Browse sensors Resources

Browse sensors Resources

How do you Build a Weather Satellite?

How do you Build a Weather Satellite?
Primary Topic: 
Technology
Subtopics: 
Satellites, Remote Sensing
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? "

Unmanned NASA Storm Sentinels set for Hurricane Study

Primary Topic: 
Technology
Subtopics: 
Weather and Climate, Remote Sensing
Type: 
Article
Audience: 
Informal, Formal, 6 - 8, 9 - 12
Keywords: 
airplane, aeronautics, UAV, sensors, hurricanes
Summary: 
NASA will dispatch two unmanned aircraft equipped with specialized instruments high above tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean basin. These "severe storm sentinels" will investigate the processes that underlie hurricane formation and intensity change.