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National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
Calendar
July 2016 - June 2017
Educational Product
Educators & Students Grades K-6
www.nasa.gov EP-2016-06-021-JPL
NASA Science
Using the vantage point of space, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate
seeks to achieve (with the science community and our partners) a
deep scientific understanding of our planet, other planets and solar
system bodies, the interplanetary environment, the Sun and its effects
on the solar system, and the universe beyond. In so doing, we lay the
intellectual foundation for the robotic and human expeditions of the
future while meeting today’s needs for scientific information to address
national concerns, such as climate change and space weather. At
every step we share the journey of scientific exploration with the public
and partner with others to substantially improve science, technology,
engineering and mathematics (STEM) education nationwide.
Visit http://science.nasa.gov for the latest information on this quest.
Watch the NASA Science YouTube channel at
https://www.youtube.com/user/ScienceAtNASA/
The moon phases in this calendar are given in UTC (Coordinated
Universal Time).
NASA Space Place
NASA’s award-winning Space Place website engages upper-elementa-
ry-aged children in space and Earth science through interactive games,
hands-on activities, fun articles, and short videos. With material in both
English and Spanish and numerous resources for parents and teachers,
Space Place has something for everyone. Learn about everything from
black holes and wild space weather to the reasons for seasons here on
Earth. NASA Space Place has material on space, the Sun, the Solar
System, our own planet, and the science and technology that make
discovery possible.
Visit NASA Space Place at http://spaceplace.nasa.gov
Keep up with what’s new on our Space Place Facebook page at
https://www.facebook.com/nasaspaceplace
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nasaspaceplace
See the Space Place YouTube channel at
https://www.youtube.com/user/nasaspaceplace
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft
captured this high-resolution
enhanced-color view of Pluto on July
14, 2015.
Image Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
JULY 2016 spaceplace.nasa.gov
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/ How can satellites help these
means animals in the wild?
spaceplace.nasa.gov/ /migration
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
NEW MOON
Earth at aphelion, the time of year
Voyager 2 flew by Jupiter and
when we are farthest from the Sun.
discovered the Jovian moon
Why isn’t it cold if we are farthest
Adrastea in 1979. Play “JunoQuest”
from the sun?
and help unravel more Jupiter
/seasons
mysteries.
U.S. Independence Day /junoquest
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
FIRST QUARTER
Galileo spacecraft dropped its
probe into Jupiter’s atmosphere
this day in 1995. Read about
Jupiter at
/all-about-jupiter/
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
FULL MOON
Neil Armstrong was the first
human to walk on the Moon this
day in 1969. Why is the Moon so
scarred with craters?
/craters/
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
25 26 27 28 29 30
31
LAST QUARTER
Apollo 15’s
rover was the first
vehicle driven on the
Moon, 1971. See a
picture of the lunar rover.
/gallery-earth/#moon
NASA Space Place can also be found at http://science.nasa.gov/kids.
This image, released for Hubble’s 17th anniversary,
shows a region of star birth and death in the Carina
Nebula. The nebula contains at least a dozen brilliant
stars that are 50 to 100 times the mass of our Sun.
Image Credit: NASA/ESA
AUGUST 2016 spaceplace.nasa.gov
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2 3 4 5 6
1 2 3 4 5 6
NEW MOON
The U.S. Coast Guard’s official
Joseph Priestley discovered history began in 1790. Play Wild
On this calendar oxygen in 1774. Oxygen is great Weather Adventure, and don’t
/ to breathe. It also makes up part make the Coast Guard rescue
means of greenhouse gas molecules! you!
spaceplace.nasa.gov/ /gumdrops /wild-weather-adventure
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
FIRST QUARTER
Perseids meteor shower at
Friendship Day. Make sunspot maximum. What causes a meteor
cookies with a friend! shower?
/sunspot-cookies/ /meteor-shower
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
FULL MOON
National Relaxation Day. Lie
under a tree and watch the Tell A Joke Day. Make a robot National Aviation Day. Did you
pigeons fly by. Are they in a race puzzle, give it to friends, and test know some NASA missions use
home? Will they get lost? their sense of humor. planes rather than rockets?
/pigeons /space-robots /mission-chronicles/#hansen
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
LAST QUARTER
Why does the Moon have Today, Venus and Jupiter will be
phases at all? Get some Oreos Voyager 2 flew by Saturn in 1981. very close together in the night sky.
and find out! Saturn has its very own page at Discover why planets are round!
/oreo-moon /all-about-saturn/ /planets-round
28 29 30 31
28 29 30 31
NASA Space Place can also be found at http://science.nasa.gov/kids.
