Solar System Exploration
Olivia winnel
Pre 1900:
William Herschel
Full Name....DOB....DOD
Occupation
Williams occupation was astronomy.
Being an astronomer gave him the opportunity to discover many things in our solar system...........such as moons and planets
Discoveries and their dates
- Mimas in 1789..........Mimas is one of saturn's moons
- Uranus on the 13th of march 1781......... Uranus is the planet located between Saturn and Neptune
- Titania on the 11th of January 1787.......... titania is one of uranus' moons
- Enceladus on the 28th of August 1789........enceladus is one of saturns moons
- Oberon in 1787........is also one of uranus' moons
Technologies used
william herschel moved to england in 1757 where him and his sister caroline constructed and built telescopes to survey the night sky.William and his sister constructed more than four hundred telescopes......telescopes that he contructed was wat he used in discoveries.
his work helped us to know two moons of saturn, two moons of uranus and uranus itself
Post 1900
Objective
its objective/goal was to collect mars rock samples, look for life on mars, send back photographs of the land and send back anylisations
technologies used
rocket booster,heat protection, wheels, saterlites, and cameras with and wide range of veiw
disvovery
the mars rover found out that there was flowing water on mars
additional infomation
it is intresting that the mars rover is like a bugy with solar pannals so it can keep on looking for things that we need to find out