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Games
New Item - Sign Here! Sign Here!
New Item - Solve an Infrared Slyder! Solve an Infrared Slyder!
Trivia!
Beat the heat!
Wild Weather Adventure!
Earthy Word Games
How old do I look?
Black Hole Rescue!
Vec->Touring
Play Migration Concentration
Tails of Wonder
Blast off for a Mars Adventure!
Nanosat Flingman
Spuzzled
Gravitational Crossword
Pixel This!
Solar System Switch-a-roo!
Earth Watcher Crossword
The Spinoffs Memory Game
Unscramble Cloud Pictures
Fall into a Black Hole
Infrared Matching Game
Find the Comet Words
Fly through a Tiny Space Maze
Draw a Dot-to-Dot Spacecraft
Solve a Telescope Crossword
 
Projects
New Item - Build a Moon Habitat Build a Moon Habitat
New Item - Gummy Greenhouse Gases Gummy Greenhouse Gases
Coloring Book
Make a GALEX Galaxy Montage
Robot Puzzle
Star Finder
A Tortilla Spacecraft
Momentum Machine
Galactic Mobile
Model Saturn Decoration
"Blame El Niño" Pudding
Toy Asteroid Nanorover
Relief Map Puzzle
Topo Map of Your Own Mountain
Asteroid Potatoes
Cookies the Color of Stars
Pop Rocket that Works
Make a Super Sound Cone
Get a Space Nose
Fall into a Black Hole
See Why Two Eyes Beat One
Test New Spacecraft Material
See Inside a Closed Box
Launch Rocket as Planet Spins
See Ions in Action
 
Animations
Space Place Live
I See Ice!
Emoticonstructor!
Coloring Book
Cosmic Colors
Yelling Across the Solar System
Shrink a Building Three Ways
Infrared Photo Album
Make the Shot Heard 'Round the World!
 
Amazing Facts
New Item - A Real Shooting Star! A Real Shooting Star!
New Item - Lucy's Planet Hunt Lucy's Planet Hunt
New Item - Good Ozone, Bad Ozone Good Ozone, Bad Ozone
Uh-oh! Solar Indigestion!
Planet X-treme Weather
Professor Starr’s Dream Trip
Marshmallows? Chewy caramel? Nuts?
Slinky® in Space
What is a laser?
Hurricanes!
Cool Sun Makes Cool Music?
Tsunami!
Family of Explorers Robot
Ode to Aerogel
Who is the King of the Ice Dwarfs?
Land of Magic Windows
See Why Two Eyes Beat One
Name the Trees from Space
See Inside a Closed Box
Launch Rocket as Planet Spins
Solve an Extra-terrestrial Riddle
See Ions in Action
Watch the Race of the Data
Why collide with a comet?
How do I get to space with no launch pad?
Why is the sky blue?
How can a satellite hover over one spot on Earth's surface?
What aviation record did this odd plane break?
How are space engineers way wilier than superheroes?
How can you hit a soccer goal on the Moon, from Earth?
What batteries will last into your old age?
What space mission will give Earthlings a "sixth sense"?
What is the "secret code" of the Voyager spacecraft?
How good is the amazing Hubble Space Telescope?
What do you get when you cross an Earthquake with a tidal wave?
How can a telescope also be a microscope?
How far can a spacecraft fly in one school year?
What spacecraft gets the best "gas mileage"?
 
Friends Share
Meet our Space Place Partners
Scouting
Tortilla Spacecraft Contest Winners
Technology-inspired Art
Out of this World Poetry
Future Scientists and Engineers
Recipe for M-m-moon Cookies
Visions of life in the New Millennium
Goals for the New Millennium
 

Space and Earth Science Topics and Terms:

