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Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Stacy DeVeau, Director

NASA Educator Resource Center (ERC)

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

deveaus@erau.edu

928-777-6281

For Technical Support Call 1-888-617-7499

• 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

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

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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