Moon illusion

Paragraph 2: What are sun and moon dogs? A moon dog is a relatively rare bright circular spot on a lunar halo caused by the refraction of moonlight. A sundog is also known as mock suns or “parhelia”, are a pair of brightly colored spots, one on either side of the sun. Sun dogs form as sunlight is refracted by hexagonal- plate like ice crystals with diameters larger than 30 micrometer and their flat faces horizontally oriented. By day, with the sun, one of these phenomena (fa-nom-a-nin) is called…

that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth." He told America that if they were to reach the moon that they would have to work together. It was from that point on that the U.S. really started pulling forward in the Space Race. NASA realized that before they could send a man to the moon they would have to have a filler mission in which a group of three astronauts were sent into orbit in the…

Donald Slayton had developed a love for curiosity and exploring at a very young age. The National Aviation Hall of Fame states that when Donald was a young child, he would always explore the world around him; so much that his mother tied him to a clothesline to keep him from exploring too much. But his love for exploring never stopped there. When Donald was in high school, his love for flying sparked. And since then on, he was known for his love of flying. His motto, "Keep 'em flying" was even…

Mars, a beautiful planet far away from Earth. People on Earth are planning to live on it, to explore new things and find ways to survive, but is it really worth it? Going to Mars is bongers and unsafe. It is dangerous and most unlikely that people will not live on Mars until few hundred years later. By then we might have already come to extinction. The colonist have made some progress but did they make enough for the years to come? I mean the colonist already found froze toxic water but they…

Two Sides of the Moon The book titled “Two Sides of the Moon: Our story of the Cold War in Space” is the result of a collaboration between an Astronaut and a Cosmonaut. It is a fascinating account of two men from two opposite sides of the space race. In this book, the American astronaut David Randalph Scott’s (Dave Scott) account of the space race is intertwined with the account of Russian Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov. The reader learns through the book that Alexei Leonov was actually the first…

The United States of America is a republic government, ran by the three branches of government, executive, legislative, and judicial. They all have their own purpose and checks each other to have balance and makes sure what they’re doing is constitutional. The best president of the United States to my opinion is John F. Kennedy. John F. Kennedy was the 35th president from January 20th, 1961 to November 21st, 1963. John did not get to finish his first term in office because he was assassinated…

When we first get there it is extremely cold it’s around -87 degrees. I also notice almost instantly is that there is two moons. Also I notice that the day is a little bit longer than on Earth. Also the sun looks pretty far away too. And the planet is overall smaller. It is also very broad and plain. I see brownish terrain and brown rocks. The landform is very rough, including sandy dunes, to giant boulders. One thing I will need to bring is a space suit because of the atmosphere in Mars. I will…

The Inner Jovian Moons For the moon project I recieved the Inner Jovian moons. The Inner Jovian Moons are four different moons of Jupiter. The names of these moons are Adrastea, Metis, Amalthea, and Thebe. Each of these moons get their names from Greek Mythology. They Were all discovered by different people. As it goes for research I found that all of these moons have very little to be known about them. They do not know the rotational period of any of these moons. A lot of the pictures at are…

In April of 1959 Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. was selected to be one of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury (NASA). According to the NASA website, the astronauts immediately began training for their mission at Langley (NASA). Their training “included a "little of everything" ranging from a graduate-level course in introductory space science to simulator training and scuba-diving” (NASA). While all the astronauts were given different jobs, Cooper’s was to deal with the Redstone rocket,…

system, after mars. With a surface temperature of -400F It is extremely cold. The hubble space telescope indicated that sedna had no moon. Initial observations showed that sedna's brightness varied every 20 days. If this is due to sedna's rotation, it would be the third slowest spinner in the solar system. A retreating moon would explain this, but no moon has been found thus far. The mystery is yet to be solved. ---------- When it was discovered on november 14, 2003 sedna was nearly 90…