Dr. Patrick A. Stadter

Talk about Space(Mrs. Manchester’s 3rd Grade

Science Class)

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All the Places We can Go!Outer Space

Earth Orbit

Near-Space

Air

LandSea

Undersea

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Let’s go out into Space…(But how? And where should we go?)

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How do you plan a weekend hike?(or a space mission to Pluto?)

Find out (the information you need)

Choose a strategy

Solve it

Look back (check your work…does

your solution make sense)

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How do you plan a weekend hike?(or a space mission to Pluto?)

Find out (the information you need)

Choose a strategy

Solve it

Look back (check your work…does your

solution make sense)

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From the Sun to Pluto – and Beyond

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Sun

Earth UranusSaturnJupiterAsteroid

and Comet

Moon

Mars PlutoNeptune

NEAR Voyager

Galileo

New

Horizons

JUNO

Voyager

Cassini

Voyager New

Horizons

Ulysses

ACE

STEREO

MESSENGER VoyagerMagSat

Geosat

PolarBear

Hilat

GEOS-A

Grace

FUSE

TIMED

MMS

MSX

NIMS

Tacsat 4

RBSP

MRO

Mercury

Apollo 17

Chandrayaan-1

LRO

Venus

X = APL PI and/or Sensors

X = APL-Built + Sensors

X = Pending

Solar Probe

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Or what if we wanted to go to the Sun?

Solar Probe(launching in 6 years!)

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Going to Mercury(on the MESSENGER spacecraft)

How did we get to Mercury?

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Getting to Mercury (on MESSENGER)

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Going to Mercury

(on the MESSENGER spacecraft)

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First Picture of Earth taken from Space (1967)

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We do a lot of things from Space near the Earth

TIMED(with GPS on it

so it knows

where it is!)TacSat-4

(for our Troops

to talk to each

other)

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Our Moon…

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NEAR (an asteroid) and our Moon

Chandrayaan-1 and

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Near Earth

Asteroid Rendezvous

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On to the Outer Planets…

New Horizons(Headed to Pluto…

and on to the Kuiper Belt!)

Cassini images

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New Horizons Jupiter Flyby on its way to Pluto

(Feb 07)

Jupiter and Io Io eruption

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Why Do We Look Out into Space?(At the Stars and the Constellations)

Hubble Space

Telescope

Finds two galaxies (Arp87) crashing

in the constellation Leo the LionStar Betelgeuse in Orion

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We can all Time TravelLooking Back in Time

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Why Do We Look Out into Space?(At the Stars and the Constellations)

Looking back in time to Omega Centauri

near the constellation Centaurus

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Why Do We Look Out into Space?(At the Stars and the Constellations)

Looking back in time to Omega Centauri

near the constellation Centaurus

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Why Do We Look Out into Space?(At the Stars and the Constellations)

Butterfly Nebula – Birthplace of Planets

(near the constellation Scorpius)

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Why Do We Look Out into Space?(At the Stars and the Constellations)

15 planets in Sagittarius

Kepler Space Telescope

Planet finder

15 new planets

in the constellation Sagittarius

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Why Do We Look Out into Space?(At the Stars and the Constellations)

James Webb

Space Telescope

(coming soon!)

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One of my favorite pictures(from the NEAR mission)

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Extra

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TiME – Sailing on a sea of Saturn’s MoonTitan Mare Explorer