A photo of Howland Forest in Maine, one of the
regions AirMOSS has studied using radar
measurements of root-zone soil moisture to help
determine the overall carbon exchange between
plants and the atmosphere.
Image Credit: National Science Foundation
Image Credit: NASA/Terry Virts
SEPTEMBER 2016 spaceplace.nasa.gov
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4 5 6 7 8 9 10
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
FIRST QUARTER
National Cheese Pizza Day. Find
out how GPS can help you in the National Swap Ideas Day.
quest for pizza! Teddy Bear Day. Make a topo Read some of Dr. Marc’s amazing
/gps-pizza map of your bear as he hibernates facts and swap some ideas with a
in a box! friend.
Labor Day /topo-bear /menu/dr-marc
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
FULL MOON
Positive Thinking Day. Make your Luna 2 successfully reached the
positive ions outnumber your surface of the Moon in 1959. Do
negative ions when you do the you know what part the Moon
“Ions in Action” experiment. plays in a solar eclipse?
/ion-balloons /venus-transit
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
LAST QUARTER
Voyager 1 took the first full-frame
photo of Earth and the Moon
together in 1977. Check out other Autumnal Equinox
photos of the solar system at (first day of fall). Learn what
NASA Space Place. causes the seasons.
/gallery-solar-system /seasons
25 26 27 28 29 30
25 26 27 28 29 30 National Crush a Can Day.
Crush a can without touching it in
this experiment to test new
spacecraft materials.
/soda-can-test
NASA Space Place can also be found at http://science.nasa.gov/kids.
This artist’s rendering shows the orbits of the
Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission, a Solar
Terrestrial Probes mission comprising four identically
instrumented spacecraft that will study the Earth’s
magnetosphere.
Image Credit: NASA MMS
Image Credit: NASA/Terry Virts
OCTOBER 2016 spaceplace.nasa.gov
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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2 3 4 5 6 7 8
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
NOAA founded in 1970. NOAA
helps protect the environment and In 1959, Luna 3
keeps an eye on the weather with took the first photo
its GOES satellites. Play Satellite of the far side of the Moon. Why
Insight to see what we can learn does the Moon look different
from a NOAA satellite! throughout the month?
/satellite-insight/ /oreo-moon
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
FIRST QUARTER
National Train Your Brain Day. National Dessert Day. Make
The “Ozone Trap-n-Zap” game will yummy “El Niño Pudding” for
help! dessert today.
/ozone /el-nino
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
FULL MOON LAST QUARTER
Launch in 1975 of GOES-1, the
first weather satellite to take Orionids meteor shower at
pictures of Earth at night. Play a maximum. What causes a meteor
game about the newest GOES. shower?
/satellite-insight /meteor-shower
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
NEW MOON
30 Halloween 31
25 26 27 28 29 International Animation Day.
Check out our “snappy”
animations about science.
/menu-snap
NASA Space Place can also be found at http://science.nasa.gov/kids.
A galaxy about 23 million light-years away is the site
of impressive, ongoing fireworks. Rather than paper,
powder, and fire, this galactic light show involves a
giant black hole, shock waves, and vast reservoirs of
gas.
Image Credit: NASA/CXC/JPL-Caltech/
STScI/NSF/NRAO/VLA
Image Credit: NASA/Terry Virts
NOVEMBER 2016 spaceplace.nasa.gov
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6 7 8 9 10 11 12
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
FIRST QUARTER
Marie Curie born in 1867. A
physicist, she won a Nobel Prize
for discovering two new elements. X-rays were discovered in 1895.
Find out about NASA women Play with x-rays in “Photon
scientists. Pile-up!”
Daylight Saving Time ends /mission-chronicles /photon-pileup Veterans Day
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
FULL MOON
I Love to Write Day. Leonids meteor shower at
Want to get started? Write your maximum. What causes a meteor
own zany adventure! shower?
/loopy-legends /meteor-shower
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
LAST QUARTER
Edwin Hubble born in 1889.
Hubble discovered galaxies and Thanksgiving Day.
the expansion of the universe. We Did the pilgrims on the Mayflower
have a whole section about the navigate by the stars? With our
universe! starfinders, they could have.
/menu/space/ /starfinder
27 28 29 30
27 28 29 30
NEW MOON
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Child and Ad
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Try making a
Cloud Mobile
together.
/ cloud-mob
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NASA Space Place can also be found at http://science.nasa.gov/kids.Refrozen meltwater ponds in northeast Greenland
seen during an April 2013 IceBridge flight.
