Free Learning Activity Event – Discover the World Around You with STELLA

“From Earth to the Cosmos: How NASA’s Backyard Instruments Are Preparing Us to Farm Beyond Our Planet”

• Talk Description: NASA satellites like Landsat have spent over 50 years watching our planet, monitoring crops, tracking droughts, measuring the health of forests from orbit, and increasing our understanding of Earth’s dynamic processes. But how do we take what we’ve learned and apply it to our spacecraft, the Moon, Mars and beyond? In this talk, NASA’s Mike Taylor introduces STELLA, a family of open-source scientific instruments that anyone can build for under $200 and explores how the same principles NASA uses to monitor Earth are preparing us to grow food, monitor air, and sustain life across the cosmos. STELLA won’t be going to the Moon, but something like it will, and the people learning on STELLA today may be the ones who build it. Join us for a fascinating look at how backyard science is building the workforce for humanity’s next giant leap.
• Speaker: Mike Taylor (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
• Speaker Bio: Mike Taylor is an Outreach Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, where he has worked for over 18 years. He leads the STELLA project, a growing family of low-cost, open-source remote sensing instruments for research and education. Mike holds both a master’s and a bachelor’s degree in GIS from the University of Maryland.
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Lastly, I wanted to share that NASA is targeting no earlier than Wednesday, April 1, for the Artemis II test flight to the Moon. Artemis II is NASA’s first crewed mission under the Artemis program and will launch from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Check out this news release to learn how you can view the launch and other events throughout the mission.