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The
Traveling Exhibit
Electronic Guided Tour
Images courtesy of NASA/JPL
Key Partners
Welcome to the
Exhibit
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EXHIBIT AREAS
Family of the Sun – Introduction to our Solar System
Meet the Giants – Explore their Secrets
New Frontiers – The Future of Space Exploration
Giant Worlds Floorplan (3,500 sq. ft.)
Major Exhibit Areas
Family of the Sun
Friend or Foe
Gravity Lab
Tools of the Trade
Portraits of the Giants
Exhibit Title
Giant Worlds are Giant
Family of the Sun
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Key Questions:
•Where are the giant planets in our Solar System?
•What is gravity and what role does it play in our
Solar System?
•How did life on Earth depend on giant planets?
Family of the Sun
The BIG IDEA:
The giant planets
were instrumental in
the formation of the
Solar System and of
Earth as a suitable
place to live.
Family of the Sun
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Upon entering the exhibit, visitors encounter
scaled models of the giant planets showing their
relative sizes and order extending from the Sun.
Family of the SunGravity_Lab
Friend or Foe
Tools of the Trade
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Family of the Sun
Exciting Interactives!
Gravity Lab: In this
full-body interactive
experience how gravity
attracts and deflects
masses, illustrating
how bodies interact
with each other in the
Solar System.
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Friend or Foe: Place giant planets in a
gravity simulation and try to get icy
bodies to deliver water to Earth. If a giant
planet gets to close, watch out Earth!
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Meet the Giants
Jupiter Up Close
Saturn Up Close
& Planet Rings
Uranus Up Close
& Extreme Seasons
Meet the Giants
Planet Plunge
Moon Dance
Light Probe
Neptune Up Close
& Occultation
Seeing the
Unseen
Equatorial Bulge
Cosmic Light Show
Magnetic Attractions
Meet the Giants
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• What are the giant planets like & how do
they compare to Earth?
Key Questions:
• What are the most interesting moons?
• How do we explore these faraway worlds?
Meet the Giants
The BIG IDEA:
The giant planets are
mini solar systems with
dynamic atmospheres,
magnetic fields, ring
systems, moons,
weather and strange
forms of matter below
their atmospheres.
Images courtesy NASA/JPL
Meet the Giants
Light Probe &
Seeing the Unseen
Magnetic Attractions
& Cosmic Light Show
Extreme Seasons
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Ring Worlds
Occultation
Meet the Giants
Exciting Interactives!
Seeing the Unseen:
Planet Plunge: Create a
probe and launch it into
Jupiter’s crushing
atmosphere. How close to
the core can you get?
Compare what your image
looks like in visible and
infrared light; two of the
wavelengths used to study the
giant worlds and other objects
in the Universe.
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Magnetic
Attractions: Fire
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charged particles at
Jupiter’s magnetic
field to learn how
they behave and
where they go.
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Occultation: The
Meet the Giants
rings around all of the
giant planets, except
Saturn, are hard to
see. Discover how
scientists detect them
using the light from a
distant star.
More Exciting Interactives!
Extreme Seasons:
Using a virtual orrery
compare how
seasons on Earth
and Uranus differ.
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Moon Dance: By flexing a model
of Jupiter’s moon Io, learn why this
moon is the most volcanically active
body in our Solar System.
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Equatorial Bulge: Spin two
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model planets and observe
how much they bulge.
Scientists can tell what’s
going on inside a planet by
how much it bulges.
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New Frontiers
Giant Worlds
Odyssey
Mission Teams
What’s Next:
Missions of Tomorrow
Planet Challenge
New Frontiers
Key Questions:
• What is the future of outer
planets exploration?
• Are there other giant
planets out there orbiting
distant stars?
The BIG IDEA:
Exploration of the giant
planets is an ongoing
collaborative effort by
scientists, engineers,
programmers, students,
and others.
Giant Worlds Odyssey
Mission Teams
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What’s Next: Missions
of Tomorrow
Planet Challenge
New Frontiers
Exciting Interactives!
Mission Teams: Hear
from several members
of the Juno mission
team about their
experiences and work
on the upcoming
mission to Jupiter.
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Giant Worlds
Odyssey: Take a
journey through the Solar
System on board the
Odyssey spaceship. The
tour to the four giant
planets and some of their
moons includes a gravity
assist from the Sun and
a bumpy ride through the
asteroid belt.
Planet Challenge: Play an
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action-packed trivia game
based on information
presented in the exhibition.
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Ready… Set… EXPLORE!
Enjoy your visit to the
Giant Worlds exhibit!
For more information on the science
behind the exhibit, we highly
recommend downloading the Science
Background Presentations
from the Giant Worlds website under
the education section.
Other great resources as well as virtual
and in-person workshops are also
available through the website.
www.giantworlds.org
Thank you for your kind attention.