Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Venus Experiment

We used butter to represent rock in our volcano experiment.  We discussed how rock starts as a solid, but is melted in the super heat of Venus.  It then erupts from one of the many volcanoes and spreads over the surface. Once it is on the surface it cools enough to turn back into solid rock. A silly, messy experiment, but I think we all got the point. 

Our solid rock

The rock liquefying under the surface of Venus

The volcano erupts

Liquid rock spreading on the surface

Checking out the cooled, hardened rock.

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