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Total Students
2,609
Total Launches
683
Eggs Survived
418 61.2%
Rockets Survived
536 78.5%
Just for Hopi Hawks Fifth Graders
Hopi Rocketry Challenge
Welcome to the Hopi Rocketry Challenge web site! This web site is dedicated to rocketry activities at Hopi Elementary School, Ingleside Middle School, and Arcadia High School. You will also find lots of information about model rocketry, astronomy, and NASA. Each month there will be a new original article related to the exploration of space courtesy of the scientists at NASA. So enjoy our adventures in rocketry, and let us know what you think of our activities and web site!
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Discover the cosmos!
Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. .
See MoreExplore the solar system
Neptune—the eighth and most distant major planet orbiting our Sun—is dark, cold and whipped by supersonic winds. It was the first planet located through mathematical calculations.
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Just Warming Up
Most of us would not consider that raising the temperature of something from -271°C to -243°C to be exactly warming things up. However, all things being relative, for the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope, that much of a temperature difference changes the whole picture. But there are still plenty of awesome objects and mysteries to explore in the infrared wavelength ranges that Spitzer's still-functional instrument can well handle.
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