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Aviara Oaks "Science Day" February 15th Thanks for the Invitation

Aviara Oaks - Internet Lab

EarthKAM Space Shuttle "Digital Imaging" Project Student Journal Link Presenter: Jay Klopfenstein Science/Media Communications Teacher Valley Junior High School, Carlsbad, CA KidSat: Valley's 1997 First Camera on the Shuttle EarthKAM I: Valley's 1998 Camera on the Shuttle Computer

NASA Quest Site for STS-99 Office of Earth Sciences Astronaut Photography Database EarthKAM EarthKAM II: This Mission's Main Menu Camera Link http://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu/~alopes/Webcast.html STS-99 Payload: Excellent Chart on the EarthKAM Camera Students Using Shuttle Camera to Capture Images Above the Earth Space Shuttle Endeavor Student Activities and Projects Space Shuttle - STS-99 Shuttle Countdown Online STS-99

Picture of the Endeavor - EarthKAM Launch February 11, 2000, 12:43 p.m. EST Flight STS-99 - Spacelink

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A view of Jamaica from EarthKAM

STS-99 Electronic Photo File for Student Web Page Development

Track the Orbit of the Endeavor Space Shuttle and Our EarthKAM Camera Human Space Flight (HSF) - Real Time Orbital Tracking Link New Science: Mission to Map the World in 3D (02/11/00)

SRTM: Data Coverage

Student Questions: Try to find the answers using the links below each question?
Work in teams of two to answer the questions about this shuttle mission:

1. Locate over what part of the World the space shuttle is now? What continent?
Human Space Flight (HSF) - Real Time Orbital Tracking Link

2. What country? What city? What latitude and longitude in direction and degrees?
Human Space Flight (HSF) - Real Time Orbital Tracking Link

3. When did the Space Shuttle Endeavor lift-off?
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission

4. List some quick facts about this mission?
SRTM: Quick Facts

5. Why are we mapping the World in 3D with this mission?
SRTM: Why Map the World With Radar?

6. What percentage ( %) of the World will be imaged by the 3D cameras?
SRTM: Data Coverage

7. What's are EarthKAM students working on during this mission?
Kids Photograph Earth

8. How are SpaceKids involved in working with EarthKAM students on this project?
SpaceKids.com

9. What are Spacekids discovering about EarthKAM and the Endeavor Shuttle?

Say Cheese
A Good Use of Space
Kids Winning Endeavor
What's Up with Endeavor?
Tick, Tick, Tick
The Glitch who Stole Liftoff

10. Who are the crew members and what is unique about each one on this mission?

Who's Working the Day Shift?
Who's Working the Night Shift?
You Snooze, We Lose
A Good Book and Chocolate - Voss
From Fighter Planes to Space - Gorie
Japanese Celebrity - Mohri
Dare to Dream - Thiele
Earning her Pay - Kavandi
The Easiest Job? Kregel

11. How many schools are taking part in his mission? Where is Valley on this list? What special imaging project is Valley working on?

Kids Photograph Earth
Lucky Schools
Valley's "NASA Project Proposal" on the "Deforestation Dilemma"

12. What is taking place behind the scenes on this mission?

Road Trip to Space
Space Food - coming soon!

13. Over what areas of the World are images being taken?

Shuttle Gallery
EarthKAM Gallery
Hubble Space Telescope Gallery

14. Who is being interviewed? What is taking place on the live camera?

Live NASA TV

http://www.space.com/missioncontrol/
United Space Alliance NASA-TV Video Link
Real Player Live Webcasting of the EarthKAM and Endeavor Shuttle Project
Live Camera views
Kennedy Space Center Video Feeds

15. What is the current elapsed time of the mission?

mission/event clock

STS-99 Patch
16. Ask about constructing one of the following space projects in class or with parent help?

Spacelink - Rockets the site for our Adobe PDF class printouts on shuttles and rockets.
Make a Pop Rocket methods for making a 35mm. film canister paper rocket launcher
The MUSES-CN Nanorover use a balloon and styrofoam plates to make a terrestrial surface rover
CosmicQuest - Build a Space Station to Monitor the Earth Environment
Be a Spacecraft Engineer.
NASA Spacelink - An Aeronautics & Space Resource for Staff and Students

17. How long is the mast for the radar imaging equipment that makes 3D images of the earth's surface?
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
SRTM Insignia

WELCOME TO NIMA's PUBLIC HOME PAGE

18. How far North and South of the equator are the 3D radar images being made of the earth?