WHAT IS EARTHKAM?
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USE EXCELLENT SENTENCES TO
ANSWER EACH OF THE FOLLOWING:
WHAT IS EARTHKAM?
2. WHERE IS EARTHKAM?
3. WHAT DOES EARTHKAM
DO ?
4. WHY IS EARTHKAM
IMPORTANT?
1.
What is EarthKAM?
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A NASAsponsored,
undergraduate
student-operated
educational
program aimed at
exciting middle
school students
about and
involving them in
science.
EARTHKAM HOME – INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
WHAT DOES IT INVOLVE?
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Schools from around the
world are invited to take
advantage of this
exceptional educational
opportunity
Students in participating
classrooms use ISS
EarthKAM’s web pages to
control a digital camera
mounted on the
International Space Station
Students, educators, and
the general public view the
photos on the World Wide
Web
WHAT IS THE BENEFIT TO
STUDENTS?
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With ISS EarthKAM,
participating middle
school students can…
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Share the excitement of a
NASA space mission
Participate in real-time,
cutting edge research in
many fields, including
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Earth Science
Geology
Physics
Geography
…and many more!
WHO MAKES IT WORK?
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UCSD
 Undergraduate
students at the
University of
California, San Diego
are responsible for the
day-to-day operations
of ISS EarthKAM
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Software development
Web page design
Public affairs
Image analysis
Mission operations
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Partners
 NASA
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Johnson Space Center
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
TERC – Center for Earth and
Space Education
Texas A&M University
UC San Diego
AN ISS EARTHKAM MISSION
Students determine photo locations by referencing
maps, atlases and EarthKAM website Map page.
CLICK ON STUDENTS_SMOC
PAGES_ SPECIAL OPP to find
links to special opportunities
Click on Students_SMOC_Map page. Find an
orbit which has a location near where you want to
photograph.
Remember
that you can
only take
pictures
during the
DAY - RED
Click on the map to zoom in.
Make sure your distance off track is
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 all the information requested
on the photo entry page.
Congratulations – when you see this
you correctly submitted your
request. Make sure all the info is
entered on your Actual Image
Request Chart!!
AN ISS EARTHKAM MISSION
MOC representatives compile photo requests and
send them to Johnson Space Center, where
they are uplinked to ISS.
AN ISS EARTHKAM MISSION
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Software onboard ISS reads the requested times,
takes the photos, and then saves them onto a hard
disk
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Captured photos are then downlinked to ISS
EarthKAM computers at UCSD
AN ISS EARTHKAM MISSION
Images are posted online on the Photo Request page.
ONCE YOU HAVE IMAGES
Compare your image to Jet Navigation Maps or
Google earth maps.
ANALYZE YOUR IMAGE
human-environment interactions
ANALYZE YOUR IMAGE
cities, agriculture, transportation
ANALYZE YOUR IMAGE
natural and artificial boundaries,
physical processes
ANALYZE YOUR IMAGE
rivers, mountains, oceans,
lakes, deserts, or coasts
ANALYZE YOUR IMAGE
cloud patterns, conditions at
specfic latitudes
ANALYZE YOUR IMAGE
interactions between human
beings and their environment
ANALYZE YOUR IMAGE
location specific studies
ANNOTATE YOUR IMAGE
ANNOTATE YOUR IMAGE
ANNOTATE YOUR IMAGE
ANALYZE YOUR IMAGE
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TO REGISTER
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MORE INFO AND
MANY RESOURCES
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http://www.earthkam.ucsd.
edu/public/educators/regis
tration.shtml
http://www.earthkam.ucsd.ed
u/public/about/
QUESTIONS FOR ME
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J Hoeffner
Science Chair / Technology
Resource Teacher
Mardela Middle High School
24940 Delmar RD
Mardela Springs, MD 21837
410.677.5142
jhoeffne@wcboe.org
ISS 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_07
 Find
evidence of humanity’s
footprint on the ecology of the
Earth
 Capture images of coastlines –
look for seditmentation
 Capture images of rainforest
destruction