Some very Interesting Scientific Facts

CRAZY SCIENCE INFORMATION

TOP 20 CRAZY SCIENTIFIC FACTS:

1. There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body – laid end to end they would circle the earth 2.5 times

2. At over 2000 kilometers long, The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living
structure on Earth

3. The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurrence every 9,300 years

4. A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons

5. A typical hurricane produces the energy equivalent of 8,000 one megaton bombs

6. Blood sucking hookworms inhabit 700 million people worldwide

7. The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle is 166.94 mph, by Fred Rompelberg

8. We can produce laser light a million times brighter than sunshine

9. 65% of those with autism are left handed

10. The combined length of the roots of a Finnish pine tree is over 30 miles

11. The oceans contain enough salt to cover all the continents to a depth of nearly 500 feet

12. The interstellar gas cloud Sagittarius B contains a billion, billion, billion liters of alcohol [JFrater is planning to move there in the near future]

13. Polar Bears can run at 25 miles an hour and jump over 6 feet in the air

14. 60-65 million years ago dolphins and humans shared a common ancestor

15. Polar Bears are nearly undetectable by infrared cameras, due to their transparent fur

16. The average person accidentally eats 430 bugs each year of their life

17. A single rye plant can spread up to 400 miles of roots underground

18. The temperature on the surface of Mercury exceeds 430 degrees C during the day, and, at night, plummets to minus 180 degrees centigrade

19. The evaporation from a large oak or beech tree is from ten to twenty-five gallons in twenty-four hours

20. Butterflies taste with their hind feet, and their taste sensation works on touch – this allows them to determine whether a leaf is edible.

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INDIAN MISSION TO MARS:

Of all the planets in the solar system, Mars has sparked the greatest human interest. The conditions in Mars are believed to be hospitable since the planet is similar to Earth in many ways. For ages, humans have been speculating about life on Mars. However, the question that is to be still answered is whether Mars has a biosphere or ever had an environment in which life could have evolved and sustained.   Mars Orbiter Mission Artist's rendering of the MOM orbiting Mars Mission type Mars orbiter Operator ISRO COSPAR ID 2013-060A SATCAT № 39370 Website www.isro.org/mars/home.aspx Mission duration 300 days Spacecraft properties Bus I-1K[1] Manufacturer ISAC Launch mass 1,337 kg (2,948 lb)[2] Dry mass 500 kg (1,100 lb)[3] Payload mass 15 kg (33 lb)[4] Dimensions 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) cube Power 840 watts[1] Start of mission Launch date 5 November 2013, 09:08 UTC[5] Rocket PSLV-XL C25[6] Launch site Satish Dhawan FLP Contractor ISRO Orbital parameters Reference system Areocentric Periareon 365.3 km (227.0 mi) Apoareon 80,000 km (50,000 mi) Inclination 150.0 [7] Period 76.72 hours Epoch Planned Mars orbiter Orbital insertion 24 September 2014[8] (Planned) The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), informally called Mangalyaan (Sanskrit: मंगलयान, "Mars-Craft"), is a Mars orbiter that was successfully launched into Earth orbit on 5 November 2013 by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).[9][10][11] The mission is a "technology demonstrator" project aiming to develop the technologies required for design, planning, management and operations of an interplanetary mission.[12] The Mars Orbiter Mission probe lifted-off from the First Launch Pad at Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh near Chennai, using a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket C25 at 09:08 UTC (2:38 PM IST) on 5 November 2013.[13] The launch window was approximately 20 days long and started on 28 October 2013.[5] It is India's first interplanetary mission and if successful, ISRO would become the fourth space agency to reach Mars, after the Soviet space program, NASA, and European Space Agency.[14] The MOM probe is currently in Earth orbit where it is in a month-long process of making six altitude-raising orbital manoeuvres before a planned insertion into a heliocentric Mars transfer orbit on 1 December 2013 (UTC).

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