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1. Go to Solar Eclipse March 29, 2006

2. Go to October 27 2004 Lunar Eclipse

3. Go to Solar Eclipse November 23 2003 Antartica

4. Go to Mars Spirit and Opportunity Rover

 Time 

World Time is a unique web service that gives data in real time.  
Look at the list of countries, 
view the sun rise and sun set times for cities in Canada,
change your settings from  longitude / latitude to night sky,
Caution - do not use the reload button on this World Time site. 

In the Grade 6 "Flight" thematic unit, cluster 3, the following will be a resource for classes.
In the Senior 1 "Exploration of the Universe", cluster 4, the following will be a resource for classes.

 IT Resources for the Planets and Space 

NASA Teacher Link for Lesson Plans and Instructional Units

NASA Educational Program   Internet Resources for Students  for Teachers 

NASA Main Page     Today at NASA    NASA for Kids    Hot Topics 

Mr. Mark's S1 Class  

Earth Sciences and Images Analysis - Johnson Space Center 

MISR resources 

Human Space Flight over Winnipeg
Just look up the web site and then you can 'look up' to see it live!  The web link shows for Winnipeg.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/SSapplications/Post/SightingData/Winnipeg.html

NASA JPL Solar System Videos    Images

NASA Earth Observatory     NASA Visible Earth

Glide Away (Grades 5-8) students learn about flight principles to design a gliding aircraft.

Up, Up, and Away (Grades 6-8) students build and launch a model rotor, simulating rotors used on helicopters to provide lift.

ED Space supported by NASA, requires Flash version 6.

NASA Space Science a main page to access many NASA education resources.

NASA Space Science Educational Resource Directory 

 Solar System 

NASA Solar System Exploration 

Welcome to the planets  - JPL California Institute of Technology  

NASA's Planetary Photo Journal 

Solar System Simulator from NASA 

Earth and Moon Viewer 

Solar System Live 

Your Sky 

 Mars and Mars' Moons 

Mars Exploration Rover (MER) missions with Spirit and Opportunity Rover - January 2004

Home Page   NASA,  or this alternate link                                   JPL Main Page  

 MER - Images  

NASA Press Release Images - Spirit    Panoramas - Spirit     3-D  

NASA Press Release Images - Opportunity     Panoramas - Opportunity     3-D   

NASA Mars Photojournal  - Spirit and Opportunity images, click on them for caption text 

JPL Rover Image Archive - JPL images for Spirit and Opportunity with captions 

JPL Rover Home and Index page for both MER - good selection of 'most popular' images and animation of camera on the top of the page.

NASA special page - look at the right corner and click on the flash for M2K4 or try NASA M2K4 flash 

 MER - Press Releases and media reports 

NASA Newsroom Press Releases  - read NASA daily listing of MER events for Spirit and Opportunity .
Read the features page for additional background information or read the Fact Sheets  on past missions and the PDF file for Mars 2003 Rovers. 

JPL News Archive - read JPL daily listing of MER events. 

JPL MER Mission Status reports - general overview of the project with archive listings, starting April, 2003 to the present.

Globe and Mail (January 15, 2004) Rover successfully rolls onto Mars 

CNN coverage - a listing of web pages that tell the story of Rover Exploration

CBC TV - 

PBS TV - Nova - Mars Dead or Alive two Rovers are sent to Mars and Nova tracks their progress.  Of interest are the following Anatomy of a Rover and  PDF 8 page guide complete with extra links and information to design 3 parachutes and charts for recording drop height, drop time and descent rate.  