Aerogel
Airplanes, how do they fly
Altimeter
Animals, endangered
Antennas 1, 2
Apollo Program
Artificial evolution
Asteroids
Astrology
Astronauts
Atmosphere, studying from space: 1, 2, 3
Aurora borealis
Barycenter
Battery technology
Big Bang
Binary numbers
Black holes 1, 2, 3, 4
Blue, why is the sky?
Cassini, Gian Domencio
Charge-coupled Devices (CCDs)
Charon (Pluto's moon)
Chip (as in a spacecraft)
Cloud types
Comets 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Communicating with spacecraft
Conservation of Momentum
Constellations 1, 2
Dark matter
Dark sky, why?
Data (getting from spacecraft) 1, 2
Data Compression
Digital cameras
Ecliptic, plane of
Earth
As a complex system
Geography
Hi-res images of the surface
Magnetosphere
Rotation
Studying the atmosphere from space 1, 2, 3, 4
Studying the surface from space 1, 2, 3
Weather
Ecology
Electromagnetic spectrum 1, 2, 3, 4
Electronic nose
El Niño
Energy storage
Evolution
Flight
Galaxies 1, 2
Geography
Geostationary orbits
Global Positioning System (GPS) (PDF)
Global warming: 1, 2
Gravitational waves 1, 2
Gravity 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (PDF)
Greenhouse gases: 1, 2, 3
Halley, Edmond
Heat transfer
Hexadecimal numbers
Hurricanes 1 Imaging radar 1, 2
Infrared light 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Interferometry
Ion engine 1, 2
Ions
Jupiter 1, 2, 3
Kepler, Johannes
Launch window
Lens (telescope)
Life, interdependence of
Life support systems
Light, speed of
Magnetic field, Earth's
Mars
Mars, life on?
Meteoroids
Miniaturization technologies
Mirror (telescope)
Moon, Earth's 1, 2, 3
Moon, living on
Multi-wavelength astronomy
Nanorover (robot)
Nanosatellites
Navigation, autonomous
Neptune
Orbits 1, 2, 3
Olber's Paradox
Parallax
Pegasus rocket
Photography in Space
Planetary orbits
Planets
Around other stars
Distances between
Weather
Weighing
Planets and Moons, sizes and other differences
Pluto
Polar orbits
Radio astronomy
Relief map
Rings 1, 2
Robots 1, 2
Rockets 1, 2, 3
Saturn 1, 2
Signal, detecting from spacecraft
Signal modulation 1, 2 (PDF)
Sky: Why is it blue?
Sky: Why is it dark?
Smell, sense of
Solar-powered flight
Solar sailing
Solar system 1, 2
Space suits
Space technology applied to other things
Spectrum 1, 2, 3, 4
Speed of light
Star tracker
Stars 1, 2, 3
Stereo vision (in a robot)
Sun 1, 2
Sunspots
Telescopes
General
Galaxy Evolution Explorer
Hubble Space Telescope 1, 2
Keck Interferometer
Spitzer Space Telescope 1, 2
Temperature, measuring on other planets
Tides
Time travel
Topographic map
Transceivers, spacecraft and ground
Transponder on spacecraft
Tree rings
Tsunami
Uranus
Vacuum (of space)
Vectors
Water cycle
Weather 1, 2

Space and Earth Missions:

ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer)
Cassini
Chandra
Cloudsat
Comet Nucleus Sample Return
Deep Impact 1, 2
Deep Space 1 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Deep Space Network 1, 2, 3
Earth Observing 1
Earth Observing 3
Electronic Nose (E-Nose)
Exploration Technology Development Program (human)
Fundamental Physics Program 1, 2
Galaxy Evolution Explorer 1, 2, 3, 4
Galileo
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) 1, 2, 3
Helios Prototype Airplane 1, 2
Hubble Space Telescope 1, 2
Human Space Exploration
Jason-1
Keck Interferometer (Crossword)
Landsat
Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) 1, 2, 3
Mars Exploration Program
Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) 1, 2, 3
MUSES/CN (Toy Nanorover)
New Horizons

New Millennium Program (NMP)

Planetary Imager
POES environmental satellites
Robotics Research
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission 1, 2, 3
Solar System Exploration
Space Interferometry Mission
Space Program Spinoffs
Space Technology 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Space Technology 6
Space Technology 7
Space Technology 8 (ST8) 1, 2
Space Very Long Baseline Interferometry (SVLBI) Program
Spitzer Space Telescope: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Stardust 1, 2
StarLight 1, 2
TOPEX/Poseidon
Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) mission: 1, 2
Ulysses 1, 2
Urbie Tactical Mobile Robot
Voyagers 1 and 2
Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (Hubble Space Telescope)
X2000
XMM Newton

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