Mars Virtual Olympics Summit Meeting

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Mars Virtual Olympics Summit Meeting (http://www.davis.ogsd.k12.ca.us/edenvale/mars1/summit.html)

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Background Information Research


Key Research Questions:

What are the characteristics of each of the planets in our solar system?

How far is each planet from Mars?

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Research Findings:

Our virtual athletes will travel in a specially constructed virtual Olympics shuttle.

The spectators will stay is a special booth above the stadium so they can see everything. There will be no bad seating.


http://www.davis.ogsd.k12.ca.us/edenvale/mars1/gifs/alien01.gif Astronomers (http://www.davis.ogsd.k12.ca.us/edenvale/mars1/astron.html)

Research Findings:

Venus is the 2nd planet from the sun. It is the 6th largest planet. It's orbit is108,200,000 km (0.72 AU) from the sun. It's the brightest object in the sky except for the sun and the moon. Venus's rotation is somewhat unusual in that it is both very slow (242 Earth days per Venus day. Venus is only slightly smaller that the earth (95% of the Earth's diameter, 80% of the earth's mass) It has few craters incating that is a relatively young surface. It's density and chemical composition is similiar to Earth's. Venus's atmospheric's pressure is 90 atmospheres on its surface. It is made up of mostly carbon dioxide. It has several cloud layers that are many km thick and made of supfuric acid. Venus has strong (350 kph) winds at the cloud tops, but only slow winds on the surface. Data from Magellen shows that Venus is covered by lava flows. There is no magnetic field on Venus. This may be because of it's slow rotation.

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It also rotates clockwise and backwards to all the other planeets.
VENUS AND THE MOON
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The view of these two from my bedroom window is stunning. Venus is extraordinarily bright!!!!

Someone please explain.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 307793

Venus comes up in the morning so you must have seen something else, either Saturn or who knows what. Google the sky this week for expected locations of planets. I had a big suprise yesterday morning when I saw a huge light low in the East and it looked bigger than Venus. I posted it then looked out and it had gone! I felt really stupid till a GLP'r in Kitchener said he thought he had seen the same thing.
On a different note Venus is huge! Someone said it was a lot closer than it should be but did not provide a link. There was mention of it being 3 days late on the Soho image. Perhaps it is being pulled. It rotates ever so slowly. A Venus day is 242 earthdays. It also rotates clockwise and backwards to all the other planeets. It must have joined the solar system later I think. In any event it is huge and so are some of the other lights out there. Maybe we have made contact. We would of course be the last to know. I wonder if the recent sightings of "meteors" has anything to do with it?It is a very interesting time!

The Solar System http://www.davis.ogsd.k12.ca.us/edenvale/mars1/gifs/solarsys.jpgby the Astronomer Team (http://www.davis.ogsd.k12.ca.us/edenvale/mars1/planets.html)

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