This module from the Space Place Web site allows students to learn the secret code spacecraft use to send images back from space. It introduces the language of computers and spacecraft. Binary and hexadecimal notations are explained. The Space Place is an educational NASA site for children and adults with activities and facts related to the exploration of space ? past, current and future. Some activities ... Full description.

This full color tri-fold brochure answers questions about high energy particles in space and how they are produced, when and where they occur, and how they can affect us. It also includes lists of web and print resources for further study. Full description.

This NASA special publication is an overview of the Saturn system, and the continued exploration by the Cassini spacecraft and the Huygens probe. Full description.

These short video clips show impact testing, deployment of NASA?s Deep Impact spacecraft after launch and flight of the spacecraft to encounter. They can be viewed and downloaded from the Web site. Full description.

In this interactive laboratory, you'll investigate for yourself how fast several galaxies are moving. Galaxies are so large, and so far away, that you could never see them move just by looking -- even if you looked for a whole lifetime through the most powerful telescope! Fortunately, there is a way to detect the motion of a galaxy: By examining the spectrum of light from a galaxy, you can determine ... Full description.

This resource includes a user guide and sample educator activities for the Telescopes In Education (TIE) program. TIE enables educators and students around the world to remotely control research-quality telescopes and CCD cameras from any computer in their classroom. In three to five minutes, celestial objects (galaxies, nebulae, star clusters, comets, the Moon, the Sun, etc.) can be downloaded to ... Full description.

This article describes the impact of the Hubble Space Telescope during the past 20 years, its many servicing missions, the public?s favorite images, the top science findings, and the man for whom the telescope is named. The Star Witness News articles are science content readings for upper elementary to middle school students. Current Hubble science content is presented at a grade-appropriate level ... Full description.

This lithograph introduces users to the fact that the Solar System has an interstellar boundary called the heliosphere. It includes an interactive activity. This lithograph supports a full-length planetarium show about the IBEX mission and the boundary of the Solar System. Each short activity/product helps to build awareness and engagement in the science and engineering aspects of the mission that ... Full description.

This resource includes pictures, diagrams and brief details about the four outer giant planets: Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn and Neptune. Full description.

In this activity, students get a feel for how astronomers measure the altitude, or height above the horizon, of a star or any object by building a simple sextant. Students can also build a sundial (using a project developed by Marshall's Space Academy). Full description.