Planets

4: Information about the Planets

Use windows2universe.org and this data table (Russell, 2008) to collect all the data you can think of on the planets, dwarf planets, asteroids, comets…all the elements in out solar system.  Explore further to discover constellations, exoplanets and how we know about them, how the stars and planets have influenced human culture throughout history. Checkout their Multimedia Gallery for lots of resources you could use.

Explore this amazing article from Space.com (Malik, 2015) to discover all about the conditions on other planets and moons in our solar system. Links to videos, quizzes, photos and facts about how big, how far, how hot, how habitable. It includes these amazing infographics by Karl Tate (2015), a great model for presenting information in an engaging way for your advertising campaign!

    

The Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) at Caltech (2015) is dedicated to science operations, data archives, and community support for astronomy and solar system science missions. You can find plenty of data on all things space related, especially exoplanets! This is real data being collected from real missions and projects.

Landing on Mars!

This gives you a look at how many people are involved in even unmanned missions to Mars and how excited they all are when it finally works out!