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Last photo of Mars – Opportunity Rover
After a 15-year mission, NASA lost its Opportunity rover (known as ‘Oppy’) in February 2018. However, they have just released its amazing last photography created from a panorama of shots on Mars. You can look at the new view of Mars using the NASA links (previous post) or via BBC Newsround which allows you to see Perseverance Valley and the edge of Endurance Crater and shows the surface of Mars in great detail.
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Finding out more about Mars and space technology… (Homework help)
If you want to find out more about Mars, follow this link to the NASA ‘Spaceplace’ (which has brief information on different planets) aimed at children. There are some images here to show you what Mars looks like. You can also click on links to other planets and get some great images of Earth from space. These images might be especially useful for anyone choosing the ‘view from a rocket’ homework option.
On another page there is also a lot of information about space technology and inventions to support space travel and communication which is very interesting. This part of the site also has games and activities to do with space.
If you want more challenge, there is a huge amount of information and some great images on the main NASA site. You can even zoom in on a kind of ‘Google maps’ for Mars! (Click on any of the images to follow the links.)
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Daniel Wallace, Hamish and the Gravity Burp
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The Shrinking of the Aral Sea
Here is a link to a video NASA have posted which shows how the Aral Sea (once the fourth largest internal sea in the world) has become smaller since the 1960s when the two the course of the two rivers that fed it were diverted to support the USSR cotton industry. The impact on the region’s physical and human geography has been huge, affecting the landscape, settlements and employment as well as health and migration. Since the construction of a dam, the northern lake has recovered some of its size, but the southern lake has continued to shrink. The Aral Sea is now about 10% of its original size in the 1960s. Much of the area is now known as The Aralkum Desert.
We looked at these NASA satellite images together in sequence, but this short video links them together and also provides a brief summary of what has happened in the area which is a useful summary of what we discussed if you want to look again or share it with your family.
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Global climate change
Here are the links to the NASA climate change website with graphics that you can investigate to show what is happening to sea ice, sea-level etc. You might like to share these with your family. It is clear why this is a serious problem that we need to try to understand and find ways to tackle… Your Eco-team ideas are a really good place for us to start.
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Maths Race
Here’s another game that our ‘testers’ thought was fun and would make practising multiplication facts (and other maths facts) more fun. Let me know if you find other free games that are good. 
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Archery maths game
This is the archery multiplication game that some of you asked for. I hope you have fun getting speedy with your tables! Perhaps you could post a comment with your high score for others to beat? (Make sure you only use your nickname.)
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Maths ‘space invaders’ game
This game allows you to practise quick maths facts including multiplication facts, decimals and fractions and many more. Can you find the answers and dodge the alien attack?!
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Arithmetic practice
This site offers online practice of the kinds of questions that are covered in the arithmetic paper for Year 6. You can choose the number of questions to have a go at and can take it at your own speed. Answers are given straight after you’ve had go at the question so you will know straight away what you need to work on.
Click on the image to go to the site.
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