WHAT IS EARTHKAM?WHAT IS EARTHKAM?

WARMUP – do not copy questionWARMUP – do not copy question

USE EXCELLENT SENTENCES TO USE EXCELLENT SENTENCES TO ANSWER EACH OF THE FOLLOWING:ANSWER EACH OF THE FOLLOWING:

1.1.WHAT IS EARTHKAM?WHAT IS EARTHKAM?

2.2.WHERE IS EARTHKAM?WHERE IS EARTHKAM?

3.3.WHAT DOES EARTHKAM WHAT DOES EARTHKAM DO ?DO ?

4.4.WHY IS EARTHKAM WHY IS EARTHKAM IMPORTANTIMPORTANT??

What is EarthKAM?What is EarthKAM?

A NASA-A NASA-sponsored, sponsored, undergraduate undergraduate student-operated student-operated educational educational program aimed at program aimed at exciting middle exciting middle school students school students about and about and involving them in involving them in science.science.

EARTHKAM HOME – INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

WHAT DOES IT INVOLVE?WHAT DOES IT INVOLVE? Schools from around the Schools from around the

world are invited to take world are invited to take advantage of this advantage of this exceptional educational exceptional educational opportunityopportunity

Students in participating Students in participating classrooms use ISS classrooms use ISS EarthKAM’s web pages to EarthKAM’s web pages to control a digital camera control a digital camera mounted on the International mounted on the International Space StationSpace Station

Students, educators, and the Students, educators, and the general public view the general public view the photos on the World Wide photos on the World Wide WebWeb

WHAT IS THE BENEFIT TO WHAT IS THE BENEFIT TO STUDENTS?STUDENTS?

With ISS EarthKAM, With ISS EarthKAM, participating middle participating middle school students can…school students can… Share the excitement of a Share the excitement of a

NASA space missionNASA space mission Participate in real-time, Participate in real-time,

cutting edge research in cutting edge research in many fields, includingmany fields, including

Earth ScienceEarth Science GeologyGeology PhysicsPhysics GeographyGeography ……and many more!and many more!

WHO MAKES IT WORK?WHO MAKES IT WORK? UCSDUCSD

Undergraduate students Undergraduate students at the University of at the University of California, San Diego California, San Diego are responsible for the are responsible for the day-to-day operations day-to-day operations of ISS EarthKAMof ISS EarthKAM

Software developmentSoftware development Web page designWeb page design Public affairsPublic affairs Image analysisImage analysis Mission operationsMission operations

PartnersPartners NASANASA

Johnson Space CenterJohnson Space Center Jet Propulsion LaboratoryJet Propulsion Laboratory

TERC – Center for Earth and Space TERC – Center for Earth and Space EducationEducation

Texas A&M University Texas A&M University UC San DiegoUC San Diego

AN ISS EARTHKAM MISSIONAN ISS EARTHKAM MISSION

Students determine photo locations by referencing Students determine photo locations by referencing maps, atlases and EarthKAM website Map page.maps, atlases and EarthKAM website Map page.

CLICK ON STUDENTS_SMOC CLICK ON STUDENTS_SMOC PAGES_ SPECIAL OPP to find PAGES_ SPECIAL OPP to find

links to special opportunitieslinks to special opportunities

Click on Students_SMOC_Map page. Find an Click on Students_SMOC_Map page. Find an orbit which has a location near where you want to orbit which has a location near where you want to

photograph.photograph.

Remember that you can only take pictures during the DAY - RED

Click on the map to zoom in.Click on the map to zoom in.

Make sure your distance off track is Make sure your distance off track is less than 9.0 miles less than 9.0 miles

If your distance off track is more than 9.0 miles, then click in different places on the red groundtrack until your are less than 15.0 miles.

Enter Enter all all the information requested the information requested on the photo entry page. on the photo entry page.

Congratulations – when you see this Congratulations – when you see this you correctly submitted your you correctly submitted your

request. Make sure all the info is request. Make sure all the info is entered on your Actual Image entered on your Actual Image

Request Chart!!Request Chart!!

AN ISS EARTHKAM MISSIONAN ISS EARTHKAM MISSIONMOC representatives compile photo requests and MOC representatives compile photo requests and

send them to Johnson Space Center, where send them to Johnson Space Center, where they are uplinked to ISS.they are uplinked to ISS.

AN ISS EARTHKAM MISSIONAN ISS EARTHKAM MISSION Software onboard ISS reads the requested times, Software onboard ISS reads the requested times,

takes the photos, and then saves them onto a hard takes the photos, and then saves them onto a hard diskdisk

Captured photos are then downlinked to ISS Captured photos are then downlinked to ISS EarthKAM computers at UCSDEarthKAM computers at UCSD

AN ISS EARTHKAM MISSIONAN ISS EARTHKAM MISSION

Images are posted online on the Photo Request page.Images are posted online on the Photo Request page.

ONCE YOU HAVE IMAGESONCE YOU HAVE IMAGES

Compare your image to Jet Navigation Maps or Compare your image to Jet Navigation Maps or Google earth maps.Google earth maps.

ANALYZE YOUR IMAGE ANALYZE YOUR IMAGE human-environment interactions

ANALYZE YOUR IMAGEANALYZE YOUR IMAGE cities, agriculture, transportation

ANALYZE YOUR IMAGEANALYZE YOUR IMAGE natural and artificial boundaries,

physical processes

ANALYZE YOUR IMAGErivers, mountains, oceans,lakes, deserts, or coasts

ANALYZE YOUR IMAGE ANALYZE YOUR IMAGE cloud patterns, conditions at

specfic latitudes

ANALYZE YOUR IMAGEANALYZE YOUR IMAGE interactions between human beings and their environment

ANALYZE YOUR IMAGEANALYZE YOUR IMAGE location specific studies

ANNOTATE YOUR IMAGEANNOTATE YOUR IMAGE

ANNOTATE YOUR IMAGEANNOTATE YOUR IMAGE

ANNOTATE YOUR IMAGEANNOTATE YOUR IMAGE

ANALYZE YOUR IMAGEANALYZE YOUR IMAGE

TO REGISTERTO REGISTER http://www.earthkam.ucsd.

edu/public/educators/registration.shtml

MORE INFO AND MORE INFO AND MANY RESOURCESMANY RESOURCES

http://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu/public/about/

QUESTIONS FOR MEQUESTIONS FOR ME J Hoeffner J Hoeffner

Science Chair / Technology Science Chair / Technology Resource TeacherResource TeacherMardela Middle High SchoolMardela Middle High School24940 Delmar RD24940 Delmar RDMardela Springs, MD 21837Mardela Springs, MD 21837410.677.5142410.677.5142jhoeffne@wcboe.orgjhoeffne@wcboe.org

ISS Mission 15 – EarthKAM 07_04ISS Mission 15 – EarthKAM 07_04

Sunita Williams Flight engineer

Astronaut Clayton C. Anderson, flight engineer; along with cosmonauts Oleg Kotov, flight engineer and Soyuz commander; and Fyodor Yurchikhin, commander

Purpose of EarthKAM 04_07Purpose of EarthKAM 04_07

Find evidence of humanity’s Find evidence of humanity’s footprint on the ecology of the footprint on the ecology of the EarthEarth

Capture images of coastlines – Capture images of coastlines – look for seditmentationlook for seditmentation

Capture images of rainforest Capture images of rainforest destructiondestruction