Links to present and future NASA lunar missions:

Lunar Workshop for Educators

2012

Additional Lunar Resources



Links to
present and future NASA lunar m
issions:


Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission (LRO)

http://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov

On Twitter:
@LRO_NASA

On Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/LunarReconnaissanceOrbiter



Where is LRO right now?

http://www.lroc.asu.edu/whereislro/


Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE)

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LADEE/main/

On Twitter: @LADEE_NASA


Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)

http://discovery.nasa.gov/grail.cfml


Links to past NASA lunar missions and instruments:


Lunar CRater Observing and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS)

http://lcross.arc.nasa.gov/


Moon

Mineralogy Mapper (M3)

http://m3.jpl.nasa.gov/


Clementine

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/clementine.html


Lunar Prospector

http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov/


Links to other Moon
-
related programs:


International Observe the Moon Night

http://observethemoonnight.org


My Moon

http://mymoonspace.com


Moon Mappers Citizen Science Project

http://cosmoquest.org/mappers/moon/


Moon Zoo

http://moonzoo.org


LADEE and Lunar Impacts (with telescopes)

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/meo/outreach/lunar_impact_monitoring_detail.html


LADEE Meteor Counting App

http://meteorcoun
ter.com


GAVRT Student Telemetry Participatory Exploration

http://www.lewiscenter.org/gavrt/


LMMP Lunar Mapping and Modeling Portal (Online Lunar Mapping Tool)

http://Lmmp.nasa.gov


Moon Globes (for purchase)

http://www.shopatsky.com/product/moon
-
globe/new
-
arrivals



Lunar Educational Materials:


Lunar Disk Program

http://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/ares/lmdp/lunarsampleset.cfm


Connect to the Moon

(Lunar Precursor Robotic Program
)

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/lprp/


Lunar
and Planetary Institute Lunar Resources:

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/resources/s_system/moon.shtml


Lunar and Planetary Institute Explore Moon Curriculum (Activities from Monday)

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/explore/marvelMoon/


Exploring the Moon
–

NASA

(diameter of moon, scale

activity, lava layering, regolith activity)

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Exploring.the.Moon.h
tml


Scale
Model of the Solar System activity

http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/546148main_ESS8_ScaleModelsOfTheSolarSystem_C3_Final.pdf


Using light to Investigate

the Moon (ALTA Spectrometer activity)

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/workshops/unknownMoon/Monday/M3EducatorGuide1.pdf


ALTA Reflectance Spectrometer Cl
assroom Loan Program from LPI

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/products/spectrometer/loan.shtml


Those who came before me
-

NASA

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Those_Who_Have_Co
me_Before_Me_Activity.html


Eratosthenes method for Calculating size of Earth

http://www.ciese.org/curriculum/noonday/


On the Moon
–

Design Squad

http://pbskids.org/designsquad/parentseducators/guides/activity_guide_moon.html


Space Math

http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/moon.html


NASA Education Materials search site

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/index.html


LROC Educator Resources for the Moon

http://www.lroc.asu.edu/EPO/Educator/educatorsguid
es.php


Lunar Plant Growth Chamber curriculum

http://www.lroc.asu.edu/EPO/Educator/Educators/EducatorGuides/Lunar_Plant_Growth_Cham
ber.pdf


Other
links of interest:


NASA Express email listserv for educators:

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/Express_Landing.html


Year of the Solar System

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/yss/


Sun Earth Day

http://sunearthday.nasa.gov/transitofvenus/


NASA Analogs Field Testing Program

http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/analogs/


NASA Desert RATS Program

http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/analogs/desert_rats.html


Pla
netary Science Research Discoveries

http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/


Solar Dynamics Observatory (transit video)

http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/


High School Lunar Research Projects

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/nlsi/education/hsResearch/


Fab Fems (female scientist mentor search tool)

http://www.fabfems.org/


LRO Paper Model print
out and instructions

http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/DOWNLOADS/LRO_PaperModelR.pdf


3D Lunar models for purchase

http://www.landprint.com/browse
-
collections/3d
-
models
-
of
-
future
-
lunar
-
landing
-
sites/


MEDIA

RESOURCES


Meteor Counter App

http://science.nasa.gov/science
-
news/science
-
at
-
nasa/2011/13dec_meteorcounter/


LRO Multimedia page

http://www.nasa.gov/
mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/index.html


Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) at Goddard Space Flight Center

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/Gallery/LunarReconnaissanceOrbiter.html


http://www.youtube.com/user/NASAexplorer/featured


SVS LRO videos on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/play
list?list=PL9DE209C6A2FCC661&feature=plcp


M
oon Phase and Libration (Dial
-
a
-
Moon)

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003800/a003894/index.html


A Tour of the LRO Instrument
Suite (video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkfvOOI1vwI&list=PL9DE209C6A2FCC661&index=3&featur
e=plpp_video


Earthrise

(video)

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003900/a003936/index.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N8yvxCsrBk


Tour of the

Moon

(video)

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010900/a010929/index.html

http://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=2iSZMv64wuU&feature=plcp


Evolution of the Moon

(video)

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010900/a010930/index.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIKmSQqp8wY&feature=plcp


Lunar
Eclipse

Essentials (video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuhNZejHeBg&feature=plcp


LEND
: The Lunar
Neutron Counter (video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzJ0jQFHrdU&list=PL9DE209C6A2FCC661&index=18&featur
e=plpp_video


LOLA
: Defining the Lunar
Terrain (video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RghDys8nEmo&list=PL9DE209C6A2FCC661&index=2&featu
re=plpp_video


Mini
-
RF (video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRpMzG5EQhg


Symphony of Science (music videos)

http://www.symphonyofscience.com/

http://www.youtube.com/user/melodysheep


LROC Featured Image page

http://www.lroc.asu.edu/news/index.php


Carl Sagan explaining Eratosthenes
(video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JHEqBLG650


My Moon (website for young adults about the moon)

http://mymoonspace.com/



Books


Tlingit Moon and Tide
by Dolly Garza

http://nsgl.gso.uri.edu/aku/akue99001.pdf


LPI online book list for planetary science

(including several free books)
:

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/books.shtml


Traces of Catastrophe

by Bevan French (pdf of entire book
, free
)

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/books/CB
-
954/CB
-
954.
intro.html


NSTA Books
: Uncovering Student Ideas in Science

(assessment tools)

http://www.nsta.org/publications/press/uncovering.aspx


Impact Cratering: A Geologic Process

by H.J.
Melosh, Oxford University Press, 245 pp. 1989.



Scientific Conferences of Interest:


NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) Forum, 2013 meeting will likely be in July at NASA Ames

The 2012 conference was broadcast live over the internet:
http://lunarscience.nasa.gov/lsf2012/welcome


Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), March 18
-
22 2013, Houston Texas

http://www.lp
i.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2013/


American Geophysical
Union (AGU) annual meeting, Dec 3
-
7 2012, San Francisco

http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2012/