EXPLORING VENUS

Qisty 8-9L

This term project mission assigned me to be a space traveler. As a space

traveler, the mission wants me to visit other planet. To complete the mission, I
have to decide one best way to get to the planet through research, calculate
speed, calculate distance, and estimate how long the spacecraft takes and find
out how far away the planet is. I was also given a task to create a 3D model of
the planet. My goals are the project could improve my research and my math
skills and also my knowledge about the solar system, increase my interest in
math and science, and could add some knowledge to others about the planet
that were going to visit.
As the mission said, I have to visit other planet. I chose to visit Venus.
Venus is the 2nd planet from Sun.Venus orbits at an average distance of 108
million km from the Sun and taking almost 225 Earth days to complete one
revolution. Venus has strange characteristics. Its actually rotating backwards
from other planets. All of the planets rotate counter-clockwise, but Venus turns
clockwise on its axis. A day in Venus last 243 Earth days, which longer than its
revolution. Venus has the radius of 6,052 km (which is 95% the size of Earth).
Venus mass is 4.87 x

1024

kg (82% the mass of Earth) and its volume is about

86% the volume of Earth.

From the size, Venus looks similar to Earth but actually they are very
different. The temperature on the surface of Venus is 462 degree Celsius. The
atmospheric pressure on its surface is 92 times Earth pressure and the
atmosphere is composed almost entirely of carbon dioxide (97%). Venus has no
water on its surface and its covered in smooth volcanic plains which is dotted
with extinct volcanic peaks and craters that estimated by the scientists some
event resurfaced Venus between 300-500 million years ago wiping out the old
impact craters and volcanoes.

Venus and Earth are very similar in size, but not same either. Earth is
1.228 times bigger and Sun is 400,000 times bigger than Venus. The distance
from Earth to Sun is 1.4 times farther than Venus to Sun.
Real life experience that is almost the same with the project is when I go
to school. The length of the road that I take is distance. How fast my car is
moving is the speed. And how long that I take to arrive at school is the time. If the
situation is compared, Earth to Venus is 8.4 x

106

farther than the distance

from my house to school.

The focus question that must be answered at the end of the project is
how can I express the magnitude or size of Venus through the use of math?.
My hypothesis is to express the size of Venus I need radicals, exponent,
scientific notation, scale, and ratio.
After finishing the project, I can make a conclusion that space travelers
must master math to travel around planets because theyre dealing with numbers
and science. I expressed the magnitude of an object through the use of math by
understanding math itself and find a way to make it interested so I enjoyed it and
made correct calculations and good product. I used scientific notation in
expressing the large sizes and distances of planets, scale and ratio to comparing
and contrasting the planets and convert the planets into smaller sizes and
distances, and I used number operation in finding the distances, time, speed or
velocity of the spacecraft.