The following links take you to additional information that supports the first 4 lessons found in the MMS Educator's Instructional Guide. All content for the instructional guide including background, standards connections and acknowledgments can be found at:
http://mms.gsfc.nasa.gov/epo_math_guide.html
The page from the MMS Mission website that describes the spacecraft:
http://mms.gsfc.nasa.gov/spacecraft.html
A video that show an Atlas rocket being launched into space:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-TZWYYkdbY
A website that contains facts about rocket (launch vehicles):
http://www.ulalaunch.com/Education_RocketLaunch.aspx
Two websites that contains specific facts about the Atlas V rockets:
http://www.ulalaunch.com/Products_AtlasV.aspx
http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app3/b-2.html
Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) Dayside Orbit Animation for the Preliminary Design Review video that shows the flight configuration of the MMS satellites:
http://mms.gsfc.nasa.gov/videos_animations.html
A website that discusses how solar power works. “How Do Photovoltaics Work?”:
https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2002/solarcells/
Watch a movie of Solar panels being deployed on another spacecraft:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stereo/multimedia/deploy.html
Websites that show examples of other spacecraft that use solar panels
To find more examples go to www.nasa.gov and search for Solar Panels.
