NASA Educator Resource Center Network

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NASA Educator Resource Center Network Presents Ear
th in the Environment of the Sun Heliophysics
The Ultimate Border Control
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NASA Educator Resource CenterEmbry-Riddle
Aeronautical University

Stacy DeVeau, Director NASA Educator Resource
Center (ERC) Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
University deveaus_at_erau.edu 928-777-6281
For Technical Support Call 1-888-617-7499
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Agenda

• Accessing NASA Education Resources
• NASA Missions Exploring
• Earths Atmosphere
• Magnetic Fields
• Sun-Earth Connections
• Boundaries within and the Boundary of
• Our Solar System
• Related Classroom Activities
• Evaluation

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NASA Education Resourcesare Available

• Online
• Available from C.O.R.E.
• In ERCs

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Earth in the Environment of the
SunHeliophysics The Ultimate Border Control

• Heliophysics - The study of the region of space
  that the sun influences, also known as the
  heliosphere, and the objects that interact with
  it
• Planetary Atmospheres
• Magnetospheres
• Solar Wind
• Interstellar Medium

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Interstellar Medium
Air Space 1 30,000,000,000,000,000,000
atoms per cubic cm!

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The Solar Environment

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The Solar Environment

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Our Solar System?

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Our SOLAR System?

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Our SOLAR SYSTEM!

Heliosphere
Heliosheath
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Missions

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Aeronomy of Ice in the Atmosphere
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Aeronomy of Ice in the Atmosphere
NLCs or PMCs
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Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere, Energetics
and Dynamics

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MMSMagnetospheric Multiscale Mission

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Solar Magnetic Reconnection

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Geo Magnetic Reconnection

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THEMIS Time History of Events and Macroscale
Interactions during Substorms

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THEMIS Time History of Events and Macroscale
Interactions during Substorms
Current Disruption vs. Magnetic Reconnection 0
sec. Current Disruption 0 sec. Magnetic
Reconnection 30 sec. Auroral Disruption 90
sec. Current Disruption 60 sec. Magnetic
Reconnection 120 sec. Auroral Disruption
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HESSIHigh Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager

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IBEXInterstellar Boundary Explorer

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This Just In

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What Does it Mean?

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Classroom Activities

• Atmosphere
• Layers of the Atmosphere
• Clouds and Cloud Formation
• Magnetosphere
• Mapping Magnetic Fields
• Heliosphere
• A Heliospheric Model

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Next Workshop

• Exploring Microgravity
• Sat. January 30, 2010, 900-1030 a.m. MST
• .What could be more exciting and fun than
  floating around in microgravity? Learn about the
  science and mathematics of microgravity, discover
  related classroom activities and materials, and
  learn about student experiments that have flown
  on NASAs Reduced Gravity Aircraft.
• Presented by Jim Christensen, Iowa ERC