CALLING ALL STEM LEARNERS & Families illustration over the astronaut holding a spaceship and remote sensing instrument

Remote Sensing Learners & Families – Games!

Check out these games adapted from the Remote Sensing Science and Engineering Curriculum. They are intended for you and family members to explore at home together.

Remote Sensing Crater Exploration

Find a landing site for your rover. Zoom in to explore sites A and B.

Remote Sensing Puzzle Challenge

For the pure fun of it, here is a jigsaw puzzle of your Notebook cover.

You can set the number of pieces by selecting the icon at the left in the center tool bar.

Have fun!

Remote Sensing Vocabulary

Remote Sensing Science Vocabulary – Crossword Puzzle

Hint: You can have two or three words with a space between them.

Remote Sensing Science Vocabulary – Find the Words

Composition: What a surface is made of

Constraints: limits on a design

Criteria: things a successful design needs to do or have

Fairing: the part that sits on top of the rocket and protects a spacecraft during launch

Physical properties: the shape and texture of a surface

Resolution: The amount of detail in an image

Technology: an object, system, or process designed by people to solve a problem

CTX: Context Camera, a camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter 

HiRISE: High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, a camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter 

Landform: a shape on the surface of a planetary body 

Topography: the shape of land in an area

Topographic map: a representation of the shape of land in an area

Spectrometer: a technology that measures the amount of light reflected from an object at many different colors (wavelengths). 

Spectroscopy: the study of how light of different colors behaves when it touches something

Spectrum: a range of colors

Remote Sensing Engineering Vocabulary – Crossword Puzzle

Hint: You can have two or three words with a space between them.

Remote Sensing Engineering Vocabulary – Find the Words

Composition: what a surface is made of

Constraints: limits on a design

Criteria: things a successful design needs to do or have

Fairing: the part that sits on top of the rocket and protects a spacecraft during launch

Physical properties: the shape and texture of a surface

Resolution: the amount of detail in an image

Technology: an object, system, or process designed by people to solve a problem

Habitable: could once have supported some kind of life

Obstacle: thing that might be in the way

Redirect: to change the direction of

System: a group of parts that work together

Filter: a technology for blocking certain things and letting other things through

Remote: far away or distant 

Sensing: collecting or becoming aware of information 

Remote sensing: collecting information at a distance 

Mineral: a naturally occurring crystal formed by geologic processes, with a specific chemical composition. Rocks are made of one or more types of crystal.

Bird’s-eye view: a perspective from above

LiDAR: light detection and ranging, a technique using lasers to measure distance

Topographic map: a representation of the shape of land in an area

Topography: the shape of land in an area