# Presentation: 271272

**RADIO JOVE **
** ****AN EDUCATION AND OUTREACH PROJECT**
**Jim Thieman and Chuck Higgins**
**1999**

**IDEAS**

## RADIO JOVE TEAM

**NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center**
- Jim Thieman	 Chuck Higgins
- Jim Gass 	 Bill Taylor
- Len Garcia 	 Lou Mayo
- Ron Parise	 Jim Green
**University of Florida**
- Francisco Reyes	Wes Greenman
- Tom Carr
**RF Associates**
- Dick Flagg
**Florida Space Grant Consortium**
- Jaydeep Mukherjee
**Education Community**
- Bill Pine	Tom Smith

## FUNDING

**Radio JOVE is sparked by grants from:**
**•  ****NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Director’s Discretionary Fund (DDF)**
**• ****The Initiative to Develop Education through Astronomy and Space Science (IDEAS)**
**...****and a lot of effort from many hard-working volunteers**

## RADIO JOVE - GOALS

**•  ****Educate people about planetary and solar radio astronomy, space physics, and the scientific method**
**•  ****Provide teachers and students with a hands-on radio astronomy exercise as a science curriculum support activity**
**•  ****Create an on-line radio observatory that provides real time observations and data for those with Internet access**
**•  ****Allow interactions among participating schools by facilitating exchanges of ideas, data, and observing experiences**

## RADIO JOVE - AUDIENCE

**•  ****High School Science classes**
**•  ****College science courses or laboratories**
**•  ****Activities could be extended to middle school classrooms**

## RADIO JOVE LEVELS OF INVOLVEMENT

**•  ****Build a kit, make observations, and contribute to central pool of data**
**•  ****Work with local amateur radio operators (“ham” club)**
**•  ****Use remote radio telescope to observe Jupiter or the Sun and learn a little radio astronomy**

## INSPIRE OVERVIEW

## Example Successes - INSPIRE

- 1700 VLF receiver kits distributed to schools and individuals throughout 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 beam over INSPIRE sites, eight days per year
- Steve McGreevy on NPR describing Natural Radio (VLF), April, 1999

## INSPIRE KIT

## TYPICAL SETUP

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**Science**
**Knowledge**
**Fun**

## OBSERVING FREQUENCY LIMITATIONS

## JUPITER AND IO

## RADIO SOURCE PROBABILITIES

## CML - IO PROBABILITY DEPENDENCE

## PLANETARY MAGNETISM

## JUPITER’S MAGNETIC FIELD

## IO RADIO STORM BEAMING ASYMMETRY

## RADIATION BEAMING

## TYPICAL SETUP

## RADIO JOVECONSTRUCTION

## CHART RECORDER PROGRAM

## RADIO JOVESPECTRAL ANALYSIS

## RADIO JOVE - 	TIMELINE

**•  ****Radio JOVE kits will be available in late May 1999. Projected cost: $100.00. First 100 schools will receive kit for $50.  Additional costs for tools, building materials, and a recording device could reach $130.00.**
**•  ****Radio JOVE website (http://radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov) is available now, but will become fully operational by August 1999.**
**•  ****Teacher resources will be developed during the summer of 1999.**

## SUMMARY

**•  ****Radio JOVE is a fun hands-on activity in radio astronomy for teaching the scientific method**
**•  ****The project closely parallels professional radio observing**
**•  ****The project supports National Education Standards subject areas such as electricity and magnetism, solar system, influence of the Sun, etc.**
**•  ****Classroom involvement can be as simple as looking at radio astronomy data on the web**
**•  ****Kits are available now for those who are interested  **

## INSPIRE KINSHIP

**We use the INSPIRE (Interactive NASA Space Physics Ionosphere Radio Experiments) project network of schools as a starting point for involvement**
- •  There is synergy and there are lessons to be learned from this successful program
- •  INSPIRE schools have demonstrated interest in radio science
- •  Schools had received INSPIRE radio kits, but the JOVE receiver kit would be different
- •  Radio JOVE will extend the science from the Earth’s ionosphere to Jupiter and solar radio emissions
- •  The INSPIRE web site and mailing list can be used in conjunction with Radio JOVE activities to benefit both projects

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

## SCIENCE BACKGROUND

## OUTLINE

**•  ****What is Radio JOVE?**
**•  ****Radio Waves?  From a planet?**
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**•  ****What does a school do?**
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## CONCEPTS

**GOAL: *****Use radio astronomy activities to teach students the scientific method***
**STEPS:**
**•  ****Project personnel develop ~$100 radio receiver kits for Jupiter and solar observations**
**•  ****Prototype kits are tested at radio observatory and at middle/high schools**
**•  ****Central web site developed with radio astronomy education modules and observation information**
**•  ****Project purchases first 100 kits and distributes at discounted rate to interested schools**
**•  ****Schools learn about radio astronomy, build kits, and make observations**
**•  ****Schools analyze and contribute data to central repository for International Jupiter Watch**
**•  ****Schools or individuals can also observe Jupiter or the Sun through a professional radio telescope made available through the web**
**•  ****Project evaluates, revises, and expands**

## GROUND-BASED RADIO OBSERVATIONS

## STORM OCCURRENCE PROBABILITY

## TOUR THROUGH JUPITER’SMAGNETOSPHERE

## 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

## INSPIRE

## INSPIRE (cont.)

## IMAGE/INSPIRE

## OVERVIEW

**•  ****Radio JOVE Team**
**•  ****Purpose/Concepts**
**•  ****Funding**
**•  ****Scientific Background**
**•  ****Accomplishments to Date**
**•  ****What to Expect**
**•  ****Timeline**
**•  ****Conclusions/Summary**

## ANTENNA SCHEMATIC