I don't think anyone truely has a clue about whats out there unless they have been there themselves.
2007-05-28 22:29:33 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Actually..... We --do-- have a pretty good handle on exoatmospheric stuff out to about the Moons orbit. After that, it's a lot of educated guesses which have, for the most part, turned out to be correct.
But your point is well taken. Hell, we don't even know a huge amount about the Ocean floor out past a few miles from the shore ☺
Doug
2007-05-28 22:42:53 · answer #1 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In other words, to know anything about geology, you have to be a rock. Astronomy is a very old and respectable science, and, through careful research over the centuries, we have learned an awful lot about what's beyond the atmosphere. To dismiss all of that is pure ignorance. Admittedly, astronomy has mainly been an observational science rather than an experimental one, but the last 50 years have changed that, and we now have first-hand knowledge of many bodies in the solar system, both from human and robotic exploration.
2007-05-29 03:08:10 · answer #2 · answered by GeoffG 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Space
2007-05-28 22:34:37 · answer #3 · answered by nivik 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take a look at the site below if you want something which will gice you a doubletake, 3/4 threw to the end in the last section. The rest is interesting but unfounded and all is questionable.
2007-05-28 23:02:41 · answer #4 · answered by mike453683 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aww... Where have you been? - and why should I think that YOU know where YOU have been just because I haven't been there MYSELF?? LOL...
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Once you get past the atmosphere, there is space - and space is very much a near-vacume. And after that, well, welcome to all the things that are in space from radiation and energetic particles, to portions of atoms and exotic molecules, to conglomerations of matter from dust particles to asteroids, comets, moons and planets, dark stars, brown dwarfs, regular stars like our own to exploding supernovas and black holes.
It's a wild place, so bring some cookies and enjoy the ride!!
2007-05-28 23:10:15 · answer #5 · answered by plenum222 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's just past the atmosphere is a little bit of residual gasses that escape from the atmosphere, millions of microparticles generally consisting of iron, nickel, and the like, and a lot of hydrogen ions and neutrinos from the sun
2007-05-28 23:09:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