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Version 2.0
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Explore the Planets helps students investigate the planets and
their satellites and understand the processes that shape them: volcanism,
impact cratering, tectonics, landslides, flowing water, and wind. They will
study the planets the way planetary scientists do, by comparing, for example,
why some volcanoes on Mars are so much larger than their counterparts on
Earth. They’ll discover why impact craters are so widespread and much
more.
This updated CD-ROM is fully narrated and contains new data and images from
recent discoveries and missions into space. The program aids learning with
scored review questions, a visual index, an illustrated glossary, colorful
animations, video clips, and an updated planet database. Students can even
pilot a spaceship through the solar system and test their knowledge of planetary
bodies. Grades 5 through 12.
Student Worksheets available online!
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Call 1-800-293-2725
for information on version upgrades.
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New features in Version
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- Extensive revisions of Mars and the asteroids based
on recent missions.
- New images of planets and their moons based on recent
missions.
- Interactive panoramas and videos on Mars and asteroids.
- Updated data and images in Planetary Database.
- Fully narrated.
- New visual index.
- Interactive illustrated glossary.
- Easy navigation including page numbers and a jump
button on every frame.
- Scored review questions that can be printed and saved
to file.
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Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- Tour the Planets: Mercury/Venus/Earth/The Moon/Mars/Asteroids
& Comets/Jupiter/Saturn/Uranus/Neptune/Pluto
- Planet Processes: Landslides/Volcanism/Flowing water/Wind/Impact
cratering/Tectonics/Atmosphere
- Planet Explorer Game
- Planet Database
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National Science
Education Standards
See how Explore
the Planets aligns with NSES
standards.
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Written by G. Jeffrey Taylor, Ph.D., Planetary Geosciences Division,
University of Hawai'i.
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