Mr Rose came in for his last session today.We have learned lots of facts from him. Here is some of what we learned.
Mr Rose Session 4 – 19th February
Jupiter takes 11 and a half Earth years to go around the Sun. Saturn takes 29 and a half years. Uranus takes 84 years to go around the sun. Neptune takes 165 years. This is because they are further away and going slower.
Earth has to make a journey of 900 million kilometres in one year.
Jupiter – 143884 km in diameter – 1000 times bigger than our Earth! It spins around twice as fast as our Earth.
Jupiter has a whirlwind – a giant red spot – which is at least three times the size of the Earth! It has been going for hundreds of years.
No planets are perfect spheres as they get squashed from top to bottom!
All of Jupiter’s moons are names after mythological characters connected to Zeus.
Jupiter’s moon, Europa, is thought to have water. This means there could be life there!
When Galileo first saw Saturn, he wrote that the planet “had ears” – these were Saturn’s rings!
Saturn has thousands of rings. They are made of dust and fragments of materials.
All gas giants have rings. We can only see the rings on Saturn though as they are so bright!
Pluto takes 249 years to go around
Harry Rose session 3 – Friday 5th February
Solar panels on ISS make electricity to power it.
Every few weeks, a robotic rocket travels to the ISS to bring the astronauts onboard food supplies, clean clothing, equipment and it removes all the waste and takes it back to earth.
The ISS has been in Space for 15 years!
The moon is a natural satellite.
The moon is the only place in Space humans have been and managed to land on.
The darker areas of the moons are called ‘seas’ – the sea of tranquility, the sea of serendipity etc. This is because when people looked up at the moon many, many years ago, they thought the darker patches were oceans.
The best time to look at the moon from earth is when it is a half moon. This is because the sun is hitting from the side and the craters are highlighted.
21st July 1969 – Neil Armstrong took the first footsteps on the moon and said, “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
The longest time anyone has spent in Space in one go is 17 months.
Mars has an atmosphere.
Lots of probes have gone to Mars. Viking 1 in 1976, Sojourner in 1997, Spirit and Opportunity in 2004 and Curiosity in 2012.
On Mars there is a huge volcano called Olympus Mons (biggest in the solar system. It is 26km high – 3 times higher than Mount Everest!!!
Vallis Marineris is a canyon/valley on Mars which is the width of the USA and is 3 miles deep. It was caused by a massive river. We know water was on Mars at one point – it has evaporated, been absorbed by the rocks and turned to ice.
Mars has 2 satellites called Phobos and Deimos. They are strange shapes and are not round.
the sun. It is a Kuiper Belt Object
It would take three days in a rocket to travel from one side of Saturn’s rings to the other!
Uranus is a blue planet which is 64 times the size of Earth!
Uranus’ moons are named after characters from Shakespeare and Pope.
Neptune also has a whirlwind with windspeeds of up to 1000km per hour!
Comets come from the Oort Cloud which is 7 trillion km away
Harry Rose session 3 – Friday 5th February
Solar panels on ISS make electricity to power it.
Every few weeks, a robotic rocket travels to the ISS to bring the astronauts onboard food supplies, clean clothing, equipment and it removes all the waste and takes it back to earth.
The ISS has been in Space for 15 years!
The moon is a natural satellite.
The moon is the only place in Space humans have been and managed to land on.
The darker areas of the moons are called ‘seas’ – the sea of tranquility, the sea of serendipity etc. This is because when people looked up at the moon many, many years ago, they thought the darker patches were oceans.
The best time to look at the moon from earth is when it is a half moon. This is because the sun is hitting from the side and the craters are highlighted.
21st July 1969 – Neil Armstrong took the first footsteps on the moon and said, “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
The longest time anyone has spent in Space in one go is 17 months.
Mars has an atmosphere.
Lots of probes have gone to Mars. Viking 1 in 1976, Sojourner in 1997, Spirit and Opportunity in 2004 and Curiosity in 2012.
On Mars there is a huge volcano called Olympus Mons (biggest in the solar system. It is 26km high – 3 times higher than Mount Everest!!!
Vallis Marineris is a canyon/valley on Mars which is the width of the USA and is 3 miles deep. It was caused by a massive river. We know water was on Mars at one point – it has evaporated, been absorbed by the rocks and turned to ice.
Mars has 2 satellites called Phobos and Deimos. They are strange shapes and are not round.
