Jupiter - Pioneer, Voyager, Ulysses, Cassini-Huygens, New Horizons

We've learned about space exploration of Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.

Next up is Jupiter!

We launched many spacecrafts to go fly by Jupiter and take close pictures.
Pioneer 10 in 1972, Pioneer 11 in 1973.
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were both launched in 1977.
Ulysses was launched in 1990.
Cassini-Huygens was launced in 1997.
New Horizons was launched in 1006.

All of the spacecraft took about 2 years to get to Jupiter, and most of them continued flying on to look at other planets.


(from: wikipedia - voyager 1)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Interstellar Cloud

Spanish - Counting to seventy nine

We just learned how to count to 69 in Spanish, let's keep going!

70 setenta - sounds like say-sen-tah /?/
71 setenta y uno - sounds like say-sen-tah ee oo-n-oh /?/
72 setenta y dos - sounds like say-sen-tah ee doh-ss /?/
73 setenta y tres - sounds like say-sen-tah ee t-day-ss /?/
74 setenta y cuatro - sounds like say-sen-tah ee koo-ah-t-doh /?/
75 setenta y cinco - sounds like say-sen-tah ee see-n-koh /?/
76 setenta y seis - sounds like say-sen-tah ee say-ss /?/
77 setenta y siete - sounds like say-sen-tah ee see-ay-tay /?/
78 setenta y ocho - sounds like say-sen-tah ee oh-choh /?/
79 setenta y nueve - sounds like say-sen-tah ee noo-ay-vay /?/


(from: wikipedia - Association of Spanish Language Academies)

Do you remember how to say it in French?
French - soixante-dix, soixante et onze, soixante-douze, soixante-treize, soixante-quatorze, soixante-quinze, soixante-seize, soixante dix sept, soixante dix huit, soixante dix neuf

Sulfur

We just learned about the chemical element of Oxygen.

Another chemical element is Sulfur, called "S" for short on the Periodic Table.

Sulfur is a chemical found on our planet that has many uses.

It burns very well, so the chemical on the end of a match stick is sulfur.

Sulfur is also very smelly, and smells like rotten eggs. It is the smell in skunk spray that makes it so bad!


(from: wikipedia - sulfur)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: LEDs

Blue Tang

We just learned about the Kakapo bird.

We learned before about the clownfish that everyone knows from Finding Nemo, now let's learn about what kind of fish Dory was!

Dory was a Blue Tang fish, also known as a blue surgeonfish.
It's fancy science name is paracanthurus hepatus.

The real blue tang doesn't forget things all the time, but if it is scared it can turn it's skin a little see-through (also known as transparent) to help hide from other fish that want to eat it!

(from: wikipedia - paracanthurus)



Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Kiwi

Cecum

We've learned now how food travels down your esophagus to your stomach, then through the parts of your small intestine.

After your mushed up food leaves your small intestine, it goes into part of your large intestine called the cecum.

(from: wikipedia - cecum)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Forearm Flexors

Senegal

We just learned about the country of Senegal

Senegal is a country on the north west part of Africa, right on the Atlantic Ocean.

(from: wikipedia - senegal)

The flag of senegal is a green stripe, a yellow stripe with a green star in the middle, and a red stripe.
The green, yellow and red are the Pan-African colors that are shared by many other African countries to help join the countries together as one continent.
The green stripe and star are for hope, the yellow is for arts, learning and money and the red is for the blood of the people fighting for the country.

(from: wikipedia - flag of senegal)

To eat in Senegal you might have thiéboudienne, which is fish flavored with parsley, lemon, garlic and onions, then cookied with tomato paste and vegetables and served with rice.

(from: wikipedia - senegalese cuisine)

In Senegal the people use salt wells to help get valuable salt from the ground.

(from: wikipedia - sine-saloum)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Belgium

Parable of the Wandering Sheep

We just learned about Jesus' teaching stories called the Parable of the Sower, the Parable of the Weeds and the Parables of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl.

Another parable Jesus told was the Parable of the Wandering Sheep.

Jesus told his followers about a shepherd who had a hundred sheep.
Even though he had a hundred sheep, if just one of them wanders off he goes off to find it.
And when he finds the sheep he is very happy that day that he found it.

He told his followers that we are like the sheep and Jesus is the shepherd.
He cares for every single one of us, even though there are many people on the earth.


(from: wikipedia - parable of the lost sheep)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Mark