EPOXI Mission Outreach E-News           #8                      Oct 2009
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MISSION
•       Lunar Hydration
Data acquired by the Deep Impact spacecraft of Earth's Moon reveal that
hydration and rehydration is a dynamic cycle that completes during daylight,
exists over the entire lunar surface during at least some part of the day,
and is consistent with a solar wind source. Evidence for OH/H2O on the
surface of the Moon has been observed by infrared spectrometers flying on
Chandrayaan-1, Cassini and Deep Impact spacecraft.
http://epoxi.umd.edu/2science/hydratedmoon.shtml                Lunar
Hydration
http://epoxi.umd.edu/7press/news.shtml                          In the
News...

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BIOGRAPHIES
So who works on EPOXI? We are continuing with our plan to feature some of
the EPOCh scientists as they work hard analyzing their data and some of the
many engineers and support personnel who helped make the EPOCh phase of the
mission successful.
http://epoxi.umd.edu/1mission/bios.shtml                        All
biographies

•       Meet Vikki Meadows
In another life she might be a landscape gardener or librarian, but
fortunately she is one of the “scientists responsible for analysis of the
EPOXI Earth data. Specifically, we are comparing a model of the distant
appearance of the Earth.”
http://epoxi.umd.edu/1mission/bios/meadows_v.shtml              Vikki’s Up
Close & Personal

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KIDS & FAMILIES
•       “Finish Me” Stories
Follow Sam Finnigan and his pals as they prepare to take off in his homemade
rocket ship. Then finish the story by creating your own version of Sam's
cosmic adventure.
http://epoxi.umd.edu/5kids/stories.shtml                Stories

•       Puzzles
Are you looking for something to do together? Learn more about NASA’s Deep
Impact and EPOXI missions by trying some of the crossword and wordsearch
puzzles. Some are print and do, some can be completed online, all are fun!
http://epoxi.umd.edu/6outreach/puzzles.shtml                    Puzzles

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EDUCATION
•       Extreme Navigation
Try out a new standards aligned activity appropriate for middle school. In
Extreme Navigation students learn how mission planners design a mission to
rendezvous with a comet. Some students role play solar system bodies (Sun,
Earth, a Comet) while others role play mission controllers and a spacecraft.
Students will learn about the need for a planned trajectory to assure a
successful rendezvous between the spacecraft and target comet. Learn more
at:
http://epoxi.umd.edu/4education/index.shtml

•       STEMapalooza sows seeds for math, science careers
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) came together in
Denver, Colorado on October 16-17, 2009 with more than 100 exhibits that
featured "minds-on" interactive displays for a palooza - all out party and
celebration of the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields:
STEMapalooza!

NASA's EPOXI mission was there! McREL's Education and Public Outreach (E/PO)
team highlighted three Discovery missions (Dawn, EPOXI, and Stardust-NExT).
We had a fun and exciting booth where participants had an opportunity to
take part in a variety of hands-on, interactive activities including Comet
on a Stick developed by EPOXI E/PO. Approximately 10,000 participants:
students, educators, business leaders converged at STEMapalooza, a rousing
initiation to the second annual event at the Colorado Convention Center,
sponsored by the Center for Applied Science and Mathematics for Innovation
and Competitiveness at the University of Colorado, Denver.
http://epoxi.umd.edu/6outreach/reports.shtml#stemapalooza

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SHARING WEB SITE CONTENT
Did you see an interesting page on the EPOXI website? Want to share it with
your friends? It’s now easier to do that since we’ve added a Share Button on
all of the pages. You can post a page to your Facebook, MySpace or other
social network. You can also email, Digg, Twitter… Just look for the “Add
This” button in the left column on any page.
http://epoxi.umd.edu/

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NEXT NEWSLETTER
We plan on publishing the next EPOXI mission newsletter in June 2010 when we
start ramping up our activities in preparation for the encounter with comet
Hartley 2 in Nov 2010.

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EPOXI E-News features information about the mission, its outreach web site,
and products, services, and materials available from the EPOXI Education and
Public Outreach (E/PO) team. The EPOXI mission combines two exciting science
investigations in an entirely new mission that re-uses the Deep Impact
spacecraft. The Extrasolar Planet Observation and Characterization (EPOCh)
investigation observed stars that have known transiting giant planets. The
Deep Impact Extended Investigation (DIXI) of comets observes comet
103P/Hartley 2 during a close flyby in November 2010. The EPOXI mission is a
partnership among the University of Maryland (UMD), the California Institute
of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Ball Aerospace and
Technology Corp (BATC), and Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). EPOXI is a
NASA Discovery mission of opportunity. See our website at epoxi.umd.edu