1. Space Exploration- Tools
Year 1 Science

2. Class Opener
Use your timeline to construct an Instagram post about an important event that took place in space history.
Your post must contain:
color
a username (actual or made-up)
at least 3 hashtags that relate to your image
a caption about your image

4. What tools do we use for space exploration?

5. Space Exploration Tools

6. Why do we explore space?
Exploring space allows us to learn about our solar system, the composition of the planets and moons, and the effects of the sun on Earth (such as radiation and gravitational force).
With exploration comes the use of important tools.

7. Space Probes
Unpiloted device sent to explore space and gather information
Is given instruments and tools to use to study planets, moons, comets, etc.
Can land on a body (lander), orbit (orbiter), or may fly out one way and never return
The next probe will arrive to Pluto this year!
Probe Video

9. International Space Station
A type of satellite that orbits Earth
Can be seen from Earth
Orbits Earth about 16x a day!
Serves as a “science lab” that will test spacecraft systems and equipment needed for future missions

10. Hubble Telescope Orbits the Earth at 5 miles/second
Was launched in 1990
Takes many pictures of our solar system
Helps scientists understand
1) the uniqueness of Earth and its place in our solar system and universe
2) there are millions of galaxies in space, each containing solar systems

11. Fermi-Gamma Ray Space Telescope
Has found an unknown structure in the middle of our galaxy
The feature stretches 50,000 light-years and may be the remains of an eruption from a black hole at the center of our galaxy
Gamma Ray Telescope

12. The Chandra Ray Observatory
Chandra detects X-ray images from very hot regions of the Universe such as exploded stars, clusters of galaxies, and matter around black holes.
Part of the “Great Observatories”

13. The Great Observatories
4 telescopes that specifically are made to different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum:
The Hubble Space Telescope observes visible light, some UV, and infrared
Fermi Gamma Ray Telescope observes gamma rays
The Chandra X-Ray Observatory observes X-rays
Spitzer Space Telescope observes infrared