On January 28th 1986, Challenger made history when it launched into space. Christa McAuliffe qualified for her mission through NASA’s Teacher in Space program and was chosen as part of its crew. Challenger and its nine successful voyages prior to its demise marked many important milestones. Lessons learned from its flights led to the design…
Explore Earth’s continuous cycle of water movement with these books, activities and classroom lessons on the water cycle. Readers of this straightforward book discover that water evaporates into clouds, then condenses to form rain and snowfall, with this precipitation coming from oceans, seas, lakes, ponds and rivers as their source. Clouds Cloud formation is an…
From outer space to within your body, there are so many things to be amazed by! Here are some bizarre human facts that will make you appreciate yourself even further: Your feet contain 25% of your bones; your tongue has eight interwoven muscles; and every 10 years your skeleton replaces itself completely. 1. The human…
Even though Mars has lost much of its overall magnetic field, some areas still create unique atmospheric electrodynamic structures – magnetic loops and cusps which alter how ions leave its atmosphere. Sabine Stanley and her colleagues have developed an effective technique for artificially creating these structures. Their paper published in Science details how this can…
Sending humans to Mars would be an immense financial and logistical endeavor, taking two to three years on average and necessitating constant supplies of food, water and rocket fuel. Spirit and Opportunity made history on Mars by outlasting expectations, serving over six years on each rover and discovering crucial information that helped scientists better comprehend…
Japan is often thought of as being an island nation full of urban centers, yet in reality it’s an expansive land filled with nature and mountain wilderness – Mount Fuji being its highest peak and three quarters of land being unsuitable for housing or agriculture. Japan is one of the most distinctive and eccentric nations…
Mercury orbits the Sun once every 88 Earth days on an elliptical path which may bring it as close as 29 million miles or as far away as 43 million miles from our star. Magnetic reconnection between the IMF and Mercury’s planet magnetosphere is the most efficient process for mixing plasma, allowing solar wind to…
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made history in 1969 with their lunar landing of their LM-5 spacecraft on the moon, taking pictures, depositing rock samples on lunar surfaces, and installing scientific experiments which still send back data today. An independent researcher recently realized that it is possible that the Lunar Module’s ascent stage may not…
Weather changes constantly and is full of surprises – from thunderstorms to rainbows! With such fascinating phenomena to learn more about! This section will introduce you to fog: its causes, distinct types and other facts. Furthermore, you’ll gain more knowledge on lightning: what it is, its formation process and other intriguing details. Temperature Temperature is…
