Lessons
Pluto as seen from the New Horizons spacecraft on October 6, 2007 (Courtesy NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)
A Dusty Dilemma
Lesson Description: Students will be introduced to the concepts of error analysis, including standard deviation. They will apply the knowledge to two sets of data from SDC.
Teacher’s Guide | Student Handout
Speaking Volumes About Dust
Lesson Description: Students will investigate density as an introduction to the SDC on the New Horizons mission. They will explore the SDC website and use mission data in the Data Viewer to answer questions concerning the distribution of dust in the solar system.
Teacher’s Guide | Student Handout
The White Glove Test
Lesson Description: In this lesson, students explore the SDC Data Viewer to establish any trends in the distribution of dust in the Solar System. Students record the number of dust particles, or hits, recorded by the instrument and the average mass of the particles in a given region.
