Zip Malley
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Core Bio H / Current Event 10
3 May 2017
Overbye, Dennis. "Cassini’s Grand Finale: A Dive Between Saturn and Its Rings." The New York
Times. The New York Times, 21 Apr. 2017. Web. <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/science/cassini-nasa-saturn.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fspace&action=click&contentCollection=space®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0>.
I read the New York Times article titled “Cassini’s Grand Finale: A Dive Between Saturn and Its Rings” by Dennis Overbye for this week’s current event. This article tells the reader what the spacecraft will do in its last four months and gives a topline overview of Cassini’s achievements. Cassini, launched in 1997, arrived at Saturn, its destination, in July of 2004. Cassini was sent to Saturn to take pictures of the gas giant. From now until its demise, Cassini will fly by Saturn within its innermost ring approximately 22 times, once a week, before voluntarily crashing into the gas planet. This article explained some of Cassini’s greatest accomplishments, one of which includes racking up a total of over 4,000,000,000 space miles.
This article brings to light the commitment that it takes to explore the full depths of space from a personal and financial perspective. Cassini really showed us how little we are, and how little we know. “It made us freer and bigger by showing how little we know and how much more room there is to expand our thoughts and dreams. How little of nature’s repertoire we have even guessed at” (Overbye, 4). Over the last 13 years, Cassini is responsible for some of the most important findings including “the credit for discovering what many astronomers think is the most likely place to find evidence of life beyond Earth” (Overbye, 2), and “bragging rights for exploring Titan, perhaps the strangest moon in the solar system” (Overbye, 3).
Even though this article was well written and explained, it would have been interesting if the author, Dennis Overbye, would have given background information on Cassini and its goals. This article was practically a retirement send off for Casini, stating all of its past accomplishments.
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19 May, 2017
Overbye, Dennis. "Cassini’s Grand Finale: A Dive Between Saturn and Its Rings." The New York
Times. The New York Times, 21 Apr. 2017. Web. .
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My classmate, Dayan “Zip” Malley, wrote a fantastic review of the article “Cassini’s Grand Finale: A Dive Between Saturn and Its Rings.” The article discussed what will be facing the Cassini space probe in its last few months before self destruction. The best thing about Zip’s review is the quality of the writing. There are no grammatical issues, and the choice of wording is very good. Another thing that Zip does well in the article is including all the necessary information, while still managing to get to the point directly, without any excessive information, which would have detracted from the main facts. Finally, Zip also managed to link the article’s significance to us very nicely, talking about how it makes us feel so insignificant, compared to the great big universe that is all around us. This was very relatable, since I have felt similarly in the past.
As mentioned, Zip’s review was very well done, and the following criticisms are more of a formality for the rubric than anything else, but if Zip could improve on something, it would be the brevity of his final paragraph. It was a bit too short, missing a nice conclusion sentence. The simple way to fix that would have been to include one or two more sentences, wrapping up the review. Another thing Zip could have done is expand slightly on his claim that the article “brings to light the commitment that it takes to explore the full depths of space from a personal and financial perspective.” It would have been nice to understand what parts of the article discussed this.
Like Zip said in his review the topic of space exploration makes us see the world in a different perspective. It is fascinating to think how much there is out there, which we can still learn about. For most of our lives, we are fairly powerful creatures, and it is very humbling to take a step back and realize that, in the grand scheme of the universe, we are but specks.
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June 6 2017
Overbye, Dennis. "Cassini’s Grand Finale: A Dive Between Saturn and Its Rings." The New York Times. The New York Times, 21 Apr. 2017. Web.
