# Presentation: 465161

## IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause-to-Auroral Global Exploration)

*Imager for Magnetopause-to-Auroral Global Exploration (IMAGE) is a MidEx satellite whose mission is to directly image the plasmas, energetic particles, and fields in the Earth’s geospace environment using state-of-the-art, neutral atom, radio plasma and ultraviolet imaging techniques.*
- Launch Date, February 15, 2000 from Vandenberg AFB, Web Casted
- High visibility events for 2000
- Alaskan  MagNet Program will use IMAGE EUV data in classroom
- NASA/Quest chats and webcasts with IMAGE scientists

- http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov

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## IMAGE/POETRY

- IMAGE Program’s  Education and Public Outreach effort
- Public Outreach, Education, Teaching and Reaching Youth (POETRY)
- Award-winning web site, featuring ‘Ask the Space Scientist’
- Teacher Resources:
- Mini-posters (5), Mission Fact Sheet (1), Brochure (1), Poster(1)
- ‘Solar Storms and YOU!’ math and science workbook Grades 7-9
- ‘Northern Lights and Solar Sprites’  space science activities, Grade K-6
- ‘The Mission and Instruments of IMAGE’ space science for Grades 10-12
- Soda Bottle Magnetometer Network (MagNet)
- Low-cost monitoring of geomagnetic storms
- Real-time comparison with satellite views of auroral oval ( seen by IMAGE and POLAR satellites)
- Student space weather forecasting under classroom conditions
- Growing national and international network of participating schools sharing data
- ‘Blackout!’  Event-based Science program (Addison/Wesley Publishing)
- Video in production for middle-school students
- Latest module in a popular science series used by 40,000 teachers

- http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry

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## IMAGE/POETRY: Alaskan Schools

- http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry

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** ****Collaboration between**** ****IMAGE/POETRY **
**  ****and rural schools in Alaska**
** ****Workshop on SEC topics and auroral **
**  ****observations, August 12-14,1999**
** ****30 teachers participating, representing **
**  ****30 ‘underserved’ schools**
** ****Classroom monitoring of  geomagnetic**
**  ****events**
** ****Correlation of geomagnetic events with **
**  ****satellite observations of aurora**
-  POLAR UV imager observations of auroral oval:
-    1999-2001
-  IMAGE satellite EUV observations of auroral
-    oval: 2000-2002
-  Comparison of magnetic activity with nightly
-    observations by students

## IMAGE/POETRY: Blackout!

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- Collaboration with IMAGE/POETRY and Event-Based Science
- 40,000 middle school science teachers use EBS modules annually
- Highly-regarded, integrated math/science/english curriculum
- IMAGE/POETRY scientist interviews featured
- IMAGE/POETRY soda bottle magnetometer featured ‘hands-on’ activity
- Accompanying ‘Solar Storms’ video for students describing SEC issues

***Blackout! developed by the Event-Based Science Program through a grant from the National Science Foundation. Written by a team of master teachers, and published by Addison Wesley.***

- http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry

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## IMAGE/POETRY - INSPIRE:Interactive NASA Space Physics Ionosphere Radio Experiments

- 1700 VLF receiver kits distributed to schools and individuals over the world
- Reached hundreds of teachers
- Reached thousands or tens of thousands of students
- Held five teacher workshops to train master teachers in classroom use
- INSPIRE - IKI (Space Research Institute, Moscow) agreement to fire pulsed electron beamover INSPIRE sites, eight days per year
- Steve McGreevy on NPR describing Natural Radio (VLF), April, 1999

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- http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/inspire

## Upcoming Efforts - INSPIRE

- INSPIRE Online
**Stream output of INSPIRE receiver at University of Florida Radio Observatory**
**Those who cannot participate by purchasing kits or finding an electromagnetically quiet location will be able to hear, record and analyze audio over the Internet**
**Supported by GSFC Director’s Discretionary Fund**
**Will begin in summer of 1999**
- Aurora Video and Audio (AVA)
**System designed for high school use, with a core of ten systems around northern auroral oval**
**All-sky camera utilizing a digital camera with a fisheye lens mounted inside a weatherproof dome**
**INSPIRE VLF receiver system**
**Connection to internet to automatically collect images and sound files and ftp them to INSPIRE archive for use by students world wide**
**AVAs available as kits for schools and individuals to be placed anywhere**

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- http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/inspire

## 	IMEX (Inner Magnetosphere Explorer)

-  Launch in 2001
-  First mission in the inner magnetosphere to contain a full complement of field and particle detectors while the ACE mission monitors the solar wind full time upstream
-  Mission and orbit are patterned after the CRRES mission
-  Universities of Minnesota and Colorado will conduct the entire project from start to finish
-  Data supports the IMAGE and TWINS missions

- http://ham.spa.umn.edu/spacephys/imex.html

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## 	IMP 8 (Interplanetary Monitoring Platform)

-  The solar wind and cosmic ray benchmark since 1973.  IMP-8 measures the magnetic fields,              plasmas, and energetic charged particles (e.g*.*, cosmic rays) of the Earth's magnetotail and magnetosheath and of the near-Earth solar wind.
-  Correlation of bow shock activity with auroral and ionospheric variation.
-  Data supports the Voyager, Ulysses, SOHO, Wind, ACE, Polar, and Geotail missions.

