Day 4-5 – Solar System Walk/Ride

In the afternoon, Mom, Gregory, Nathan, Dad, and I, went out and biked some of a coastal trial along Cook Inlet. Along the trail (and some of 5th Avenue) there are scale models of the sun and planets of the solar system. Yesterday we went out and biked the trail up to Neptune. The Sun and four inner planets are located on 5th Avenue, and as we did not see those yesterday went out this morning and saw them. We did not go out to Pluto, but saw it this evening, as it is at the park where Uncle Chris and Aunt Shana got married. Altogether, we rode 14.6 miles yesterday.

And… here is the usual collage of photos. These are photos from yesterday; today's photos are below.

1. A view of brush, mud flats, and Cook Inlet.
2. Saturn close up
3. Uranus
4. At one place on the trail, we could view an airport, and several planes flew over while we watched.
5. Neptune
6. The entire signboard for Saturn
7. We saw two moose!

This morning, Mom took us kids out to see the Sun and inner planets. We walked along 5th Avenue and – surprise, surprise – I took pictures.

1. Mercury
2. Earth (these photos are not in order)
3. The Sun, with a three year old for scale.
4. Venus
5. The Sun was in a very nice park, with a lot of information about the sun, the solar system and space in general, and the solar system walk.
6. Mercury again – notice how small it is.

But, Mercury is not as small as pluto. Can you even see it? Please comment on my blog if you can't, and I will try to figure out a way to get you a more zoomed-in photo.

 

Although I saw both Mars and Jupiter, and read just about all of the Mars sign, I somehow [accidentally] managed not to get a picture of either planet.

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