Monday, 3/10 The Earth, Moon, Sun Webquest

Highlight the questions and websites below and insert into a Pages document. Answer the questions using the websites provided, working with one other student (you can do the bonus in your own Noteshare journal, but be sure and label it as your bonus question!) When you are finished, export your Pages document and insert it into your Noteshare journal.

Name: _______________________
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Date: _________________________

Earth’s Moon, Missions to the Moon and Areas of Interest!

http://freemars.org/jeff/planets/Luna/Luna.htm

1. How does the moon compare to Earth in size and mass?


http://www.moonconnection.com/moon_gravity.phtml

2. What would your weight be on the moon?


http://www.russianspaceweb.com/spacecraft_planetary_lunar.html

3. What was the first mission to impact the moon, who sent it and on what date?

4. What spacecraft and country was the first to take a photo of the farside of the moon?

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/grail/news/grail20120307.html

5. What does GRAIL stand for?

6. What are the names of the 2 GRAIL spacecraft chasing each other above the surface of the moon?

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/grail/news/grail20120201.html

7. Watch the video above. What is the name of the principal investigator of the GRAIL mission and where does she work?

8. What part of the moon was shown in the video?


http://news.discovery.com/space/earths-two-moons-110928.html

The Brunswick MoonKAM team are taking photos using 8 cameras mounted on the two GRAIL satellites from 30 miles above the surface. Watch the movie at the link above.

9. What theory is the GRAIL mission going to help prove or disprove?
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/prelim_water_results.html

10. In what permanently shadowed crater on the moon did the NASA mission, LCROSS, discover water?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/21/nasa-moon-bombing-turns-u_n_771997.html

11. In what crater was water discovered by the LCROSS mission?

12. About how much water was discovered there?

13. Apollo X1 astronaut, Neil Armstrong, was the first person to set foot on the moon. What were his first words?


14. What event began the push to go to the moon?

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/

15-20. Which of the missions actually landed on the moon? What are the latitudes and longitudes of those missions?

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/primer/primer.html

21. Two more solar flares erupted Saturday. The two CME’s are set to reach Earth today, March 12, 2012.

22. What is a CME?

23-25. Go to page 2 and list 3 ways solar storms affect us on Earth.


Bonus: Talk to an older person, related or not and ask them where they were when we first landed on the moon. Write that here!