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Packaging a Successful NASA Mission to Reach a Large Audience with a Small Budget. Earth's Dynamic Space: Solar-Terrestrial Physics and NASA's Polar MissionTo showcase the on-going and wide-ranging scope of the Polar science discoveries, the Polar science team has created a one-stop shop for a thorough introduction to geospace physics, in the form of a DVD with supporting website. The DVD, Earth's Dynamic Space: Solar-Terrestrial Physics & NASA's Polar Mission, can be viewed as an end-to-end product or split into individual segments and tailored to lesson plans. Capitalizing on the Polar mission and its amazing science return, the Polar team created an exciting multi-use DVD intended for audiences ranging from a traditional classroom and after school clubs, to museums and science centers. The DVD tackles subjects such as the aurora, the magnetosphere and space weather, whilst highlighting the science discoveries of the Polar mission. This platform introduces the learner to key team members as well as the science principles. Dramatic visualizations are used to illustrate the complex principles that describe Earth's dynamic space. In order to produce such a wide-ranging product on a shoe-string budget, the team poured through existing NASA resources to package them into the Polar story. Team members also created visualizations using Polar data to complement the NASA stock footage. Scientists donated their time to create and review scripts to make this a real team effort, working closely with the award winning audio-visual group at JHU/Applied Physics Laboratory. The team was excited to be invited to join NASA's Sun-Earth Day 2005 E/PO program and the DVD will be distributed as part of the supporting educational packages.
Document ID
20050110141
Acquisition Source
Marshall Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Fox, Nicola J.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Goldberg, Richard
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Barnes, Robin J.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Sigwarth, John B.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Beisser, Kerri B.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Moore, Thomas E.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Hoffman, Robert A.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Russell, Christopher T.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Scudder, Jack D.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Spann, James F.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Date Acquired
August 22, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2004
Subject Category
Space Sciences (General)
Meeting Information
Meeting: Fall AGU 2004 Meeting
Location: San Francisco, CA
Country: United States
Start Date: December 13, 2004
End Date: December 17, 2004
Sponsors: American Geophysical Union
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other

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