South Pole Adventure

DESCRIPTION

How would you like the opportunity to become involved in experiments being conducted at the South Pole from the comfort of your warm house? The South Pole Adventure page offers students, educators, and amateur scientists opportunities to become involved in experiments that are being conducted at the South Pole. The page also contains factual information about Antarctica as well as experiments that you can perform at home. The South Pole Adventure page is supported by a cooperative agreement from the National Science Foundation to the University of Chicago. Check out the link to CARA (Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica). CARA is using the unique advantages of the Polar Plateau for astrophysics to investigate the origin of the structure of the Universe.

PROCEDURE

Use your WWW browser to access the site whose URL is:
http://astro.uchicago.edu/cara/southpole.edu/
Explore the site. Use the bookmark capabilities of your browser to save the site location for future use.
Use the exit command to quit your WWW browser.

This lesson is part of the series "DO-IT Lessons" developed by the University of Washington. Creation of the series of lessons is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant numbers 9255803 and 9550003. The lessons are now maintained through funds from the State of Washington. The University of Washington holds the copyright to the series of lessons, however ownership of the Internet resources referenced in the lessons may be found at the resource site. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed at these sites are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation, the University of Washington or the State of Washington.

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