MoonWorld is a virtual lunar landscape for exploring learning opportunities in virtual worlds such as Second Life.
To visit MoonWorld, you need a Second Life (SL) account. If you don't have one, click the "Register SL" button. If you do, click the "Schedule Mission" button. You can do a mission by yourself, but its more fun in teams of up to four MoonWorld Explorers. Don't worry, we'll provide spacesuits!
To visit MoonWorld, you need a Second Life (SL) account. If you don't have one, click the "Register SL" button. If you do, click the "Schedule Mission" button. You can do a mission by yourself, but its more fun in teams of up to four MoonWorld Explorers. Don't worry, we'll provide spacesuits!
Welcome to MoonWorld
The best way to learn is to do, but that is difficult when you want to understand the geologic evolution of the Moon. The NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future at the Center for Educational Technologies at Wheeling Jesuit University in Wheeling, WV, has created a virtual lunar landscape in Second Life to provide you a chance to don a spacesuit and drive a rover across the surface of the Moon.In MoonWorld your avatar explores the lunar surface, closely observing the terrain, collecting samples, and making measurements to piece together the history of one part of the Moon – the Timocharis region. Your team returns to the lunar base to synthesize your data and to make sure the life support system is still pumping out air, water, and food.
MoonWorld, which is funded by NASA, includes both simple and complex impact craters as well as a lava flow and a volcanic dome. Your job, based on your avatar’s collection and analysis of observations, measurements, rock samples, and a drill core, is to determine the stratigraphic relations between these landforms – in what sequence did they form, and what evidence supports your conclusion.