- http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/space/imp-8.html

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## ISTP (International Solar and Terrestrial Program) - Geotail

-  **Geotail (ISAS/NASA) studies the dynamics of the Earth's magnetotail over a wide range of distance, extending from the near-Earth region to the distant tail. **
** ****Geotail has discovered the location of the reconnection neutral line in the magnetotail responsible for the energy release which powers most geomagnetic activity. **
** ****Multi-spacecraft observations from Geotail, IMP-8 and other spacecraft are being used to synthesize three dimensional models of magnetotail structures and dynamics such as plasmoid ejection.**

- http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/geotail/

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## ISTP (International Solar and Terrestrial Program) - Polar

-  Polar measures complete plasma, energetic particles and fields in the high-latitude polar regions; and provides global, multispectral, auroral images of magnetospheric energy deposition into the ionosphere and upper atmosphere.
-  Polar and SAMPEX observations revealed that a new radiation belt formed briefly in May 1998, a phenomenon not observed since 1991. Polar provided the first direct, quantifiable evidence that coronal mass ejections, identified by Wind, can cause ions to be ejected from the Earth’s atmosphere.

- http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/polar/

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## ISTP (International Solar and Terrestrial Program) - Wind

-  Wind investigates basic plasma processes occurring in the near-Earth solar wind.
-  Tracks CME-associated shocks, measures solar energetic particle bursts, and records the
-   arrival of interplanetary shocks at Earth.
-  By simultaneous measurements with a similar instrument on Ulysses, the Wind / WAVES
-   radio experiment imaged the interplanetary magnetic field structure for the first time.

- http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/wind

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## ISTP EPO with  ACE and SOHO

_**LIVE FROM THE SUN**_
- “Electronic field trip” combines broadcast TV and videotape, Web chats, e-mail Q&A, hands-on activities, and printed materials
- Covers 35% of science standards
- Video/live shows aired March 16, April 13, and November 16, 1999, broadcast by 250 PBS stations and NASA-TV.
- Estimated reach: 1.5 to 2 million teachers and students.
- Produced by Passport to Knowledge, supported by OSS, ISTP, SOHO, ACE, and other agencies

- http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/

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## ISTP EPO

_**“**__**Connecting Kids to Sun-Earth Connections” **_
_**teacher workshop**_
**19 middle and high school teachers from 8 states -- met in July 1998 at GSFC**
**Focused on inquiry-based science, demos of existing and potential educational products **
**Conducted evaluations of workshop, products, and classroom activities**
- “Importance of contact between teachers and scientists cannot be overemphasized.”
- “Every minute counted.”
- “One of the best professional development experiences I’ve had”
**Follow-up: archived lessons, evaluations, and resources on web; contacted teachers using materials in class; activities, lessons incorporated into “Live from the Sun”**
**ISTP Workshop Part 2 -- teachers returning in Summer 1999 for development of SEC/ISTP kit**

- http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/

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## ISTP EPO

**Images and Animations**
- Created and produced new animations of:
**Coronal Mass Ejection and shock wave**
**Radiation belts**
**Ionospheric outflow into magnetosphere**
**Deep di-electric charging of spacecraft**
**Earth’s Magnetosphere**
- Produced 3-minute video intro to ISTP
- Produced 9-minute and 3-minute montages of Sun-Earth Connections movies/images to spark student, public interest in SEC
- Maryland Science Center will use ISTP videos in its new “SpaceLink” exhibit
- Footage distributed to more than 50 science centers and planetaria nationwide
- Developed themed backdrop to promote awareness of solar maximum at science fairs, education meetings, civic events

- http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/

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##  ISTP EPO

**Storms from the Sun **
**80,000 copies printed in English**
**50,000+ distributed nationally at NSTA, ASTC, NCTM, APS, AGU and other sci/ed meetings**
**Available through NASA CORE**
**Included in “Live from the Sun” teacher kit**
**Also available with movies on the web**
**Tormentas Solares**
**10,000 copies of Spanish-language version of “Storms from the Sun” printed in March 1999**
**Nearly half distributed already at NSTA, APS, and through teachers working in inner cities**
**Featured at La Raze conference in July 1999**
**“****The Forecast” brochure**
**Intended as overview of space weather for reporters, educators, policy makers**
**Developed with Space Science Institute**
**Printed 11,000 in 1998; 9,000+ distributed at NSTA, ASTC, press events, workshops**

- http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/

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## ISTP EPO

_**SECTRA Workshop -- Aug  ‘99**_
**Workshop for 15 “master” teachers -- leaders in science curriculum development, teacher training**
**Hosted by ISTP at Goddard**
**Used learning cycle approach to teach latest SEC science in context of national standards**
**ISTP scientists worked with participants to develop teacher training workshops**
**Modeled after APS Physics Teacher Resource Agent (PTRA) program**
**Sent participants home with grants to conduct workshops and in-service training in their home states and districts**
**Expected reach: 300+ teachers**

- http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/

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