NASA & the International Polar Year Involve your Students

1. Super Science Saturday International Polar Year NASA & the International Polar Year Involve your Students Saturday, January 26 2008

2. What is the IPY? • The International Polar Year (IPY) is a two-year event that focuses science and education on Earth's remote polar regions. IPY, which starts March 1, 2007, was established by the International Council for Science and the World Meteorological Organization to recognize the 125th anniversary of the first polar year and the 50th anniversary of the International Geophysical Year. http://www.us-ipy.gov

3. NASA & IPY • IPY marks the beginning of a sustained effort to understand large-scale environmental change in Earth's polar regions, which have major societal and economic impacts, and to advance new scientific frontiers, from the molecular to the planetary scale. NASA brings a unique perspective to IPY, which will focus on five themes: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/IPY/main/index.html

4. NASA’s Five Themes for IPY NASA explores scientific frontiers in Earth's polar regions. NASA’s long-term measurements of Earth's poles NASA creates cutting-edge technologies for exploring the poles NASA's investment in exploring Earth's poles has built the foundation for a new era of scientific exploration at Mars polar regions, NASA's mission to extend human exploration into the solar system begins with creating a base in the polar regions of the moon. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/IPY/about/index.html

5. NASA Top IPY Story -01.23.08Antarctic Ice Loss Speeds Up, Nearly Matches Greenland Loss http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/IPY/snow/index.html

6. Atmosphere & Climate Scientific Balloons Achieve Antarctic Flight Record http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/IPY/atmosphere/index.html

7. Land & Sea NASA-Conceived Map of Antarctica Lays Ground for New Discoveries http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/IPY/land/index.html

8. NASA-Conceived Map of Antarctica Lays Ground for New Discoveries http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/lima_feature.html

9. Resolution of digital images improved over the years http://lima.usgs.gov/ http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/202866main_Mosaic_compare_sm.pg.jpg

10. The new mosaic reveals in unprecedented detail the ice shelves, mountains, glaciers http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/lima_feature.html

11. North Pole Animation

12. Topic Area: Life on Earth . http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/Search.html?group=45

13. Life on Earth • NASA, the National Science Foundation (NSF), and ILC Dover of Frederica, Del., tested out such a module on a January 2008 excursion to Antarctica, one of Earth's harshest environments. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/IPY/earth/index.html

14. Space Station Provides New 'Window' for International Polar Year x http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/polar_year.html

15. Space Station Provides New 'Window' for International Polar Year The International Polar Year will have unprecedented access to an out-of-this-world platform -- 210 miles up in space. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/iss_award.html

16. Space Station Provides New 'Window' for International Polar Year Commander Peggy Whitson (left) and Flight Engineer Dan Tani are at the robotics workstation maneuvering the Canadarm2 for video inspections. Image credit: NASA TV http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html

17. Space Station Provides New 'Window' for International Polar Year Polar Mesospheric Clouds (PMC) are seen over Alaska and northwestern Canada. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/polar_year.html

18. Space Station Provides New 'Window' for International Polar Year Melt water pooled on the surface of iceberg A-39D, currently drifting near South Georgia Island. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/polar_year.html

19. Space Station Provides New 'Window' for International Polar Year The aurora over the southern polar region at sunset. Credit: NASA http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/polar_year.html

20. STS-120 Launch October 23, 2007 x STS-122 Launch Feb. 7, 2008 http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-120/html/sts120-s-017.html

21. STS-122 crew members, attired in training versions of their shuttle launch and entry suits x http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts122/

22. The Moon Mars & Beyond Ulysses spacecraft made a rare flyby of the sun's north pole on Jan. 14, 2008. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/IPY/moon/index.htm

23. The Moon Mars & Beyond A "hot" south pole on the planet Neptune http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/IPY/moon/index.htm

24. The Moon Mars & Beyond Phoenix Mars Lander - powered landing at North Pole of Mars http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/IPY/moon/index.htm

25. The Moon Mars & Beyond Mars North Pole Water Map generated from 2001 Mars Odyssey Gamma Ray Spectrometer http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/IPY/moon/index.htm

26. IPY Educator Resources Multimedia – Lesson Plans – Curriculum support • NASA IPY Education Resources http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/IPY/main/educators.html • Gateway to NASA Earth Images from ISS & IPY: http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/IPY/ • My NASA Data – IPY Lesson Plans: http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/IPY_lessons.html • NASA Exploring Space Challenges: http://esc.nasa.gov/index.html • GLOBE & IPY: http://www.globe.gov/fsl/html/templ.cgi?ipy

27. JPL Video IPY 2007 - 2008 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/earth/ipy20070320/ http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/earth/ipy20070320/