Just as importantly, we also discuss how scientists know what they know, what mysteries remain, and how they might one day find the answers to these questions. A virtual theater dedicated to films related to the science of our evolving Universe, Ask a NASA Scientist, lesson plans in the teacher's corner. Provides students the opportunity to use a remotely controlled telescope and camera. This interactive curriculum designed to learn about the exploration of Mars, involves the Orbitsons, a family that needs to get to Mars in order to bring back the NASA Pathfinder and lander. But, before leaving, there is a lot that they have to learn about the surface and history of Mars and its explorations, as well as, what traveling and living on Mars is like.
Word find puzzle, astronomy quiz, list of astronomy sites.
Color comet pictures, hear comet stories, and solve comet puzzles. The education and public outreach activities will capitalize on the nearly real-time data from this spacecraft to create a variety of activities and resources describing the Earth, the Sun and how they interact for the benefit or detriment of humans.