Monday 3 October 2011

Current Event 2

Title:Mercury:The Little Planet Full of Surprise
Author:Irene Klotz
Source:Internet
Date:Thu September 29, 2011 02:00 PM ET
Summary:
This report is about how a space craft went to mercury to see what is happening on mercury it came back and gave more information. Mercury has a large iron core. Mercury seems to have created the same way as: Mars, Venus and earth. Mercury has immense lava flows that dumped miles of molten rock over gigantic territories of the planet. The Space Craft from NASA Show a new type of land form.
Volatile sources seem to be transforming from solid to gas. On Venus they find that volatile materials, such as potassium and sulphur which would be lost as temperatures spiked under either scenario are present on the planet today. There is also geological evidence for immense outpouring of lava that inundates the large areas of Mercury It is more then several miles deep. The rock was so hot it created channels that went on surface.

Paragraph 2:
1.How could it be good or bad for the society? It actually does not affect us people. This report had nothing to do with good and bad it was just a normal paragraph. 
2.What did you learn? I learned that this planet named Mercury is quite different the Earth. There is continuous lava flowing over half of the planet. It has resources and its core is made out of iron.
3.How did you find it? I like space and Discovery Channel. I was looking at the "Space" bar and found it. I thought it was pretty distinct. I have never done a Current Event about space.
4.Did it come from a reliable resource? Yes indeed it did, I can always count on Discovery  because its not the first time I use it. It always gives clear info.
Resource:   http://news.discovery.com/space/mercury-messenger-110929.htm1

4 comments:

  1. I really enjoyed reading your article and you had a lot of detail in your first paragraph. I really liked your second paragraph as well you had good questions and you also gave your opinions and I really liked that idea!

    Kaya

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  2. Alex, in your summary, please keep the first paragraph to between 4 to 8 sentences. Summarizing is an important skill to learn and practice. Your second paragraph should be a paragraph, not a numbered list of questions. Use the questions to help you write a paragraph. Please do this for your next post.

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  3. Hi Alex, I think that you chose a great article to write about because it was interesting because I like facts about planets.Also, I think you wrote a great summary on this article because it was really descriptive and interesting.:)

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  4. Great job!! Both of your paragraphs we written nicely and i hope you get a good grade!!!! :P Keep up the good work... :P

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