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There is no minimum age requirement to be an explorer. Earth and space science explorers come in all ages. What they have in common is that they all use NASA science and technology to study the home planet or the universe. This poster highlights some of the explorers in the NASA Earth Explorers and NASA Space Science Explorers series of articles on the NASA.gov education pages. Some of the explorers highlighted on this poster are still in school, and some are adults who have chosen science as a career.

You may download the PDF file of this poster here:
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Earth_and_Space_Science_Explorers_Poster.html

The Dawn mission, launching in the summer of 2007, seeks to find answers about the origins of the solar system. The planets of the solar system formed from a cloud of gas and dust, while asteroids are the rocky remnants that never grew into planets. By investigating the two most massive asteroids, Ceres and Vesta, NASA’s Discovery mission Dawn seeks to determine the planetary building processes that made Ceres large and wet, and Vesta smaller and volcanic. Dawn will help humans understand the conditions that led to planetary formation.

The Dawn Mission Events Calendar is a six-year wall calendar from the years 2007 to 2012. The calendar highlights major events of the mission. A free PDF file of the poster is available here:
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Dawn_Mission_Events_Calendar.html