostly of water ice, but they also include rocky particles with icy coatings.
The origin of the rings of Saturn is currently unknown. Saturn is made up of material which are lighter than water. If placed in a big pond, Saturn would float much like an ice cube does in a glass of water.
Saturn was first visited by the Pioneer 11 spacecraft in 1979. Saturn has also since been visited by Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.
In the next post I would post the interesting facts about Uranus.
Jupiter is the LARGEST PLANET in our Solar System. It is so big that you could cram 1,000 Earths in it! It completes an orbit of the Sun every 11.86 earth years. Jupiter which is made up of about 90% hydrogen is classified as a gas giant along with Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Together, these four planets are sometimes referred to as the Jovian planets. Jupiter was first visited by the Pioneer 10 spacecraft in 1973. It was later visited by Pioneer 11, Voyager 1, Voyager 2 and Ulysses. The spacecraft Galileo is currently in orbit around Jupiter.
Jupiter has at least 63 moons. You can see four of Jupiter’s ,moons with a pair of binoculars at night.
Next post would be about Saturn so be sure to visit.
Here are the facts about Mars:-
Mars is the fourth closest planet to the Sun and the next planet beyond the Earth. It is the only planet whose surface can be seen in detail from the Earth. It takes about 1 Earth-year and ten and a half months to orbit the Sun.
Evidence suggests that Mars once had rivers,streams,lakes and even an ocean. Mars has higher mountains and deeper canyons than any other planet. It also has the Solar Systems biggest volcano, Olympus Mons.
Mars Excites scientists because its mild temperament is more like the Earth’s than any of the other planets. The first spacecraft to visit Mars to visit Mars was Mariner 4 in 1965. Several others followed including the two Viking landers in 1976. After a long break, Mars Pathfinder landed successfully on Mars on July 4, 1997.
Mars has two moons, their names are Deimos and Phobos.
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EARTH
Earth is third planet from the Sun. It is also referred to as the World, the Blue Planet, and Terra. Our planet is an oasis of life in an otherwise desolate universe. It is the only known planet which has all the conditions that are needed for animals, plants, and humans to live on it. Our Earth looks blue from the space because more than 70% of its is covered with water. The earth is 4.5 billion years old. The Earth is the densest major body in the solar system. This means that it’s the most “compact” of all the planets. Earth orbits the Sun at an average distance of about 150 million kilometers every 365.2564 mean solar days. Earth’s axis is tilted some 23.5 degrees from the perpendicular to the Earth Sun plane. Because of the axial tilt of the Earth, the amount of sunlight reaching any given point on the surface varies over the course of the year. This results is seasonal change in climate. The earth has one moon.Its name is Luna.
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VENUS
The Planet Venus is the second closest planet to the sun. It is sometimes called Earth’s ’sister planet’ because they are similar in size, gravity and bulk composition. It is located between our Earth and Mercury.
It takes 225 Earth days to rotate around the Sun. Oddly, Venus rotates from east to west(opposite to that of earth).If you were on the Venus, the Sun would rise in the west and set in the east.
Venus is a hostile planet. Its thick cloud cover makes it impossible to see the surface, and also traps much of the Sun’s heat. This extra heat gives Venus the hottest average temperature if any if the planets.
Venus is the brightest object in the sky besides our Sun and the Moon. It is also known as the morning star because at the sunrise it appears in the east and evening star as it appears at sunset when it is in the west.
Venus is often called Earth’s twin because the two planets are close in size, but that’s the only similarity.
Venus has no moons.
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