Star Count

Great Worldwide Star Count

This event encourages people to learn more about astronomy.
This is a world wide event, having family and friends get together and gaze at the stars and find constellations and report what they see online.

 
People all over the world are going outside to count the stars now becuase there is light pollution from all the artificial light we use. Others do it for the fun and the gorgeous view. Majority of people do this count to record their local light pollution in their area.

A great constellation we could use during this count would be Cygnus pr the swan, since we live in the Northern Hemisphere. This constellation is very easy to find, so it would be helpful.

The Latitude and longitude of were I live is
Latitude: 42.44862
Longitude: -82.87831

is there really water on the moon?

water on the moon
Title: Nasa News NASA Spacecraft Impacts Lunar Crater in Search for Water Ice
Author: Jonas Dino and Ashley Edwards
Date: October 9, 2009

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter space craft began its experiment to discover if there was frozen water on the moon. It crashed many space crafts into a moon crater and observed the debris plume. Sadly the scientist from Nasa says that it will take some time to find out if there is any form of water on the moon. LCROSS team says they will be the first to analyze if there is any form of water on the moon and they also say that it may take a couple of weeks to analyze.

My thoughts are that if there is any form of water on the moon maybe it isn't sanitary.
If there really was water on the moon, would there be enough?

My conclusion is that the discovery for water on the moon is unknown yet.

Mercury

 We care about Mercury because 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. We also care about studying Mercury because it could have valuable resources or natural gases or even gold. 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.

I think the U.S shouldn't spend any money for traveling in space.  We should spend the little money we have more important things like finding a cure for cancer or buying food for starving people.  We shouldn't even study any other planets because it is a huge waste of money, when we could be using it for more important things.