JPL Educator Resource Center . An exercise designed to give students an idea of the size and scale of the jovian system and also to illustrate the Galileo spacecraft's arrival-day trajectory. Additional Information . JPL Educator Resource Center . This activity has students designing and planning a mission to Mars.
Students have to consider the science goals, the technical aspects, and cost constraints.
Includes design kits and other support materials. This classroom activity provides students with a set of prepared observations of the Moon that they can use to measure its movements and track its orbit, thereby avoiding the difficulties and time delay of having to obtain the observations first. This teaching module exposes students to basic concepts in solar system exploration using three activities to demonstrate concepts such as basic physics and analyzing and drawing conclusions from data. This curriculum module focuses on the science of comparative planetology and how this information can be used to make deductions about such things as the structure and composition of planets and how the solar system formed. Scale Model Saturn This activity provides students with instructions for creating a 3-D model of Saturn and its rings.