Archive for the ‘space’ Category
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Space travel to the moon – watch an Apollo video
Apollo 11 Introduction
This montage video shows highlights from the Apollo 11 mission, from liftoff in Florida to departure from the moon. -
Students can now explore the cosmos from their PCs
Terapixel enables seamless panning and zooming over the entire night sky.
In a project that aims to pull a new generation of students toward science and technology, Microsoft and NASA have teamed up to create what they say is the largest seamless, spherical map ever made of the night sky, as well as a true-color, high-resolution map of Mars that users can explore on their computers in 3D.
The mission, Microsoft and NASA say, is to inspire today’s students and spark interest in the STEM fields, and it appears to be working: In studying photos of Mars taken by a NASA spacecraft, a group of seventh graders in California earlier this year discovered a previously unknown cave, as well as lava tubes that NASA scientists hadn’t noticed
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Play the game: Build Our Milky Way
From Galaxies Galore, An Amazing Space online exploration.
Play the game: Build our Milky Way
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We choose the moon – investigate travel to the moon
We Choose the Moon is an interactive experience recreating the historic Apollo 11 mission to the Moon in real time.
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Where oh where does that little planet go?
Play the game to put the planets in their proper places
