September 2008 Education Update
NASA Earth and Space Science Education E-News
September 2008
http://nasascience.nasa.gov/educators/earth-and-space-science-education-e-news
This monthly broadcast includes upcoming educational programs, events, opportunities and the latest resources from NASA's Science Mission Directorate.
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(1) Afterschool Universe – Training Sessions
(2) NASA Sponsors Odyssey of the Mind
(3) Send Your Name into Space
(4) Free Global Climate Change Course for Informal Educators
(5) EPO’s Chronicles – New Weekly Web Comic
(6) Returning in September: Real-World Weekly Space Math Problems
(7) NASA Astronaut Ready to Answer Your Questions from Space
(8) Journey to the Bottom of the World
(9) Great Planet Debate – Listen to Panel Discussions
(10) Monthly NASA Hot Topics and Featured Objects for IYA 2009
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EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
(11) Servicing Hubble
(12) NASA Edge Hubble Vodcast
(13) New Earth and Space Science Educational Materials Available at NASA.gov
(14) New Web Resource Guide on Women in Astronomy
(15) Sally Ride Climate Conference – Presentations Available
(16) Climate Time Machine
(17) NASA Earth Observatory Feature Article: Devastating Drought
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SCIENCE NEWS
(18) First Light for the Fermi Space Telescope
(19) NASA’S Mars Rover Opportunity Climbing out of Victoria Crater
(20) Strange Clouds at the Edge of Space
(21) 2007 Hurricane Forecasts Took Blow from Winds and Saharan Dry, Dusty Air
(22) Living With a Star
(23) The Realm of Earthworms: NASA Gets Down to the Nitty-Gritty
(24) Phoenix Microscope Takes First Image of Martian Dust Particle
(25) Hubble Unveils Colorful Start Birth Region on 100,000th Orbit
(26) NASA’s LCROSS Probe Will Deliberately Crash into the Moon
(27) A Brief History of Solar Sails
(28) NASA Spacecraft Confirms Martian Water, Mission Extended
(29) NASA Tests Moon Imaging Spacecraft at Goddard
(30) NASA Confirms Liquid Lake on Saturn Moon
(31) Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason 2 Begins Mapping Oceans
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CALENDAR
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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UPCOMING PROGRAMS/EVENTS [Top]
(1) AFTERSCHOOL UNIVERSE – TRAINING SESSIONS
Are you an out-of-school-time program provider looking to include engaging and high-quality science programming? Afterschool Universe is a hands-on astronomy program targeted at middle school children out-of-school-time settings. It explores basic astronomy concepts through hands-on activities and focuses on the Universe outside the solar system.
Information sessions and training workshops are being held at various locations across the country. Two-day intensive trainings are also held periodically at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. These trainings allow program leaders who are unfamiliar with the content to become comfortable leading the sessions.
Upcoming training workshops include Kennedy Space Center in Florida Oct. 1-2 and workshops in New York State through a partnership with the Department of Astronomy at Cornell University. The project will also be presented at the Sept. 17-19, Science and Technology in Out-of-School Time conference in Chicago. For more information, visit: http://universe.nasa.gov/afterschool.
(2) NASA SPONSORS ODYSSEY OF THE MIND
For the 9th time, NASA's Earth Observing System Project Science Office is sponsoring an Odyssey of the Mind Long Term Problem — Earth Trek. This problem requires teams to design and build a small vehicle that will visit four locations. The locations will be different places within one or more team-determined environments. Each time the vehicle leaves a location it will look different in appearance, and after leaving one of the locations it will appear to be a group of vehicles that are traveling together. The team's performance will incorporate the visits to the locations, the environments, and the changes in appearance of the vehicle.
Odyssey of the Mind is an international educational program that provides creative problem-solving opportunities for students from kindergarten through college. For more information, including team registration and practice problems, visit: http://www.odysseyofthemind.com/.
(3) Send Your Name into Space
The Kepler Mission offers an opportunity to send your name into space on board the spacecraft, which launches in the spring of 2009. The mission will search for Earth-like planets around distant stars and is the first NASA mission capable of finding habitable worlds. Participants are invited to contribute their opinions about the significance of searching for other worlds (up to 500 words). The names and statements will be sent to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum as an historic record of public opinion about the search for other worlds. To send your name into space with Kepler, go to: http://namesinspace.seti.org/.
