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Dr. Marc answers questions about technology
A few words about the technologies of discovery.
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Gallery of people and technology
Astronauts, rockets, and spacecraft to view or print.
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Help the big antennas gather data from the spacecraft.
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What makes laser light so extraordinary?
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Space Place kids talk to NASA scientists and engineers.
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Listen to black holes and other cosmic weirdness
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Or, how a little technology goes a long way.
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Play "Missions to Planet Earth"!
Beat the computer by launching three Earth missions first.
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Help Juno reveal Jupiter's true nature.
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A story about a girl's search for another Earth.
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Build a Bubble-Powered Rocket!
How high can you make your rocket go?
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See the universe in Cosmic Colors.
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Help design the Deep Space 1 spacecraft
The very first spacecraft with ion drive!
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A boardgame adventure!
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Stump your friends with your mosaic robot puzzle!
See space robots in action.
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How did we get from Galileo's telescope to the Hubble Space Telescope?
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What do tortillas and rocket fuel have in common?
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Map a 3-D map of the invisible.
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It's all done with mirrors!
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Building a 3-D Map of Earth from Space!
And in only 10 days!
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Why do we need two eyes?
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Getting into space with no launch pad!
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One place you don't want to have a dead battery!
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Guide your spacecraft through a space maze
Print and do mazes.
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Can you keep up with the data?
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Pilot the Rosetta spacecraft!
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What everyday inventions came from the space program?
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Space Place games for iPhone and iPad
Download games for your mobile phone!
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Shield these satellites from bad space weather!
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Buckle up for an adventure!
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Download Space Place background images for your desktop.
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Telling a pine from a maple ... from space!
What if every kind of tree were a different color?
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Help the astronauts go back to the Moon.
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You will get a charge out of this activity!
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How do you build a weather satellite?
Fill a truck full of weather instruments and toss it into orbit?
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Kids' visions for the New Millennium
Technology-inspired art and poetry.
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Learn how to turn numbers into pictures!
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Sun-powered airplane flies at record altitude!
Looks can be deceiving.
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Do a HUMONGOUS telescope crossword!
Learn about the largest light telescopes in the world.
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Make a Balloon-powered Nanorover!
A fun project to do with the family.
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The Three Little Piggy-back Satellites
Toss them into orbit like Frisbees!
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Match LIGHT faces with HEAT faces!
Faces look different in infrared light.
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What hears a whisper a billion miles away?
Ears the size of football fields?
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Hear tiny sounds with a Super Sound Cone!
Hear tiny sounds you never noticed before!
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See a giant rose-covered space robot!
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How to yell across a solar system
How spacecraft send pictures through space.
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"Emoticonstructor" at Your Service!
Let the Emoticonstructor "evolve" a face to match your mood!
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Race the rising thermometer as you unjumble heat words.
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Shrink a skyscaper full of squishy balls.
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Find out why stars aren't all the same color.
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How can a toy help with space travel?
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Test a new spacecraft material
Crush a can without touching it!
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Build your own mountain, then map it.
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Get your Gummy Greenhouse Gases!
Make pollutants from gumdrops, then gobble them up!
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What can read a newspaper from a mile away?
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Does your nose know enough for space travel?
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LISA mission gives humans a sixth sense
If you could "hear" a black hole, what would it sound like?
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A trip to the Land of the Magic Windows
The windows show the Universe in all its colors.
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After all, they know only two words!
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Launch a rocket from a spinning planet
Wind up that launch pad!
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A close encounter of the AutoNav kind!
Could you hit a soccer goal on the Moon?
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A story about stuff that's almost not there!
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So many possibilities. How to choose?
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Astronomy Club Partner Program
The benefits and how you can join.
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Do a crossword and see 3-D pictures of Earth from space!
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Follow Echo through Arizona on his adventure to his winter home for hibernating. This link takes you away from The Space Place. But it's very easy to come back!
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Top 10 facts about the Sun??? and lots more. This link takes you away from The Space Place. But it's very easy to come back!
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A learning center for young astronomers. This link takes you away from The Space Place. But it's very easy to come back!
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Build a model spacecraft to explore the solar system!
Paper models of your favorite solar system explorers. This link takes you away from The Space Place. But it's very easy to come back!
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Amelia the Pigeon has a camera and photographs everything from above. This link takes you away from The Space Place. But it's very easy to come back!
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