Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised - Robot Space Explorers - Phase 5

for Letters and Sounds Revised5 Rob Alcraft Robot Space Explorers

Written by Rob Alcraft Contents What is out there? 2 Adventure in deep space 3 Comet landing 8 Working on Mars 14 Robots in space 19 Glossary 20 Index 21 Robots exploring space 22 Robot Space Explorers

What is out there?

What are robot explorers learning about the worlds beyond Earth? robots have been launched space.

Many

into

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Adventure in deep space

The Voyager robots were launched nearly half a century ago. They are still flying through space now. Voyager 1 Voyager 2 sensors collect data cameras take pictures 3

The Voyagers have taken close-up pictures of planets. Jupiter This patch is a giant storm. 4

The Voyagers have sent data back to scientists on Earth. Voyager 1 flew very close to Saturn. It was able to study the planet’s rings. of dust and ice

rings

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Nothing has ventured further from Earth than the Voyagers. Voyager 1 Voyager 2 Sun 6

Voyager 1 took this picture of Earth from very far away. Earth Scientists need giant listening devices to capture data from the Voyagers. 7

Robot Space Explorers

Phonemes covered: /air/ are, ere /ar/ a, al /c/ ch /ch/ tch, ture /o/ a /oo/ oul, u /or/ a, al, au, oor /r/ wr /s/ sc, st /sh/ ch /ur/ ear, or /z/ ze

Stretch and challenge

What is out there? What are we learning from robot space explorers?

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