Earth and Space Websites
Astronomy, Meteorology, Geography and Geology
- AstroWeb
Maintained by the AstroWeb Consortium, this site contains pointers to
publications, people, organizations, software and more -- all related to astronomy.
- Color Landform Atlas of the United States
Each state link brings up a menu of links to maps and other online information about the state. Links
are included for web pages from the Virtual Tourist, City Net, and YaHoo. Currently two maps are
available for each state (except Alaska and Hawaii): A topographic map optimized to show the
landforms, and a map showing counties in a state.
- Home Planet
Release 3 of Home Planet is a "comprehensive astronomy, space, satellite-tracking package
for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 and above. Release 2 can be used with Windows 3.1.
This FREE software allows you to view an earth map, position and phase data for the
sun and moon and more. If you are a Windows user, check it out!.
- Hubble Space Telescope
Public Images
Did you miss Comet Shoemaker-Levy? Not to worry, this and many more astronomical
events and images captured by the Hubble Space telescope are available at
this site. Be sure not to miss the "HST's Greatest Hits of 1990-1995"!
- NASA's Mars Pathfinder Mission
Follow the progress of the Mars Pathfinder probe launched on December 4,
1996 carrying a microrover (Sojouner) designed to examine the surface
of Mars. The website is separated into two parts reflecting the state of the mission before and after the July 4, 1997 landing.
- NASA Space Science Education
Information
on NASA space missions, lessons and student activities, resources,
curricula and more!
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The Nine Planets
The Nine Planets site is loaded with interesting information, including history,
current theories, mythology, and data gathered by spacecraft. The site is
well-organized, easy to navigate, and includes images, animation and sound files, and a glossary of
terms. This is an excellent resource for everything from general statistical
research to casual browsing.
- PlanetDiary
Very cool...especially the "Phenomena Backgrounders" which have
interesting activities for the classroom and a well compiled set of
links for each phenomenon.
- Space Movie Archive
Nearly 2,000 movies from space are available at this site...which asserts
that it has the "biggest collection of space animations on the web"...from
science "fact" to science "fiction"!
- Stanford Solar Center
Designed for grades 4-12, the site offers a activities, quizzes and more, in its hands-on
approach to exploring the Sun. Data is provided by the SOHO spacecraft and,
particularly, the MDI instrument from the Solar Oscillations Investigation team.
- Views of the Solar System
Views of the Solar System has been created as an educational tour of the solar
system. It contains images and information about the Sun, planets, moons,
asteroids, comets and meteoroids found within the solar system. It contains
over 220 pages of information, over 950 high-resolution images and animations,
and over 880 megabytes of data.....Whew!
- Virtural Earthquake
One of a series of online labs written at the high school AP or college level, Virtual Earthquake is an interactive computer program designed to introduce the
concepts of how an earthquake EPICENTER is located and how the RICHTER MAGNITUDE of an earthquake is determined.
- Volcanos of the World
All you ever wanted to know about volcanos including photos
(including links to many live onsite cameras), information on eruption history and current hazard
information.
- World-Wide
Web Virtual Library: Earth Sciences
This site contains links to Cartography, Earth Science, Geography, Geophysics, Geosystems and Petroleum Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Meteorology, Oceanography and
Remote Sensing libraries.
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