Churchill Science

This is an animated video showing the journey of the Mars Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, to Mars.

A baby mammoth was recently discovered mummified in ice. Here’s a video clip explaining the discovery:

To explore the mammoth discovery, click on the picture:

The Cluster B classes have been studying the planets in our own solar system and finding out why Earth is so unique and special. But could there be planets somewhere else in the universe that we could live on? Recently scientists announced that they have found some…

The red glowing object is Gliese 581, a red dwarf star. There are several rocky planets orbiting it, each named for the star – Gliese 581c, Gliese 581d, and Gliese 581e. Last week, scientists announced that “d” and “e” were the planets most like Earth that have ever been found.

Here’s a video showing the whole system:

This next video shows some planets that orbit around other stars, that could be like our own planet Earth. These stars are very far away and it is currently too hard to take a picture of them, much less go there. The video also talks about why Venus and Mars didn’t end up having life, the way Earth did.

206 tried this game this morning… We were able to create one fish that survived until the end. One other fish ran out of energy, and one got eaten!

Click here to play the game!

This is a very important question because Venus’s atmosphere is full of carbon dioxide, which caused global warming. Could the same thing happen to Earth if we keep putting so much carbon dioxide into OUR atmosphere?

Here’s a video about our dwarf hamster babies!

Here are some of the planets that Cluster B created using Planet 10. To make your own planets, click on these photos!

Ruby’s Astro Planet

Chloe’s Planet

Ruby and Chloe – what happened to your planets? Did they succeed?

Click here to explore the kelp forests of Monterey Bay!

Click here to try building your own star! You can decide how big to make it and how many metals to put in. Watch and see how long it takes to live and die. Also, can you make it form a black hole?

When volcanoes erupt, there is a huge cloud of dust, gas, and sometimes ash. For a long time, scientists have known that there are lightning strikes inside these clouds, but needed to invent a way to screen out the cloud itself to get a picture of what was going on inside.

This image was taken by the Lightning Mapping Array, set up by scientists to take measurements inside the volcanic cloud at Mt. Redoubt in Alaska. The scientists set up their equipment when they heard that Mt. Redoubt was getting ready to erupt again, and waited two months until the eruptions began. Here’s yet another reason why it’s important to monitor volcanoes!