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IESS_Exoplanet_Mission_Briefing.pdfThese slides were created using LM Notebook upon uploading curated resources, from the process of designing this unit.
Primary Textbooks & Curriculum Manuals
Palen, S., Kay, L., Smith, B., & Blumenthal, G. (2016). Planets beyond the Solar System: The transit method & transit spectroscopy. In 21st Century Astronomy (5th ed., pp. 218–223, 340–342). W. W. Norton & Company.Royal Observatory Greenwich. (n.d.). KS4 Radius and volume of exoplanets: Measuring planetary transit depth. National Maritime Museum & Planetarium Educational Resources.Classroom Courseware & Laboratory Handouts
Concord Consortium & National Geographic Society. (2026). Is there life in space? Activity 5: Looking for signs of life (Spectroscopy & biosignatures) [Teacher's guide]. High-Adventure Science. https://has.concord.orgInstitute of Earth and Space Science (IESS). (2026). Greetings from another solar system: Day 1 exoplanet candidate catalog & system profile cards (HD 15337, GJ 1132, EPIC 220674823, CoRoT-24) [Classroom lab dataset]. Unpublished manuscript, Astrophysics and Stellar Observation Laboratory.NASA & Space Mission Reference Frameworks
European Space Agency (ESA) & European Earth Observation Portal. (2021). Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission overview & transit photometry. eoPortal Directory. https://www.eoportalfed.orgOdenwald, S. (2012). Transit math: Light curves, transit depth, and exoplanet radius calculations [Problem set]. Space Math @ NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center. https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.govLab Paper
Lab Paper
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