NASA Solar System Ambassador Presentations At Your School
Presenter: Scott Stobbelaar, NASA Solar System Ambassador
Length: 45 minutes to an hour with question-and-answer time
Grade levels: Adjusted to the audience
Fee: $10 for gas
Topics
Planets
- Mercury: Messenger Mission
- Earth: Oceanography
- Mars:
- Rovers: Opportunity and Spirit
- Mars Global Surveyor
- Mars Recon Orbiter
- Mars Odyssey
- Jupiter: Galileo Spacecraft
- Saturn: Cassini Spacecraft
- Pluto: New Horizons
Comets: Deep Impact Mission (completed)
Space Telescopes:
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Spitzer Infrared Scope
Sun:
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Spitzer Infrared Scope
Local Requirements:
- Screen or white wall, power outlet and a place to set up a projector
- Have students research background information for the mission on the Internet.
- Speaker will provide a computer and computer projector, as well as power cables
Scheduling:
- Call Scott Stobbelaar at 906-225-0959 to arrange a visit.
- Visits should be scheduled at least two weeks in advance.
- One week notice is requested for cancellation.