Mags Physics Blog Site

November 23, 2011

Description: In just a few days NASA will launch the Curiosity rover on its way to Mars. In this podcast, I talk about just how it is that we fly from Earth to Mars, and describe the “transfer orbit” that is used when we send spacecraft from our planet to the red planet.

http://365daysofastronomy.org/2011/11/23/november-23rd/

http://wimp.com/lifescare/

Also check this out http://youtu.be/5IdezpclHQo

http://www.qitepscience.org/ilm/Interactive%20Solar%20System/clips/tataSurya.swf

http://phet.colorado.edu/sims/my-solar-system/my-solar-system_en.html

http://esamultimedia.esa.int/multimedia/edu/Wave_or_Particle.swf

http://www.mhhe.com/physsci/chemistry/essentialchemistry/flash/radioa7.swf

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/flash/sunspot_quiz.swf

There are several places on the net to help you view the night sky. Try some of the links below.

Also to help you with a location, Echuca/Moama is around Latitude = -36.1246 (36 South) & Longitude = 144.7195 (144 East). Our time, EST is 10 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

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Students again made soundpipes and then calibrated them so that they could play a tune.See if you can recognize the songs, it is a blast from the past, might be worth checking out the actual song here and comparing them.