Name in Space is an activity in association with the 2009 International Year of Astronomy (http://astronomy2009.nasa.gov), as well as in recognition of the 400th anniversary of Kepler's publication of his first two laws of planetary motion.
(4) FREE Global Climate Change COURSE FOR INFORMAL EDUCATORS
“Global Climate Change and Informal Earth System Science” is an online, 10-week graduate course designed to provide professional development for the informal Earth system science education community. The first module, “Global Climate Change”, defines the topic and discusses recent scientific study on global climate change. The second module, “Earth System Science in Your Backyard” provides the tools for creating in-house, inquiry-based Earth science education products focusing on the participants’ local geology and existing collections/exhibits/programming. This course will be asynchronous and conducted entirely online.
As a final project, participants will design or update programming, an exhibit, or other resources at their organization that reflects the course content. . Participants’ employing venue will receive a mini-grant for $500 for each staff person (max. of two per institution) who successfully completes the course, to be used toward implementation of his/her project.
To enroll, please complete an application for status as a non-degree graduate student and submit a transcript (see http://www.oneonta.edu/academics/conted/NDG.htm). Participants will also need to register for the course via the Registrar's Web site at https://webservices.oneonta.edu/. Please contact Carlyn Buckler for further information at: csb36@cornell.edu.
This course is part of the NASA and NSF-funded Earth System Science Education Alliance (http://esseacourses.strategies.org).
(5) EPO’S CHRONICLES – NEW WEEKLY WEB COMIC
In conjunction with the GLAST launch, Sonoma State University has premiered a new educational Web comic, entitled "Epo's Chronicles." The guiding concept behind the project is developing an engaging storyline with fictional characters that teaches real science both to students and science enthusiasts of all ages. This weekly Web comic follows the adventures of Epo, a sentient spaceship/observatory, in the distant future. Alkina, a humanoid alien, joins Epo as they quest to regain their memories and learn science along the way. The first series of 'eposodes' focuses on galaxies and is available in English, French and Spanish. New eposodes appear each Monday, read the most recent eposode at: http://epo.sonoma.edu/EposChronicles/.
Additionally, there is a special GLAST launch ‘eposode’ available at: http://epo.sonoma.edu/EposChronicles/?cat=16&lang=en.
(6) Returning In SEPTEMBER: Real-World WEEKLY Space Math Problems
September begins the 5th year of the Space Math @ NASA resource, which features a Space Math Weekly Problem to thousands of teachers and students nationwide. The problems cover all areas of astronomy, astrophysics and solar research, at math levels above grade 3. Visit http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov to see the current week's posting, and previous week's offerings. New problems will be posted for the current school year starting Sept. 9. Also provided at the Web site are books that compile the hundreds of math problems into convenient topic areas from black holes to image scaling, and annual collections of previous-years problems, all in PDF format. Convenient listings of individual problems by grade group, math and science topic are also provided, along with the NASA mission whose data were used.
To join the listserve, email Dr. Sten Odenwald at sten.f.odenwald@nasa.gov with 'Join Space Math' in the subject line.
Watch this E-News for details on upcoming interactive teacher Webinars this fall for the space math problems.
(7) NASA ASTRONAUT READY TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS FROM SPACE
Flying 220 miles above the Earth aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Greg Chamitoff is ready to take your questions. Chamitoff is a flight engineer for the Expedition 17 mission. He flew to the station aboard the space shuttle Discovery in June and will return to Earth aboard shuttle Endeavour in November.
The public can now submit inquiries to Chamitoff and get answers direct from space on NASA's Web site. Mission Control will transmit the questions to Chamitoff weekly. He will answer as many as his schedule will allow. To submit a question, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ask. Check back periodically for the transcript and audio clips of the astronaut's answers.
(8) JOURNEY TO THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD
This Aug. 8 1-hour Webinar featuring Dr. Lucy McFadden's search for meteorites during the Antarctic summer is now available online. Go to http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/videos.asp and scroll down to the section on Interviews/Podcasts with Dawn Scientists.
