NASA Human Spaceflight	Oldest Known Planet Identified	Deep_Impact
Chinese Launch is a Success	Travel to a black hole	The Gateway
Hubble Space Telescope home page	The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia
Dr. Carl Sagan	Meteor showers	Water Ice on Mars

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•  NASA Human Spaceflight

  http://www.nasa.gov/returntoflight/main/index.html

  
   

•  The Deep Impact mission was
  implemented to provide a glimpse beneath the surface of a comet, where material from the solar system's formation remains relatively unchanged. Mission scientists hoped the project would answer basic questions about how the solar system formed,
  http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html
  
   
•  Meteor Showers
  On any night, at any location, a few meteors can be seen each hour. These are called sporadic meteors, or simply sporadics. Occasionally, though, intense meteor displays fill the sky with tens, hundreds, or even thousands of of meteor trails. These displays are called meteor showers. Many meteor showers can be predicted, as they repeat every year when the earth passes through the path of a comet.
  http://comets.amsmeteors.org/meteors/calendar.html
  
   
•  Chinese Launch is a Success

•  Oldest Known Planet Identified
  The planet is 2.5 times the mass of Jupiter. Its very existence provides tantalizing evidence that the first planets were formed rapidly, within a billion years of the Big Bang, leading astronomers to conclude that planets may be very abundant in the universe.
  http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_76.html
   

     Evidence of Vast Quantities of Water Ice on Mars

•  NASA scientists announced that they have discovered evidence of vast deposits of water ice under the rocky surface of Mars. Detectors on the Mars Odyssey spacecraft have found strong signals of enough ice to fill up Lake Michigan. Wherever there's water and heat, there's life, so this is encouraging for the search for life on Mars. Also for possible future human missions to the Red Planet, as this means water for drinking, as well as oxygen for  breathing.
  http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/
  odyssey_update_020301.html
  
   
•               Dr. Carl Sagan [1934-1996]
  Founder and President of The Planetary Society
  http://www.planetary.org/society/tributes
  
   

• Hubble Space Telescope home page.

  The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed from the space shuttle Discovery on April 25, 1990. It's the world's first space-based optical telescope, and it's about to comer down.  See the plans!
http://www.space.com/hubble/index.html

 

•   has space exploration and astronomy news articles, which are updated every weekday.  Interesting and very helpful as a teacher's aid!
  http://www.universetoday.com
  
   

•  The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia
  A complete listing, with explanations of their discoveries, of planets and other objects discovered (and suspected) in outer space!
  http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/planets/
  
   

•  Have you ever wondered what it would look like to travel to a black hole or a neutron star?  Here you will find descriptions and MPEG movies that take your students on such exciting trips. These movies are scientifically accurate computer animations made with strict adherence to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. The descriptions are written to be understandable on a variety of levels. It is hoped that students from grade school to graduate school will find these virtual trips educational.
  http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/rjn_bht.html
  
   

•  The Gateway contains many  education resources.  There are information resources and EXPERTS TO  ASK!!   http://www.thegateway.org/
  
  

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