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I have learnt about the differnt kind of telescopes
I have learnt about the differnt kind of telescopes
This lesson was rather engaging compared to previous ones as we had a hands on sesson on using real telescopes. We even did research about the origin of telescopes and make an infographic about it.
Here are some of the pictures I took during the session,
30 march 2020. I learnt about about good mentorship. Good mentorship does not include being confident.
6 April. I learnt about the design of rockets. The use of KSP and the controls. The lesson was rather interesting as we built rockets and tested them to see if it works.
13 April. I learnt about rovers. What are the uses and types of rovers. How the rovers are designed and the reason why parts of the rover are used. E.g. employment parachutes to have low terminal velocity.
20 April. I learnt about how to orbit around Earth and eventually around the Moon and eventually land on the moon. We used Space flight Simulator to launch the rocket. Unfortunately, my design was not work but it managed to get into solar orbit or maybe I dont have the skills to do so.
27 april. Topic : constellations. They are a group of stars which are named after objects, animals and people long ago. Astronomers today still use them to name stars. Constellations are helpful for stargazers and astronomers to recognise specific stars in the night sky. Sailors use them for navigation.
Asterism are patterns of stars with shapes and size that range from very simple to more complex
Winter triangle asterm also known as the great southern triangle is a prominent. 3 stars form the winter triangle - Sirius, Betelgeuse and Procyon.
Ursa Major contains 7 messier objects
Ursa minor also called the little bar.
About the lesson: the lesson was interesting as I learn new things such as asterism. One improvment is to make it more interactive maybe by having small group tasks.
4 May. We learnt about rovers and SSTO. We also learn about the components of rovers and SSTO. After learning about the components about rovers and SSTO, we created a rover design which was pretty good. Heres an image
11 May. We learnt about satellites. Some uses of satellites are for communication, navigation, telescopes. The lesson was rather interesting as I learn new things such as a planet is a satellite. We also did a kahoot to test what we have learnt. The lesson was pretty good as it was engaging means we can learn well.
29 June. Downloaded ksp. Learnt that ksp takes up alot of data to download. We also did sfs and tried going to mars but it did not work. The lesson was not as fun as other lessons as all we did was just sfs and downloading ksp
6 July. Gravitational waves - streching and squeezing of space-time. Anything with mass produces gravity which curves space-time.
Enceladus - sixth largest moon of saturn. Covered by fresh and clean ice. Rich plumes can be found there
Cryovolcanoes - volcanoes that erupts water and gases below freezing point
sounds on Mars - 540 mph, lower than Earth. Mars atmosphere is 100 times less dense than Earth which affects how sound waves travels to Earth.
An example of an exoplanet would be Kepler-452b, which is the closest to any planet found in the solar system 500 light years away. Right temperature within the habitable zone. One and half times the diameter of Earth
The first image of a black hole was discovered usong an international network or radio telescopes called the event horizon telescope.
Gaia is made to survey over a billion stars in our galaxy. Give us data on the milky way such as the structure, luminosiry, temperatyre.
Magntars - magnetic fields are a thousand trillion times stronger than Earth, emit bursts of radiation.
Reflection: the whole lesson was content on things I did not know before so this lesson taught me new things. The quiz was both fun and tested whether we understood the lesson. One improvement was to slow down the pace of the lesson as the slides was too fast for me to copy down everything. Overall the lesson was great.
13 July.
Habitability - all known forms of life, water and susfiifcient amount of air quantities
The goldilocks zone where planets have the just right temperature.
Fermi-paradox - probably of the existence of extraterrestrial civilisations.
The great filter - an evolutionary path is which intelligent life would have to take before discovering us or other colonies of extra-terrestrial origin
The Drake equation
Technosignatures - if alien life were to be advanced enough, we would find megastructures, acting as a sort of lighthouse.
Reflection :
This lesson was very informative as I learnt alot of new things such as how we can "explore" space with the Technosignature thing. The lesson was fun too with the kahoot at the end. There is no improvement needed as the lesson content and experience was perfect. I can apply the lesson in such as way that for example the drake equation, I can use it to calculate the amount of active extraterrestrial civilisation.
KSP lesson
KSP lesson
The lesson was very interesting. We learnt how to get into orbit and onto the moon. However, we did not know how do fly to the moon and land so we just went into orbit which was good enough. Overall, the lesson was fun as we used KSP. 1 improvement would be the pace.
17 August. We need a source of energy in order to make anything happen. This is important to run the facilities important in maintaining a martian habitat such as agricultural equipment.
1st source : Sun
2nd source : Nuclear
Why is dust an issue : can enter machinery leading to malfunction. Cause contamination on the spaceship.
How do we prevent? Follow strict regulations like those on space stations when it comes to diet.
Radiation
SR - scientific theory that was puslihed by albert einstein in 1905, he published this in a paper titled 'On the electro dynamics of moving bodies "
Reflections : Today's lesson was very fun. One new thing I learnt was about the SR. There is not much improvements I can think of.
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