How do you Build a Weather Satellite?

How do you Build a Weather Satellite?
Type: 
Lesson Plan
Audience: 
Informal, Formal, 6 - 8, K - 5
Standards: 
ETS2.A
Keywords: 
engineering, orbit, sensors
Summary: 
This booklet explains the basics of weather satellites and contains activities to explain questions like "How does a satellite stay up in space without falling back to Earth? "
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How does a satellite stay up in space without falling back to Earth? How is a weather satellite able to take pictures or measure surface temperatures from space? How does a satellite communicate with Earth? These questions and more are answered in the booklet "How Do You Make a Weather Satellite."

Source: 

http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/story-weather-satellite

Credits: 
NASA

 

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