Sun-Earth CONNECTION, Volume III, Issue 3, March 18, 2002

THE SUN-EARTH CONNECTION

An Education and Public Outreach (EPO) Newsletter

for the Sun-Earth Connection Science Community - and beyond!

March 18, 2002 Volume III, Issue 3

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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   =>  1. March 20 is National Sun-Earth Connection Awareness Day

   =>  2. NASA Connect: "Having A Solar Blast" Starts Airing

          on March 28^th (Includes Access Information)

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1. MARCH 20 IS NATIONAL SUN-EARTH CONNECTION AWARENESS DAY

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The second annual Sun-Earth Day will "Celebrate the

Equinox" on March 20 with programs and activities at NASA

Centers and a two-hour televised webcast featuring

discussions on the Sun's connection to the Earth through

images, cultural parallels and activities that Native

Americans have used to share Sun-Earth science through

several generations.

Groups in classrooms, museums, shopping malls, planetariums

and auditoriums around the world will participate in Sun-

Earth Day -- a celebration of the Sun, the space around the

Earth (geospace) and how both affect life on the planet.

Nearly every NASA Center and NASA Educator Resource Center

has planned an event for science teachers and students or for

the public in conjunction with Sun-Earth Day. Specifically,

more than 4,500 science teachers have been invited to

education workshops related to the science of the Sun-Earth

connection.

NASA Television will air the special two-hour webcast on

March 20 from 1 to 3 p.m. EST. Host Paul Mortfield, an

astronomer from the Stanford Solar Center in Stanford,

Calif., will be joined by students at NASA's Ames Research

Center, Moffett Field, Calif., to share the results of

activities designed to learn more about the Sun.

The webcast will begin with an explanation of the Lakota

celebration of the equinox at Harney Peak, S.D. This

introduction will include Lakota cultural parallels to the

science of the Sun. The program also will feature a

discussion with Astronaut John Young -- who made his first

trip to space in a Gemini two-man capsule, walked on the moon

on Apollo 16 and commanded the first space shuttle flight --

about the effects of the Sun on space travel.

Another activity will be "Telescopes in Education," in which

participants will turn solar telescopes toward the Sun and

explore the only star that can be studied up close. NASA's

Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., will host more

than 60 children from Eliot Middle School. Via the Internet,

the students will operate a telescope located at Mount Wilson

Observatory, high above the Los Angeles basin in the San

Gabriel Mountains.

The Telescopes In Education program allows educators and

students around the world to remotely control research-

quality telescopes and cameras created at JPL and located at

the Mount Wilson Observatory. All they need is a computer

with a modem and special astronomy software.

The Sun-Earth Day event is sponsored by NASA's Sun-Earth

Connection Education Forum, Ames Research Center and the

Stanford Solar Center.

More information on the webcast can be found at:

http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/sso/events/stanford_solar/sunearthday1.html

More information about Sun-Earth Days events in other

communities is available at:

http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/sunearthday/

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2. NASA CONNECT: "HAVING A SOLAR BLAST” STARTS AIRING ON MAR. 28

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NASA Connect: "Having A Solar Blast" starts airing on March 28th

at 11 ET on NASA TV and PBS/Education Channels. The NASA Connect

activity (integrated science and math for middle school) was

created by Michelle Larson of the HESSI mission. Sten Odenwald of

the IMAGE mission, Eric Christian of ACE, Michelle Larson of HESSI

and Terry Kucera of SOHO are host scientists for the program.

DATA ANALYSIS AND MEASUREMENT: Having a Solar Blast

Starts airing: Thursday, March 28, 2002, 11 am ET

Runtime: 28:30 minutes

YOU MAY ACCESS THIS PROGRAM IN THREE WAYS:

1) Your local PBS program. Starts airing: Thursday, March 28, 2002,

11 am ET. Broadcast dates and times may vary. Check your local

PBS station. http://www.pbs.org/whatson/index.html

2) Satellite TV Ku Band

AMC 3 K23, 12174.75 MHz (Digicypher II SCPC digital feed,

Virtual Channel 513) C-Band Telstar 6, C01 3720 MHz V, audio

subcarriers are 6.2 MHz (Left) and 6.8 MHz (Right)

3) Approximately 2 weeks after the March 28th broadcast date,

obtain a copy of the video from NASA CORE, 15181 State Route 58,

Oberlin, OH 44074-9799

Phone: 440/775-1400, fax: 440/775-1460

E-mail: nasaco@leeca.esu.k12.oh.us, URL: <http://core.nasa.gov/

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Newsletter Sponsor Info: Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum

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An integral element of the Office of Space Science (OSS)

education and public outreach strategy is the establishment of

a network for space science to foster a wide variety of edu-

cation and public outreach activities. This network of

institutions include (1) four Education Forums that serve as

major centers for space science education and public outreach

in each of the four OSS Themes, and (2) a set of regional

Broker/Facilitators who, for example, help arrange collab-

orations between scientists and the education community.

The Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum (SECEF) is a partner-

ship led by Goddard Space Flight Center and UC Berkeley’s

Space Sciences Laboratory. To learn more about SECEF and the

Office of Space Science Education and Public Outreach program,

go to:

http://spacescience.nasa.gov/education/ecosystem/index.htm

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The Sun-Earth CONNECTION Education and Public Outreach

newsletter is issued approximately every 4-6 weeks. Back issues

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The Newsletter is sponsored by the NASA Sun-Earth Connection

Education Forum (Goddard Space Flight Center and UC Berkeley;

Rich Vondrak and Isabel Hawkins, Co-Directors) Sun-Earth

Connection Education Forum Web Site:

http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov and

http://sunearth.ssl.berkeley.edu

Please direct all submissions to the newsletter to:

Karin Hauck (Editor) - E-mail: editor@sunearth.ssl.berkeley.edu

Phone: (510) 642-2343 Fax: (510) 643-5660

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