(9) GREAT PLANET DEBATE – LISTEN TO PANEL DISCUSSIONS
This summer at the Great Planet Debate conference, top scientists and educators explored the question: What is a planet? They discussed and debated the processes that lead to planet formation and the characteristics and criteria used to define and categorize them. You may listen to the conference panel discussions online now. Topics include, how formation issues and physical characteristics inform planet definitions, and planet classification schemes and the role of the Great Planet Debate in science and education.
http://gpd.jhuapl.edu/debate/index.php.
The video of a public debate between Dr. Mark Sykes of the Planetary Science Institute and Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson of the American Museum of Natural History will be available on the Web site soon.
http://gpd.jhuapl.edu/index.php.
A short video on this topic – “What is a Planet,” is also available for downloading at http://nasascience.nasa.gov/images/animations/what_is_a_planet_nonCC.mov/view.
(10) Monthly NASA Hot Topics and Featured Objects for IYA 2009
The vision of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 is to help the citizens of the world rediscover their place in the Universe through the daytime and nighttime sky, and thereby engage a personal sense of wonder and discovery. During each month of the IYA, NASA will highlight some of its key space science missions, space science discoveries, and night-sky wonders that you can discover with your own observations and explorations, and we'll connect you to related NASA resources and events. Monthly topics and celestial objects are summarized at http://astronomy2009.nasa.gov/news.htm.
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EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES [Top]
(11) SERVICING HUBBLE
For 18 years, Hubble has been orbiting Earth and helping scientists understand intricate secrets of the universe. After a “lifetime” of service to science and astronomy, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope needs servicing itself. Read more about NASA's upcoming Hubble servicing mission on the NASA portal at: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/servicing-hubble.html.
(12) NASA EDGE HUBBLE VODCAST
NASA EDGE: Last Mission to Hubble includes a Hubble trivia quiz, an inside look at Hubble engineering challenges from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and tons of pre-quarantine interviews with the Astronaut Crew from NASA Johnson Space Center. Download the Vodcast or read the transcript at: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/nasaedge/NE00_Last_Mission_Hubble.html
For more information on the final mission to Hubble, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/hubble.
(13) NEW EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS AVAILABLE AT NASA.GOV
The Educational Materials section of NASA's Web site offers classroom activities, educator guides, posters and other types of resources that are available for use in the classroom. The materials are listed by type, grade level and subject. The following items are now available for downloading.
Getting Dirty on Mars – Grades 5-12
Students will measure the soil moisture content, compare soil colors, look for biomarkers and measure pH to make their comparisons. They will then present a “Soil Properties Report.”
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Getting_Dirty_on_Mars.html.
Wall-E Learns About Proportion Video – Grades K-8
Students calculate the diameter of the moon with the help of Wall-E the mischievous robot.
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Wall-E_Learns_About_Proportion.html.
NASA SCIence Files™: The Case of the Technical Knockout DVD – Grades K-8
In today's world of high-tech devices, the Tree House Detectives discover that technology has its flaws when everything electronic stops working. Eager to solve the problem of this electronic blackout, the detectives follow the wind to the nearest star…the sun.
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Navigational_Uses_for_Global.html.
NASA SCIence Files™: The Case of the Phenomenal Weather DVD – Grades K-8
Follow the Tree House Detectives as they plan a trip to the Caribbean and encounter problems trying to predict the weather. In this case, the Tree House Detectives will learn about violent storms such as hurricanes and tornadoes, weather fronts, global wind patterns, and climates. While solving the case, they will discover that predicting the weather is not predictable at all!
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Learning_About_Clouds.html.
(14) NEW WEB RESOURCE GUIDE ON WOMEN IN ASTRONOMY
An updated, expanded resource guide to the role women have played and are playing in the development of astronomy is now available through the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. The guide includes both printed and Web-based materials, and has general references on the topic plus specific references to the work and lives of 32 women astronomers of the past and present. All the materials are at the non-technical level and thus appropriate for student papers, curriculum development, or personal enrichment. The guide makes reference to 178 different Web resources, as well as books and articles that are either in print or found in many larger libraries.
