Fun Science for Kids
Seeing the Gas Giants We have had missions to the rocky planets. Venus. Mercury. Earth. Mars. They have all been landed upon. But how can we land when there is no…surface? How can we learn about the atmosphere? Both Jupiter’s or Earth’s? Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab have …
Are we alone? It’s a question we long to answer. One in which we have spent billions of dollars and hundreds of years pondering. In a universe so vast, is there a place that could support life as we know it? That isn’t a small order. Such a planet would …
The New Horizons Mission had it’s closest fly by of Pluto just four days ago. It took ten years and a trip of 7.5 billion kilometers (thats 4.67 billion miles) to get there – imagine how hard it was to actually fly by Pluto! New Horizons was built to act …