Churchill Science

I love the description of Venus as “Earth’s evil twin”…

This video will make a LOT of sense if you’ve played Alien Safari! (see previous post)

How long would it take to take a car to Mars? What about an airplane to the moon? Click the picture to find out!

Find “alien life” here on Earth and learn about where we might find similar life on planets and moons out in our solar system!

221 played this game on Friday… we collected all 12 cards with no problem! So we moved on to something a bit more challenging…

If you want to make this game more challenging for yourself, try filling them in in reverse order, or from the middle out…

Hopefully we’ll be posting more solar system games soon!

Click on the picture to play the game!

Click on the picture to send your name to Mars about the new Mars Science Laboratory!

This video is an overview of the new Mars mission…

Animation showing the Mars Science Laboratory entering Mars and beginning its mission…

Here’s a website I can’t believe I haven’t found earlier. You can type in your weight and find out how much you weigh on other planets, the moons of Jupiter, even the Sun and other stars.

Click on the picture of Lisa’s weight on other planets to try it:

Weight is really all about gravity. I would weigh only about 9 pounds on Pluto, but 3,790 pounds on the Sun. Yet I would not be any bigger or smaller sized.

Voyager was launched shortly before I was born and has now left the solar system. There is a lot of empty space between stars, so it doesn’t have much to take pictures of right now.

The first Star Trek movie ever made was about what might happen to Voyager if it keeps going on and on and learning more and more… not exactly realistic, but interesting.

The shuttle landing has been delayed again due to bad weather at the landing site. So, no video to show you of the landing yet.

In the meantime, here are some of the best images from Hubble over the years:

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.

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?