 MER - additional links 

Athena link from Cornell (see wallpaper link), learn about the Mars Sundial, 

Chronology of Mars Exploration 1960 to present 

2004 Mars Missions Timeline NASA

PBS "First Look" hosted by Bill Nye, the Science Guy
broadcast date: January 17, 2004 
broadcast time: 15:00 to 16:00 Eastern Standard Time, 14:00 to 15:00 Central Standard Time
http://passporttoknowledge.com/mars/firstlook.html
http://passporttoknowledge.com/mars/involved/firstlook.html
This is part two of three programs "To MARS with MER"
http://passporttoknowledge.com/mars/involved/broadcast.html

Teacher Planet - Mars Exploration Theme Page  teacher resources for Mars for past missions  and some links for MER.  The  NASA Center for Mars Exploration  has a link for a flow chart and concept map that gives a linkage to events.

Mars Express spots its first water ice CNN (2004 01 23)

The two Mars Moons

Deimos

NASA Deimos and read Deimos 

Planetscapes Deimos

http://www.seds.org/billa/tnp/deimos.html

Phobos

NASA - Phobos and read Phobos 

Planetscapes - Phobos 

http://www.seds.org/billa/tnp/phobos.html

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/phobos.html

Mars Fact Sheet - NASA

Flash presentation - Journey to Mars - NASA

Mars Images Gallery - NASA 

Seds Mars page 

 Solar Eclipse 

March 29, 2006 Total Solar Eclipse over Africa and the Mediterranean Sea

Information for student research projects from Earth Observatory.

Image 13459   or  Image 17230 EO
This astronaut image captures the umbral shadow across southern Turkey, northern Cyprus, and the Mediterranean Sea. The terminator of the eclipse—the line between the light and dark parts of the Sun’s disk— is visible as it passes across central Turkey.

Image 13456
Two images.  At 10:40 UTC ... the shadow of the Moon traveled across Libya and the Mediterranean.

Image 13453
The pitch-black central area, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) across, is the region of totality, where the Moon was completely eclipsing the Sun.

GIF animation showing the sequence of the shadow across Africa.

Eclipse - In a different light  special information on the Sun Earth day of an eclipse.

Sun Earth Day main web page.  Visit this Website to register.

Image 17228
Like the beam of a flashlight in reverse, the Moon casts its shadow over the Earth when it moves in front of the Sun during a total solar eclipse. Within this shadow, which measures about 100 miles across, day becomes night for a few minutes as the Sun’s disk turns black surrounded by a glowing halo.  Study the 2 images from previous Solar Eclipse and the background information on the research topic.

Solar Eclipse November 23, 2003 Antarctica 

Moon shadow image - Earth Observatory - look for the flashlight appearance!
Moon shadow image - NH 

Australian Antarctic Division - Home Page 

2003 Antarctica Eclipse Program 

Total solar eclipse - where can I see the eclipse- 

Mawson Station Webcam - Australian Antarctic Division 

The Seventh Continent 

Antarctic 

June 10, 2002 Solar Eclipse 

Sunset eclipse wows West  This CNN news story includes map, animation and video of the event.

New hyperlinks for October 28, 2002

Space Station Processing Facility

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

KSC Integrated Launch Forecast

European Space Agency

November 18 Meteor Shower

December 3, 2002 - Total Eclipse of the Sun / Australia

In Darkness- Africa -- Eclipse 2001 images

 Northern Lights 

Northern Lights image of October 29, 2003 and link to the Solar Flare of October 28, 2003.  Also see this link from Air Force. 

"Auroras"  The 5 images and text are remarkable and give a 'different angle' to view and study the Auroras.  The text is a good read on the causes of the Auroras.  Note the references to geographic locations and science terms that can improve word power for students.  Don Pettit's last image brings sunset and the Aurora to a new perspective.

 Stars 

Huge, bright star will have short life LBV1806-20, (January 6, 2004) 

 New links  

Sky and Telescope 

Jack Horkheimer - Star Gazer 

European Southern Observatory 

European Association for Astronomy Education (EAAE) 

EAAE Hot Links 

NASA Space Link for Education 

CNN related sites about Space 

ISTP Puzzles and Games    ISTP Concentration 

Revised:  June 18, 2007