Thursday, 14 February 2019

Stargazers

Spring 1 saw us prepare to become Space Cadets and learn what it is like to go into space, what you see and how you sleep and go to the toilet!

We have made prototype rockets powered by air and are busy improving our design and scaling it up, ready for launch day.

Here we are looking at how craters are made by using different sized rocks dropped from different heights and angles. The ejecta material pattern (the spray pattern) can be seen on the moon with a pair of binoculars.




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