Satellites
Any object that orbits a “celestial body” like a planet, moon, or star.
What is a satellite?
The acronym LEO stands for
What is Low Earth Orbit?
How long it takes the sun's light to reach us on Earth
What is 8 minutes?
Atmospheric conditions in a specific place at a specific time
What is weather?
The team responsible for maintaining a safe temperature, air pressure, and water source on the ISS
What is the Life Support Team?
Earth’s natural satellite
What is the moon?
90 minutes
How long does it take for the ISS to orbit the Earth 1 time?
Distance from the Sun to the Earth
What is 93 Million Miles?
The general weather of an area over a long period of time
What is climate?
The team responsible for Satellite design, testing & construction
What is the Rover Team?
The part of a man-made satellite that soaks up the sun and converts it to electricity
What are solar panels
Something that causes objects in space that have mass to be attracted to other nearby objects
What is gravity?
A massive cloud of plasma and magnetic fields ejected from the Sun's corona
What is a CME? (Coronal Mass Ejection)
The 3 main climate zones
What are Tropic, Temperate and Polar?
The team responsible for the maintenance of the ISS vegetation systems
What is the Biology Team?
The name of the current series of satellites the US uses to monitor the weather.
What are GOES-R satellites?
satellites that need to stay constantly above one particular place over Earth travel in this orbit
What is Geostationary orbit?
A giant burst of x-rays and energy emitted from the Sun
What is a solar flare?
The long term change in global and regional climate patterns
What is climate change?
The team responsible for sending all messages between Spacecraft and Mission Control
What is the Communication Team?
Lockheed Martin in Littleton, Colorado
Where are GOES-R satellites built?
Satellites that travel from north to south, passing roughly by Earth's poles are in this type of orbit
What is polar orbit?
This type of field provides protection from solar storms
What is the electromagnetic field?
The climate zone for Colorado
What is the Temperate Zone?
The team is responsible for tracking Solar storms and Earth's weather
What is the Weather Team?