1. Unit 5: Space Exploration
Topic 1:For Our Eyes Only
Topic 2: Stronger Eyes and Better Numbers
Topic 3: the Spectroscope:New meanings in Light
Topic 4: Bigger and Smarter Telescopes
Topic 5: What Channel is That?
Topic 6: Above the Atmosphere and Under Control
Topic 7: the Solar System up Close
Topic 8: People in Space

2. General Space Knowledge:

3. You tubes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8eFFnJsCjs

4. What Happened to Pluto?
is the second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System (after Eris) and the tenth-largest body observed directly orbiting the Sun
composed primarily of rock and ice and is relatively small
Because of Pluto's very low mass, its status as a major planet began to be questioned

7. Solar Eclipse

8. Lunar Eclipse

9. Topic 1: For our Eyes Only

10. Frames of Reference
A set of axis of any kind that is used to describe the positions or motions of things
Examples: Earth’s axis is 23.5 degrees
The Equator and the Prime meridian
Latitude and Longitude

11. What Our Ancestors Believed
Earth Centered Model (geocentric)
Invented by Aristotle and believed for 2000 years

12. What Our Ancestors Saw
Celestial Bodies (Earth, moon, stars, and Planets)
Stars make unchanging patterns called constellations
Each day a star rises and sets four minutes earlier than the day before
The sun and moon rises and sets at a different rate than the stars
The five other bodies(Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn rise and set at different rates and seem to “wander” across the sky

13. Sky Co-ordinates

16. How to Measure Azimuth and Altitude
Astrolabe
Compass

17. What is the Best Frame of Reference?
Stars
They are fixed and all other celestial bodies rotate and move.