AN EDUCATION AND OUTREACH PROJECT Jim Thieman and Chuck Higgins RADIO JOVE AN EDUCATION AND OUTREACH PROJECT Jim Thieman and Chuck Higgins 1999 IDEAS

RADIO JOVE TEAM NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center University of Florida Jim Thieman Chuck Higgins Jim Gass Bill Taylor Len Garcia Lou Mayo Ron Parise Jim Green University of Florida Francisco Reyes Wes Greenman Tom Carr RF Associates Dick Flagg Florida Space Grant Consortium Jaydeep Mukherjee Education Community Bill Pine Tom Smith

Radio JOVE is sparked by grants from: FUNDING Radio JOVE is sparked by grants from: • NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Director’s Discretionary Fund (DDF) • The Initiative to Develop Education through Astronomy and Space Science (IDEAS) …and a lot of effort from many hard-working volunteers

RADIO JOVE - GOALS • Educate people about planetary and solar radio astronomy, space physics, and the scientific method • Provide teachers and students with a hands-on radio astronomy exercise as a science curriculum support activity • Create an on-line radio observatory that provides real time observations and data for those with Internet access • Allow interactions among participating schools by facilitating exchanges of ideas, data, and observing experiences

RADIO JOVE - AUDIENCE • High School Science classes • College science courses or laboratories • Activities could be extended to middle school classrooms

RADIO JOVE LEVELS OF INVOLVEMENT • Build a kit, make observations, and contribute to central pool of data • Work with local amateur radio operators (“ham” club) • Use remote radio telescope to observe Jupiter or the Sun and learn a little radio astronomy

INSPIRE OVERVIEW

Example Successes - INSPIRE 1700 VLF receiver kits distributed to schools and individuals throughout the world Reached hundreds of teachers Reached thousands or tens of thousands of students Held five teacher workshops to train master teachers in classroom use INSPIRE - IKI (Space Research Institute, Moscow) agreement to fire pulsed electron beam over INSPIRE sites, eight days per year Steve McGreevy on NPR describing Natural Radio (VLF), April, 1999

INSPIRE KIT

TYPICAL SETUP Science Knowledge Fun + + =

OBSERVING FREQUENCY LIMITATIONS

JUPITER AND IO

RADIO SOURCE PROBABILITIES

CML - IO PROBABILITY DEPENDENCE

PLANETARY MAGNETISM

JUPITER’S MAGNETIC FIELD

IO RADIO STORM BEAMING ASYMMETRY

RADIATION BEAMING

TYPICAL SETUP

RADIO JOVE CONSTRUCTION

CHART RECORDER PROGRAM

RADIO JOVE SPECTRAL ANALYSIS

RADIO JOVE - TIMELINE • Radio JOVE kits will be available in late May 1999. Projected cost: $100.00. First 100 schools will receive kit for $50. Additional costs for tools, building materials, and a recording device could reach $130.00. • Radio JOVE website (http://radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov) is available now, but will become fully operational by August 1999. • Teacher resources will be developed during the summer of 1999.

SUMMARY • Radio JOVE is a fun hands-on activity in radio astronomy for teaching the scientific method • The project closely parallels professional radio observing • The project supports National Education Standards subject areas such as electricity and magnetism, solar system, influence of the Sun, etc. • Classroom involvement can be as simple as looking at radio astronomy data on the web • Kits are available now for those who are interested

INSPIRE KINSHIP We use the INSPIRE (Interactive NASA Space Physics Ionosphere Radio Experiments) project network of schools as a starting point for involvement • There is synergy and there are lessons to be learned from this successful program • INSPIRE schools have demonstrated interest in radio science • Schools had received INSPIRE radio kits, but the JOVE receiver kit would be different • Radio JOVE will extend the science from the Earth’s ionosphere to Jupiter and solar radio emissions • The INSPIRE web site and mailing list can be used in conjunction with Radio JOVE activities to benefit both projects http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/inspire/

SCIENCE BACKGROUND

OUTLINE • What is Radio JOVE? • Radio Waves? From a planet? • • What does a school do?

CONCEPTS GOAL: Use radio astronomy activities to teach students the scientific method STEPS: • Project personnel develop ~$100 radio receiver kits for Jupiter and solar observations • Prototype kits are tested at radio observatory and at middle/high schools • Central web site developed with radio astronomy education modules and observation information • Project purchases first 100 kits and distributes at discounted rate to interested schools • Schools learn about radio astronomy, build kits, and make observations • Schools analyze and contribute data to central repository for International Jupiter Watch • Schools or individuals can also observe Jupiter or the Sun through a professional radio telescope made available through the web • Project evaluates, revises, and expands

GROUND-BASED RADIO OBSERVATIONS

STORM OCCURRENCE PROBABILITY

TOUR THROUGH JUPITER’S MAGNETOSPHERE

Upcoming Efforts - INSPIRE INSPIRE Online Stream output of INSPIRE receiver at University of Florida Radio Observatory Those who cannot participate by purchasing kits or finding an electromagnetically quiet location will be able to hear, record and analyze audio over the Internet Supported by GSFC Director’s Discretionary Fund Will begin in summer of 1999 Aurora Video and Audio (AVA) System designed for high school use, with a core of ten systems around northern auroral oval All-sky camera utilizing a digital camera with a fisheye lens mounted inside a weatherproof dome INSPIRE VLF receiver system Connection to internet to automatically collect images and sound files and ftp them to INSPIRE archive for use by students world wide AVAs available as kits for schools and individuals to be placed anywhere

INSPIRE

INSPIRE (cont.)

IMAGE/INSPIRE

OVERVIEW • Radio JOVE Team • Purpose/Concepts • Funding • Scientific Background • Accomplishments to Date • What to Expect • Timeline • Conclusions/Summary

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