Mars/Saturn

Further, space shuttles, spacecrafts and other new launch vehicles would be used for exploring the moon, Mars, Saturn and other planets and again large quantities of propellants and some pyro devices as well would be required for such missions. 

Planet Jupiter Mars Saturn Venus Mercury... 

Our solar system consists of the Sun, the planets and their moon satellites, asteroids (small planets), comets, and meteorites. The planets are generally divided into two categories Earth-like (terrestrial) planets—Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars and Giant planets—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Little is known about Pluto, the most remote planet from Earth. 

Portal page to a series of pages Air, Moon, Jupiter, Fire, Mercury, Saturn, Water, Venus, Sun, Earth, Mars. Also an interesting page "A Christian Mandala - explanation of this mandala and its sources by Robert Ellaby"... 

In the region of the terrestrial planets, there may have been several thousand planetesimals of up to several hundred kilometres in diameter. During about ten million years, these united to form the four planets—Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars—which are close to the sun. Far outside the orbit of the planet Mars, the heavier planets were formed, in particular Jupiter and Saturn, the huge masses of which attracted all the hydrogen and helium around them. Apart from their cores, these planets have a similar composition to that of the sun. Between the planets Mars and Jupiter, there is a large zone which should really contain another planet. It... 

Water can be found, in all three aggregate states, almost everywhere in the universe as ice in the liquid phase on the satellites of the outer solar system, including Saturn s rings and in the gaseous state in the atmospheres of Venus, Mars and Jupiter and in comets (as can be shown, for example, from the IR spectra of Halley s comet). The OH radical has been known for many years as the photodissociation product of water. 

Elements Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn... 

The density estimates in Table 7.1 show a distinction between the structures of the planets, with Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars all having mean densities consistent with a rocky internal structure. The Earth-like nature of their composition, orbital periods and distance from the Sun enable these to be classified as the terrestrial planets. Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus have very low densities and are simple gas giants, perhaps with a very small rocky core. Neptune and Pluto clearly contain more dense materials, perhaps a mixture of gas, rock and ice. 

Then Mars summoned his horsemen, and bade them enclose Mercury in prison under the ward of Vulcan, until he should be liberated by one of the female sex. When this became known, the other Planets assembled and held a deliberation on the question, what would be the best and wisest course to adopt. When they were met together, Saturn first came forward, and delivered himself as follows ... 

The planets do not feature amongst these sites. It has become totally unreasonable to attribute the paternity of quicksilver (mercury) to the planet Mercury, to associate iron with the red planet Mars, and lead with Saturn. We know today that iron, lead and mercury come from supernovas. 

It is not therefore to the planets that we should associate the elements iron with Mars, lead with Saturn, mercury with Mercury. It is indeed the stars that have nurtured them. Some stars make carbon, others gold. Thermonuclear combustion modifies the composition of the hottest regions within stars. Each star is responsible for the confection and distribution of a particular batch of atoms, apart from hydrogen and a large part of the helium in the Universe which were synthesised in the Big Bang, and the lightweight trio lithium, beryllium and boron. 

In one sense, the creation of alchemy represented a step backward. The Egyptians had known seven metallic elements gold, silver, copper, tin, iron, lead, and mercury, which they associated with the seven planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, respectively). The Greeks, however, failed to recognize them as distinct elements. According to the Aristotelian theory, the metals were mixtures of the traditional four elements. This idea seemed to... 

Then yellow Jnpiter stepped forward, bent his knees, inclined his sceptre, and with great anthority bade them cany out tlie demand of Saturn. He added that he would punish everyone who did not aid the execution of this sentence. Then Mars presented himself, with sword drawn a sword that shone with many colours, and gave ont a beantiful and unwonted splendour. This sword he gave to the warder Vulcan, and bade him slay Merciuy, and bnm him, together with his bones, to ashes. This Vulcan consented to do. 

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