edgar mueller, s painting are often the size of whole street. The artist creates illusions of depth and movement so convincing That viewers feel if they really could fall into the gent ice crevasse created at east pier in Dun Longhaire Irelands in 2009. The artist worked with assistants from sunset to sunrise for five days to 2690 sq ft (250 sq m) or about the same size as a tennis court . lnsect lilusion edger mueller and manfred stader created this vision of a giant butterfly rising out of a crack in the earth at an arts festival in Saskatchewans Canada from a different angle you can dearly see how the lilsion is created from painting that is is flat and stretched.This the of art is known as anamrophsis. The image works only when seen from a particular angle. if you viewed mueller's work from and other direction it would just look like paint on a pavement the image would appear distorted and flat. The illusion of depth requires great precision and after using a digital camera to carefully plan the correct angles Edgar draws chalk lines on the ground before adding layers of acrylic paint to complete the there dimensional image. from called book Ripley believe it or not
some bee are called cuckoo bees. like cuckoo birds they lay their eggs in other bee nests so they don't have have to do all the work of building a nest and feeding their young. There are almost 450 species of cuckoo.bee in North America. When bee go out searching for food they have to remember how to get back their nest as many as several kilometers away. Bees have small brain for example a Honey bees brain is about the size of a sesame seed and contains about on million neurons compared to the 100 billion neurons in a human brain. But they sure are smart. All bee have to have the nest and point to find flowers that will provide them with nectar and pollen. some bees only travel a several kilometers (or miles) So how do they find their way back. first bees memorize important landmarks (a particular plant or twig) near the nest. The bee dose this by flying in a figure eight pattern in front of the nest entrance. Gradually the bee flies in a bigger pattern going farther from the nest and higher memorizing landmarks . every afternoon in spring and summer you can see honey bees doing this in front of every healthy hive here. Beekeepers call it the orientation flight Next the bee uses the portion of the sun in relation to the nest entrance. Even when the sun is hidden by clouds and its position changes in the sky over the courser of the day and the season bees are able to use it as a compass. Don't you wish you could to that. If a bumble bee doesn't eat pollen or nectar for more than 40 minuter she will run out of energy to fly. from called book what's the buss keeping bees in flight. https://www.fablevisionlearning.com/mappingtheworldbyheart
This national geographic explorer in residence is fighting to save the world' s oceans one fish at a time. Picture this you'er diving off the coast of costa Rica when you look up to see 200 hammerhead sharks swimming above you later you slowly cruise through a school of some 100 Whitetip reef sharks before setting your gaze on a pod of giant whale sharks all in the same pocket of the pacific ocean. This is what Enric Sala a national geographic explorer in residenced on a recent dive trip of cocos Island a national park about 330 miles (530 km) from costa rica's mainland. As a marine ecologist enric travels the world studying the wold's oceans and working to save marine life. As amazing as some of those trips are enric has seen thingns that turned his career into his passion. He has seen sharks pierced with rusty steel hooks whales washed up on shores with their billies full of plastic and coral reefs dying off at alarming rate. Humans are destroying oncen life because of too much fishing pollution and climate change says enric but if we protect the ocean marine life can come back. Through his pristine seas project enric is hoping to save the oceans. He and his team are setting up marine protected Areas (Mpas) throughout the world. Lake national parks on land these are safe Square in the ocean where human activities like fishing are strictly regulated. So far the pristine seas project has helped to establish 19 marine reserves across the globe is spots like Russia and Chile still less then 5 percent of the the world's oceans are officially protected. but enric is hopeful the number will continue to increase as people become more and more aware of the desperate need to save the oceans and everything it them. The ocean is vital to our survival as it give us food more than half of the oxygen we breathe and many more wonderful things says enric. About 70 percent of earth surface is covered with water. In only there years we can see already more fish than before in ten year the abundance of fish inside a protected area is on average six time greater than outside everything comes back. call to action go in the ocean swim and snorkel. Or just go to any place where you can enjoy the natural world says enric. Take a walk through a forest explore a marsh or run through a praise spend time in nature and you 'll fall with it. The Mariana trench the deepest part of the ocean is deeper than mount Everest is tall. from called book national geographic kids almanac.
1. late this summer NASA will send perseverance a rover that's like a science lab on wheels to mars.an artist Illustration shows what the rover will look like on mars.
2. A plant is large body of rock gas and other material that travels around a star (like our sun).
3. Europa one of Jupiter's79 moons has a salty ice covered ocean that's almost 10 times deeper than Earth's ocean europa.
4. Earth is the only planet in our solar system not named for a Greek or Roman god or goddess the roman god Jupiter.
5. Neptune might have oceans of liquid diamond..
6. Jupiter is our solar system's biggest planet all 7 the other planets could fit inside it.
7. Uranus has only 2 seasons summer and winter each lasts 42 earth year.
8. The cloud on venues rain sulfuric acid.
9. Saturn has a a solid core about the size of earth
10. the earth moves around the sun at 67,000 miles an hour that more than 100 times the speed of the fastest jet.
11. because it's closest to the sun mercury has the shortest year of our solar system's planets about 88 earth day.
12.Th great red spot a hurricane like storm wider than 3 earth has been blowing on jupiter for centuries the great red spot.
13. The mars rove perseverance will help determine if life ever existed on mars and help to prepare the planet for human exploration.
14. our solar system has 8 rocky planets mercury Venus earth and mars plus gas giants Jupiter Saturn Uranus and Neptune.
15. Astronomers believe that a collision with another planet size object caused the extreme tilt of Uranus's axis.
16. Titan one of Saturns moons is larger than the plant mercury.
17. A billon earths could fit inside one of Saturn's thousands of rings.
18. Pluto used to be our solar System's ninth planet. But in 2006 scientists reclassified it as a dwarf planet it's too small to be a regular planet but too big to be just a rock.
19. Saturn is the lightest planet in our solar it world float if dropped in water.
20. Neptune travels around the sun in about 165 years.
21. The surface temperature on Venus is hot enough to melt lead.
22. mercury is only a little bigger than earth moon.
23. the word planet comes form the Greek word Planete meaning wanderer
24. Uranus is so far form the sun that it receives only 0.3 percent of the sunlights
that earth gets.
25. earth's name come from the middle english word ertha meaning ground.
26. Olympus mons the highest peak on mars is 3 time the size of mount Everest.
27. pieces of mars have been found on earth a volcano erupts in Ecuador a country in south America.
28. earth was create 4.5 billon year ago from a mass of dust and rock.
29. A crater on the surface of mercury is wide enough to fit the state of taxes.
30. The surface of Venus has more than 1,600 volcanoes.
I learned with friends on zoom about the panama canal up the boats go up and down 85 time from the west coast to the east coast and look to sail to world .
The scientist Daniel dick cool job paleontologist the Colombia a country is south America paleontologist Daniel dick left and Erin maxwell look for Ichhosaur in Colombia. we were examining eight foot long skeleton of and ichthyosaur a huge extinct marine reptile that lived during the time of dinosaurs It was my first day in the field so this big chance to impress the other scientists As I knelt to examine the skull I spotted an unusual bone that everyone else had missed excited to show my skills. I pulled out a hand held magnifying glass and began to describe it the bone might be proof that this animal is entirely new species. I felt my teacher tap me on the shoulder that mud she said . I was so ember rassed but science is about learning and now I'm really good at sporting the difference between mud and bone . from called book national geographic kids