This resource guide is part of a series that can be found on the Society's Web site, on such topics as the astronomy of many cultures, debunking astronomical pseudo-science, and resources for astronomy education.
http://www.astrosociety.org/education/resources/womenast_bib.html
(15) SALLY RIDE CLIMATE CONFERENCE – PRESENTATIONS AVAILABLE
In July, Sally Ride Science held an Educator Conference entitled ‘Earth Then, Earth Now: Our Changing Climate.’ The conference was designed to help educators teach today’s hottest topic and learn how to integrate the science of the Earth’s changing climate into their classrooms. Many of the presentations and activities discussing climate science and various educational resources are now available online. Please note that not all the presentations are posted yet so please check back periodically for updates. http://www.sallyridescience.com/for_educators/conferences/climate/resources
(16) CLIMATE TIME MACHINE
This series of visualizations show how some of the key indicators of climate change, such as temperature, sea ice extent and carbon dioxide concentrations, have changed in Earth’s recent history.
http://climate.jpl.nasa.gov/ClimateTimeMachine/climateTimeMachine.cfm
(17) NASA Earth Observatory Feature Article: Devastating Drought
A drought to rival the Dust Bowl settled over the southern Great Plains in summer 2008.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/OklahomaDrought/.
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SCIENCE NEWS [Top]
For the latest NASA Earth and space science news, visit the Science Mission Directorate Web site (http://science.hq.nasa.gov/), the NASA Earth Observatory (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov) or Science@NASA (http://science.nasa.gov). Science@NASA stories are also available as podcasts, as well as translated into Spanish at its sister site, Ciencia@NASA (http://ciencia.nasa.gov/). NASA science is also regularly featured on Earth & Sky radio shows available at http://www.earthsky.org/.
(18) FIRST LIGHT FOR THE FERMI SPACE TELESCOPE
August 26 - NASA's newest observatory, the Gamma-Ray Large Area
Space Telescope, or GLAST, has begun its mission of exploring the universe in high-energy gamma rays. The spacecraft and its revolutionary instruments passed their orbital checkout with flying colors. NASA announced GLAST has been renamed the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The new name honors Prof. Enrico Fermi (1901 - 1954), a pioneer in high-energy physics. For more information, images and animations on the Web, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/glast.
(19) NASA’S MARS ROVER OPPORTUNITY CLIMBING OUT OF VICTORIA CRATER
August 26 - NASA's Mars Exploration rover Opportunity is heading back out to the Red Planet's surrounding plains nearly a year after descending into a large Martian crater to examine exposed ancient rock layers. Having completed its job in the crater, Opportunity is now preparing to inspect loose cobbles on the plains. Some of these rocks, approximately fist-size and larger, were thrown long distances when objects hitting Mars blasted craters deeper than Victoria into the Red Planet. Opportunity has driven past scores of cobbles but examined only a few. For images and information about NASA's Opportunity and Spirit Mars rovers, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/rovers.
(20) STRANGE CLOUDS AT THE EDGE OF SPACE
August 25 - High above Earth, astronauts on board the International Space Station have taken one of the best-ever photos of electric-blue noctilucent clouds. Their image highlights a growing mystery: Where do these clouds come from and why are they spreading? Read the full story at: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/25aug_nlc.htm?list1110881.
(21) 2007 HURRICANE FORECASTS TOOK BLOW FROM WINDS AND SAHARAN DRY, DUSTY AIR
August 18 – A new analysis of environmental conditions over the Atlantic Ocean shows that hot, dry air associated with dust outbreaks from the Sahara desert was a likely contributor to the quieter-than-expected 2007 hurricane season. Read the full article at: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/2008/2008081827331.html.
(22) LIVING WITH A STAR
August 18 – What if you woke up one morning and found your whole planet had been swallowed by the atmosphere of a star? While planet Earth has a thick atmosphere and global magnetic field to protect itself from space weather, it does reside inside the sun’s hot atmosphere, known as “the corona.” To learn more about this, NASA developed its Living With a Star Program in 2001 to study the sun’s atmosphere using the same strategy as weather studies on Earth. Read the full story at:
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/19aug_lws.htm?list1110881.
