HR: 1340h
AN: SM23A-0399 INVITED [Abstracts]
TI: Teaching the Invisible: Education and Public Outreach for the MMS Mission
AU: * Reiff, P H
EM: reiff@rice.edu
AF: Rice Space Institute, 6100 Main St. MS 108, Houston, TX 77005
United States
AU: Jensen, D
EM: djensen@rice.edu
AF: Rice Space Institute, 6100 Main St. MS 108, Houston, TX 77005
United States
AU: Law, C C
EM: colinlaw@rice.edu
AF: Rice Space Institute, 6100 Main St. MS 108, Houston, TX 77005
United States
AU: Boice, D
EM: dboice@swri.edu
AF: Southwest Research Institute, 6220 Culebra, San Antonio, TX 782328
United States
AU: Torbert, R
EM: roy.torbert@unh.edu
AF: University of New Hampshire, Space Science Center, Durham, NH 03824
United States
AU: CoBabe-Ammann, E
EM: ecobabe@lasp.colorado.edu
AF: University of Colorado, LASP, Boulder, CO 80303
United States
AU: Allan, J
EM: jimallan@tsbvi.edu
AF: Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, 1100 W. 45th St., Austin, TX 78756
United States
AU: Slatin, J
EM: john_slatin@austin.utexas.edu
AF: University of Texas, Accessibility Institute, Austin, TX 78756
United States
AB:
The goal of the MMS EPO team is both to help inspire the next generation of scientists and to improve scientific literacy in
the public, with reconnection as the principal science theme. Missions with spectacular images can readily captivate the
public; missions that depend on subtle difference between measurements at four locations require more clever techniques. The
MMS mission will use weather front analogies to demonstrate why four spacecraft are needed to determine boundary orientation
and motion; and data sonification techniques to allow vision-impaired learners to hear each boundary being crossed. Student
summer programs to reach underserved communities, special courses for teachers, student-created web pages, games, and
immersive planetarium shows are all part of the MMS EPO effort.
UR: http://space.rice.edu/MMS/
DE: 0805 Elementary and secondary education
DE: 0815 Informal education
DE: 7835 Magnetic reconnection (2723, 7526)
SC: SPA-Magnetospheric Physics [SM]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005