by Mitchell Tester, College Student How our moon came to be The “Giant Impact Theory” I want you to imagine for a moment that you are an Arab explorer in the 7th century. Talk of an abundance of gold across the Sahara Desert has convinced you and your fellow explorers to take a caravan across…

Mitchell Tester, College Student With the recent news of the Soviet-era spacecraft crashing back to Earth from our friends on the other side of the world, I thought it would be fitting to talk about one of my favorite planets: Venus. Venus is the second most inner planet, roughly the size of the Earth. Often,…