Image Credit: NASA / Michael Studinger
Image Credit: NASA/Terry Virts
DECEMBER 2016 spaceplace.nasa.gov
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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/story-lucy / 1973. Play “JunoQuest” to
means explore the mysteries of Jupiter!
spaceplace.nasa.gov/ /junoquest
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
FIRST QUARTER
The Galileo spacecraft became
the first to orbit Jupiter in 1995.
Read about Jupiter at
/all-about-jupiter/
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
FULL MOON
First powered flight by the
Geminids meteor shower at Wright Brothers in 1903. Did
maximum early this morning. their invention just come out of the
What causes a meteor shower? blue?
/meteor-shower /classroom-activities/ #history
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
LAST QUARTER
Apollo 17, the last of the Apollo
moon landing missions, returned Winter Solstice (first day of
to Earth in 1972. Did they find winter). What causes the seasons,
water ice on the Moon? anyway?
/i-see-ice /seasons
25 26 27 28 29 30 31
25 26 27 28 29 30 31
NEW MOON
Christmas Day.
If you get an iPad or iPhone for
Christmas, we have some more
gifts for you.
/ios
NASA Space Place can also be found at http://science.nasa.gov/kids.This pair of images shows color-coded maps from
NASA's Dawn mission, revealing the highs and lows
of topography on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres.
JANUARY 2017 spaceplace.nasa.gov
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
FIRST QUARTER
Galileo first spots, in 1610, what
Earth at perihelion, the time became known as Jupiter’s
Quadrantid meteor shower at of year when it is closest to Galilean moons. How do these
maximum. What causes a the Sun. Just how close is moons interact with each other
meteor shower? Earth to the Sun right now? and their massive parent?
/meteor-shower /seasons /io-tides
New Year’s Day
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
FULL MOON
Physicist Stephen W.
Hawking born 1942. He writes
about black holes. How does it
“sound” when a big star is
swallowed by a black hole?
/ligo-g-waves
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
LAST QUARTER
Ben Franklin’s Penguin Awareness Day.
birthday, 1706. Ben played the Emperor penguins migrate
violin. Perhaps he played one each year to breed. What other
made during the “little ice age”? animals migrate?
Martin Luther King day /violins /migration
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
NEW MOON
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“Earth-as-Art” puzzles. means
/spuzzled spaceplace.nasa.gov/
NASA Space Place can also be found at http://science.nasa.gov/kids.This storm cell photo was taken from NASA's
high-altitude ER-2 aircraft on May 23, 2014. The
Integrated Precipitation and Hydrology Experiment,
or IPHEx, field campaign is part of the ground
validation effort for the Global Precipitation Measure-
ment (GPM) mission, an international satellite
mission led by NASA and the Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency.
Image Credit: NASA / Stu Broce
Image Credit: NASA/Terry Virts
FEBRUARY 2017 spaceplace.nasa.gov
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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1 2 3 4
FIRST QUARTER
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in -p la ce -liv Groundhog Day. The
/ space / groundhog should consult the
means GOES satellites, not his shadow!
spaceplace.nasa.gov/ /geo-orbits
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
FULL MOON
Apollo 14 astronauts played golf
on the Moon in 1971. See
astronauts at work and play.
/gallery-technology/
#astronauts
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
LAST QUARTER
The Great Backyard Bird Clyde Tombaugh discovered
Count begins. Learn about Pluto in 1930. Learn more about
Valentine’s Day. Print your own how NASA keeps track of Pluto, the strange King of the Ice
space valentines! some birds using radar. Dwarfs.
/valentines /birds /ice-dwarf
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Presidents’ Day
International Mother
Language Day. If yours is
Spanish, we have a website just
for you.
/sp
26 NEW MOON
27 28
26 27 28 NASA and JAXA launched the
Global Precipitation
Measurement satellite in 2014.
How would you build your own
satellite?
/build-a-spacecraft
NASA Space Place can also be found at http://science.nasa.gov/kids.A view from the “Kimberley” formation on Mars taken
by NASA’s Curiosity rover. The strata in the
foreground dip towards the base of Mount Sharp,
indicating the ancient depression that existed before
the larger bulk of the mountain formed.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
MARCH 2017 spaceplace.nasa.gov
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means “Ode to Aerogel.”
spaceplace.nasa.gov/ /aerogel
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
FIRST QUARTER
First telephone call, 1876. How
do we talk to spacecraft way out
in space?
/x-ponder
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
FULL MOON
St. Patrick’s Day.
Leprechauns are Irish folklore
fairies in green. If we met green
Pi Day. What would pi be in beings in space, what would we
binary numbers? tell them about Earth?
Daylight Saving /voyager-to-stars
Time begins /binary-code2
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
LAST QUARTER
World Storytelling Day. Create
your own zany story to tell today! International Goof-off Day.
