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Earth and Weather
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CloudSat Poster. Poster front illustrates and describes types of high-, low-, and mid-altitude clouds. Poster back has article and activity related to Earth's water cycle, as well as a cloud identification quiz and a water cycle crossword puzzle.
Full-dimension .pdf of front.
8-1/2x11 printable .pdf of front.
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GOES/POES Cloud Poster. Poster front illustrates and describes types of high-, low-, and mid-altitude clouds. Poster back explains Earth's water cycle and the role of clouds in maintaining it and providing fresh (non-salty) water to land plants and animals. A crossword puzzle and cloud identification quiz reinforce the concepts.
Full-dimension .pdf of front.
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GOES/POES Poster. Poster front illustrates both the Geostationary Operational Environment Satellites (GOES) and the Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites (POES), and their functions and accomplishments. Back material includes two articles and activities on many of the different parameters meteorologists measure and terms they define in order to describe and predict the weather.
Full-dimension .pdf of front.
8-1/2x11 printable .pdf of front.
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GOES/POES Wild World of Weather Adventure Game. Download question cards here. A self-contained board game about all kinds of weather and the places it occurs. Besides the game instructions, includes two articles and activities on many of the different parameters meteorologists measure and terms they define in order to describe and predict the weather.
Full-dimension .pdf of front.
8-1/2x11 printable .pdf of front.
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Voyage on the High Seas: A Jason 1 Ocean Adventure. A self-contained board game about the oceans. Download game cards here, if needed. Also included on the poster back are articles on mapping the oceans using altimetry, how winds drive ocean currents (also an activity), an explanation of El Niño, and an ocean-related crossword puzzle.
Full-dimension .pdf of front.
8-1/2x11 printable .pdf of front.
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Stars and Galaxies
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GALEX Poster of "Shooting Star" Mira. Wide-format poster (rotated to vertical here) showing the star Mira in ultraviolet, as seen by the Galaxy Evolution Explorer. Although studied for centures, this 13-lighyt-year-long tail had never before been seen. Four panels on back tell about Mira, the image, and GALEX.
Full-dimension .pdf of front.
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GALEX M31 Poster. Poster front is an ultraviolet view of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), captured by the GALEX space telescope. Articles on the back of the poster explain how telescopes see back in time and why the night sky is black, in spite of 200 billion suns shining right here in the Milky Way galaxy. Activities include a GALEX crossword and wordfind based on the articles, as well as a creative writing activity.
Full-dimension .pdf of front.
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GALEX Helix Nebula Poster. Poster front is an ultraviolet view of the Helix Nebula, captured by the GALEX space telescope. The main article on the back of the poster explains star evolution in very simple terms (including the fate of our own Sun), and how a planetary nebula is formed. An additional article explains how we look far back in time as they look at very distant galaxies. A simple activity carries out the theme of judging the age of something by its appearance.
Full-dimension .pdf of front.
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Spitzer poster: Eta Carinae star forming region. Beautiful glowing pillars of dense gas and dust in this Spitzer infrared image clearly reveal areas where new stars are forming. Articles on back of poster explain about the image, about infrared light, and infrared astronomy. It also includes a classroom version of Sir Frederick Herschel's 1800 experiment in which he discovers invisible infrared light.
Full-dimension .pdf of front.
8-1/2x11 printable .pdf of front.
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Spitzer poster: Orion Nebula. Poster front is a composite infrared and visible light view of the beautiful nebula in Orion's sword. Articles on the back of the poster explain what was found in the image, introduces the electromagnetic spectrum and infrared light, and discusses the importance of infrared astronomy and putting telescopes in space above Earth's obscuring atmosphere.
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Spitzer Poster: Multiwavelength Andromeda Galaxy. Three images of the beautiful spiral Andromeda Galaxy demonstrate the discoveries scientists are making by observing galaxies in many different wavelengths of light. The top image is in visible light. The middle image is a composite of wavelengths that are emitted by stars and active star-forming regions. The bottom image is a composite of wavelengths that highlight the gas and dust in the galaxy. Herschel's discovery of infrared light and Ritter's discovery of ultraviolet light are both described as experiments to be done in the classroom.
Full-dimension .pdf of front.
8-1/2x11 printable .pdf of front.
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Spitzer litho: Galaxy M81
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Spitzer litho: Galaxy NGC300
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Spitzer litho: Galaxy NGC7129
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Spitzer litho: Trifid Nebula
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Galaxy Evolution Explorer litho: Helix Nebula
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Galaxy Evolution Explorer litho: M81 Galaxy
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Galaxy Evolution Explorer litho: NGC0362 Globular Cluster
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Galaxy Evolution Explorer litho: M31 (Andromeda) Galaxy
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Spitzer postcards: Set of four on planet-finding ( (download separately at left). Each postcard has an artist's rendering that represents a major finding of the Spitzer Space Telescope in its search for extra-solar planets. Extended captions on the back of each postcard explains the new planet or planet system findings.
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Galaxy Evolution Explorer postcards. Eleven postcards (download separately at left) on galaxies as seen in ultraviolet light by the GALEX spacecraft. Each postcard has as extended caption on the back explaining the image and what it reveals that was not known before.
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Spitzer bookmarks: Two "back-to-back" bookmarks with four Spitzer images of galaxies. Captions on bookmarks describe the images.
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Space Technology
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Space Technology 5 litho
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