Teddy Wardell
1/3/29
Core Bio
Current Event
Grossman, Lisa. “China Just Landed the First Spacecraft on the Moon's Farside.” Science
News, 3 Jan. 2019,
www.sciencenews.org/article/china-change4-first-spacecraft-lands-moon-farside.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/china-change4-first-spacecraft-lands-moon-farside
In the article “China just Landed the First Spacecraft on the Moon's Far Side” by Lisa Grossman it describes the Chang’e-4 lander and rover and how it just became the first spacecraft to land on the far side of the moon. The spacecraft landed on the moon at 9:26 p.m. Eastern time on January 2, according to an announcement from Chinese Officials. The spacecraft is part of a series of Chinese space missions named Chang’e This spacecraft is named after the Chinese goddess of the moon. A rover came out of this spacecraft an it explored different areas on the moon's surface. The rover was assigned to search around certain craters in the moon to find parts of the moon’s interior that could reveal details of its formation and early history. The moon always shows the same face to Earth and this impossible to communicate directly with spacecraft on the far side.
This article is very important to our society today because it shows how many other countries are getting much more involved in explorations to outer space. This very ambitious task that the Chinese Space Program is attempting to do could be very important to the history of the moon and give us a better understanding on how the moon was formed and why it orbits the earth. Also, this article gives us an idea on how it is possible to communicate from the other side of the moon to earth. The Chinese are said to create a Satellite that will be able to transfer signals from earth to the other side of the moon. This article gave a very interesting view on how the Chinese are investing more time and money into their space program.
Overall this article was very decent and interesting. The article was very straight forward and gets straight into the facts. For example, the author, Lisa Grossman, opens the article with, “China’s Chang’e-4 lander and rover just became the first spacecraft to land on the far side of the moon” (Grossman 1). This is very straightforward and gets the reader very engaged into the article. The author also wrote in a style that is very engaging and easy to read. This makes the reader want to finish the article quickly and helps make it more interesting. Some weaknesses in this article were that it was very brief and short. The article was straight to the point and did not give much background information or details. This problem could be fixed by using more sources and making the article longer. Overall, this article was very engaging and informative.
Teddy, when reading your review I found a lot of things that you did well. First off, your inclusion of key details such as the time and date when the moon landing occurred added a great amount of content to your review. “The spacecraft landed on the moon at 9:26 p.m. Eastern time on January 2, according to an announcement from Chinese Officials” Another thing that you did well was mentioning the reason this missions was launched. “The rover was assigned to search around certain craters in the moon to find parts of the moon’s interior that could reveal details of its formation and early history.” Another thing that you did well was mentioning why this article was important. This article is very important to our society today because it shows how many other countries are getting much more involved in explorations to outer space. These additions really helped make your article review more interesting.
ReplyDeleteAlthough you did a lot of things well, there were a few things that you could have done better. First off, re reading your review a few more times may be beneficial. I am mentioning this because of this line, “The moon always shows the same face to Earth and this impossible to communicate directly with spacecraft on the far side.” The use of “this impossible” should be changed to “this makes it impossible”. One other thing that could be improved would be limiting the use of “this article” or “the article”. Instead you could say, “this new information is important because…” or “Lisa Grossman gives us an idea on how it is possible to communicate from the other side of the moon.” These few changes will make your writing a lot better.
When reading your article I do have to say that I learned something. I was unaware that moon missions were still being carried out. I had always felt that there was more information that could be learned by traveling back to the moon. With these new missions to the moon we have another chance to learn more about how our universe was formed. Maybe new discoveries will one day help us get a better idea of how we got here.