Presentation to Mrs. Alexander’s GATE Class

Posted by admin on April 16, 2021
Posted in: Uncategorized.

Introduction to Perseverance – https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2020/6/17/meet-nasas-next-mars-rover-perseverance-launching-this-summer/

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/participate/sounds/

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/audio/

https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/24931/mars-helicopter-arriving-at-the-red-planet-february-2021/

https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/25043/mars-ingenuity-helicopter-3d-model/

From https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/space_craft_coloring_mars_english_0.pdf

Activities for kids – https://www.nasa.gov/stem/nextgenstem/moon_to_mars/mars2020stemtoolkit

Third Thursday Planetarium Show – 2021 Jan 21

Posted by admin on January 19, 2021
Posted in: Public Outreach, Third Thursday Planetarium Shows.

Join Boise State Physics on the Third Thursday of each month at 7:30p MT for a virtual planetarium show. This month’s show will take place on Jan 21. If you’d like to join us, please sign up at http://boi.st/thirdthursday.

Resources for this month’s show:
–http://stellarium.org/ – Stellarium is donation-supported, so please contribute if you can.
–Skymaps.com – Donation-supported, monthly maps of the night sky
–Turn Left at Orion – Excellent guidebook for stargazing
-Great Conjunctions wikipedia article
-xkcd’s JWST launch date plot
-Netflix’s “Alien Worlds“
–Jupiter’s hexagon
–Exoplanet spectroscopy
–What’s Up Doc