Tuesday 22 January 2019

EXPLORING EARTH AND MOON WITH GOOGLE


Task 1: Explore our beautiful home planet: Earth

·        Go to https://www.google.com/maps
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      Select Earth view by clicking Satellite at the lower left corner.
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     Search the following places one by one, zoom and pan, and take screenshots.
o   Amazon or Nile river
o   Mount Everest or K2
o   Sahara or Thar dessert
o   Daintree forest or Tropical Rainforest of Xishuangbanna
o   Greenland Island or New Guinea Island
o   Great Pyramid of Giza or Hanging Gardens of Babylon
o   Lonar crater lake
·        Attach screenshots and write about these places.

Task 2: Explore Moon- Earth’s own natural satellite

·        After exploring our lively planet explore Moon’s panoramas from Apollos missions, Go to https://www.google.com/moon/
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      Search the following lunar features, select them from search results, read the popup balloon and complete the below table. Attach screenshots.

Serial #
Feature
Feature Type
Size
Named for
1
Copernicus Crater




2
Mare Tranquillitatis




3
Walter crater





·        To explore the scientific experiments done when Mankind set foot on another world for the first time, follow below steps:

·        Click on Apollo 11 image in bottom, read the popup balloon and use these details to fill the given table.

Mission
Launched Date
Landed on Moon
Landing Site
Returned to Earth
Astronauts
Apollo 11











·        To see additional pictures of this mission, click on zoom in hyperlink in the popup balloon
·        Hover mouse on the pictures of Apollo 11 at the bottom to read their title.

·        Select the following images. Read the description in the popup balloon, write few lines and attach pictures (Right click the picture in the popup balloon and save it)

o   Contingency Sample
o   Solar Wind Collector
o   Bulk Samples
o   The Laser Ranging Retroreflector
o   The Passive Seismic Experiment
o   Crater Observation

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