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Space Science

add to your

knowledge base about the solar system, its formation, and evolution.

Use a book called Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon to help you understand challenges faced by the planners, designers, builders, etc. of the Apollo 11 mission team. The book will introduce you to the range of careers that involve science and technology.

Science NetLinks: Make a Mission

Understand some of the factors involved when NASA designs a real mission to space. In this interactive, users build a spacecraft in order to explore the planet Mercury—just as the NASA team did when they planned and built the real MESSENGER spacecraft!

Science Netlinks: 6-8 E-Sheet

Read through Adler Planetarium's Mercury page to learn facts and details about the planet Mercury. Good to read for information.

Science NetLinks: Places in the Sun

What would the sun look like from the surface of Mercury compared with our view of it from Earth? Since Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, the sun appears larger on Mercury than on Earth. This animation allows you to see a side-by-side comparison of the sun on both planets. When you open the animation, the two planets are at aphelion, or farthest from the sun in their orbits.