The Jupiter Millennium Flyby offers a number of opportunities to bring the excitement of the joint investigation of the Jupiter system by Galileo, Cassini, and Earth-based instruments into the classroom. The classroom lessons listed below offer a full range of possibilities. Radio astronomical data acquired by several classrooms around the U.S. can be used to better understand radio emissions from the planet.
Related activities show how knowledge is acquired about the planets.
Other activities demonstrate, in the classroom, how spacecraft measurements can be used to make deductions about the nature of phenomena associated with planets. One activity demonstrates the difficulties involved in scheduling scientific observations on a spacecraft with limited resources. This is a collection of activities that allows students to work from the familiar to the unfamiliar in relating observational phenomena to their fundamental driver. This lesson set is related to Cassini observations of the Jovian moon Io's plasma torus made in the ultraviolet and groundbased studies of Jupiter's radiation belts. These data will be used to calibrate Cassini's radar receivers.