Despite work I’ve managed to do some puzzling in the evenings. Going back to the office has actually been easier than expected.
I pulled all the pieces with text first, and I’ve put together most of the words. The remaining texts are all about moon(s), and I’m going to leave that for a while. The word moon appears so many times, and the names of the moons are oriented diagonally, not horizontally, so I’m going to do something else. I’ve now started pulling the edge pieces, I’ll do at least some of the edges next.
And since this is an educational puzzle, I’m definitely learning things. I don’t know why, but somehow I misremembered Mars was bigger than earth, but it’s actually quite a lot smaller. Also, Mars is the only planet in addition to earth where the temperature is tolerable for humans at least some of the time. The minimum temperature is bad (-153C/-243F), but at least the maximum temperature is quite pleasant (20C/68F). The other planets are more like never above -100C/-148F or never below 400C/752F. No wonder that colonization plans usually revolve around Mars. It’s also close, of course, as planets go. I find space travel fascinating, but would never want to go myself, I’m far too fond of my comfortable life.
In case it’s not obvious, I’m really enjoying this puzzle 🙂
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Looking good! The hubby and I were just having a conversation yesterday about which celestial bodies were stars, satellites, and planets. 🌖🌗🌘
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I mostly remember the discussion of whether Pluto counts as a planet or not- here it’s marked as a dwarf planet. I should probably read some recent book about space aimed at the general public. I think a lot more is known about space now than when we went to school.
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That’s definitely true! I feel old.
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I had the same misconception about Mars! It came from an astronomy book for children, evidently there was a typo. Later I bought two nicer astronomy books – one in school and another in university. The latter was published around the mid 00s and I think it still counts Pluto among planets, but it has so much more information that it becomes obvious that Pluto has nothing in common with planets. And now of course it’s the year 2021 and that book is obsolete too…
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Interesting, if the book was widely translated, that could be the reason, although I’m sure they told me the real figures in school. I actually bought a book with astronomy basics published by the Finnish Astronomical Society Ursa. They put out an updated edition every other year (this one is from 2020), so I should soon be pretty much up to date 🙂
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