WWK: STUDENTS WILL LEARN ABOUT THE IMPORTANT SCIENTIST THAT MADE DISCOVERIES ABOUT THE MOON

Made by: Savannah SecrestPresented by: Bradford

The moon is the closest celestial object to our planet. In ancient times, city-states and empires believed a god(ess) was involved with it. Even then, scientists like Pythagoras and Plutarch were trying to unwind its mysteries. The latter of the pair was the first “lunar author”.

Galileo was one of the first lunar cartographers who deduced that the moon had mountains and craters instead of being smooth like everyone had formerly believed.

Despite what Galileo had done, it was Johannes Helevius who was considered the “father of lunar topography”. He made the first lunar atlas.

Wilhelm Beer and Johann Mädler made the first exact map of the moon.

Hundreds of years later, Werner von Braun was recruited as the chief architect of the first manned lunar shuttle, Saturn V.

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Who was the first lunar author?

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The moon is the most noticeable object in the night sky, and during some mornings. Despite many theories about its creation, the most scientifically probable theory was that Mars’ twin crashed into the Earth and knocked out a substantial piece of our planet.

This makes the moon a satellite. It floats around the earth like any of our manmade satellites that give us useful things like Google Earth©. Satellites the size of the moon are also able to affect the goings ons of the earth.

The most notable change is the change in the tides. When the at the quarters, it results in the neap tide. When the moon is full or new it results in the spring tide.

As the moon travels around the earth, we see differing amounts of light. We call these different illuminations phases. Very rarely, the moon aligns with the sun and casts a shadow on the earth called a solar eclipse. When the earth covers the moon with its light, it’s called a lunar eclipse.

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WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNAR PHASE?

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WWK: WE WILL UNDERSTAND HOW THE EARTH’S MAGNETIC FIELD CAUSES THE FORMATION OF THE VAN ALLEN BELTS AND AURORAS.

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Magnetosphere

Magnetic fields exert force on electrically charged moving objects trapping charged particles and makes them spiral between mirror points along field lines of the magnetosphere,

the magnetic field around the Earth.

Van Allen Belts

Discovered in the 1950’s, Van Allen radiation belts or just Van Allen Belts, are two areas of high concentration of charged particles.

These particles come from the suns solar winds, or continuous flow of charged particles that heat the

solar system.

Solar Winds

Solar winds are ionized gasses shot out from the sun in all directions at about 400km/s and varies in intensity by the amount of surface activity of the sun. The Earth’s magnetic field deflects most of these solar winds and “bows” it around the Earth. This effect is called bow shock.

Auroras

When solar winds are trapped inside the Earth’s magnetic field, they spiral on field lines in the magnetosphere and can be seen when close to the mirror points as shown in the first slide. When seen, these are called auroras. The color of the auroras are caused by the charged particles colliding with oxygen and nitrogen molecules.

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What is it called when Solar Winds are deflected by the outer Van Allen Belts in the Earth’s Magnetosphere?