My capstone project is coming to an end. I got all my information, and now I really have it all put together. My capstone presentation is all done with my script 90% memorized, which is pretty good I particularly have my slides done and I just need a bit sort of more practice. My script definitely has been through a lot. It f started as a fairly short 6 slide script, or so. Then became a still short 8 slide presentation, then medium 10 slides, then super long 12 slides, then regular 13 slides, after cutting some parts off with Mrs. Cooper. Now the slides were a bit actually hard too with the slides. I kind of had a lot of trouble with what to do with the slides. They, for the most part, were tricky to figure out what to write on them to really help support my words. But I really pulled through in a major way. I actually think I’ve pretty basically good image support and it ‘ll definitely keep the audience interested, which actually is fairly significant. My timing is a bit off in a subtle way. I actually think it might be a lot.  my Slide show is basically 10 minutes and it’s supposed to only be six. but I think I’ll definitely pull through. I actually have a lot of practice to do but I definitely will make it in time. In all, I think I’m doing great in capstone and I will practice until I perfect it. Below is my script and I think is a particularly good one.

Slide 1 Have you ever looked at the night sky and wondered what else is beyond those twinkling stars? How can we see all this and learn so much? The answer is space technology. Telescopes have helped us see the wide variety in space. Rovers and probes helped explore our solar system. Rockets have let us experience being in space. Today I will be telling you all about how space technology has affected our knowledge of planetary science? .  

Slide 2 Planetary science is a study of planets moons and planetary systems. Basically the study of space. Planetary science is huge part of astronomy. We need planetary science to even think of one day terraforming a planet. In fact we need planetary science to even think about planets themselves!

Slide 3 Space technology is very important to our learning. Telescopes and satellites are a huge part of this technology. They see more of space and help us study the earth too. Have you texted a friend? Well the text you sent goes to a satellite and the satellite sends it to the other phone. In less then a second too! Satellites are also used for learning about the weather, and gps! Space technology is all around us!

Slide 4   Now Let’s go deeper into telescopes I’ll give you a brief give you a brief view of telescopes through the Ages Telescopes go way back to the early 1600s with gallello and his telescope. The First telescope. John kepler improved the magnification but the telescope was upside down! A while later Isaac Newton made the newtonian telescope which was the first reflector telescope. Even further towards the present nasa and esa launched the Hubble space telescope, which we still use today.

Slide 5 Now let’s zoom in on galileo galilei. Galileo was the first astronomer. He did not make the telescope but he was the first to aim it up at the sky. With that old telescope, he did do some amazing things. First of all, he discovered 4 moons of jupiter, that we now call the galilean moons. They were, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. These are the largest Jupiterian moons. Galeleo also discovered the rings of saturn, as on the screen.

Slide 6 Let’s zoom in on Hubble space telescope. The Hubble space telescope was  launched in 1990, had 5 repair missions and still used today. Hubble was launched into space to avoid the earth’s atmosphere, which distorts what we see.  Hubble is in space to avoid that. Hubble has helped us like no other telescope has. It showed us what we now call “The Hubble Deep Field.” Hubble has helped us look super deep into space. A Supernova Supernova 1987A gave off a huge radiation making rings of gas around light up letting hubble get a clear view of it,  seen the surface of pluto, a comet hitting jupiter making splotches in jupiter. Even a picture of a storm on saturn bigger than earth. Despite its age of about 30 years, it is one of the best telescopes we ever created! Even my interviewee Andrew Bundas, a astrophysicists agrees!

Slide 7 Now let’s go into rovers. Rovers study a planet by driving on a planet and then collecting data A great rover on Mars has helped us for many years. The curiosity rover it is well known and very helpful rover. It is a great help to NASA’s Mars study! Curiosity is not the only rover on Mars, there are plenty others too! Rovers are special pieces of technology that help study the terrestrial planets and their moons.  

Slide 8 Now Probes look at the planet from the outside, like satellites on earth!  There are probes on mars venus and mercury and many others. They don’t have to be studying a planet also. For example, Voyager 1 & 2!  Also Mariner 2 flew past venus and confirmed the planet was cold. Later maner 9 discovered the largest volcano in the solar system On mars. So telescopes aren’t the only helpful things!

Slide 9 The Hubble space telescope is great! It helps us so much.  But what do we do with Hubble’s information, not just Hubble all telescopes, rovers and probes? What we use that information toards is learning more! We just take that knowledge and use it towards more knowledge.

Slide 10  Hubble information is great but its getting old. The James Webb space telescope is the next generation of space technology and the successor of hubble. James Webb will be very ambitious as it will be 1 million miles from Earth, farther than the moon.  They sent it this far to get out of earth’s heat and light which can distract james webb from its mission. It’s very risky. If It fails as Andrew said “It will be a very expensive chunk of metal floating around space. So Hubble could be better in some ways but What do you think???

Slide 11 So I found out that space technology is very helpful and we will become more dependent on it in the future as we make it better and better. Our Space technology now will be a stepping stool to make space technology better and better. That’s what will happen forever always repeating… Forever.

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