(23) THE REALM OF EARTHWORMS: NASA GETS DOWN TO THE NITTY-GRITTY
August 15 - Using space technology, NASA is now studying the realm of earthworms, millipedes, and springtails -- the soil beneath your feet -- with a project called OMEGA (Observing Microwave Emissions for Geophysical Applications). NASA recognizes the vital role this "underworld" plays in our lives on Earth and purports OMEGA data will help build better weather models that would improve forecasting. Read the full story at: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/15aug_omega.htm?list1110881.
(24) PHOENIX MICROSCOPE TAKES FIRST IMAGE OF MARTIAN DUST PARTICLE
August 14 - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has taken the first-ever image of a single particle of Mars' ubiquitous dust, using its atomic force microscope. The particle -- shown at higher magnification than anything ever seen from another world -- is a rounded particle about one micrometer, or one millionth of a meter, across. It is a speck of the dust that cloaks Mars. Such dust particles color the Martian sky pink, feed storms that regularly envelop the planet and produce Mars' distinctive red soil.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/news/phoenix-20080814.html.
(25) HUBBLE UNVEILS COLORFUL START BIRTH REGION ON 100,000TH ORBIT
August 11 - In commemoration of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope completing its 100,000th orbit during its 18th year of exploration and discovery, scientists aimed Hubble to take a snapshot of a dazzling region of celestial birth and renewal. Hubble peered into a small portion of the Tarantula nebula near the star cluster NGC 2074. The region is a firestorm of raw stellar creation, perhaps triggered by a nearby supernova explosion. It lies about 170,000 light-years away and is one of the most active star-forming regions in our local group of galaxies.
The image reveals dramatic ridges and valleys of dust, serpent-head "pillars of creation," and gaseous filaments glowing fiercely under torrential ultraviolet radiation. The region is on the edge of a dark molecular cloud that is an incubator for the birth of new stars. To see the photo taken during Hubble's 100,000th orbit of Earth, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/hubble.
(26) NASA'S LCROSS PROBE WILL DELIBERATELY CRASH INTO THE MOON
August 11 - NASA's plans to find water on the Moon by crashing a spacecraft into the lunar surface sometime between May and August 2009. The Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) is on track to plunge into a permanently-shadowed lunar crater at 9,000 km/hr, producing an explosion equivalent to about 2,000 pounds of TNT (6.5 billion joules). The blast will jettison material out of the crater into broad daylight where astronomers can search the debris for signs of lunar water. Amateur astronomers may be able to observe the impact through backyard telescopes. Read the full news story at: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/11aug_lcross.htm?list1110881.
(27) A BRIEF HISTORY OF SOLAR SAILS
July 31 - Have you ever stared up at the night sky, felt a gentle breeze, and wished you could set sail for the stars? Get in line. Many great thinkers from history have had the same idea. This long-held fancy could soon become reality with one solar sail mission on the drawing board and another already on the launching pad, slated to blast off this summer. Read the full article at: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/31jul_solarsails.htm?list1110881.
(28) NASA SPACECRAFT CONFIRMS MARTIAN WATER, MISSION EXTENDED
July 31 - Laboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample. The lander's robotic arm delivered the sample to an instrument that identifies vapors produced by the heating of samples. With enticing results so far and the spacecraft in good shape, NASA announced operational funding for the mission will extend through Sept. 30 adding five weeks to the 90 days of the prime mission. "Mars is giving us some surprises," said Phoenix principal investigator Peter Smith of the University of Arizona. "We're excited because surprises are where discoveries come from.” For more about Phoenix, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/phoenix.
(29) NASA TESTS MOON IMAGING SPACECRAFT AT GODDARD
July 31 - NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, also known as LRO, has completed the first round of environmental testing at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. These tests ensure the spacecraft is prepared for its mission to collect the highest resolution images and most comprehensive geological data set ever returned from the moon. The objective of the mission is to map the lunar surface in preparation for human missions to the moon, which are planned to occur by 2020. For more information about LRO, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/lro.
