Vals Reflection Post Q4

1.) My skills as a blogger generally got better, obviously since I have never done a Blog before.

2.) I personally don't think that it is that much of a help, because I never used it, and the argument that if you are sick it helps is not really true because you can just ask someone and probably get a better answer.

3.) Well outside school a Blog could be used as a Vlog, just without a video, or if someone just has something to tell he can use it. Most companies have a Blog on which they release news. My favorite Blog is one of a video-gamer who reviews games after playing them through 100%, and gives them usable ratings.

4.) Overall, I do really believe that my writing got much better through blogging, not really the grammar but it helped a lot writing science, which obviously is a very common topic.

5.) The commenting helped a lot to get a more critical point of view, and to write more serious comments than e.g. on YouTube.

6.) To read through articles with more detail and to be more critical and accurate at some statements, and challenge their source.

Jupiter

Jupiter,

or also one of the Jovian planets (gas planets) in our solar system.

Name:

It got its name from the Roman god Jupiter, who also is Zeus in the Greek Mythology. He is the king of all the gods, the strongest, smartest, etc. that can be referred to Jupiter’s size as the biggest planet in our solar system. Also Jupiter is the son of Cronus (Saturn).

The sign stands for the Greek letter “zeta” or “Z” in English which stands for Zeus who is also known as Jupiter.

Discovery:

It was discovered by the Babylonians, but because Jupiter is visible to the naked eye on the night sky, it has been visible to everyone and everything.

Size:

• Diameter: 142,984 km. (11.2 times bigger than Earth’s)
• Mass: 1.9 x 10e27 (317 times more than Earth)
• Density: 1.326 g/cm³ (that means that in case you would put Jupiter in a huge bowl of water it would slowly sink.)

Rotation & Revolution:

Rotation: 9h 58m

Revolution: 11.78 Earth years.

Location:

• 5^th planet away from the sun
• 5.2 AU (777909600.9 km)

Land:

• Never solid (gas planet)
• The „sea is out of liquid hydrogen
• 71% hydrogen 24% helium
• About -110 degrees Celsius
• Core is probably solid iron (reason for its enormous magnetic field)

Atmosphere:

· 75% hydrogen 24% helium

· Clouds are out of crystal ammoniac

The Great Red Spot (GRS):

• Discovered in 17th century (350 years!!!)
• High pressured hurricane
• Average wind speed of about 640km/h.
• Twice as big as Earth
• Oval shaped
• 12000km x 25000km area
• more storms (e.g. Little Red Spot)

Rings:

Jupiter has one ring, which has 3-4 parts (Halo Ring, Main Ring, Gossamer Ring/s) depending on your opinion. Some scientists define the Gossamer Ring as one ring others split it up into the Amalthean Gossamer Ring and the Thebe Gossamer Ring. As shown in the picture there are 4 moons orbiting in the ring.

Moons:

• 63 moons (named after Zeus’s lovers)
• 4 Galilean moons (Io, Europa, Callisto, Ganymede)

Io	Europa	Callisto	Ganymede
Most active volcanic body in our solar system (100x more than Earths)	Has a 100km deep water-ocean under its surface.	Has very old craters, that give details about the earlier universe	Biggest moon in the solar system (bigger than Mercury)

Important Missions:

- Pioneer 10 (first to pass the Asteroid belt, Jupiter Flyby, still travelling)

- Pioneer 11 (2^nd to pass the Asteroid belt, Jupiter Flyby, helped to study the moons, magnetic field, atmosphere, broke but still travelling)

- Voyager 2 ( Jupiter Flyby, discovered the rings of Jupiter)

- Galileo (Jupiter orbiting mission, first to put a probe into an outer planets atmosphere, helped to observe the atmosphere Ingredients and then the Galilean Moons in more detail.

- JUNO (Launching in August this year, going to polar orbit Jupiter)

If you would like a copy of my notes they can be found here.

This video shows Jupiter, recorded by a webcam at the Telescope Dobson 6

Real Jupiter (Dobson 6)

Scribe Post: Feb.28th-Mar.4th

Science classes during the week of Feb.28th-March 6th

March 1st:

First our class has discussed what we were going to need for the finished Inherited Traits Lab of AISZ, which we have already started on Science Day. We should take care of the graph, and make it well organized. Don't forget to have a title for the graph, and don't forget the conclusion paragraph. You must have 5 UVs and 3 CVs.

The Extra-Credit Karyotype Activity is going to be due Thursday March 3rd. You wil have to have all the matching chromosome on an A4 peace of paper and you will have to tell Ms.D if the person is a male/female and if he/she has a mutation or not.

After that we started discussing our new project: The Ethics and Genetics Fish Bowl Discussion. We are supposed to have a team in which we will eighter support Pro or Con-arguments of the themes: Embryonic Stem Cells/Genetics testing on babies.

1.) The embryonic stem cells theme is about taking cells from embryos which could help to heal cancer or other yet not healed sicknesses. But ethnic groups are having problems with that because it might kill embryos which they call life. On the right you can see how embryonic stem cells are produced.

2.) The Genetics testing on babies is mainly about: if parents should be allowed to change the phenotypes (looking) of their unborn child. Some say yes, some no.

Also don't forget to make a bibliography of all your sources you have used (in APA-format).The discussion is going to be 20 minutes per theme and you will discuss on Tuesday 8th March. We took cards which then split us up into 4 groups. Then Ms. D allowed us to go to the computer-lab to get some more general knowledge and first facts for the rest of the class. The picture on the left is suppose to show if people should play around with a baby DNA.

March 3rd:

On this day our teams again went the whole block into the computer-lab to collect more data. And take out the best arguments of the articles we read.

March 5th:

We only had 45 minutes that day and were again allowed to stay in the computer-lab the whole block. People were summarizing their work and finishing up their bibliographies and were ready to discuss on Tuesday March 8th.

You might want to use that Link to Moodle for the directions of the discussion: HERE

Next scribe is Bryce!

Vals Reflection Post

My Blog in this quarter was not very good and I could have done much better if I'd have tried my best. My main-mistakes were that I haven't explained good enough and that I didn't label or hyperlink things. Otherwise my grammar/spelling was pretty good and I had a very organized Blog. Mainly I do really like the idea of the Blog in case someone would get sick, but I didn't. I enjoyed reading over others work to see their point of views of the specific things they were talking about. I don't really see a bad side in it and would like to continue the project.