Churchill Science

Everybody’s favorite ringed planet is in the news again!

Pretty amazing. It seems that everywhere we look in the solar system, there are things to surprise us. The speaker in this video is a little hard to understand, but he said something very interesting – that the salt in the water, plus other discoveries they made, mean that there are the right chemicals for possibly creating life. Forget life on other planets – we should be looking for life on other moons!

Breaking news: yet another place in the solar system that might have liquid water… Click on the picture to learn more!

Enceladus is a moon around Saturn. We thought it was so weird that it had volcanoes that spewed ice instead of lava. Now scientists think that there might be a liquid ocean underneath that ice layer, like Europa.

Yet another place to look for aliens!

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!

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.