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DIGITAL RESOURCES To learn more about NASA Science Mission Directorate Education and Public Outreach programs, contact a Forum • http://1.usa.gov/Sp5RO8

Image Impact http://discovery.nasa.gov/ImageImpact/ impact.cfml Image Impact features scientists from three missions explaining what science images from their space missions mean to them. Kepler Interactives http://kepler.nasa.gov/education/ NASA’s Science Mission Connecting with NASA via ModelsandSimulations/interactives Directorate Social Media The Kepler spacecraft education team has Find information about all of NASA’s www.nasa.gov/connect/index.html developed computer interactives related to unmanned science spacecraft missions: Many of NASA’s spacecraft missions and the search for extrasolar planets. • Earth science: http://science.nasa. other programs are available via their gov/earth-science/missions accounts on social media sites, including: • Sun/heliophysics science: http:// TwitterTM • Facebook TM • UStreamTVTM • Four- science.nasa.gov/heliophysics squareTM • Google+TM • YouTubeTM • FlickrTM • • Planetary science, including Earth’s TM and Slideshare . Check them out! moon: http://science.nasa.gov/ planetary-science CosmoQuest Moon Mappers • Astrophysics science, including Citizen Science Project Hubble, Chandra, and more: http:// http://cosmoquest.org/mappers/moon science.nasa.gov/astrophysics CosmoQuest Moon Mappers has launched to answer a debate that has existed for Science Bulletins decades: scientists still don’t know what www.amnh.org/explore/science- the best sun angle is to identify craters, or bulletins NASA’s Earth Observatory if there are other biases that are dependent This website brings current science to the http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov upon angle. Participants identify lunar cra- general public, informal learning centers, ters to help address this ongoing debate. The Earth Observatory features daily im- and classrooms. The three Science ages, stories, and discoveries about climate and — Eyes on the Solar System Bulletins—Astro, Earth, Bio and the environment that emerge from present ongoing research and recent http://eyes.nasa.gov/index.html NASA Earth science research, including discoveries in astrophysics, Earth science, Eyes on the Solar System is an online its satellite missions, in-the-field research and biodiversity. Each bulletin has three 3-D environment of real NASA mission data. campaigns, and climate models. types of stories: features, data visualiza- Explore the cosmos from your computer. tions, and weekly news snapshots. digital resources Hop on an asteroid. Fly with NASA’s Voyager Planet Families spacecraft. See the entire solar system www.alienearths.org/online/starand moving in real time. planetformation/planetfamilies.php NASA WAVELENGTH Exo’s Discovery Try to build the perfect solar system. See how different planets react with one another, provides a pathway into a digital http://discovery.nasa.gov/Exos and see how some planets are important in collection of Earth and space Discovery.cfml keeping the solar system stable. Play alone, science resources for educators Exo’s Discovery is an online, interactive or team up with other online players! game for students to explore the solar of all levels—from elementary to system and complete three missions. Planet Hunters Citizen college to out-of-school programs. NASA Wavelength allows you to Hubble Space Science Project quickly and easily locate resources Telescope Resources www.planethunters.org Planet Hunters, the latest project from the that have been developed through http://hubblesite.org Zooniverse, is a citizen science project. Par- funding by NASA’s Science Information and images from the Hubble ticipants help sieve through data taken by Space Telescope are available online, includ- Mission Directorate. the NASA Kepler space mission and search ing all press releases, background informa- for possible transit events with the goal of For more information, visit tion, and all release images and videos. discovering a planet around another star. • NASAWavelength.org www.nasa.gov