If the satellite doesn't have little rocket engines or other thrusters on it, AND it stays far enough from Earth that it doesn't have to plow through any air molecules, AND no pieces break off of it and drift away, AND there are no hamsters inside it running on treadmills connected to external thrusters, then there's no way for it to gain or lose energy, and its total energy remains constant.
Some of its energy is always changing, either from potential to kinetic or from kinetic to potential, as its distance from Earth changes. But the total stays constant.
<span>Oxygen and Nitrogen would be the most similar of the elements listed, because they are the closest in the periodic table. This isn't a very good reason for anything, but the two do have some similar properties. They are both non-metals, they are both highly electronegative, they are both diatmoic gasses in their natural states, they have a similar number of valence electrons, they are both generally oxidizing agents. Oxygen and Chlorine are also quite similar, but not quite as similar as Oxygen and Nitrogen.</span>
In longitudinal and transverse waves<span>, all the particles in the entire bulk of the medium move in a parallel and a perpendicular direction (respectively) relative to the direction of energy transport. In a </span>surface wave, it is only the particles at the surface<span> of the medium that undergo the circular motion.</span>
