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Tuesday, October 27, 2020

What the Mars 2020 Rover mission is about

 Mars Rover Perseverance is a robot that gets sent into space to help the people at NASA to find out information about the planet they send the Rover to gather if there was a past life, different plants, and rocks. 


Perseverance Rover is going to Mars on a rocket called United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. The Mars Science Laboratory and its rover centerpiece, Perseverance is the most recent Mars mission yet flown by NASA. The rover will land on Mars in 18 February 2021 with a primary mission to find out if Mars is, or was, suitable for life. Another objective is to learn more about the Red Planet's environment.


NASA has been sending different missions with different Rovers, one of the last ones was called Curiosity, according to research Curiosity was the most ambitious out of all the past Rover missions, that means that it was determined to seek the information people at NASA were looking for.


Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Navigation in Space

 Here are some questions about space I can answer for you...


1. What is a Solar System? What is the Milky Way an example of?

The Solar System is a system indeed, it has stars, galaxies, planets, it's like a gallery for astronomical objects.

An example of the Milky Way is the galaxy that holds the Solar System in which the Earth is located. 


2. What is a star? Describe a nebula.

A star is a part of space, some are suns, moons, or just stars. How stars are created is gas, the gas comes from the nebula helps the star officially forms.

A nebula is a giant cloud of dust and gas in space. Some more than one nebula comes from the gas and dust thrown out by the explosion of a dying star. 


3. How do stars die?

They explode then the gas that was the form of the dead star goes into a Nebula then the Nebula forms another star using the gas from the dead star. A star can sometimes also turn into a Nebula.


4. Is there an up and or down in space?

No there is no up or down in space. That can mess with the human mind and affect the way people move and think in space.


5. How can starts help to navigate?

Sometimes sailors use stars to help navigate them back home. People use stars as a map.