Current event 4; Mars loops the loop!

Mars loops the loop
By: BBC
Oct 28, 2010
http://www.bbc.co.uk/solarsystem/sun_and_planets/mars#p006t1ks

Mars is the forth biggest plant circling the sun in the solar System. Mars got its name from a roman god he was the god of war. Mars has a nick name "Red Planet". Mars has similar seasonal cycle as earth. Smooth Borealis in the norther hemisphere covers 40% of the planet.  

Until the first flight by mars in 1965, by Mariner 4, a lot of people wondered if there was water on mars. They looked for water in light and dark patches, mostly in the polar latitudes which are by seas and continents. Out of all the planets Mars is most likely to harbor liquid, and harbor life. People think that mars had a large amount of water on it. 

Mars has two moon, Phobos and Deimos, these two are small and irregular. They might be asteroids, like in 5261 in Eureka. NASA thinks that in the southern polar ice caps have been receding. 

I think that mars is a cool planet and i first heard about it when i say the candy. I never new that mars had two moons and that mars used to have water, because i heard that there was never water and never will be water on mars. Other then mars i would like to learn about other planets as well. 

Current event 3= Ancient New Guinea settlers headed for the hills.

Ancient New Guinea settlers headed for the hills

By: G. Summerhayes

October 6, 2010

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/interest/id/2364/topic/Humans

In Papua New Guinea in the mountains archaeologists have found the most remarkable things. They have found stone tools plants remains, and this is in the early 49,000 years ago and people lived 2,000 meter or 1.2 miles above sea level. 50,000 years ago some type of human lived on what we call earth and lived in savannas, rain forests in southeastern Asia's land. 

They have figured out that they have crossed oceans on some kind of ocean craft or boat this was about 10,000 years ago. Archaeologists think early humans spread from Africa to Sahul along the cost and live at low altitudes. Some archaeologists thing are acting nomadic moving from place to place and then after a few years move back to the place were they started. They also found some evidence that they also lived at high altitudes. They say finding modern humans is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. They have used radio carbon to see the dates and they have found a part of a human that is 41,400 years old. They also have found sharp objects that they are guessing is used for spires or knifes to kill animals of to protect them selfs from predators.   

I think that this article is really interesting and that it will  help me with humanities and might help me with science because of the thing they say. But i really enjoyed reading and making an current event on it.