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Browse Educational Resources by Topic: Solar System
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Cubic Planets
astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 6-8 ,8-10
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astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 6-8 ,8-10
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Chasing the Moon
astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 14-16 ,16-19
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astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 14-16 ,16-19
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Become a Geo-detective!
astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 12-14 ,14-16
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astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 12-14 ,14-16
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Age that crater!
astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 4-6 ,6-8 ,8-10
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astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 4-6 ,6-8 ,8-10
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Driving on Mars
astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 14-16 ,16-19
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astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 14-16 ,16-19
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One Million Earths inside our Sun
astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 4-6 ,6-8 ,8-10 ,10-12 ,12-14 ,14-16 ,16-19 ,19+
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astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 4-6 ,6-8 ,8-10 ,10-12 ,12-14 ,14-16 ,16-19 ,19+
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Country Movers – Visualizing Spatial Scales in Planetary and Earth Sciences
astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 12-14 ,14-16 ,16-19 ,19+
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 12-14 ,14-16 ,16-19 ,19+
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Meteoroids, Meteors and Meteorites
astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 6-8 ,8-10 ,10-12 ,12-14
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astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 6-8 ,8-10 ,10-12 ,12-14
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Impact Craters
astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 10-12 ,12-14 ,14-16
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astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 10-12 ,12-14 ,14-16
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Creating Asteroids
astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 4-6 ,6-8 ,8-10
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astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 4-6 ,6-8 ,8-10
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Videos
Jupiter's Rotation, by Vishal Sharma, India
A time-lapse of Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter
Credit: Vishal Sharma/IAU OAE
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A time-lapse of Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter
Credit: Vishal Sharma/IAU OAE
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Jupiter Moons Movie2, by Nicolas Hurez, Paul-Antoine Matrangolo, and Carl Pennypacker, United States of America
Four Galilean moons around the planet Jupiter.
Credit: Nicolas Hurez, Paul-Antoine Matrangolo and Carl Pennypacker/IAU OAE
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Four Galilean moons around the planet Jupiter.
Credit: Nicolas Hurez, Paul-Antoine Matrangolo and Carl Pennypacker/IAU OAE
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Jupiter, Io and its shadow, by Ralf Burkart, Germany
A time-lapse showing he transit of one of the Galilean moons, Io, in front of Jupiter
Credit: Ralf Burkart/IAU OAE
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A time-lapse showing he transit of one of the Galilean moons, Io, in front of Jupiter
Credit: Ralf Burkart/IAU OAE
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Linked Glossary Terms
Header image credit: Daniel Henrion/IAU OAE
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