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In class, we are reading the book Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce. We are doing some space-related activities because the book is about a boy’s journey to space. I visited the NASA homepage, and the five facts I thought were most interesting are below.
- An investigation machine called WISE was send into space in April 2012, in search for supermassive black holes. It found an amazing 200 with a potential of thousands more!
- The first American man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, and the first American woman on the moon, Sally Ride, both passed away in 2012.
- In August 2012, NASA successfully landed a one-ton robot called Curiosity on Mars. It has sent back detailed pictures from where it landed and even tasted ‘Martian dirt!’
- NASA sent their most accurate satellites to Greenland and Antarctica to survey the ice sheets melting. They found that the ice sheets covering the north and south poles are melting three times as much as they were in the 1990s due to rising water levels.
- NASA astronomers, using the Hubble Telespcope, saw further back in time than ever before, and uncovered a cluster of seven previously unseen galaxies that formed more than 13 billion years ago.
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