Programs Used: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign
Each infographic will be viewed in order, from gaseous uninhabitable planets, down to large, dense rocky planets much larger than Earth, down to smaller, more Earthlike planets in their stars’ habitable zone. This sequence of information gives insight into how Kepler has continually refined its search for smaller and smaller planets. Learners will use mouse-over states to review more specific information for each planet, as well as an artist’s rendition of the planet’s horizon.
As the learner explores and reads about each planet, his or her curiosity is rewarded with more specific information for each planet, and what it would be like to stand on the surface. The learning objectives covered will be how students develop and work towards a meaningful understanding of astronomical distances, scale, and physics – as these ideas relate to discovering exoplanets, and identifying the characteristic presence of exoplanets in orbit around a host star, and how Kepler uses this information to discover smaller and smaller worlds.
This sequence of information gives insight into how Kepler has continually refined its search for smaller and smaller planets. Learners will use mouse-over states to review more specific information for each planet, as well as an artist’s rendition of the planet’s horizon.
This was the proposed format for the infographics, and served as a guide in the design process.
