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Links
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Earth Science Challenge Forum - A shared online forum for students and teachers completing Earth Science challenge activities. The forum includes links to the Earth Science Challenge activities and resources and to students’ portfolios of snapshots and observations. Students can upload imagery, text and videos, comment on other’s journals. Teachers can contribute Earth Science lessons of their own. Challenger Center educational staff moderates all posts. http://www.challengerkids.org
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Windows on Earth is a simulated real-time interactive view from the International Space Station using a database of satellite imagery. Includes guided tours, comparison images and images for planetary stewardship.
http://winearth.terc.edu/ - The Gateway of Astronaut Photography - The most complete online collection of astronaut photographs of the Earth, The database tracks the locations, supporting data, and digital images for astronaut’s photographs from the Mercury missions in the early 1960s to the ISS. Images coming down from the International Space Station are processed on a daily basis. 777,550 views of the Earth include 331,695 from the International Space Station.
http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/ - Astronaut Views of the Home Planet: Earth from Space - Searchable database by cities, Earth landscapes, Earth-Human Interactions, Distinctive features, hurricanes and weather, Earth’s Water Habitats, Geographic Regions. http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/efs/
Astronaut Photographs
EarthKam Project
- ISS EarthKAM - A NASA sponsored program that provides high quality photographs of our planet taken from the Space Shuttle and International Space Station. Since 1996, ISS EarthKAM students have taken thousands of photographs of Earth by using the web to direct a digital camera on select space flights and currently on the International Space Station.
- Image Library – A database of thousands of digital images of the earth.
http://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu/public/images/index.shtml - Educators - Materials and resources to incorporate ISS EarthKAM into the classroom.
http://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu/public/educators/index.shtml - Students - See what others have done with their images - have some fun learning about our world and what these digital images show.
http://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu/public/students/index.shtml
- Image Library – A database of thousands of digital images of the earth.
Earth from Space Image Collections
- Visible Earth – A Catalog of NASA images and animations of our home planet.
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/ - Smithsonian’s Earth From Space - Developed by the Smithsonian Institution, this website includes images and online tutorials in how to see signs of life, human presence, features of the land, water and air and the use of satellite technology and remote sensing,
http://www.earthfromspace.si.edu/ - Earth From Space - Quotes from Astronauts and a selection of dramatic images.
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/earthsp.htm - Earth from a Spacecraft – To view the Earth as currently seen from a satellite in Earth orbit, choose the satellite from the list below and press the "View Earth from Satellite" button. The satellite database is updated regularly but may not reflect the current position of satellites, such as the U.S. Space Shuttle, which maneuver frequently after reaching orbit.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/satellite.html - Observing the Earth - European Space Agency
http://www.esa.int/esaEO/index.html - Earth Observatory
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ - Earth Observatory Experiments
Hands-on educational activities.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Experiments/ - NASA Earth Observations
View, download, and analyze imagery of Earth science data.
http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/Search.html - NASA Global Climate Change, NASA’s Eyes on the Earth
http://climate.jpl.nasa.gov/ - Blue Marble
Composite satellite images of the entire Earth.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/BlueMarble/
