Real World: Satellites and Solar Eruptions
Learn about twin satellites NASA launched to collect data about the sun. Find out why we study the sun and what scientists learn from these missions.
Background Information
Grades K through 5
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center STEREO
Grades 6 through 8
- NASA STEREO - Solar TErrestrial Relations Observatory
- NASA STEREO Science Center
- NASA Space Place Sun
- NASA Space Place What Is the Solar Cycle?
Activities
Grades 6 through 8
- NASA eClips / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center STEREO: Exploring Solar Storms and Rational Number Operations
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Coronal Mass Ejection Plotting Activity
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Measure the Motion of a Coronal Mass Ejection
Mathematics
Grades 6 through 8
- NASA Space Math STEREO Math Problems
- NASA Space Math Do Fast CMEs Produce SPEs?
- NASA Space Math Problem 267: Identifying Materials by their Reflectivity
- NASA Space Math Problem 63 Solar Activity and Tree Rings
- NASA Space Math Seeing Solar Storms in STEREO - II-
- NASA Space Math Solar Flares, CME's and Aurora
- NASA Space Math Solar Insolation Changes and the Sunspot Cycle
- NASA Space Math Solar Proton Events and Satellite Damage