(30) NASA CONFIRMS LIQUID LAKE ON SATURN MOON
July 30 - NASA scientists have concluded that at least one of the large lakes observed on Saturn's moon Titan contains liquid hydrocarbons, and have positively identified the presence of ethane. This makes Titan the only body in our solar system beyond Earth known to have liquid on its surface. Scientists made the discovery using data from an instrument aboard the Cassini spacecraft, which identified chemically different materials based on the way they absorb and reflect infrared light. Before Cassini, scientists thought Titan would have global oceans of methane, ethane and other light hydrocarbons. For more information on Cassini, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/cassini.
(31) OCEAN SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY MISSION/JASON 2 BEGINS MAPPING OCEANS
July 30 - Less than a month after launch, the NASA-French space agency Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM)/Jason 2 oceanography satellite has produced its first complete maps of global ocean surface topography, surface wave height and wind speed. The new data will help scientists monitor changes in global sea level and the distribution of heat in the ocean. This information is used to monitor climate change and ocean circulation, and to enable more accurate weather, ocean and climate forecasts. The data reveal patterns of sea level anomalies, which are used by scientists to calculate the speed and direction of ocean surface currents. For more information about OSTM/Jason 2, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ostm.
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CALENDAR [Top]
Sept. 1
Deadline to apply for MS PHD Professional Development Program, http://www.msphds.org.
Sept. 1
Early bird registration for NCAR Climate Discovery Online Course for Educators, http://ecourses.ncar.ucar.edu.
Sept. 9
New Space Math @ NASA problems posted for the school year, http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov.
Sept. 10
NASA/Library of Congress Public Presentation Series: Space-Based Ornithology: on the Wings of Migration and Biophysics, http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/events/events.html.
Sept. 11-13
CESE Meeting: Public Literacy in Earth System Science, http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=626418.
Sept. 19 – Nov. 7
NCAR Climate Discovery Online Course for Educators, http://ecourses.ncar.ucar.edu.
Sept. 30
Deadline - American Student Moon Orbiter (ASMO) Request for Information, http://asmo.arc.nasa.gov.
Oct. 5
NASA launches the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft, http://ibex.swri.org.
Oct. 8
Return to Hubble Space Telescope - Planned Servicing Mission, http://hubble.nasa.gov/missions/intro.php.
Oct. 12-18
Earth Science Week, http://www.earthsciweek.org/.
Oct. 17
Proposals Due – Competitive Program for Science Museums and Planetariums (CP4SMP), http://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?method=init&solId=%7bA0A2FB8B-E96B-7579-5530-2709EE450F3F%7d&path=open.
Oct. 21
NASA/Library of Congress Public Presentation Series: Invasive Species in the United States, http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/events/events.html.
Oct. 24
Notice of Intent Due – NASA Global Climate Change Education Project, http://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?method=init&solId=%7BA0A2FB8B-E96B-7579-5530-2709EE450F3F%7D&path=open.
Oct. 27
Proposals Due – K-12 Competitive Education Grant Program, http://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?method=init&solId=%7bC4EC7F3B-D629-1AFC-398C-C3DAA5A28413%7d&path=open.
Dec. 16
NASA launches GOES-O, http://goespoes.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/index.html.
Jan. 15
NASA Launches the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov.
Feb. 4
NASA launches NOAA-N, http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/noaa-n/main/index.html.
Feb. 16
NASA launches Kepler, http://kepler.nasa.gov.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS [Top]
NASA Science Mission Directorate: Larry Cooper, Ann Coren, and Ming-Ying Wei.
Editor: Theresa Schwerin, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), theresa_schwerin@strategies.org.
Writer: Catherine Fahey, IGES, catherine_fahey@strategies.org.
Contributions from: Carlyn Buckler, PRI/Cornell University; Judy Counley, Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning; Edna DeVore, SETI Institute; Andrew Fraknoi, Foothill College; Steve Graham, NASA GSFC; Jan Heiderer, GLOBE; Sten Odenwald, NASA GSFC; Denise Smith, Space Telescope Science Institute; Simon Steel, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; and Dan Stillman, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies.