Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Water on the moon

This is it.
The biggest day of my life.
I am a bit nervous but I will get over it. My name is Cleopatra. I am going to the Moon with my 2 dogs Cristal (that is as active as a wolf) and Lightning (that is as fast as a chita) and of course my three friends Susan, Sarah and Sofia. Our mission is to go and investigate if there is water on the moon. If so, my friends and I will bring a big stone from the Moon to the Earth. Then, we will see how big the Moon is from the Earth and how the astronomers calculate how much water there is.

There is one ton of the top layer of the lunar surface which would hold about 32 inches of water, I was told. Also the twin inpacts on october 9 are now known to have sent 25 gallons of water ice and vapour into the air amongst the debris from 60 to 100 foot wide hole prodused by the rocket. I am also going to take pictures of things I see, like stars, comets, meteors and I really want to see the Milky way. I want to tell you how to see a comet. It is really interesting. Comets can be seen from Earth only when they are fairly near to the sun. Most look like smudges of light, even through telescopes. Some comets have very long orbits which take them far out into the rest of the solar system. They may only be seen from Earth once every few thousand years!

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