A crew of two set sail this past summer on a raft made of plastic bottles and an old airplane fuselage. It took them 88 days to sail from California to Hawaii. The point of the junk raft was to crate awareness to the problem of plastic which is polluting our oceans. Go to this site to see photographs and read about their journey.

Learn about Great Garbage Patch with this cartoon:

Ask you parents to list three facts they grew up knowing about the moon. They might say they learned that the moon has little gravity, no atmosphere and no water. Well, times have changed and NASA has just announced that they found significant water on the moon! You may remember that back in October, scientists crashed a two-ton rocket and a sensing satellite named LCROSS(Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite),onto the moon. It was hoped that the KABOOM might kick up evidence of water. The experiment worked. NASA announced that they found evidence of about 26 gallons of water in the Cabeus crater(located at the moon's south pole).The water is in the form of ice and vapor. Finding water on the moon is a big deal. Water could be used by future astronauts for resupplying drinking water, and for helping to create rocket fuel. Studying the moon's water might also help scientist learn more about the history of our solar system.

Read lots of interesting facts about the moon at this link: