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A poster that shows a visual comparison of Mars and Earth. The back contains panels that go into detail on Mars science and explorations. It contains eleven lessons and resources for teachers.
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Europa: Another Water World is display artwork that has been reformatted into PDF format. Comparing Europa to Earth's size and oceans, it 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 program allows educators to borrow meteorite samples and provides a teacher's guide with activities and a slide set to support lessons on the earliest history of the solar system and meteorite impacts on Earth. These educational materials may be borrowed as a package or the guide and/
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This interactive field trip features interviews with scientists and technicians who work in the Genesis cleanroom at NASA Johnson Space Center. The field trip includes an interactive diagram of the laboratory with photos of various areas. Video shows scientists donning cleanroom clothing, washing samples, and assembling sampling wafers onto the array frame of the Genesis probe.
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The
GLAST
Brochure
informs
the
public
about
the
Gamma-ray
Large
Area
Space
Telescope
mission.
It
describes
in
detail
the
science
that
GLAST
will
do
and
how
it
will
do
it.
The
description
includes
the
instruments,
background
information
on
gamma
ray
astronomy
and
detection
methods.
It
also
describes
current
thinking
about
active
galaxies,
gamma-ray
bursts,
solar
flares,
gamma-rays
from
dark
matter
...
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This is a fact sheet describing the GAVRT program. This educational program uses a 34-meter antenna for classroom radio astronomy observations via the Internet The GAVRT Project introduces students in grades elementry through high school to the process of science with the goal of improving science literacy among American students.
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In this activity, students work in teams to construct the components of the model and make presentations on the results of their effort.
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The Hubble Space Telescope Deep Field Lesson Package consists of four classroom activities, lithographs, and teachers guide. Students examine the Hubble Deep Field image and simulate the process astronomers use to count, classify, and identify objects in the image.
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A cohesive unit that develops the understanding that visible light is composed of a spectrum of colors of light from red to violet, that extends the concept of a spectrum to include non-visible light through discovery, and that develops tools and strategies for student inquiry.
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This lithograph uses images of the well-known constellation of Orion to illustrate how a common astronomical object appears in both visible light and in the infrared. The back of the lithograph tells the history of infrared light and explains the benefits of infrared astronomy.
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