Jolitz Family Video- 2004-05

• Jolitz Family Video - How to See Past the Dust

  Ben and Rebecca learn about how infrared astronomy and the Spitzer Telescope are used to "look through the dust" to see the centers of galaxies and the nurseries of stars. Rebecca is excited because she just completed a report on the Palomar Observatory, and wants to learn about other telescopes, while Ben is interested in the physics of infrared astronomy. Will they learn "How to see past the dust"? Dr. Yvonne Pendleton, speaking at Foothill College, is an infrared observational astronomer in the Planetary Systems Branch of NASA, who pursues the origin and evolution of interstellar organic matter, from star forming regions to the incorporation of this material into primitive Solar System bodies.

• Jolitz Family Video - Loma Open House

  Rebecca shows us all the wonderful projects she's done in Mrs. Shoemate's 4th grade class at Loma Prieta Elementary School this year in "Loma Open House".

• Jolitz Family Video - NASA Aerospace Encounter

  Mrs. Shoemate's fourth grade class from Loma Prieta School in Los Gatos visits NASA Aerospace Encounter, located in the old 6x6 supersonic wind tunnel building on the NASA Ames campus at Moffett Field, California. The class is given astronaut and space station crew work assignments, and learn what it would be like to support the space station's mission studies in engineering, medicine, and earth sciences. Rebecca Jolitz is specially featured as an Earth Observation and Communications Specialist.