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Hello all!
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity Rover is set to land on
Mars at 10:31 pm PT / 11:21 pm MT on August 5 / 12:31 am CT / 1:31 am ET
on August 6.
Get the Latest Information!
· Mission: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl. Get the latest about
the rover and its onboard laboratory through news, images, and videos.
Find out where the rover is now, and follow Curiosity on Twitter and
Facebook!
· Mars: NASA Explores the Red Planet website:
http://www.nasa.gov/mars. Resources, recent and archived videos, updates
and news, images, podcasts, and more can all be found here!
· Eyes on the Solar System: http://eyes.jpl.nasa.gov. Eyes on the
Solar System lets you ride with Curiosity all the way to the surface of
Gale crater. Preview the events of EDL (Entry, Descent, and Landing), or
watch live!
· Google+ Hangout - Curiosity Landing Coverage:
https://plus.google.com/events/c7c2fbd2gil25fjimln1jnr1134/1107013078039625
95019. Join Pamela Gay, Universe Today, and CosmoQuest over the course of
this 4-hour Google+ Hangout on Air for interviews with members of the
Curiosity team live in the hangout, as well as other special guests from
the The Planetary Society and the SETI Institute!
· What¹s Up Website and Podcast:
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/whatsup-view.cfm?WUID=1224 and
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/whatsup-view.cfm?WUID=1244. You can see
Mars with your own eyes! This webpage and podcast will tell you where to
look. Join Jane Houston Jones to view Mars as the rover Curiosity lands
on its surface, and check out the Perseid meteor shower later this month.
· Mars Science Laboratory Landing Toolkit:
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/msl_landing.cfm. Links to official
websites, live landing coverage, news briefing schedules, social media,
videos, and more!
· Curiosity YouTube Video Playlists:
http://www.youtube.com/user/JPLnews/videos?view=1. The NASA JPL YouTube
channel contains playlists of its MSL video series, including The
Challenges of Getting To Mars, Mars in a Minute, Cruising with Curiosity,
and Building Curiosity.
· Solar System Exploration¹s Curiosity: A Big Rover on a Bold
Mission website: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/msl_landing.cfm.
Videos, press kits and fact sheets, links to relevant Mars and NASA
websites, social media, images, interactives, and resources for teachers
and students are all available through this page.
Get Involved!
Post your landing event or find a landing event on the Mars event map!
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/eventlocations/index.html.
Watch the landing events live from the mission control room at the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory on NASA TV
(http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html) and on Ustream
(http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl) between about 9 and 11 p.m. Pacific Time
on August 5 (midnight and 2 a.m. Eastern Time on August 6).
Join the conversation and get frequent updates about the mission by
following Curiosity on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/marscuriosity
and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/marscuriosity.
Invite your patrons to send their drawings and pictures about the rover
and Mars. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery-submit.cfm
Find Activities for Your Programs
Follow your Curiosity:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/participate/marsforeducators/soi/. A suite of
activities that will help your audiences explore Mars and prepare for the
culminating challenge of imagining and designing their own Mars community.
Imagine Mars: http://imaginemars.jpl.nasa.gov. The Imagine Mars Project
is a national arts, sciences, and technology education initiative that
leads children or students to work together with scientists, engineers,
artists, and civic leaders to design and share a futuristic Mars community
for 100 people. Children or students explore their home community and
decide what cultural, scientific and artistic elements are important to a
community's success. They discover the extreme Martian environment and
imagine what life might be like on the red planet. Finally, they create a
project that artistically reflects their knowledge of Mars, understanding
of community, and hopes for the future. Students share their finished
project by posting it in the online gallery.
Explore Mars! Inside and Out:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/explore/mars. Designed for children
ages 8-13 and their families, Explore Mars! Inside and Out investigates
how the features we observe on Mars formed, what¹s happening inside Mars,
and how the Red Planet has changed over time. Background and recommended
book and web resources are included in the module. Hands-on activities can
be found at: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/explore/mars/activities/.
Be a Martian: http://beamartian.jpl.nasa.gov/welcome. Be a Martian
enables the public to participate as citizen scientists to assist Mars
science teams studying data about the Red Planet, as well as learn about
the planet in general.
NASA¹s Year of the Solar System¹s July/August theme is Got Life?
Resources, information, and activities for both classrooms and informal
settings about astrobiology can be found on the Year of the Solar System
website: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/yss/display.cfm?Year=2012&Month=7.
NASA Astrobiology Institute¹s Education and Public Outreach Project
Highlights Products and Resources:
http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/nai/education-and-outreach/products-and-resour
ces. Posters, websites, and interactives focused on astrobiology can be
found in blog form on this website. Some relevant resources for the MSL
landing include the Astrobiology Education Poster
(http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/nai/education-and-outreach/products-and-resou
rces/astrobiology-education-poster/), Microbes@NASA
(http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/nai/education-and-outreach/products-and-resou
rces/microbesnasa/), and AstroVenture
(http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/nai/education-and-outreach/products-and-resou
rces/astro-venture/).
NOVA¹s Finding Life Beyond Earth Collection:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/finding-life-beyond-earth-collection.htm
l. This education collection consists of an activity guide with seven
hands-on activities and accompanying video excerpts from NOVA's "Finding
Life Beyond Earth" program. The activities and videos explore questions at
the heart of the search for extraterrestrial life, such as "What is life?"
and "Where do we find habitable conditions?" The resources enable
educators to engage audiences with this program's subject and encourage a
better understanding of the existence of life in our solar system.
From Earth to the Solar System (FETTSS): http://fettss.arc.nasa.gov. From
Earth to the Solar System (FETTSS) is a stunning collection of
high-resolution images that showcases the excitement of planetary
exploration our journey to understand the origin and evolution of the
Solar System, and our search for life elsewhere. You are invited to
download the images that appeal to you and host an exhibit in your venue
or community.
Participate in the Museum Alliance: Register at
http://informal.jpl.nasa.gov/museum/alliance
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