Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Earths Atmosphere

Small meteorites burn up in Earths atmosphere. meteor that do get through, hit Earth, and make a crater, usually are lost throughout time. the Greek considered air, earth, fire, and water fundamental component's of the universe. Spectrometers were introduced in the 1920's allowing scientist to find gasses. a spectrometer is and instrument that measures the intensity of radiation including light as a function of wavelengths. Atmosphere also contains particular matter such as dust, volcanic ash, rain,and snow. Two important instruments for taking measurements are taking mesurments are called Galileo and Evangelista torrilecci.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008