Moon Phases




 Hello Everyone today we are going to learn about the Moon's phases. First talk about a myth about the moon.  We will do  "Do wolves howl on a full moon".  Wolves really do not howl at the moon. They are just communicating to other wolves, but why do they point their faces at the moon you ask? Well if they project their calls upward allows the sound to carry farther.

 

 

Okay now we will talk about the moon's phases. Did you know that the whole concept of months are based on the moon's phases. Well the reason why the moon goes through faces is because the sun strikes the moon's surface at different angles.  Though Shadows have nothing to do with this.

 

Oh yeah I forgot to tell you this, a lunar eclipse does not happen often because It only happens when the moon is in direct alignment with the Earth and the Sun. Like the Earth the moon is always half lit by the sun and the other half in darkness. But the amount that we see changes as the moon moves in orbit. Now we will talk about the moon's phases. The first phase is the New moon. It is when the moon is completely dark and there is not a single bit of light. Oh yeah I forgot to tell you when a moon is waxing the light grows.

A waxing crescent moon is when the sun light portion is still less than half. Half moon is when half the moon is lit up.  The waxing gibbous moon is when the lit portion is more than half. Full moon is my favorite phase, it is when the whole moon is lit. Waning gibbous is when the light continually decreases then the third quarter and finally waning crescent, which is the phase then the whole cycle starts over again. Well guys this is it so bye








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  The Moon

       

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Hello everyone, today we are going to talk about the second brightest object in the sky ,the Moon.
Did you all know that the Moon is the second brightest object in the sky ,because the Moon reflects light of the sun?












Something cool about the Moon is, when the Moon orbits the Earth, different portions of it are lit up by the Sun which is called lunar phases. But it takes the Moon about 27 days to go around the Earth once. Also the time from one full moon to next is 29 days and is called a lunar month.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

 

 

Now we can talk about the surface of the Moon. Have any of you noticed the dark spots or patches on the Moon?  Well those dark patches are sunken plains called seas. And  there is no water on the Moon. The lighter spots on the Moon are the Mountains. We do not know how the Moon is actually formed, but here are some theories.

 

 

 

1.It formed along with the earth .

 

2.The moon was part of the earth and broke off

 

3.The moon was floating in the solar system and got captured by earth gravity

 

4.The Moon was part of Earth and a planet the size of Mars smashed into the Earth and created a cloud of molten rock that hardened and created the moon .

 

 

 

Now I will tell you some cool facts about Moon.

1. The moon has ice

2. The moon is like Earth's natural satellite
3. Neil Armstrong was the first man to go to the moon.

 

 Well guys this is the end of my blog so bye.

 

 

 

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                                                                Neptune

Hello everyone, today we are going to talk about Neptune. First, we should talk about how Neptune was discovered. Can you believe that,
unlike the other planets Neptune was found using math. Neptune  got its name after the Roman god of the sea, I can see why, because the whole planet looks like it has water on it.


















Let's compare and contrast Neptune to the other gas giant planets. One similarity is
 all the planets are not

 solid only their core is. Neptune is slightly smaller than the other gas giant but also Neptune and the other gas giants all have rings. Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you this, Neptune is the 8th planet from the sun, and also that some times Pluto is closer to the Sun because of its strange orbit.






Great Dark Spot

Do you know that Voyager 2 found a storm on Neptune ,in 1989 ,called 'The Great Dark Spot' ? The great dark spot was the  gigantic storm with the size of the earth. But later  the Great Dark Spot',  became small.  The Small Dark Spot is similar to The Great Dark Spot except it is just a little smaller.
 Now we can talk about the Scooter, don't think , the  scooter  I am going to talk about is the  scooter you ride on. The Scooter is a large storm that went around Neptune every 16 hours.


 

There is no way you could Survive in Neptune because there is no water to drink or no oxygen to breath. Neptune has 13 moons and it's biggest moon Triton is really cold , because ,it orbits the opposite direction of Neptune. But something really sad is that ,Triton will soon be torn apart. Well guys I have to go so bye.

Facts
 1.Neptune has strong storms
2. Neptune's magnetic field 27 times more powerful than Earth's magnetic field.
 3.Neptune has 13 moons

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