Wonderful World of Satellites
"For teens and adults, this illustrated introduction to satellites includes sections on "Launching a Satellite into Orbit", "How Many Are Up There?" and "Firsts in Satellite History." It was the Russians who launched Sputnik, the world’s first satellite, on October 4, 1957. The Americans followed four months later, with their first satellite: the Explorer I. It may surprise you (as it did me) to learn the United States is NOT the country with the most satellites in orbit. Which country holds that title? I’ll let you look it up."
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Windows to the Universe: Mars
"Pages and pages of Mars delights await you at this educational site from the University ofMichigan. To begin, choose to view either the Beginner (upper elementary ages), Intermediate(middle school) or Advanced (high school and older) site. You’ll find the selection at the top ofeach page in a small centered menu. Best clicks are Latest News (""Mars Global Surveyor stillgoing strong."") and Tour Mars, a slide show presentation of eleven topics including Life on Mars?Mars Climate, and Water on Mars. Unfortunately site navigation requires extensive use of thebrowser back button to return to the main Mars menu.<!--"
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Who’s Out There?
"What if you were hired to lead a team searching for extraterrestrial intelligence? How would you search? Where would you search? And what would you look for? Design your own research project by answering these questions, and then test your alien-searching skills in this online game from the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute. For teachers, there is a resource guide to concepts and vocabulary linked from the opening page. "
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Where Were You July 20, 1969?"
Reviewed July 30, 1999 by a reader from Boston who is affiliated with the site. This is a great site for kids to get an understanding of what witnessing the first moon landing was really like. Read here stories from people all over the world about where they were and what they were doing on one of the most famous days in history, July 20, 1969.
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Where No Man Has Gone Before
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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What is a Lunar Eclipse?
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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What Causes a Lunar Eclipse?
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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What Causes an Eclipse?
""The gentle beauty of a lunar eclipse pales in comparison with the truly awesome spectacle of a total solar eclipse, which occurs when the new Moon passes directly between the Sun and the Earth. In the narrow path of totality swept across the Earth by the Moon’s complete shadow (the umbra), daytime briefly turns to an eerie darkness, and during these few precious minutes the wispy halo of the Sun – the corona – comes into view as the dark disk of the Moon totally obscures the bright Sun. Outside the path of totality, in the Moon’s partial shadow (the penumbra), some portion of the Sun’s bright disk remains visible.""
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Welcome to the Planets
"This is a collection of NASA’s best images from the planetary explorationprogram, extracted from the Planetary Data System CD-ROM. Great for schoolreports, this site contains lots of statistics. "
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Was Johnny Appleseed a Comet?
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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