/loopy-legends Download our Space Place
games for your iPhone and
iPad! You might learn something
Vernal Equinox while goofing off!
(Spring begins) /ios
26 27 28 29 30 31
26 27 28 29 30 31
NEW MOON
NASA Space Place can also be found at http://science.nasa.gov/kids.In this image, taken by the Chandra X-ray
Observatory and combined with a Hubble visible
light image, an expanding shell of debris called SNR
0519-69.0 is left behind after a massive star
exploded in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite
galaxy to the Milky Way.
Image Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO
Image Credit: NASA/Terry Virts
APRIL 2017 spaceplace.nasa.gov
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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/story-planet-a / April Fool’s Day. At least teach
means your nose not to be fooled!
spaceplace.nasa.gov/ /e-nose
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
FIRST QUARTER
National Find a
Rainbow Day. Go to the National Read a Road Map Jupiter will be closest to Earth.
“Cosmic Colors” viewer and see Day. How do homing pigeons It’s a great day to play
the universe in far more colors find their way home? Do they JunoQuest, a game about the
than in a rainbow! read a map? giant planet.
/cosmic-colors /pigeons /junoquest
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
FULL MOON
Leonardo da Vinci was born
this day in 1452. Ever wonder
how most inventors do their
work?
/classroom-activities/
#history
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
LAST QUARTER
Earth Day. Make a stained
glass Earth and see our planet
in a whole new light!
Easter Sunday /stained-glass-earth
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
24 25 26 27 28 29
NEW MOON
Tell a Story Day. Read a
couple of the storybooks on
Space Place, then make up
your own story about space!
30 /menu/storybook
NASA Space Place can also be found at http://science.nasa.gov/kids.NASA’s EPIC camera, aboard NOAA's
DSCOVR satellite, captured a unique view of
this week's solar eclipse. While residents of
the Western Pacific looked up in the early
morning hours to observe a total eclipse of the
sun, DSCOVR looked on from a million miles
away and captured the shadow of the Moon
crossing the planet.
Image Credit: NASA DSCOVR EPIC team.
MAY 2017 spaceplace.nasa.gov
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2 3 4 5 6
1 2 3 4 5 6
FIRST QUARTER
National Teacher Appreciation
Day. Check out our fun
classroom activities, articles, and National Space Day.
On this calendar Build a cool model of a
images on our Parents & National Weather Observers
/ spacecraft such as the Hubble
Educators page! Day. To celebrate, go on a “Wild
means /menu/ Weather Adventure!” Space Telescope.
spaceplace.nasa.gov/ parents-and-educators /wild-weather-adventure /build-a-spacecraft
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
FULL MOON
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
LAST QUARTER
Pack Rat Day. You may be a
National Chocolate Chip pack rat on Earth, but you’d
Day. Celebrate by making our have to change your ways if you
yummy sunspot cookies with took a trip to Mars!
chocolate chips! /classroom-activities/
/sunspot-cookies #marspacking
Mother’s Day
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
NEW MOON
In 1961, President Kennedy
In 1785, Benjamin Franklin announced that the U.S. will Happy Birthday to Dr. Sally
announced his invention of land a person on the Moon by Ride (1951), the first American
bifocals. Why do we even need the end of the decade. Build woman in space. Learn more
two eyes? your own “Moon Habitat.” about other NASA women!
/stereo-vision /moon-habitat /space-place-live
28 29 30 31 National Inve
28 29 30 31
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/spinoffs
Memorial Day
NASA Space Place can also be found at http://science.nasa.gov/kids.In July, 2013 the Interface Region Imaging Spectro-
graph (IRIS) mission released its first light imagery.
Shown here is a fantastic image of an active region
in great detail. The NASA mission is studying what is
known as the interface region between the photo-
sphere and corona.
Image Credit: NASA Iris
Image Credit: NASA/Terry Virts
JUNE 2017 spaceplace.nasa.gov
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2 3
1 2 3
FIRST QUARTER
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4 5 6 7 8 9 10
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
FULL MOON
World Oceans Day. Explore
ocean currents and play “Go
With the Flow.”
/ocean-currents
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
LAST QUARTER
Saturn will be at its closest The first roller coaster opened
approach to Earth. Check out in 1884. How does a roller coaster
Saturn’s very own Space Place work? Build a “Newtonian Physics
page! Machine” and find out.
/all-about-saturn /momentum
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
NEW MOON
Summer Solstice (first day of
Father’s Day. Play the “Helios”
summer). What causes Earth to
game with Dad.
have seasons?
/helios-game
/seasons
25 26 27 28 29 30
25 26 27 28 29 30
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