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Above you will find a video of a shuttle launch into space. This will help introduce you to our topic, Escape Velocity.
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To help you understand escape velocity more, we've created a powerpoint presentation. And here are some notes to go along with the powerpoint. .

Now, we did some calculations concerning escape velocity. We calculated if the same escape velocity would be needed to escape from all the planets and the moon, or if things would be drastically different. It turns out that the biggest diffference is between Earth and the rest of the planets. Here's a Table with the calculations.

Normally: Earth :11180.0 m/s
 * Planet || Escape Velocity (m/s) || Escape Velocity (MPH) (relative to Earth) ||
 * Mercury || 0.0000004 || 0.000001 ||
 * Venus || 0.000001 || 0.000002 ||
 * Earth || 0.000001 || 0.000003 ||
 * Mars || 0.0000005 || 0.000001 ||
 * Jupiter || 0.000006 || 0.000001 ||
 * Saturn || 0.000004 || 0.000008 ||
 * Uranus || 0.000002 || 0.000005 ||
 * Neptune || 0.000002 || 0.000005 ||
 * Pluto || 0.0000003 || 0.0000006 ||
 * Moon || 0.00000008 || 0.0000002 ||