Transit of Venus

The transit of Venus, seen from Earth as a small, dark disk crossing over the sun, is one of the rarest astronomical events to ever witness. If you missed it back in 2012 then chances are you’ll never see it again in your lifetime. In order for the transit to happen, Venus’ orbit has to align just right so that the planet is positioned exactly between the Earth and the sun. The transit has helped astronomers learn more about Venus’ atmosphere, the width of the sun, the size of the solar system, and

A transit of Venus occurs when the planet Venus passes in between the earth and the sun making it visible for us humans to see a small round disk moving slowly at a particularly slow rate across the sun. The components to this are the Transit of venus Transit’s such as the ones that have been viewed in 1874 and 2012 are very rare nowadays and will only occur every 243 years with a pair of transits that are 8 years apart from each other(1874 & 1882) (2004 & 2012), making it a very special occasion

experiencing, but for a little girl living who's living on Venus, this is exactly what is happening.The short story “All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury”, takes place on the planet Venus where everyday is like the next, full of rain. To the residents of Venus, this is normal, unless you just moved here five years ago. This is the case for Margot who has to deal with the torture of remembering life on Earth. Every seven years, the sun shines on Venus. For just two hour, the rain stops pouring and the sky

a day”, by Ray Bradbury, takes place in the underground city of the planet Venus where tunnels roamed instead of streets. The land above them was submerged with endless pouring rain and deadly jungles. The sight of the sun was a rare miracle that only happened once every seven years. The children spent all their life in the enclosed underground tunnels, well all except for one. Margot was the only child who came to Venus when she was four, and the biggest difference was that she still remembered

This short story All summer in a day is about this girl whose family moved to Venus from Earth that the sun only comes out every 7 years. Venus is 261 million kilometers and when you translate it to mile it is 162177881.174 and to you is that far from Earth and Venus is made of up of a central iron core and a rocky mantle, similar to the composition of Earth. Its atmosphere is mainly made up of carbon dioxide (96%) and nitrogen (3%), with small amounts of other gases. The short story All summer

as a science fiction author, claiming that his work was based on the fantastical and unreal. In the short story, “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, the planet Venus is being swamped by storms of rain and thunder, never ceasing. The constant pitter-patter becoming annoying after a while. Margot, a nine-year-old from Earth, came to Venus when she was four. There are scientists that predict when the is going to emerge from the constant rain. And their kids, their terrible kids, treat Margot with inequality

“All Summer In A Day” by Ray Bradbury is a short story about a girl named Margot and her experiences on the planet Venus. Margot moved to Venus from Earth when she was 4 years old, old enough to remember the sun. On Venus, the sun only comes out every 7 years for a couple hours, other than this, it’s always raining. The other children on this planet bullied Margot, they were mean to her because she could remember the sun, and they didn’t. One lesson the story suggests is that when you don’t think

Day” starts out on a rainy day on the planet Venus. Although it wasn’t just that day that was rainy, it’s been rainy every day for seven years. As there was a time long ago when the sun casted on this rainy planet, the children on Venus could not remember. Except for one, Margot a young girl that had just arrived from Earth four years ago. She remembers the warmth and brightness of the sun while she lived in Ohio with her family. At her new school on Venus, Margot shares her memories of the sun with

All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury is a science fiction story about a young girl who lives on Venus who learns to live without the sun. She wants to feel the sun, see the sun but it hasn’t come out in 7 years. In the beginning all of the children on Venus are crowded around the window hoping for the sun to come out, because they have never seen it, only Margot has. In the middle of the story, Margot gets bullied. They lock her in a closet before the teacher comes,because they thought she lied about

Could you envision a planet that sees no sun? In the story, “All Summer in a Day,” Ray Bradbury draws us in, as readers, with a story that takes place on the planet Venus. The environment of Venus is as described in this quote, “It had been raining for seven years; thousands upon thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with rain, with the gush and gush of water...fall of showers and the concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves come over the islands…”(Bradbury