Mercury Messenger

Mercury.


We care about studying Mercury because it could have valuable resources or natural gases or even gold. There maybe something on Mercury that we need or could use to help us on earth. Scientists hope to learn the operations they need to perform on the MESSENGER spacecraft. They also hope to learn why Mercury shrunk. In recent studies scientists have agreed that Mercury has shrunken. Over many years, astronomers have figured out that under Mercury’s rocky surface has a thick layer or “mantle” which is hot liquid material,or molten rock. For a long time, scientists were pretty sure that since Mercury is so small it should have cooled down way too fast for it to have a molten mantle.


Article Title: Whats Hot about Mercury?

Author: Skyguy

Date: October 13th 2008.



< This is a picture of Mercury's Northern Horizon.





I think the U.S shouldn't spend any money for traveling in space. I think it is ridiculous. We should use the money for people who are starving. Or to help find the cure for cancer, and even to help with a torn economy. We shouldn't even study any other planets because it is a huge waste of money when we could be using the money for other things to help make our world a better place.

Astronomy Hoaxes

Astronomy Egg Hoax
This is untrue because it is challenging to stand up the egg on its end because of all the gooey liquid inside. Also it is untrue do to the fact that its impossible to do on a normal day, and calls for complete patience and alot of cleaning up! It is said that people balance the egg after a long time of trying and patience NOT the equinox. The equinox stands for the first day of fall or spring there is nothing special to make an egg stand on its end.

Author: Paul A. Heckert
Date: September 10, 2009

Egg Hoax

The Great Moon Hoax
On August 25, 1835 The newspaper The New York Sun decalared that there was life forms on the moon. Sir John Herschel, a famous british astronomer built a telescope and claimed he discovered life forms on the moon. This is considered a hoax because there is not any plant or life form on the moon. There is no source of food or water to have anything or anyone living there. The moon is a hard rock with craters. It's baren land. Many astronauts have been to the moon none have discovered a life form.

Author: not listed
Date: not listed

Moon Hoax

Hubble Telescope.

Hubble Telescope article.

This Article is about how the Hubble Telescope has gotten 90 times more powerful than before. There will be 2 new instruments added to the telescope. The article also talks about how the camera died in 2007 and is going to try to replace it with something new and never tryed before! The article aslo states that the telescope will likely die in 2011 when its last functioning gyroscope fails.

My feelings about this article were that it had lots of information about the equipment and whats going on the telescope and whats being replaced. I would add my own opinoin saying that the Hubble Telescope is very vauled in space and we should keep fixing it to see whats going on up in space. One question i would ask would be how much does all of this cost?

The author of this article is David Shiga, the date i accsessed this article was September 16, 2009.