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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Slingshot to the Outer Planets

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are introduced to the engineering challenges involved with interplanetary space travel. In particular, they learn about the gravity assist or "slingshot" maneuver often used by engineers to send spacecraft to the outer planets....
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Handout
NASA

Nasa Space Science Data Archive: Galileo Project Information

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the homepage of all of the archived information about and from the Galileo Mission. Included is data from the flybys of Venus, Earth, Moon, and Asteroids Gaspra and Ida, as well as the current data from Jupiter and its moons. See...
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Website
NASA

Nasa Space Science Data Archive: Cassini

For Students 9th - 10th
On its way to Saturn, the Cassini probe passed by Jupiter to pick up a gravity assisted speed boost. This resoure gained more information as it passed by Jupiter on December 30, 2000 and traveled another four years outward to Saturn.