Module 4: Astrobiology and planetesimals
Questioning Habitable Planets
Link
Astrobiology Magazine
http://www.astrobio.net/news/
The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia—
www.obspm.fr/encycl/encycl.html
Gravity simulator—
www.arachnoid.com/gravitation
This is a site that has a gravity simulator for making your own
solar systems and “playing” with gravity.
Download Individual Modules on MESSENGER Education Modules:
Comparative Planetology page at:
http://btc.montana.edu/messenger/teachers/MEMS_CompPlanetology.php#voyage
Exploring Ice in the Solar System, a NASA-funded educational CD authored by Dr. Richard Shope from JPL and produced by Dr. Julie Edmonds at the Carnegie Academy for Science Education for the Carnegie Institutions of Washington MESSENGER and Astrobiology projects, was rated “outstanding” in a NASA space science education product review.
http://www.ipy.org/index.php?/ipy/detail/ice_in_the_solar_system_activities/
Cryobotic Exploration of Mars
http://cmex.arc.nasa.gov/CMEX/index.html
Mars Concept Maps
Building Bridges with Astrobiology
Researchers: http://nai.arc.nasa.gov/teachers/teacher_topics.cfm?ID=1
“Gullies” on Mars Web Sties
CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/06/22/mars.water.03/
Space.com
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/mars_science_findings_000622.html
NASA
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/science/
Jennifer Heldman’s Research
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astrobio_mars_030212.html
http://www.resa.net/nasa/antarctica.htm
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=266
Pluto: Ninth Planet or Not! Nine Models of Teaching! Nine Lessons!
By Richard Shope
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu
The mission to Pluto/Charon and the Kuiper Belt
http://www.plutoportal.net
Alan Stern and Jacqueline Mitton
Pluto and Charon: Ice Worlds on the Ragged Edge of the Solar System
Europa
The Galileo web site
Charles White comparing ice on Earth and Europa
Frank Carsey discussing the inferences about Europa from the point of view of knowing about sea ice
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo
Exploring Europa
http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov/news/expandnews.cfm?id=1211
Mercury
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/ice/ice_mercury.html
Ice on Mercury
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu
Moon
http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Dec96/IceonMoon.html
Ice on the Bone Dry Moon
Written by Paul D. Spudis Deputy Leader of theClementine Science Team
http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov
Lunar Prospector site, including discussions of ice on the Moon and a relatively easy
to understand explanation of the neutron spectrometer
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/ice/ice_moon.html
Ice on the Moon, discussion of Lunar
