Outreach

PROBA2 is involved in several outreach projects. Some of them are listed below:

• PROBA2@school is an educative project (in Dutch) in which we want to make teachers and students at high schools enthousiast about the PROBA2 satellite, the two instruments LYRA and SWAP and space weather in general. The documentation text (in PDF) is available here.
• At the KULeuven, the Junior College offers projects on mathematics to secondary schools. New course material has been developed with mathematical tutorials based on techniques used in Space Weather (Cactus CME software) and SWAP image processing. Contact juniorcollegeSTEM AT kuleuven.be for more information.

More links to outreach projects on the Sun:

• Climate And Weather of the Sun-Earth System (CAWSES): Science comics aimed at raising the curiosity of children and awareness of people with a non-scientific background.
• International Year of Astronomy 2009
• Check Sun|trek out to follow a journey to learn more about the Sun, our star.
• The European Space Agency (ESA) not only makes spacecraft, but also puzzles! Check it out
• A PROBA2 paper model can be constructed with the PDF file attached below.

Link to the list of Popular Publications on PROBA2.