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NASA E ducator R esource C enter N etwork Presents Earth in the Environment of the Sun Heliophysics: The Ultimate Border Control. NASA E ducator R esource C enter Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Stacy DeVeau, Director NASA Educator Resource Center (ERC) - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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NASA EEducator RResource CCenter
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Stacy DeVeau, Director
NASA Educator Resource Center (ERC)
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
928-777-6281
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• Accessing NASA Education Resources
• NASA Missions Exploring:• Earth’s Atmosphere• Magnetic Fields• Sun-Earth Connections• Boundaries within and the Boundary of
Our Solar System
• Related Classroom Activities
• Evaluation
Agenda
NASA Education Resourcesare Available…
• Online
• Available from C.O.R.E.
• In ERCs
Earth in the Environment of the SunHeliophysics: The Ultimate Border Control
• Heliophysics - The study of the region of space that the sun influences, also known as the heliosphere, and the objects that interact with it:
• Planetary Atmospheres
• Magnetospheres
• Solar Wind
• Interstellar Medium
Interstellar MediumAir : Space = 1 : 30,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms per cubic cm!
The Solar Environment
Our Solar System?
Our SOLAR System?…
Our SOLAR SYSTEM!
HeliosheathHeliosphere
Missions
Aeronomy of Ice in the Atmosphere
NLCs
or
PMCs
Aeronomy of Ice in the Atmosphere
Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere, Energetics and Dynamics
MMSMagnetospheric Multiscale Mission
Solar Magnetic Reconnection
Geo Magnetic Reconnection
THEMIS Time History of Events and Macroscale
Interactions during Substorms
THEMIS Time History of Events and Macroscale
Interactions during Substorms
Current Disruption vs. Magnetic Reconnection
0 sec. Current Disruption 0 sec. Magnetic Reconnection30 sec. Auroral Disruption90 sec. Current Disruption60 sec. Magnetic Reconnection 120 sec. Auroral Disruption
HESSIHigh Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager
IBEXInterstellar Boundary Explorer
This Just In…
What Does it Mean?
Classroom Activities
• Atmosphere• Layers of the Atmosphere
• Clouds and Cloud Formation
• Magnetosphere• Mapping Magnetic Fields
• Heliosphere• A Heliospheric Model
Next Workshop:
Exploring Microgravity Sat. January 30, 2010, 9:00-10:30 a.m. MST
.
What could be more exciting and fun than floating around in microgravity? Learn about the science and mathematics of microgravity, discover related classroom activities and materials, and learn about student experiments that have flown on NASA’s Reduced Gravity Aircraft.
Presented by: Jim Christensen, Iowa ERC