NASA’s educator guide How High Is It? includes mathematics activities to explain scale size and scale distance. The guide helps put aside misconceptions about how far away spacecraft and satellites are. At 22,240 miles above Earth, spacecraft put into orbit over the equator travel at 7,000 miles per hour around the equator and follow Earth’s rotation.To find out more about the activities in the How High Is It? educator guide, read the article in the Satellite Meteorology forum in NEON.
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