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The Nerdiest Video Game Ever
A sea of critical real-time weather data floods into the satellite's memory grid! Tornadoes are brewing! So is a solar flare! To save lives and protect expensive instruments, the GOES-R weather satellite must not lose any of the data it is collecting. You can help! Bundle like data types together and store them safely before the data grid overflows. "Satellite Insight" is a free new iPhone game from NOAA and NASA. Educational as well as entertaining, the game challenges players to keep up with the stream of data from GOES-R's six main instruments.
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Play and learn
Simple and fun learning activities to share with children.
Clues from Ancient Light—With the GALEX space telescope, astronomers know the age of a source's light by its degree of red shift. In this learning-by-analogy activity, kids arrange pictures of familiar objects by judging which is older.
Paint by Pixels—Make a picture using a technique similar to that used by many NASA spacecraft to record and send pictures back to Earth.
