A Touch of Venus Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/a-touch-of-venus/ Astronomy for a better world! Tue, 12 Nov 2019 10:30:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://astro4dev.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-03_OAD_symbol_colour_2-32x32.jpg A Touch of Venus Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/a-touch-of-venus/ 32 32 Final project summary https://astro4dev.org/final-project-summary/ Tue, 12 Nov 2019 10:30:36 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=18937 The project ‘A Touch of Venus’ has developed 20 planetary science resource kits which include a 3D tactile model of planet Venus from NASA’s Magellan data and a book of educational activities with additional helping elements (snapshots of the model to identify some features on it easily, a measuring lace to find features by touch [...]

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]]> update: Tactile model of Venus https://astro4dev.org/update-tactile-model-of-venus/ Thu, 11 Oct 2018 05:11:30 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=17812 The project “A Touch of Venus” has tested a prototype of the Venus globe at several venues, like the CAP Meeting n Fukuoka and the IAU’s Exhibition “Inspiring Stars” in Vienna. After receiving some feedback, we improved the model to a final version that is being printed. So far 5 out of the 20 Venus [...]

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]]> Overview of project https://astro4dev.org/overview-of-project-11/ Tue, 19 Dec 2017 16:24:36 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=17006 The project ‘A Touch of Venus’ will develop 30 planetary science resource kits which include a 3D tactile model of planet Venus from NASA’s Magellan data and a book of peer-reviewed educational activities. We 3D print the initial model to get an accurate representation of the surface features. After that a silicone mould is produced [...]

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