Students strike out on their own and explore a topic of their choosing in depth.
To facilitate such projects TERC and the NASA Astrobiology Institute are developing an interactive, educational Web site relating to the science of astrobiology. The Web site, Astrotech, will focus on such topics as the search for water on Mars and the search for life on Europa, based on information from NASA's Mars and Galileo missions. Real scientific data will be available for students and teachers to access and analyze.