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"Imagine standing on the surface of  Titan , Saturn's largest moon. The sky glows orange, methane lakes  stretch beyond the horizon, and the air is so thick you could almost fly with wings strapped to your arms. But could humans really live here?" Saturn -- image credit: NASA Titan: Earth's Distant Cousin * Titan is the only moon with a thick atmosphere --- and it's mostly nitrogen, just like Earth. * It's the only world besides Earth with stable liquids on its surface. Instead of water, Titan's rivers, lakes, and seas are filled with liquid methane and ethane. * The atmosphere is rich in complex chemistry, producing "organic" molecules made of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen. In other words, Titan doesn't just look alien -- it might also hold clues to how life begins. A laboratory for the Origins of Life Scientists believe Titan could be the best place in the solar system to study prebiotic chemistry -- the kind of chemistry that may ...

Difference between Weight and Mass

What is the difference between mass and weight? 

     I think it's something that a lot of people are confused about.  They just think that anything that's big like this car has a lot of weight, is very heavy, it's gotta lot of mass and people just basically 

think of these ideas as all the same.  But there's an important distinction between the terms mass and weight.  

Mass at first is the amount of matter in an object whereas weight is a force. It's the gravitational attraction that the object feels to  towards in this case the Earth's center.


1) Why is it difficult to push my car?

  Most of them answer, the car is heavy and some of them say gravity makes it hard to push.


2) Your car is pulled towards at the center of the Earth, but when you push car you didn't push it up then why it is hard to push?

  Answer for the above two questions, Because the car has inertia.  Inertia means that objects with mass have a tendency to resist changes in their motion. 

  The idea that I'm trying to get is actually is that it's these are actually two different.  One thing is that there's a force pulling a stand into the earth and that's what we call weight


and that makes it impossible to lift but there is something else which is called inertia and  that mean something is difficult to change its motion.        The car got lot of inertia and that's why it's difficult to push which is different than when it's difficult to lift.

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