Space North East is an outreach initiative established by the Department of Planetary Sciences to promote the study of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths (STEM) subjects. As part of this initiative, we are working with secondary schools to help teach students more about space and planetary sciences.
The Department of Planetary Sciences is part of the School of Geosciences. Our focus is on the study of earth and planetary sciences and the development of instruments for earth and planetary exploration.
Who is it for?
The Space North East outreach project is open to any S1-S3 pupils interested in space subjects.
What does Space North East include?
The Space North East project can be completed online, or in the classroom.
Online
Through this online webinar series presented by Dr Miracle Israel Nazarious of the Department of Planetary Sciences, students will learn some basic space concepts. You can watch the webinar videos on the University of Aberdeen's YouTube channel, with links to each webinar below. You can also download the PowerPoint presentations used in each webinar.
Classroom
With the classroom delivery of this project, students conduct a classroom experiment, recording data measurements using equipment provided to their school by the Department of Planetary Sciences. The students will then upload the measurements to a dedicated webpage through which they can monitor the results. Each measurement will take a maximum of 10 minutes and can be recorded on school days.
If you are interested in taking part in the classroom exercise of the Space North East project with your students, then please email geosciences-outreach@abdn.ac.uk and we will contact you with further information.
Webinar Video Links
You can watch each webinar in this series on the University's YouTube channel. The PowerPoints used in each webinar are also available to download below.
- (Coming soon) Webinar 1: the scientific goals of ExoMars and HABIT
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Learn about the scientific goals of the ExoMars mission and the HABIT instrument, their payloads, and their measuring methodologies. Video recording coming soon.
- Webinar 2: the present-day environment of Mars' surface
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Learn more about the present-day environment of the surface of Mars, and how this compares with the environment of the surface of our home - Earth.
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- Webinar 3: the future of space exploration and more
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Discover more about the future of space exploration and in-situ resource utilisation, how the MOXIE instrument on Perseverance compares to with HABIT on ExoMars, producing O2 and H2O.
- (Coming soon) Webinar 4: testing in-space simulation facilities and comparison with the different stages of space missions
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Learn about the different phases of a space mission - launch, cruise, and operations - and about different spacecraft testing. Video recording coming soon.
Downloadable Materials: PowerPoint Presentations
These are the presentations used by Dr Miracle Israel Nazarious in the webinar videos.
- Webinar 1: the scientific goals of ExoMars and HABIT
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Learn about the scientific goals of the ExoMars mission and the HABIT instrument, their payloads, and their measuring methodologies.
- Webinar 2: the present-day environment of Mars' surface
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Learn more about the present-day environment of the surface of Mars, and how this compares with the environment of the surface of our home - Earth.
- Webinar 3: the future of space exploration and more
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Discover more about the future of space exploration and in-situ resource utilisation, how the MOXIE instrument on Perseverance compares to with HABIT on ExoMars, producing O2 and H2O
- Webinar 4: testing in-space simulation facilities and comparison with the different stages of space missions
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Learn about the different phases of a space mission - launch, cruise, and operations - and about different spacecraft testing.
Space North East is headed by Prof. Javier Martin-Torres and Prof. Maria-Paz Zorzano, with Dr Miracle Israel Nazarious as researcher involved in delivering webinars, preparing the online downloadable guides, data platforms, and guiding the experiments and interactions with the students and teachers.