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Race to build your own NASA satellite!

Lynn CominskySonoma State University

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Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope

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What Are Gamma Rays?

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Fermi goes into Space

• This animation shows Fermi launching into Earth orbit and observing the sky in gamma rays

• Fermi was launched on June 10, 2008 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida

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What are the parts of Fermi?

Gamma-ray Burst MonitorGamma-ray Burst MonitorGamma-ray Burst Monitor

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Large Area Telescope

• Has 16 towers – each uses E=mc2 to detect gamma-rays

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Gamma-ray skymap

Radio galaxy

Globular cluster

High-mass binary

Bright blazar

Gamma-ray pulsar

Radio galaxy

Globular cluster

High-mass binary

Bright blazar

Gamma-ray pulsar

Radio galaxy

Globular cluster

High-mass binary

Bright blazar

Gamma-ray pulsar

Radio galaxy

Globular cluster

High-mass binary

Bright blazar

Gamma-ray pulsar

Radio galaxy

Globular cluster

High-mass binary

Bright blazar

Gamma-ray pulsar

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Fermi Race Game

• Play in teams of two • Open both packs of cards – shuffle well

then deal 8 cards to each person• The rest of the cards are the “draw

deck”• Start by building satellite• Once you have all the parts, turn over

the board and be the first to observe 5 objects

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On each turn

• Draw card from deck• Play Satellite (or Object) + Experience

cards if you can• Play Action cards if you want to• If you have less than 4 cards, take more

from deck. If you have more than 8 cards, discard some to pile

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Blue Experience Cards

• Left hand side is for Stage 1:

Right side is for Stage 2 – these are points needed to observe objects

Educator card Science team card

There are also “Wild Cards”

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Yellow borders = Action Cards

• Control flow of game – Offensive and Defensive

There are also “Instant Action” defensive cards which can counteract your opponents actions

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Double Sided cards

• Red borders = Satellite part cards – use in Stage 1

1 Science team card

AND

1 Educator card

1 Science team card

OR

2 Educator cards

What you need for the satellite part

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Double Sided cards

• Green borders = Space object cards – use in Stage 2

How many points you need for this object

The first player to get different objects wins!