Cosmic Journeys

COSMIC JOURNEYS

TO MERCURY AND VENUS

INDEX

1. DISTANCE
2. MERCURY
3. VENUS
4. HOTELS
5. PRICES

DISTANCE

Temperature

Mercury origin

Day 3

Space missions

Orbit and rotation

Schedule

MERCURY

Day 4

Size

Mercury's craters

Day 1

Interactive question

Composition

Day 2

MERCURY ORIGIN

• Named after the messager of the roman gods Mercury
• Mercury (god): Traveled really quickly
• Mercury (planet): Orbits quickly around the sun

SPACE MISSIONS

BepiColombo

MESSENGER

Mariner 10

An international mission comprised of two spacecraft.

The first spacecraft to orbit Mercury.

The first spacecraft sent to study Mercury.

SCHEDULE IN MERCURY

DAY 1

DAY 5

DAY 3

Race

Trampoline

Ice cream factory

DAY 2

DAY 4

Roller coaster

Digging

SIZE

• Smallest planet in our solar system
• Slightly larger than Earth's Moon
• A little more than 1/3 the width of Earth
• Sunlight 3.2 minutes from Sun to Mercury

DAY 1

• Cars race
• Prepared for the gravity and high temperatures.
• Winner: Vip dinner
• From 5pm to 8pm

COMPOSITION

• Similar to the Earth's Moon.
• Second densest planet
• Outer core=liquid metal
• Innermost core=solid=same size as the earth’s one.
• Thin exosphere composed mostly of oxygen, sodium, hydrogen, helium, and potassium.

DAY 2

• Dig to collect some minerals and metals.
• Take it to earth as a souvenir.
• From 6pm to 8 pm

TEMPERATURE

• Temperatures extremely hot and cold.
• Close to the Sun=day temperatures 430°C.
• No atmosphere to retain heat= night -180°C.
• Water ice at its north and south poles

DAY 3

• Ice cream factory
• Limited ice creams for the hole day.
• Create your own flavors
• All the toppings you can imagine.
• All day

ORBIT AND ROTATION

• Around the Sun every 88 days
• Completes one rotation every 59 Earth days.
• Rotation not accompanied by sunrise and sunset
• 1 Mercury day=176 Earth days

DAY 4

• Morning on roller coasters
• Afternoon on the hotel/on the roller coasters.
• Roller coasters=different heights and speeds.

MERCURY'S CRATERS

• Most cratered planet.
• Caused by numerous encounters with asteroids and comets.
• Craters named after famous writers and artists.

DAY 5

• Biggest mercury crater, Cloris
• Giant trampoline
• Jump/Throw mercury stones to propel you.
• From 11am to 1pm

Temperature

Venus origin

Day 3

Space missions

Orbit and rotation

Schedule

MERCURY

VENUS

Day 4

Size

Embedded content

Day 1

Interactive question

Composition

Day 2

VENUS ORIGIN

• Named for the ancient Roman goddess of love and beauty Venus=Aphrodite (ancient Greeks)
• Most features on Venus are named for women.
• It’s the only planet named after a female god.

SPACE MISSIONS

Akatsuki

Venus Express

Magellan

The first spacecraft to image the entire surface of Venus.

The first European spacecraft to orbit Venus.

Japan's first mission to explore Venus and the only active mission at Venus.

SCHEDULE IN VENUS

DAY 1

DAY 5

DAY 3

Surf

Lava boats

Aquatic park

DAY 2

DAY 4

Submarine

Jetpacks

SIZE

• Nearly as big around as Earth.
• Venus is the brightest object in the night sky after our own Moon.
• The ancients thought it was two objects: a morning star and an evening star.
• Venus has phases, just like our Moon (full, half, quarter, etc.)
• The complete cycle takes 584 days.

DAY 1

• Riding in boats on lava
• Boats prepared to withstand the lava
• Travelling at high speed.
• All day
• Sunrise/sunset

COMPOSITION

• Iron core enveloped by a hot-rock mantle
• The thinnest of skins forms a rocky, exterior crust.
• Thin skin changes form and erupts into volcanoes.
• The atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide with clouds composed of sulfuric acid.

DAY 2

• Dive with a submarine to the lava surfaces
• Fully prepared not to melt.
• From 12am to

TEMPERATURE

• Venus traps heat in a greenhouse effect
• Making it the hottest planet in our solar system (surface temperatures 464°C)
• Volcanoes and tectonic have erased most traces of the early surface of Venus.
• This planet has thousands of volcanoes.

DAY 3

• Water park
• Many pools and slides
• Highest slide=50 metres long.
• All day

ORBIT AND ROTATION

• Venus day=243 Earth
• Sunrise to sunset would take 117 Earth days
• Venus spins backward compared to Earth.
• No seasonal relief due to its very slight tilt.

DAY 4

• Route with jetpacks.
• Several laps at full speed
• Visit a lot of hidden caves and volcanoes.
• Accompanied by an instructor.
• From 4pm to 8pm

VOLCANOES

• It is the planet with the most volcanoes in the solar system.
• On Earth there are 1,500 known active volcanoes while Venus has over 1,600 known major volcanoes.

DAY 5

• Surf on different volcanoes.
• If don't know=surf courses
• If you know=go on your own.
• From 4 pm to 7 pm

CRATER COVE HOTEL

CELESTIAL HELL HOTEL

PRICES

VENUS

BOTH

PRICES

MERCURY

BOTH

HOTEL

7M$ (5 days)

7M$ (5 days)

13M$ (10 days)

ACTIVITIES

4M$ (5 act.)

4M$ (5 act.)

8M$ (10 act.)

STARSHIP

3M$ (roundtrip)

3M$ (roundtrip)

4M$ (roundtrip)

TOTAL

14M$

25M$

14M$

THANKS FOR CHOOSING COSMIC JOUNEYS!!

How long will it take?

EARTH-MERCURY

• Almost 5 months to reach mercury
• Speed of light= 3,2 minutes

EARTH-VENUS

• 4 months to reach venus
• Speed of light= 2,1 minutes

MERCURY-VENUS

• 3 months to reach venus
• Speed of light= 2 minutes