A Mars a Day Helps You Work, Rest and Play!!!!

Hello It’s the Funny One here. I’m back to my planets again. Today is Mars. Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and is commonly referred to as the Red Planet because of its reddish appearance from Earth. It’s named after the Roman God of War, Mars. It’s the seventh largest planet in our solar system. The yellow-orange color of the surface is as a result of the presence of oxidized iron in the regolith. The pink-orange color of the sky is caused by extremely fine red dust that is floating in the thin atmosphere of Mars. Mars has two moons, Deimos and Phobos. NASA and its team of private contractors are “making excellent progress” about launching an unmanned test flight in 2017 in preparation for the real mission. Ancient clay deposits on Mars may not show that the Red Planet was originally a warm, wet place, as scientists have thought. Instead of needing liquid water to form, many of the 4-billion-year-old clays on Mars could have originated from cooling lava. Did you know that Mars has seasons like Earth. This is because of the tilt of the planet’s axis, at a similar angle to the tilt of the Earth’s axis. Also the sun appears about half the size on Mars as it does from Earth.

Funny One Visits Dundee

Today I didn’t have time to draw a funny picture as I went to Dundee for the day. We went to the cemetery to pay our respects to our dead relatives. There were signs on their gravestones that they were dangerous. They need to pinned into the ground, as they have become unstable due to the bad weather.

Later we went to see the Discovery ship. It was very interesting looking around it. It was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in Britain. It was Designed for Antartic research. The first mission was the British National Antarctic Expedition, which Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton had their first, successful journey to the Antarctic, known as the Discovery Expedition. The Discovery is the centrepiece of visitor attraction in Dundee. http://www.rrsdiscovery.com/index.php?pageID=129

I’m Your Venus – I’m Your Fire!

Hello, It’s the Funny One here. I’m doing the planets now but I’ll also be doing some random stuff on my blog (not everyday will be the same idea). Today’s picture is of Venus. I’m running away from the lightning. On June 5th, Venus passed directly between the Earth and the sun, and was seen as a small dot gliding slowly across the face of the sun. Historically, this rare alignment is how they measured the size of our solar system. I never saw that. You never see anything cool like that in Scotland. Anyways, because Venus and the Earth are almost the same size, you would actually weigh almost exact same on either planet. If you weighed 70 pounds (32 kg) on Earth, then you would weigh 63 pounds (29 kg ) on Venus. Venus is actually a dim world of very intense heat and volcanic activity. It’s very similar in structure and size to Earth. Venus’ thick, toxic atmosphere traps heat in a runaway “greenhouse effect.” The scorched planet has temperatures hot enough to melt even lead. The surface of Venus is a dry landscape with slab-like rocks and periodically refreshed by volcanism.

The Days Never End on Mercury

Hello, It’s the Funny One. As I’ve finished doing the glourious 50 states of America, I thought I’d do something different. I thought I’d go out of this world and draw the planets. The picture is of me on Mercury. It’s like a cartoon picture as anything is possible in cartoons.

What do we know about Mercury? Well, Mercury and Venus can each make appearances in Earth’s sky both as a morning star and an evening star because they are closer to the sun than the Earth. At times, Mercury can technically be regarded as a very bright object when viewed from Earth; but its proximity in the sky to the Sun makes it more difficult to see than Venus. Did you know that the sun appears 2 and a half times larger in Mercury’s sky compared to the Earth’s? Mercury has almost no atmosphere. It has a very small amount of it and it consists of minute quantities of Hydrogen, Oxygen, Sodium, Potassium and argon. A day on Mercury is equivalent to 176 Earth Days. Now that’s a long day! Even though Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, it’s not the warmest. (That’s Venus!) Mercury can actually be one of the coldest planets in the solar system. Mercury orbits around the sun in a wild non-circular orbit that takes it as close as 47 million km and as far as 70 million km from the Sun. Mercury was named after the Roman mythological messenger god. In Roman mythology, he was the god of commerce and rhetoric, who also acted as a messenger between humans and gods. His symbol is the caduceus which is a winged staff entwined with two serpents. Mercury is one of four terrestrial planets in the solar system, and has a rocky form like the Earth. It’s surface resembles the moon’s. The largest known crater is the Caloris Basin and it’s diameter is 1,550 km.

Gems Are a Funny One’s Best Friend

Hello Funny One here. Today’s state is North Carolina. In the pic, I am visiting The Gem Mountain. The great thing is that all the gems you find, you keep! Andie McDowell even mined there. There’s also the Emerald village, where you can take the underground tour of the historic Bon Ami Mine. You will learn all about the history of mining in the area, see the splashing Bon Ami Waterfall, and marvel at world-class collections of old mining and historical equipment. What a gem!

What about places to eat? There’s the Bentley’s on 27 where it has “magnificent panoramic skyline views and impeccable Service.” The Twisted Fork Restaurant and Bakery is a friendly restaurant that celebrates playing with food. It’s your plate so you should have it any way you like it. You can play with the possibilities and get the exact gourmet meal you want. I want a gooey caramel fudge brownie. Yummy!

The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is the biggest museum of its kind in the Southeast. The exhibits, programs and field experiences will provide you with opportunities to get up close and personal with science and nature. There are even giant whale skeletons that hang overhead in Coastal North Carolina. Cool! Whale-y good!

The Carolinas Aviation Museum has exhibits that are informative and educational. Follow aviation from its fascinating and interesting beginning to the most recent displays from Flight 1549 on the Hudson. Gonna fly now!!!!

Korner’s Folly has been dubbed “The Strangest House in America” Take a tour of this interesting house. There’s also a gift shop, too.