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This NASA fact sheet describes careers and training in atmospheric science and provides links to additional resources.
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This two-page fact sheet provides an overview of the Deep Impact Mission. The science objectives, implementation and description of the spacecraft are discussed.
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Comparing Europa to Earth's size and oceans, this resource tells the story of the Galileo spacecraft's exploration of Europa in the late 1990's, and explains why scientists believe there may be an ocean of water underneath Europa's icy crust.
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This
2-page
color
fact
sheet
briefly
describes
NASA?s
Kepler
mission,
its
instruments,
and
ground
system.
Also
included
are
tables
listing
the
instrument
parameters
and
the
major
institutions
involved.
Kepler
is
a
spaceborne
telescope
specifically
designed
to
survey
our
region
of
the
Milky
Way
galaxy
to
detect
and
characterize
hundreds
of
Earth-size
and
smaller
planets
in
or
near
the
habitable
zone.
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This storybook for children tells the story of the Sun, its relationship to Earth and to stars. The easy-to-understand text and graphics make it a useful classroom tool for younger students.
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This lithograph includes an artist?s rendition and description of a chance observation of a gamma-ray burst made by the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI)spacecraft that has shed new light on the mysterious source of these immense explosions.
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This resource offers a week of online curriculum with daily topics on the Sun, including Sun as a Star, the Sun Close Up, Solar Activity, Eclipses, and Careers organized for Solar Week 2011. Each day contains a game, an activity, topical questions, a related Life Science topic, teacher information, and an Ask the Scientist page.
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This four-page color brochure describes the science of NASA?s GLAST mission, as well as providing tables that summarize the instrumental parameters and the mission participants. Note: In 2008, the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) was renamed Fermi, for the physicist Enrico Fermi.
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This one-page lithograph describes the science of NASA?s GLAST mission and includes a student activity on the back. It is also available for download in PDF format. Note: In 2008, the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) was renamed Fermi, for the physicist Enrico Fermi.
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This is an image of Mars taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. You will also find information about the climate and weather conditions on Mars.
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