Tuesday 3 June 2014

Visiting Scientist

On Tuesday afternoon Dr Smith came to GMS to give a talk to room 12 and 13. He is Emily Carson's uncle and is visiting Napier from his home in the USA.

He studies space and physics as part of his job at Boston University. He told us lots of cool things we didn't know about Space and the Earth's atmosphere.

- Saturn has 60 moons!
- the Earth's atmosphere has waves in it
- the moon has a tail
- Red Giants are suns that are nearly out of gas to burn
- Venus has poisonous gasses and the camera that went there had an emerald lens so it did not melt

We had lots more questions for him, maybe we can try to find out the answers ourselves! It as so great to meet a real scientists and hear about how he beacme interested in space.

Dr Smith with a picture of the waves in the Earth's atmosphere.

Lots of questions about the moon's tail.

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