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Temperature and Earth Climate: Modeling Hot and Cold Planets
Presented by: Rudo Kashiri
January 24, 2013 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Eastern time
1 Introducing today’s presenter…
Rudo Kashiri NASA Explorer Schools Education Specialist NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA
2 Temperature and Climate- Modeling Hot and Cold Planets Presented by: Rudo Kashiri
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= 4 Agenda
Temperature and climate Featured lesson Physical models Computer models NASA Explorer Schools
5 Introduction
Subject: Earth Science Grades: 7-9 National Science Education Earth and Space Science Earth in the Solar System
6 Which planet is hotter?
Mercury
Venus
7 8 What determines a planet’s climate?
9 What is the Greenhouse Effect?
10 Venus: Runaway “Greenhouse Effect"
11 What do we know about Martian Atmosphere?
12 Mars: Then and Now
13 Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN Spacecraft or MAVEN
14 How Mars may have lost its Atmosphere
15 Sputtering
16 Any questions at this point?
17 What will students learn?
The effects of distance from the sun and surface reflectance (albedo). The impact on temperature of such variables as distance to light source, surface type and atmospheric characteristics.
18 Modeling Hot and Cold Planets
19 Activity Set Up
20 21 Any questions at this point?
22 Computer Model
23 24 25 26 Distance
27 Graph
28 29 Any questions at this point?
30 31 Role of the Atmosphere
32 Activity Set Up
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35 36 37 Thank you for joining us today.
Rudo Kashiri rudo.g.kashiri@nasa.gov
http://explorerschools.nasa.gov
38 Thanks to today’s presenter!
Rudo Kashiri NASA Explorer Schools Education Specialist NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA
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