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New Google Earth Has Exciting Features for Teachers

Google has recently released a brand new version of Google Earth for both Chrome and Android. This new version has come with a slew of nifty features teachers can use for educational purposes with students in class. Following is a quick overview of the most fascinating features:

1. Voyager: Voyager is a showcase of interactive guided tours to help teachers and students virtually explore beautiful places from all around the globe. You can learn about wildlife with " Natural Treasures" from BBC Earth, or have a personal encounter with the 12 little monsters featured in Sesame Street's Girl Muppet Around the World. There are actually more than 50 immersive stories in Voyager, with more stories added every week.

2. "Feeling Lucky" Feature: This new feature enables users to visit unexpected places with a single click of a button. More than 20,000 different places are already curated; you simply roll the dice and see where you land. Once a user has landed on a point of interest, s/he can open a Knowledge Card to learn history and facts about that place and see more pictures of it. To add a dash of serendipity to one's travels, one can flip through the stack of cards and discover related places.

3. 3D Imagery: This new feature allows you to explore different parts of the world in 3D. Whether it's the Grand Canyon or Chateau de Chambord, you will get to easily create and share postcards of beautiful sceneries you come across and share them with others through a generated link.

4. This is Home: This is a special Voyager story that allows the user to take virtual journeys into traditional homes from cultures around the globe. The user is invited to step inside a Peruvian chuclla, a Bedouin tent and a Greenlandic Iloq, and meet the people who live there. Check back and visit more homes in the coming months.

5. Google Earth VR: With a virtual reality headset, the user can explore different parts of the world, including cities, landmarks and natural points of beauty. With Earth VR, the user can fly over a city, stand at the edge of a mountain, even soar into space. Google Earth VR is available now on Steam for the HTC Vive. Learn more on this site.

The video below offers more to learn about the new Google Earth:

About the Author

Richard Chang is associate editor of THE Journal. He can be reached at rchang@1105media.com.

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The Characteristics of the Planets

Did you know that most of our solar system, despite the many asteroids and planets in it, is actually empty space? But even though it's mainly empty space, there is still a lot of interesting stuff going on! The planets located in our solar system have their own quirks related to size, temperature, and rotation.

In this lesson, you'll learn more about some of these interesting characteristics so you have a better understanding of how the planets compare to one another.

Revolution and Rotation

If you were to take a stick, tie a string around it, and then the other end around a ball and spin it around, you'd see that the ball revolves around the stick. Revolution is the orbital motion of a celestial body around another celestial body or point in space.

Which of these do you think revolves around the other?

The moon around the Earth or

The Earth around the sun

Both, actually! When viewed from the north, nearly all of the moons in our solar system revolve in a counterclockwise motion around their respective planets, and all of the planets in our solar system revolve around the sun in a counterclockwise motion.

But there are some interesting quirks when it comes to the rotation of the planets revolving around the sun. Rotation is the movement of a celestial body on its axis. This is like taking a top and spinning it with your fingers. It won't revolve around another point, but it will spin, or rotate, on its axis.

While most of the planets rotate on their axes in a counterclockwise fashion, there are two notable exceptions. Venus rotates backwards, in a clockwise motion, while Uranus rotates on its side. In other words, its equator is basically perpendicular to its orbit! I think Venus just wants to be different, while Uranus is too lazy to get up and spin around upright.

Temperature, Mass, and Diameter

Anyhow, our solar system also has a lot of characteristics related to the sizes and temperatures of the planets in it. Let's get into some of the more fascinating ones. While Jupiter is 11 times larger in its diameter compared to Earth, Mars has a diameter roughly half that of Earth. Essentially, if you reduced Earth to the size of a grain of table salt, Mars would be half of one grain, while Jupiter would be the size of an apple seed.

In order from largest to smallest diameter relative to Earth, the planets in our solar system go as follows:

But don't get fooled by the size of a planet and its diameter. While Jupiter is only 11 times larger than the Earth by diameter, it's about 318 times more massive than Earth! Again, from most massive to least massive, relative to Earth, the planets are ordered like this:

There's no need to memorize the list in order. All you have to remember are the obvious things.

The four jovian planets, the gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, have the largest diameters and mass when compared to the four terrestrial planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. That's all I want you to know about that. But before I let you go, I do want to go over some other cool factoids related to the characteristics of our solar system.

Which planet is the hottest in our solar system? Is it:

Mercury, because it's the planet closest to our super-hot sun?

Jupiter, because the Great Red Spot is indicative of its super-hot temperature?

Mars, because its red color indicates it's burning up?

Another planet?

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11/12/2015 8:32PM

Astrophysicists have found what they describe as the closest Earth-sized exoplanet ever discovered. The finding could provide our most in-depth look yet at a world not so different from our own. WSJ's Monika Auger reports. Photo: Dana Berry

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