NASA JPL-Blog #6 Makayla Gallimore



   Nasa JPL Trip
   Blog #6 
   Makayla Gallimore 






Wow this trip was so cool!I am so beyond grateful that I got the opportunity to go to NASA JPL!!! AHHH! I could not chose one thing to talk about so I will discuss the various exhibits at JPL that sparked my interest. From the moment I landed foot on JPL from the moment we left I was so fascinated by how JPL has evolved into something so advanced in technology and the understanding of the world and planet we live on.  What I found most interesting and cool was the clean room. To my discovery the clean rom has about 10,000 particles in the room and has about 1/2 microns or smaller of air particles in the room. There are air filters that make sure the air is as clean as possible. Nasa does not want to contaminate anything on the planets they visit so they keep everything very sterile. Currently Nasa is working on the Mars  rover. This mission is set to be released in February 2020. The mission should take about 8 months. Nasa collaborates with Europe as a cost effective benefit because without help these missions would be super expensive. When the Mars rover is launched, this rover is said to hold 43 sample tubes. They are retrieving rock samples in these aluminum tubes. Then these samples will be taken back to earth to examine.  
       





Another interesting part of this trip was when we watched a movie about the planets and future missions JPL wants to accomplish. During the film they discussed how Venus is our sister planet and how the gravity on venus is so strong it can crush a tin can. This was frightening but super awesome. Next was Mars. Mars is half the size of earth with massive amounts of hydrogen. We are still trying to find any signs of life on this planet. Mars has a 16 mile high volcano and they discovered that Mars had a wet surface about 100 years ago. Then we learned about Jupiter. Jupiter consists of hydrogen and helium gas and it is so massive it can hold a lot of Earths. 












Lastly, the scariest and most anxiety ever felt was when we spoke with Susan who is a climate change specialist and our lovely host, about climate change and how it is effecting our planet. It was so hard to look at the Eyes on Earth app. This app allowed us to visually see the levels of CO2, carbon monoxide(from incomplete combustion from wildfires), sea level, wild fires, the damage of natural disasters and more. It turns out Alaska is losing around 70 billion tons of ice a year. Global warming is really hurting our planet. In Japan there was a huge earthquake of about 9.1. A tsunami then hit afterwards and ruined so much of Japan. I would be curious to further research why and Tsunamis can occur after huge earthquakes. Overall, this experience was incredible! I learned so much about our planet from this trip. JPL has some neat missions that they will be launching soon! I cannot wait to see if they actually find life on Mars. 











Citations 

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) - Space Mission and Science News, Videos and Images. (n.d.). Retrieved October 18, 2019, from https://www.jpl.nasa.gov.



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