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VR Field Trip to Pakistan

4/11/2017

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Star Patterns

4/7/2017

Orion was a hunter
He was very self absorbed
Juno sent a scorpion to kill him for payback
A doctor, Aesculapius, brought him back to life
Pluto got upset
Jupiter killed Orion and Aesculapius for good
Everyone in the story was put in the sky as constellations

What I Think I Know About Mars

4/5/2017

What do I already know about Mars?

It is a lot like the earth timewise
It's colder than earth
It may have a water source
It's day is thirty nine minutes longer than earth
It has the largest volcano in the solar system, though it's inactive
Rovers have been sent to mares and have survived for seven years
Mars is a little smaller than earth
It has a high level of iron in the atmosphere

What do you know about NASA's plans to visit Mars?
How long will the trip take?
What supplies and equipment will the astronauts need to survive there?
What do you think are the risks of traveling to such a distant planet?
What would you want to bring with you?

They plan to take off in the next century, and to use a ship that creates fuel for itself (Explorer 1). They also plan to artificially manipulate plants to grow denser.
2.5 years long to .5 years.
Martian spacecrafts, rovers, tubed food, exercise equipment, and rotating spaceships for centripetal force.
Meteors and asteroids could destroy spaceships, diseases could spread throughout plants which would through off balance, the astronauts could lose calcium and muscles due to weightlessness. Also, solar flare ions and violent dust storms.
Several good books, a phone and computer, plant seeds from earth, a video camera, pillows, a thermometer and sphygmomanometer (blood pressure monitor).

Earth's Orbit and Stars

4/5/2017

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