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 |age= Secondary, Year 10.
 |content=Lesson 3 of a series of 6 entitled “Astronomy masterclass” (SC0018).
-|strategy=Session 3 is essentially aimed as an introduction to planetary geology, something not normally studied until degree level. It uses the narrative of the Voyager Probes journey to illustrate the vastness of the solar system and also the challenges of designing a spacecraft to travel that far. It ends with a discussion of the history of Mars, and how the differences. Between it and the Earth resulted in it loosing it's water and at atmosphere whereas we have kept ours.
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 |Learning Objectives=By the end of the session students should be able to:<br />• Appreciate the vast differences between the bodies in the solar system and some of the reasons for these differences,<br />• Understand why robots are used to explore these distant worlds,<br />• Understand how asteroid cratering can be used to date surfaces on rocky bodies and how is leads to evidence of water flows on mars and Europa.
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