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Why Is the Sky Blue? | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids Blue light is scattered in all directions by the tiny molecules of air in Earth's atmosphere Blue is scattered more than other colors because it travels as shorter, smaller waves This is why we see a blue sky most of the time Closer to the horizon, the sky fades to a lighter blue or white
Why | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids explore Why Does the Sun Burn Us? explore Why Do We Care About Water on Mars? Where there are signs of water, there might also be signs of life! explore Why Do We Send Robots To Space? We can send robots to explore space without having to worry so much about their safety Learn more! do What Causes the Seasons? explore Lunar Eclipses and Solar
Play | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids play Why Is the Sky Blue? explore Make a Cloud Mobile! do DSN Uplink-Downlink: A DSN Game Help the big antennas gather data from the spacecraft play NASA Space Voyagers: The Game In this strategy card game, build a spacecraft that can explore destinations throughout our solar system This link takes you away from NASA Space Place play Links out
The Greenhouse Effect | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids Here is why: If the atmosphere contains too much of these gases, the whole Earth becomes a hotter and hotter greenhouse The atmosphere holds onto too much of the heat at night instead of letting it escape into space
Hubble Space Telescope - NASA Space Place Optical telescopes gather visible light, just like our eyes, but greatly magnified Using special cameras that work the same way our digital cameras work, astronomers can photograph planets, stars, and galaxies For hundreds of years we have built optical telescopes on Earth, but they work even better in space This is because light twinkles—it wiggles or jiggles as it travels through Earth
What Is a Volcano? | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids There are three reasons why magma might rise and cause eruptions onto Earth’s surface Volcanoes on Earth form from rising magma Magma rises in three different ways Magma can rise when pieces of Earth's crust called tectonic plates slowly move away from each other The magma rises up to fill in the space
Solar System | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids Jupiter's core is very hot and is under tons of pressure! explore Why Does the Moon Have Craters? It's not because the Moon gets hit by meteors more often explore A Planet Without a Sun? explore What Is a Planet? explore How Did the Solar System Form? The story starts about 4 6 billion years ago, with a cloud of stellar dust explore Space