Space Game! Where in the Solar System is Destination Six?(day 3)

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Jane Peddicord

It’s not that Destination Six can talk. Really. It just sort of looks like it can, if you don’t have a very good telescope.

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Space Game! Where in the Solar System is Destination Six? (day 2)

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Jane Peddicord

Hey Space Bloggers!

Here’s your Day 2 limmer-iddle, straight from the iron heart, make that core, of Destination Six.

When you walked on my face I didn’t mind.

There were rocks that you needed to find.

But I don’t understand,

how one small step to land,

became one giant leap for your kind!

Well, Destination Six, that’s kind of a tough one to explain. (Where is Neil Armstrong when you need him?) Space Bloggers, click on leave a comment below, if you want to answer Destination Six.

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Space Game! Where in the Solar System is Destination Six? (day 1)

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Jane Peddicord

Hey Space Bloggers!

Are you ready to launch to our next mystery destination? I hope you’re all nodding your heads, because we are taking off…3…2…1…We have lift off! …Ho, hum…You know I can’t stand just waiting around on these long space flights, so — Wait a minute, can that be it?Already? Yes! And what a view! Space Bloggers, you’re in for a treat!

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Space Game! Where in the Solar System is Destination Five? And Thou Art…

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Jane Peddicord

Well done Archimedes, Bird of the Wind,

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Space Game! Wherefore Art Thou Destination Five? (day 4)

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Jane Peddicord

Twenty-seven! Count ’em!

Cordelia, Ophelia, Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Mab, Belinda, Perdita, Puck, Cupid, Miranda, Francisco, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon, Caliban, Stephano, Trinculo, Sycorax, Margaret, Prospero, Setebos, Ferdinand

Get a load of those names! Why do I suddenly feel like a curtain is about to rise? And I have the strangest urge to speak in Ole English. Forgive me, I would fain stop myself…

It is the East, and Juliet is the moon….well, one of them, anyway. Look hither at the five exalted ones.

Images Source: NOAA, Credit: NASA/JPL

Yon final apparition doth appear a fair jumble of cliffs and canyons. I am the very pink of curiosity!

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Space Game! Where in the Solar System is Destination Five? (day 3)

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Jane Peddicord

Hey Space Bloggers!

Finally, some privacy in this solar system! I’ve checked. There is no one besides us anywhere near Destination Five. The one and only spacecraft from Earth to pass this way came and went in 1986. We are absolutely, positively, utterly and completely alone. Yup, all alone…

Credit: Voyager 2 Team, NASA

Wait a minute. How could that be that be? I thought New Horizons was heading this way, no?

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Space Game! Where in the Solar System is Destination Five? (day 2)

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Jane Peddicord

Hey Space Bloggers! Here’s your traditional day 2 limmer-iddle!

I never went searching for fame,

just agreed to be part of this game.

Cuz I hate to complain,

but I wish you’d explain,

why some Earth kids make fun of my name!

Credit: NASA/JPL


 



Good luck! See you all tomorrow with the next clue. Of course, if you already know where we are, or have a question or something to add, be sure to leave a comment below.

Newcomers, you’re not too late! To check in, check out

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Space Game! Where in the Solar System is Destination Five? (day 1)

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Jane Peddicord

Hey Space Bloggers!

Ready for the next puzzling adventure? Hold on to your touch pads cuz we’re taking off! I’m afraid it’s a long way to Destination Five, so we’ll just have to be patient…yawn…finger drum…tra-la-la…Okay, that’s it! I can’t stand it any longer. I’m taking a look. First I’ll put the

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Space Game! Where in the Solar System is Destination Four? And the location is…

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Jane Peddicord

Congratulations to Aidoboy who wrote in way back on day 2, and to all you other Space Bloggers who figured out that the cotton candy cloud wrapped greenhouse in space, with active volcanoes (maybe) and foul air (definitely!), is our brilliant evening star and closest neighbor, the second planet from the sun…

VENUS!

Credit: Galileo Project, JPL, NASA

Now to fill in some of the gaps.

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Space Game! Where in the Solar System is Destination Four? (day 4)

Posted on April 24, 2011 by Jane Peddicord

Not again! Where does a human have to go for a little privacy in this solar system???

Well Space Bloggers, as you may have guessed, we’re not alone. Just like when we were on Mercury (Destination One), there’s a spaceship sharing our orbit. Only this one wasn’t sent by NASA.

Remember ESA? She skyped in from France on Day 1 to explain that strange view we were seeing. It turns out she knows so much about Destination Four because she’s had a ship in orbit here since April 2006! That’s 5 years! Wanna see? It’s right beneath us.

Credit: ESA (artist impression)

Hold on. We’re getting an urgent transmission.

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