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Giant asteroid (or protoplanet) Vesta as seen by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft.Dawn Takes a Closer Look
Protoplanet Vesta is testing the ability of the Dawn spacecraft’s ion engines to finely control its orbit, even taking Vesta’s odd gravity map into account.
Play and learn Simple and fun learning activities to share with children.
Clues from Ancient Light—With the GALEX space telescope, astronomers know the age of a source’s light by its degree of red shift. In this learning-by-analogy activity, kids arrange pictures of familiar objects by judging which is older.Paint by Pixels—Make a picture using a technique similar to that used by many NASA spacecraft to record and send pictures back to Earth.Make your own 2-D Flying Nanosat!Make a Robo-Puzzle . . . Then Just Try to Solve It!
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