EarthKAM PRESENTATIO

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By: Maiya and Rachel

The Bahamas consist of 29 islands, 661 cays, and 2,387 islets. The Bahamas are northwest of Turkes and Caicos and southeast of Florida. The estimated population is 330,000 people. The Bahamas are geographically in the same island chain as Cuba, Hispaniola, And Turkes and Caicos. The small mammals that live on the islands are the raccoon and the hutia. The larger mammals are the wild donkeys, wild boar, and horses. The water animals besides fish are whales and dolphins. And a very popular bird is the flamingo.

THE BAHAMAHS

This city in the bay area is where I was born. It is connected to the Marin headlands by the Golden Gate Bridge. Lots of wildlife lives here in the water. There are even Great White sharks at the Farallon Islands which are a marine sanctuary.

San Francisco California

New York NEW YORK

city has 8,000,000 people living in it. The most populous city in America. The weather there is influenced by 2 major continental air masses a humid one from the southeast and a cold one from the northwest.

Communication satellites from NASA orbit approximately 25,000 miles above Earth’s surface.

Space shuttles can complete 16-17 orbits per day.

We learned…

Orbital Mechanics: Low Earth Orbit

: Space shuttles fly in a low Earth orbit, at only 100-300 miles from Earth’s surface. It takes around 90 minutes to finish an orbit. That’s 16 or 17 orbits a day! If you put the Earth as the size of a basketball the shuttle would be a thumbnails distance from Earth.

Orbital Mechanics: How a Shuttle Stays

In OrbitOnce the spacecraft is out of the atmosphere, the shuttle needs extra speed to keep it from falling to the ground. A- If it’s going fast enough gravity will keep it up. B- if the craft is going slow gravity will make it curve downward more than Earth’s curve. C- If the object is going right speed it will curve downward in the same curve as Earth’s. It is in a circular orbit. D-If the orbit is too fast it will curve less than Earth’s curve. It is in an elliptical orbit. Will gain altitude.

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