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For this week’s current event review, I read Zip Malley’s report on "Cassini’s Grand Finale: A Dive Between Saturn and Its Rings." Zip did a decent job on the review that was precise and about a space probe and its final journey. He did a good job explaining and reviewing the article’s main points by addressing the probe’s accomplishments and final task. Zip introduced his article by speaking about the probe and the importance behind space exploration. He gave a fair amount of background on the probe and how it was able to receive and retrieve data from the planet. Although space traveling is fairly new and difficult to study across thousands of miles, Zip did a good job reporting on the probe and significance of studying other planets and our solar system. Zip used a good vocabulary which showed his understanding of the article. While he was analyzing the article in his review, he used the same terms found in the article and explained how scientists were able to receive the data and understand what the probe had accomplished. Also, Zip’s analysis was well done because his conclusion was carefully written, while giving good feedback towards the author of the article and areas of improvement.
Since he had written a short but great review, Zip could afford to improve in a few areas. He could have furthered the research and explained why given background information on Cassini and its goals. Although the author of his article refrained from discussing certain necessary topics of importance, Zip could have went the extra mile. Zip wrote a short second paragraph that needed more of his own analysis. The second paragraph contained three different quotes which outnumbered his two sentences, “ ‘It made us freer and bigger by showing how little we know and how much more room there is to expand our thoughts and dreams. How little of nature’s repertoire we have even guessed at’ (Overbye, 4). ‘The credit for discovering what many astronomers think is the most likely place to find evidence of life beyond Earth’ (Overbye, 2), and ‘bragging rights for exploring Titan, perhaps the strangest moon in the solar system” (Overbye, 3).” He did not have any spelling or grammatical issues, however in his writing he could have discussed more information about why he chose the article and Cassini’s accomplishments.
While reading Zip’s review, I realized the importance behind space travel. This review was interesting to read because I had forgotten that the US still had active probes that had been there for over a decade. Reading the review helped me to understand the growing need to understand life outside of Earth.
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Overbye, Dennis. "Cassini’s Grand Finale: A Dive Between Saturn and Its Rings." The New York
Times. The New York Times, 21 Apr. 2017. Web. .
For this week’s current events, I read Zip Malley’s report on "Cassini’s Grand Finale: A Dive Between Saturn and Its Rings." In general, I thought that Zip did a fair job describing the article that he reviewed. He also made certain points used in his review that are easy for the reader to understand. He explained all of the facts that he included, and made sure to keep it simple instead of including too much information. One example of this from the article includes “From now until its demise, Cassini will fly by Saturn within its innermost ring approximately 22 times, once a week, before voluntarily crashing into the gas planet.” Zip also included quotes that engages the reader and included a perspective from the writer himself: “the credit for discovering what many astronomers think is the most likely place to find evidence of life beyond Earth”. This quote really worked in further opinions of the space probe that he explained throughout his review. Another thing that really stood out about Zip’s article was the compelling conclusion that he wrote. Although it was very precise, it explained all the information needed and displayed a good sense of vocabulary towards writing the statements. I choose this article because I am very interested in different components of space travel, including that of which Zip choose to write about, including Spacecraft and space travel in general. I have always been very interested in this, as I even based various projects on it during middle school.
Although Zip is clearly a very good writer, there were a couple things that I noticed that he might have to tweak. For example, I feel as if he could use more sophisticated language when writing these current events. “Cassini was sent to Saturn to take pictures of the gas giant.” can be reworded with more advanced adjectives, creating a sentence such as - Cassini was initially sent to Saturn to capture photos of this gas giant. When doing this in future current events/writing in general, his sentences will be better structured and therefore leave more of an impact on the reader. Also, his conclusion paragraph was strong, but lacked a concluding sentence summarizing and describing the various topics covered in his review. This would really give him a strong finish as to the entire summary in general. By including this, I feel like his writing would be much stronger.
When I was reading Zip’s review, I made a connection between the importance of space travel and why we should continue to utilize this. In general, this helps us learn more about the environment that the earth is in and what implications can be produced from the discoveries made. There is so much more out there for us to learn about, and it is truly fascinating the discoveries in which we have already made. Overall, there is so much more out there, and earth is just a tiny component of the entirety of the universe.