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Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades K-4, Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12
Subject
Art, Computer Science, Mathematics, Space Science, Technology, Missions to Planets and Moons, Remote Sensing
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities
When distant spacecraft send data to researchers on Earth through the Deep Space Network, NASA’s international array of giant radio antennas, the information is encoded into binary code for transmission. These groups of 1s and 0s might not look like anything at first, but in binary code they translate to a message or image. In this activity, students will encode and decode planetary images to simulate data transmissions from a distant spacecraft.
This lesson can be leveled for various grades and skill levels.