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Fun Activities and Amazing Facts
Space Missions
Space Topics and Terms

Fun Activities and Amazing Facts:

Asteroid Nanorover
Asteroid Potatoes
Asteroid Naming Contest
Batteries for the Future
Binary Numbers
Communicating with Far Away Spacecraft
Connect the Dots
Cookies the Color of Stars
Cookies, Moon
Crossword Puzzle
Data Sending Times
Distance Travelled by Deep Space 1
Eyesight of the StarLight Spacecraft
El Niño Pudding
Falling into a Black Hole game
Galactic Mobile
Get a Space Nose
Hubble Space Telescope "Eyesight": Fun Fact
Io Tides
Ions in Action
Ion Engine Uses Tiny Force
Jigsaw Puzzle Map of the World
Launch a Rocket from a Spinning Planet
Magic Windows, Visit the Land of
Match the Infrared Face with the Visible Light Face
Mini-maze
Name the Trees from Space
Pop Rocket
Riddle of Hidden Planets
Saturn Model from a CD
Secret Code of Spacecraft and Computers
See Inside a Closed Box
Sixth Sense: What Space Mission Will Give Earthlings a Sixth Sense?
Sound Cone
Spinoffs Memory Game
Test a New Spacecraft Material
Topographic Map Making
Stereo Vision Experiments
Word Find

 

Space Missions:

ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal
Emission and Reflection Radiometer)
(Match Heat Faces with Light Faces)

Cassini (CD Saturn Model)
Chandra (Land of Magic Windows)
Comet Nucleus Sample Return
(Word Find Game)

Deep Space 1 (Asteroid Potatoes)
Deep Space 1 (Asteroid Naming)
Deep Space 1 (Connect the Dots)
Deep Space 1 (Data Rates)
Deep Space 1 (Distance to Travel)
Deep Space 1 (Ions in Actions)
Deep Space 1 (Ion Engine's Tiny Force)
Deep Space 1 (Launch from a Spinning Planet)
Deep Space 1 (Pop Rocket)
Deep Space Network (Super Sound Cone) Deep Space Network (Detecting Tiny Signal)
Earth Observing 1 (Naming Trees from Space)
Electronic Nose (E-Nose)
Galaxy Evolution Explorer (Galactic Mobile)
Galileo (Earthquake Riddle)
Hubble Space Telescope
Keck Interferometer (Crossword)
Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA)
MUSES/CN (Toy Nanorover)
New Millennium Program (Test New Spacecraft Material)
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
(Map Puzzle)

Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
(See-through Box
)
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
(Make a Topo Map)

Space Interferometry Mission (Star Cookies)
Space Program Spinoffs
Space Technology 5 (Li-ion Batteries)
Space Very Long Baseline Interferometry
StarLight (Riddle of Planets)
StarLight (Good "Eyesight")
(SVLBI) Program (Board Game)
TOPEX/Poseidon (El Niño Pudding)
Urbie Tactical Mobile Robot
Voyagers 1 and 2 (Secret Spacecraft Code)
Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (Hubble Space Telescope)
X2000 (Maze)

 

Space Topics and Terms:

Altimeter
Antennas
1, 2
Asteroids
Barycenter
Battery technology
Binary numbers
Chip (as in a spacecraft)
Comets
Communicating with spacecraft
Data (getting from spacecraft)
Earth (from space)
Electromagnetic spectrum
El Niño
Galaxies
Gravitational waves
Hexadecimal numbers
Imaging radar
1, 2
Infrared light
Interferometry
Ion engine
1, 2
Ions
Jupiter
1, 2
Launch window
Lens (telescope)
Mirror (telescope)
Nanorover (robot)
Neptune
Relief map
Rings
Rockets
Saturn
Smell, Sense of
Space technology applied to other things
Stars
Stereo vision (in a robot)
Tides
Topographic map
Uranus
Vacuum (of space)

 

 

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