JMARS:
Java Mission-planning and Remote Sensing Research, or JMARS, is the geospatial data analysis method developed by Mars Space Flight Facility at Arizona State University. It allows images to be assembled from various datasets, i.e. you can take high-resolution photographs of a specific location, and overlay data from instruments. The research teams use JMARS for observation preparation for such missions as the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mars Odyssey, and the same program is open to the public. Additionally, a special version of JMARS was created for K-12 grade students. Teachers will supplement textbooks directly from the Mars rovers and satellites with extremely high-resolution imagery, complete with thermal overlays, geographic data, 3D layers, and other such data.
Orbital Data Explorer:
The Orbital Data Explorer helps users to locate orbital science data from NASA's Planetary Data System and download it. (According to its website, the PDS is "a NASA-sponsored agency that collects and distributes high-quality planetary data to the science community.") What this means is that by drawing from dozens of databases, research instruments and satellites, you can learn pretty much anything you'll ever want to know about something, ever, in program-supported worlds. The currently funded Orbital Data Explorer datasets include Mercury, Venus, the (Earth) moon, and Mars.
Lunar Mapping And Modeling Portal:
NASA's Lunar Mapping and Modeling Platform enables users to pull different types of images from outside bodies, overlaying them to help promote material correlation (e.g. mineralogy, gravity, etc.). Users can search by form and purpose of the instrument, and use the device to measure items like elevation and angle of sunlight. Using this platform, students, educators, and researchers alike can look around for a good location to land a spacecraft, examine the platform and landscape, and map out a lunar rover's course. Perhaps the best feature of all allows you to find a place you want, draw a box around it and create an STL file — the file format 3D printers use. If you said printer, for research and appreciation, you can then print your little piece of the Moon or anything you selected.
Space By Tinybop:
This app is best used when teachers offer students the opportunity to play and experiment first; then bring students together to document their findings afterwards. Students would need some simple guidance about how to use the various resources before starting. It provides the teachers with a helpful handbook on their website. The handbook includes a summary of the topics that have been discussed, discussion questions and tips for using the app. Teachers will help students look into their experiences for trends and make predictions during class. For starters, they may find that it burns up when you throw a rock at a planet with an atmosphere. Send the students back to the app after testing, to check their predictions.
Sky Guide:
Any science or astronomy or STEM classroom equipped with iOS devices can use Sky Guide. Using the app to look at nighttime stars and other space objects, or even during the day, because it allows you to view in any direction what's out in space at any time. Alternatively, use the time travel option to see how the night sky appeared in history at a certain date, visit the day you were born alternatively see what the sky appeared like in historical events. You may also adjust the position of your observation to be anywhere on the planet including the opposite hemisphere. Using it to recognize stars and other objects in the sky, or watch satellites in their orbit, if your class will use the device at night. The use of Sky Guide near dawn or dusk offers a chance to see iridium flares.
Use today view to remember the rising and falling of the moon and all planets, along with the passes of weather and satellites. There's an option to decrease sky brightness to suit the app's view of what the night sky looks like where you're, making it easier to spot the brightest stars. Sky Guide operates without Wi-Fi, mobile coverage or GPS so you and your class can use the software anywhere once it's enabled.
This app is best used when teachers offer students the opportunity to play and experiment first; then bring students together to document their findings afterwards. Students would need some simple guidance about how to use the various resources before starting. It provides the teachers with a helpful handbook on their website. The handbook includes a summary of the topics that have been discussed, discussion questions and tips for using the app. Teachers will help students look into their experiences for trends and make predictions during class. For starters, they may find that it burns up when you throw a rock at a planet with an atmosphere. Send the students back to the app after testing, to check their predictions.
Sky Guide:
Any science or astronomy or STEM classroom equipped with iOS devices can use Sky Guide. Using the app to look at nighttime stars and other space objects, or even during the day, because it allows you to view in any direction what's out in space at any time. Alternatively, use the time travel option to see how the night sky appeared in history at a certain date, visit the day you were born alternatively see what the sky appeared like in historical events. You may also adjust the position of your observation to be anywhere on the planet including the opposite hemisphere. Using it to recognize stars and other objects in the sky, or watch satellites in their orbit, if your class will use the device at night. The use of Sky Guide near dawn or dusk offers a chance to see iridium flares.
Use today view to remember the rising and falling of the moon and all planets, along with the passes of weather and satellites. There's an option to decrease sky brightness to suit the app's view of what the night sky looks like where you're, making it easier to spot the brightest stars. Sky Guide operates without Wi-Fi, mobile coverage or GPS so you and your class can use the software anywhere once it's enabled.
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