Sunlight and space travel

Сентябрь 15, 2022

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Sunlight and space travel

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2. Distances If you drive on a motorway at 70 miles per hour in one hour you
3. If we could keep on and on - - If you could drive to the Moon
4. Light and heat comes from the Sun It is a long way away ! 146 million
5. Light travels very, very fast! Guess how long it takes for light to come from the
6. It takes 8 minutes for light to reach us from the Sun! Light travels 300 000
7. Shadows Light travels in a straight line. If something gets in its path the light is
8. Shadows How do they form? Sun
9. We can make shadows ! - by blocking out the light. Changing positions varies the size
10. Day and Night A day + a night = 24 hours 365 of these makes 1
11. The Earth is a ball (or sphere) The Sun cannot shine on both sides of the
12. Day and night Daylight in the UK Light from the Sun Dark in China Dusk in
13. At midday here It is dawn in the USA It is dusk in India
14. As the Earth spins the position of the Sun varies. Morning – the sun rises -
15. Shadows move during the day Watch the shadow of the stick to tell the time like
16. The Sun appears to move across the sky as it moves shadows move. A stick in
17. The Solar Pyramid will act as a sundial
18. The seasons: the Sun provides light and heat but - winter is cold summer is warmer
19. Summer and winter In winter the Sun stays low in the sky. In summer the Sun
20. Summer and winter The earth is tipped as it spins Light and heat reach the Earth
21. The Moon The Moon
22. The Moon The Moon is not a source of light. Light from the Sun shines on
23. The Moon travels round the Earth Sunlight Earth no Moon is seen new Moon half MOON
24. Bad astronomy in films What is wrong with – the Moon looking the same for 3
25. The Moon The Moon is very much smaller than the Sun. But the Moon is very
26. Sometimes the Sun does not shine during the day. Even when it is not cloudy! Let
28. An eclipse of the Sun When the Moon stops the light from the Sun reaching the
30. An Eclipse of the Moon Full Moon: the Earth is between the Moon and the Sun.
31. What have we learned? (Sunlight takes 8 minutes to reach the Earth.) Shadows form when light
32. Space exploration Solar transit of the International Space Station and Space Shuttle Atlantis (50 minutes after
33. Larger! Space shuttle Space station
34. The girl who named Pluto In 1930, Pluto was discovered. Venetia Burney, aged 11, named it
35. New Horizons at Pluto (simulation) It travels past Jupiter at a speed of 21 km each
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Distances
If you drive on a motorway at 70 miles per hour
in

one hour you may get to Stafford.
Steady speed!
If you keep on driving after 3 hours you would reach London.
Steady speed - no stops!

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If we could keep on and on - -
If you

could drive to the Moon
at 70 miles per hour,
230,000 miles or about 400,000 km
it would take you 3400 hours,
or 140 days.

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Light and heat comes from the Sun
It is a long way

away !
146 million km or 93 million miles
If you could drive to the Sun at 70 miles per hour
it would take over 50 000 days.
= 150 years
– longer than we live !

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Light travels very, very fast!
Guess how long it takes for light

to
come from the SUN to the Earth.
8 years
8 days
8 hours
8 minutes

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It takes 8 minutes for light to reach us from the

Sun!

Light travels 300 000 kilometres through space every second!

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Shadows
Light travels in a straight line.
If something gets in its path

the light is blocked.
A shadow is formed.

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Shadows
How do they form?
Sun

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We can make shadows !
- by blocking out the light.
Changing positions

varies the size of the shadow.
If you are close to the lamp, the shadow is large.
If you are close to the screen, the shadow is smaller.

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Day and Night
A day + a night = 24 hours
365 of

these makes 1 year.
The Earth takes 1 year to orbit the Sun.
(What does ‘orbit’ mean?)

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The Earth is a ball (or sphere)
The Sun cannot shine on

both sides of the Earth at the same time
Some of the Earth is bright - day
Some is dark – night
The Earth spins so each part has day and night.

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Day and night
Daylight in the UK
Light from the Sun
Dark in China
Dusk

in India

Light

Dark

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At midday here
It is dawn in the USA
It is dusk in

India

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As the Earth spins the position of the Sun varies.
Morning –

the sun rises - it is light.
The Sun gets higher in the sky.
Then the Sun sinks and sets.

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Shadows move during the day
Watch the shadow of the stick
to tell

the time
like a sundial.

stick

6.00 pm

12.00 noon

6.00 am

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The Sun appears to move across the sky
as it moves shadows

move.
A stick in the ground has a shadow.
A sun dial uses this.
The solar pyramid is like a huge stick.
Its shadow moves to show the time.

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The Solar Pyramid will act as a sundial

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The seasons: the Sun provides light and heat but -
winter is

cold
summer is warmer
What causes this?

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Summer and winter
In winter the Sun stays low in the sky.
In

summer the Sun rises higher in the sky.

Winter

Summer

The horizon

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Summer and winter
The earth is tipped as it spins
Light and heat

reach the Earth at different angles in summer and winter
In winter the light and heat from the Sun is more spread out than during the Summer.
It feels colder
We can try an experiment.

Sun

Summer

Winter

Beam of light

Earth

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The Moon
The Moon

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The Moon
The Moon is not a source of light.
Light from the

Sun shines on the Moon. Some light is scattered so we see it on Earth.
The Moon takes about
28 days to move round the Earth.
It always shows Earth the same side.
The shape we see changes
during the 28 days- a lunar month.

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The Moon travels round the Earth
Sunlight
Earth
no Moon is seen
new Moon
half MOON

or first quarter

full Moon

last quarter

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Bad astronomy in films
What is wrong with –
the Moon looking the

same for 3 or 4 nights?
lots of stars visible at full Moon?
showing lots of stars out of the window of a brightly lit room?
the shadow line at Sun-rise looking sharp?

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The Moon
The Moon is very much smaller than the Sun.
But the

Moon is very much closer than the Sun.
They both look the same size in the sky.

eye

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Sometimes the Sun does not shine during the day.
Even when it

is not cloudy!
Let us play a game.
Shut one eye
Hold the Moon card so that you cannot see the Sun.

NASA

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An eclipse of the Sun
When the Moon stops the light from

the Sun reaching the Earth
We call it an eclipse.
During an eclipse, it goes dark in the middle of the day.
An eclipse of the Sun is rare and happens at a new Moon.

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An Eclipse of the Moon
Full Moon: the Earth is between the

Moon and the Sun.
Light gets to the Moon because they are not in line.
The Earth sometimes blocks out the sunlight from reaching the Moon.
Then we cannot see the Moon (in position 3).
This is an eclipse of the Moon.

sunlight

Earth’s shadow

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What have we learned? (Sunlight takes 8 minutes to reach the

Earth.)

Shadows form when light is blocked out.
Night is when no sunlight reaches us.
We can tell the time by shadows.
In winter the Sun is low in the sky.
The moon reflects light to the Earth.
Its shape changes because of shadows.
Eclipses happen when light is blocked out.
- all shadows!

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Space exploration
Solar transit
of the International Space Station and Space Shuttle Atlantis

(50 minutes after undocking from the ISS, before return to Earth)

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Larger!
Space shuttle
Space station

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The girl who named Pluto
In 1930, Pluto was discovered.
Venetia Burney,

aged 11, named it Pluto.
She was born in 1919 and, is the only person in the World who named a planet- although it is not classified as a planet now.
On 17 January 2006, NASA launched New Horizons, the first space mission to Pluto.
It will reach Pluto in July 2015

NASA

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