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Unit 3: Planets.(Brief Article)
Background Information
When the Mars Environmental Survey spacecraft lands on Mars in 1997, it will be carrying a pack of Rockys, microrovers (robots) that look like toy dump trucks. These Rocky robots will chip at rocks with tiny picks, scoop tip the rock samples, and bring them home. Rockys will even carry around pint-sized seismometers and spectrometers that will bombard rocks with protons and analyze them, using the X rays that come bouncing out. NASA scientists aren't sure yet that Rockys can do the job. The cold Martian nights might crack their bodies and damage their circuits. There's still time, though, for scientists to correct this potential defect before launch.
Unit Concepts: Students learn about the benefits of space explorations of Mars and other planets and future human space colonies.
The activities listed below suggest ways of presenting and enriching the content and skills in Unit 3. The activities correspond to days 11 through 15 on the page 2 calendar matrix.
ALIENS AND EARTHLINGS
Ask students to compare real space explorations with those in science fiction stories such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Star Wars. Record responses on a chart.
MARS, THE RED PLANET
- SED but true. (Space Explorations Division of the University of Saskatchewan)
- Magazine article from: Saskatchewan Business Haiven, Judy December 1, 1989 700+ words
...for how much longer? It is apparent to all that something is wrong at SED. In 1986, SED (an acronym for the Space Explorations Division of the University of Saskatchewan) was shunted from public to private sector. But SED's new owner...
- Fuel Leak Cited As Cause Of Falcon 1 Failure.(Space Explorations Technology...
- Newspaper article from: Satellite News April 3, 2006 700+ words
A fuel leak shut down the main engine of Space Explorations Technology Corp.'s (SpaceX) Falcon 1 rocket, and the vehicle crashed less than a minute into its inaugural mission March...
- DARPA Clears Falcon 1 For Launch.(Defense Advanced Research Projects...
- Newspaper article from: Satellite News July 24, 2006 700+ words
...Projects Agency (DARPA) has approved the return of the Falcon 1 rocket to flight status, DARPA announced July 18. Space Explorations Technology Corp.'s (SpaceX) Falcon 1 rocket crashed a minute into its inaugural mission March 24. A government...
- MDA plays significant role in planning future global space explorations.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire February 17, 2009 700+ words
(From Canada Newswire) Byline: Marcus R. Fuller RICHMOND , BC, Feb. 17 /CNW/ - MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX: MDA), a provider of essential information solutions, announced today it has been selected to deliver concept design solutions to support planning of Canada's potential
- The grand tour; a traveler's guide to the solar system, 3d rev. ed.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: SciTech Book News December 1, 2005 700+ words
0761135472 The grand tour; a traveler's guide to the solar system, 3d rev. ed. Miller, Ron and William K. Hartmann Workman...paintings (including a holographic cover), shaped by recent space explorations, of celestial worlds large and small. This tour includes...
- Solar system velocity from muon flux anisotropy.
- Magazine article from: Apeiron Monstein, C. Wesley, J.P. April 1, 1996 700+ words
...o] is the absolute velocity of the solar system. The sea-level muon flux then depends...presented for the absolute velocity of the solar system [v.sub.o] as a function of the...direction. The observations yield a solar system velocity of [v.sub.o] = 359...
- The solar system's big bang: finding signs of a lost beginning.
- Magazine article from: Science News Cowen, Ron February 14, 2009 700+ words
...it comes to the early history of the solar system, planetary scientists must contend...system-wide amnesia. Although the solar system formed nearly 4.6 billion years ago...planets dramatically rearranged the outer solar system. The shifting planets freed rocky and...
- Outer limits: solar system at the fringe.(Cover Story)
- Magazine article from: Science News Cowen, Ron January 14, 2006 700+ words
...finding objects at the fringes of the solar system. In sky images spaced an hour apart...that it must have been in the outer solar system, far beyond Pluto. "I think I fell...far out that "there is nothing in the solar system today that could have ever made it...
- It's a big, busy solar system.(TEACHER'S toolkit)
- Magazine article from: Science Scope Seidel, David June 22, 2007 700+ words
...doubt that we live in a golden age of solar system exploration. Spacecraft have visited every planet in the solar system, numerous moons, and some asteroids...data from the extreme edge of the solar system where the Sun's influence yields...
- Solar System Update.
- Magazine article from: Science Scope Riddle, Bob April 1, 2006 700+ words
...to 1999, it was not unusual for solar system savvy students to ask their teacher...a member of a different group of solar system objects? Recent discoveries in the outermost parts of our solar system are not only allowing questions such...
Source: HighBeam Research, Unit 3: Planets.(Brief Article)