HR: 13:40h
AN: ED33C-01 [Abstracts]
TI: Packaging a successful NASA mission to reach a large audience within a small budget.
Earth's Dynamic Space: Solar-Terrestrial Physics & NASA's Polar Mission
AU: * Fox, N J
EM: nicola.fox@jhuapl.edu
AF: Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, MD 20723
United States
AU: Goldberg, R
EM: richard.goldberg@jhuapl.edu
AF: Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, MD 20723
United States
AU: Barnes, R J
EM: robin.barnes@jhuapl.edu
AF: Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, MD 20723
United States
AU: Sigwarth, J B
EM: john.b.sigwarth@nasa.gov
AF: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771
United States
AU: Beisser, K B
EM: kerri.beisser@jhuapl.edu
AF: Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, MD 20723
United States
AU: Moore, T E
EM: thomas.e.moore@nasa.gov
AF: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771
United States
AU: Hoffman, R A
EM: robert.a.hoffman@nasa.gov
AF: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771
United States
AU: Russell, C T
EM: ctrussell@igpp.ucla.edu
AF: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024
United States
AU: Scudder, J
EM: jds@space-theory.physics.uiowa.edu
AF: University of Iowa, Van Allen Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242
United States
AU: Spann, J F
EM: james.f.spann@nasa.gov
AF: NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center, National Space Science and Technology Center
320 Sparkman Dr, Huntsville, AL 35805
United States
AU: Newell, P T
EM: patrick.newell@jhuapl.edu
AF: Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, MD 20723
United States
AU: Hobson, L J
EM: lee.hobson@jhuapl.edu
AF: Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, MD 20723
United States
AU: Gribben, S P
EM: steven.gribben@jhuapl.edu
AF: Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, MD 20723
United States
AU: OBrien, J E
EM: john.obrien@jhuapl.edu
AF: Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, MD 20723
United States
AU: Menietti, J D
EM: jdm@space.physics.uiowa.edu
AF: University of Iowa, Van Allen Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242
United States
AU: Germany, G G
EM: germanyg@cspar.uah.edu
AF: University of Alabama in Huntsville, S131 Technology Hall, Huntsville, AL 35899
United States
AU: Mobilia, J
EM: joseph.mobilia@lmco.com
AF: Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, 3251 Hanover St, Palo Alto, CA 94304
United States
AU: Schulz, M
EM: mike.schulz@lmco.com
AF: Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, 3251 Hanover St, Palo Alto, CA 94304
United States
AB:
To showcase the on-going and wide-ranging scope of the Polar science discoveries, the Polar science team has created a
one-stop shop for a thorough introduction to geospace physics, in the form of a DVD with supporting website. The DVD, Earth's
Dynamic Space: Solar-Terrestrial Physics & NASA's Polar Mission, can be viewed as an end-to-end product or split into
individual segments and tailored to lesson plans.
Capitalizing on the Polar mission and its amazing science return, the Polar team created an exciting multi-use DVD intended
for audiences ranging from a traditional classroom and after school clubs, to museums and science centers. The DVD tackles
subjects such as the aurora, the magnetosphere and space weather, whilst highlighting the science discoveries of the Polar
mission. This platform introduces the learner to key team members as well as the science principles. Dramatic visualizations
are used to illustrate the complex principles that describe Earth’s dynamic space.
In order to produce such a wide-ranging product on a shoe-string budget, the team poured through existing NASA resources to
package them into the Polar story, and visualizations were created using Polar data to complement the NASA stock footage.
Scientists donated their time to create and review scripts in order to make this a real team effort, working closely with the
award winning audio-visual group at JHU/Applied Physics Laboratory.
The team was excited to be invited to join NASA’s Sun-Earth Day 2005 E/PO program and the DVD will be distributed as
part of the supporting educational packages.
UR: http://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/polar/space-weather-dvd
DE: 2407 Auroral ionosphere (2704)
DE: 2784 Solar wind/magnetosphere interactions
DE: 2788 Storms and substorms
DE: 0815 Informal education
DE: 0845 Instructional tools
SC: Education and Human Resourcese [ED]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting