JPL Education Resources

JPL Education Resources

• JPL Education resources
• NASA JPL Educator Resource Center
• Solar System Bead Distance Activity Description
  • Eyes on the Solar System - Solar System visualization software for multiple platforms

Planetary Photos

• Planetary Photo Album
  • Latest Images - Last week
  • Anaglyphs (red/blue 3-D images)

Mars Program

• Mars Research Program
  • Curiosity (Mars Science Laboratory)
  • Opportunity (Mars Exploration Rover)
  • Insight (Mars Lander)
  • Mars Bound (lessons)
  • Athlete (All-Terrain Hex-Limbed Extra-Terrestrial Explorer )

Earth Science Research

• Earth Science at JPL
  • SMAP Mission (Soil Moisture Active Passive)
  • OCO-2 (Orbiting Carbon Observatory)

Saturn

• Cassini - Huygens Mission (Saturn, Titan)

Comets and Asteroids

• Rosetta (Comet rendezvous)
• Near Earth Object Program (NEO)
• Asteroid Watch
• Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission
• Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) Asteroid Return Mission Study

Astrophysics

• Astronomy & Physics @ JPL

Exoplanets

• PlanetQuest
• Kepler Orrery
• Exoplanet iPhone/iPad app
• The Hubble Heritage Project: Hubble Space Telescope images

Engineering / Project Design

• Chief Project engineer
• Brian Muirhead, High Velocity Leadership book

Other Resources

Spot the International Space Station (and other bright satellites). Sightings can occur at dusk or dawn when the ground may be dark but the sun is still shining over the edge of Earth on the spacecraft high overhead. So it is dark where you stand but bright about 250 miles overhead where the station is orbiting.

Heavens Above:

Select your viewing location for detailed information on viewing ISS, Hubble and other satellites. Brightnesses are listed in astronomical magnitudes where lower numbers (especially negative numbers) are brighter. In dark skies the theoretical limit for being able to see stars is about 6th magnitude. Realistically it is hard to spot anything dimmer (higher) than 3.0. ISS can reach brighter than –3.0, the brightest thing in the night sky except for the moon (-12.7 when full) or Venus (-4.9).

http://www.heavens-above.com

Spot the Station:

NASA’s tool for spotting ISS. Can send you an email and/or text that a pass is upcoming.

http://spotthestation.nasa.gov

Space News and Information

Spaceflight Now:

An excellent source for current news. They have a “Launch Schedule” page of upcoming launches. They do realtime updates of countdown events too. It is also an excellent source of current aerospace, and occasionally astronomy, news.

http://www.spaceflightnow.com

NASA Spaceflight:

Not a NASA site, in spite of its name, but good for more technical news (for fellow geeks) especially about human spaceflight.

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com

Unmanned Spaceflight:

Prefer robots? A discussion board about robotic spaceflight. Can be pretty technical.

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com

The Space Review:

An online journal of space history, politics and book reviews. Contains a series of essays written at a popular reading level added each month.

http://www.thespacereview.com