Did you know that there may be 200 or so dwarf planets in the solar system, out to the Kuiper Belt?
Did you know that Colonial Americans used large sheets of mica as glass for windows?
Earth and Space Science Concept of the Day
Do you know what this word or phrase means?
Chinook
xChinook : A dry down-slope wind which occurs on the downwind side of a mountain range. It is a rain shadow wind which results from the subsequent (adiabatic) warming of air which has dropped most of its moisture on windward slopes.
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