NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered evidence of a continental crust similar to Earth’s on Mars. A paper published in Nature Geoscience documented the analysis of around 20 rock samples; many of the rocks in the Gale Crater, Curiosity’s landing site, were found to have a similar composition to rocks found in Earth’s continental crust. Though further study …
Malala Yousafzai celebrated her 18th birthday on Sunday by opening a school in Lebanon, near Syria’s border, for Syrian refugee girls. The school is being supported by the Malala Fund, Yousafzai’s non-profit organization. According to the fund, the new school will welcome 200 girls aged 14 to 18. At the opening, Yousafzai gave a speech, …
Wanna see something cool? Head on over to NASA TV, you’ll see the last two daily briefings from the New Horizons/Pluto Missions. What will we see? The atmosphere (pardon the pun) is abuzz with excitement. There are even cool campaigns such as the “find your pluto time ” tool on Nasa’s website. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/plutotime/ Using this …
Schmid Elementary School (Chicago) students participated in a “college week” recently. Students from different classes presented on different colleges. One class chose Auburn University and uploaded a video to YouTube. In the video, students recited the Auburn creed, gave stats about Auburn enrollment, talked about history and traditions, and even sang the fight song.Elementary students …