Tuesday, November 1, 2011

ISS

Check out the International Space Station website. The International Space Station is a habitable, artificial satellite in a low Earth orbit. The ISS serves as a research laboratory that has a microgravity environment in which crews conduct experiments in many fields including biology, human biology, physics, astronomy and meteorology. Use Simple Satellite Tracker to find out when the ISS and other satellites will be visible over your area. The ISS currently had three astronauts aboard. It orbits the earth between 173-286 miles above the Earth. The ISS travels ~17,227 mph, and orbits the Earth 15.7 times per day!! It was right on schedule and very bright when I saw it on Nov. 1st.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

I seen the ISS in the sky. xaviera

Anonymous said...

I seen it Mr.Sanderson floting in the sky sids brsyson

Anonymous said...

I saw the ISS. What was the bright light in the east? Morgan

Anonymous said...

i dident see it bailey

Scott Sanderson said...

Way to go guys! I saw it too! Thanks for going out to look, you guys are great science students!! It is hard to believe that there are 3 astronauts aboard ISS! Can you believe it was traveling over 17,000 mph!

Scott Sanderson said...

The very bright light in the east is the planet Jupiter.

Anonymous said...

i am whating for iss side bryson

Anonymous said...

Hey Mr.Sanderson its Nikki just see how you are doing tell all the teachers I said hi.