Mercury Seven

gas giants are mostly composed of gases, as assumed from its name. Terrestrial planets are also known for their solid surfaces made out of rocks or metals with a massive metal core. Only four known planets fit this description in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. Interestingly enough, these four terrestrial planets are the planets closest to the sun. Although these four planets are in the category…

Recent revelations in the news over NASA finding “liquid” water on Mars has gotten many people excited about the possibility of sending humans to live on the planet, without much insight into the actual reasons why that idea is still not currently feasible. A planet must have much more than just water in order to be a habitable place, and these factors are often overlooked, in fact the same factors affecting the water supply on Mars are also the factors that factors behind the other reasons it…

Visual Perceptual/Visual Motor Deficit is a specific learning disability that causes students to struggle with cutting and pasting, difficulty holding pencils and poor hand/eye coordination. This learning disability can cause students to have frequent headaches or to struggle with learning new material. The third grade science lesson plans covers the Solar System and the order of the planets. The outcome of this lesson plans is for the students to gain knowledge about the Solar System and be…

The Boss Awakening Boss stood on the beach looking out at the ocean as the sun sank into the red clouds, its’ job done for the day. A cloud drifted in the distance spreading its rain. The beach sand was soft under his feet and the warm water was clear and filled with fish that seemed to enjoy swimming with him. A pair of flutter-bys flapped their colorful wings of blue, red, green and gold as they passed him in a harmonic dance. The cool breeze coming off the ocean felt good as he listened to…

Imagine living in a place when it does not stop raining and the sun only comes out every seven years for only one hour. Ray Bradbury short story, "All Summer in a Day" talks about a girl named Margot that moved to Venus. Margot's classmates bullied her because she remebered the sun. The theme of the story is being different can cause bullying, because Margot was different and her classmates hated her. Margot is being bullied in school because she remebered the sun. William is Margot's number…

Theme By Kassie Rain. It's always raining. That's the problem in the story All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury. In the setting, Venus, no one ever sees even a glimpse of sunlight. But, finally there is a chance! For the first time in seven years, the rain is going away. Everyone is excited and waiting. Even a frail girl named Margot. Margot is the only kid in her class that knows what the sun looks like. She is the only one that knows what it feels like, what it is like, and her classmates…

Kepler’s Laws, Kepler is credited with 3 laws regarding the movement of celestial bodies orbiting other celestial bodies. Johannes Kepler, working with data painstakingly collected by Tycho Brahe without the aid of a telescope, developed three laws which described the motion of the planets across the sky. Kepler's 1st Law: The Law of Orbits, Kepler's 2nd Law: The Law of Areas, and Kepler’s 3rd Law: The Law of Periods. Kepler's laws were derived for orbits around the sun, but they apply to…

There hasn’t been any sun for seven years. How do you think you’d manage that? “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury is about several young children who have experienced just that. Margot, the protagonist of this chilling story, is the only child that remembers what the sun looked liked. Most of the kids were envious of Margot, making fun of her quite often. Margot eventually turns into a wallflower, a hopeful, but a dispirited little girl who knows she’s a bit different from the rest. This…

The rapid spread of mercury poisoning and the increase of whaling in Eastern Asia have a very evident positive correlation. Although the whaling of large whales has seen quite a dramatic drop since the boom in the 1950’s and early 1960’s right before the Marine Mammal Protection Act was enacted in 1972, there has been a significant increase in the amount of dolphins and small whales being killed and sold in Eastern Asian Countries. One sample of Dolphin meat can contain up to 10 times the…

Hey! Icarus, wake up!" He opened his eyes, a blur of a small figure stood above him. Icarus squinted to get a better look. A young blonde child stood above him, staring into his eyes. "What's wrong?" murmured Icarus, trying to make out the guy who he was looking at. "The order of the steel brothers they... They started the attack, Karelia is taken, a lot dead. Mother... Mother..." The boy said, sobbing hysterically. Icarus was still half asleep, both the room and the words swirling around in his…