Space Exploration and Remote Sensing
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- Solar system exploration through satellites has greatly extended our knowledge of "local" history and conditions.
- Remote sensing is an important research tool.
- Earth-Orbiting Satellites do astronomy at different wavelengths.
- Standards
- This topic touches on California state standard 2d in 9th grade Earth science.
- Science Probe Text
- Science Probe II § 2.1 Exploring Space, 2.2 Getting into Space, and 2.3 Earth-Orbit Satellites
Activity Access Description S P II: Activity 2A Questions About Space Exploration:
Students start a journal around their own questions concerning space exploration and technology. To be continued throughout the unit. S P II: Activity 2C Looking at a Satellite Image Students are asked to examine a satellite image of the Earth's surface and make inferences about its usefulness in various contexts. - Activities & Lessons
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Activity Access Description - NASA/Spacelink
A teaching guide with activities that can be printed out in PDF format. Requires an Acrobat PDF reader. SEGway/NASM
Remote sensing: Examine LandSat images on line and use hints to determine what part of Earth is shown. -
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Students learn to interpret images of the planets from important space satellite missions. - NASA/Imagine the Universe
Students use a simulated 2-dimensional detector to create a model of a satellite image. Introduction to digital images, pixels and false color imaging. Were There Catastrophic Floods on Mars? NASA/JPL
Download teacher's guide in PDF. Planetary geology. Students examine and make studies of images of the Martian surface to determine whether channels near the Mars Requires a set of images available at the parent site (PDF). Parent page with many other Mars modules. More Universe at Your Fingertips
ActivityJ-12 Digital Images
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Students create a digital image of their name, and reproduce other images using digital concepts. They work on making a "four-color" digital image of the Sun from satellite data, and debrief on how the process worked. *Astronomical Society of the Pacific Ordering info$$ ** Science Education Gateway for teachers
- Resources
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Resources Access Description Space Links curriculum support
All linked from the Space Science Page. Loads of information and links to mission Web sites. The Space Science page can take you in a number of directions. Space.com Some commercial stuff, but lots of recent information and links to resources in various media. Jazzy topics like black holes, missions, launches, space astronomy. Students may have some trouble with embedded advertising, but good source for "current events" in space. - NASA/MSFC
NASA shuttle, space station, and unmanned missions