What Is the Temperature of Space? -- Grades 9-12

Watch a short NASA Brain Bites video and use the accompanying resource sheet to explain why objects traveling through space have a temperature but space does not. The resource sheet contains questions and answers to stimulate a discussion about the types of heat transfer, solar absorptivity, IR emissivity, and how NASA designs spacecraft and spacesuits for astronauts.

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Wh...