Category: Friday’s Factoid

Friday’s Factoid 8 (by Nate!)

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Venus is my favorite planet because it has lots of volcanoes. I like hot lava. Cold lava turns into rock. It is called A’a in Hawaii and there is a volcano with lava here too. I have seen it. Venus shines bright even in the morning because it is covered with lava. I have seen Venus the most because I wake up the earliest of all. We made pictures of volcanoes (Nate,5).

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Teacher’s Two-Cents (by Mom)
Titus and Joel took a break from writing today’s Factoid since Nate begged for a turn to write (or rather dictate) about his favorite planet. And yes, he probably is better acquainted with it than anyone else since he does habitually rise at the crack of dawn. As to his theory of extreme luminescence being due to the presence of lava on Venus’s surface, that is doubtful at the very least. But hey, we’ve heard a lot crazier than that from the science crowd, haven’t we?

Friday’s Factoid 7 (by Titus and Joel)

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Venus is pretty close to the sun and it is covered with lava so it is hot all the time even at night. Spacecraft have tried to land on Venus but they just burn up so they have to use radar to make pictures of what it looks like (Joel,7).

Maat Mons Volcano on Venus

Venus is a planet but people call it the Evening Star and the Morning Star because you can see it shining right after the sun goes down and before it comes up. Once we saw Venus during the day because it went across the sun. That’s called a transit. Then it did not look like a star at all. It looked like a little black dot. You can see all about the Venus transit by clicking here early-field-trip-2 (Titus,8).

Teacher’s Two-Cents (by Mom)
Don’t forget to catch the Orionids Meteor Shower this weekend! Follow this link for more informationorionids-peak-this-weekend

Friday’s Factoid 6 (by Titus and Joel)

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The planet closest to the sun is Mercury. A day on Mercury is 176 earth days and is 750 degrees. But night is -300 degrees because Mercury does not have a good atmosphere. A year on Mercury is only 88 Earth days long so I would be 30 years old`there and I would have a truck (by Joel,7).

Mercury is a terrestrial planet like the Earth. It is not gaseous like Jupiter. The most terrestrial planet we have learned about is the Diamond Planet that has just been found. It is called 55 Cancri e which is not a good name. It is in another solar system and is made of diamond and graphite. This man, Giguere, made a picture of what it might be like (by Titus,8).