Rice Model Science Laboratory
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Site acquires, verifies, formats, documents, and distributes files that contain astronomical data in program form. Also develop and maintain software to access this data.
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Multimedia program supplements high school science curriculum. Investigations cover current research areas in astronomy.
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Information about CASS and general space-science information too.
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Learn more about the comet discovered by Yuji Hyakutake. Site offers images, observations, and data files.
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Learn more about this "controversial" comet discovered by Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp. Site offers images and articles.
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All levels. Links to NASA's Earth Observing System education materials.
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Up-to-date mission information and educational products.
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In 2001, NASA's Genesis mission will send a spacecraft to collect pieces of the sun to help us better understand what the Sun is made of and if the Sun and other planets are made of the same stuff. Be sure to visit their site of on-line materials for teachers and students. Lessons cover Cosmic Chemistry from grade levels 5-12.
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The GRACE mission will accurately map variations in the Earth's gravity field over a 5 year period. This program will help us to better understand ocean surface currents and heat transport, the mass balance of ice sheets and glaciers, changes in sea-floor pressure and runoff and groundwater storage on landmasses. Educational materials are available.
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Site offers a plethora of pictures taken by Hubble. You can search by subject, take a look at their latest releases, or simply browse by year.
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory takes you on a tour of our Solar System.
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NASA's JSC Digital Image Collection contains over 250,000 images that have been captured, digitized, and stored. Visit this site for a look at Earth from Space and learn more about NASA's digital image project.
| Johnson Space Center - Earth Science Branch This is truly a wonderful site! NASA's JSC trains astronauts to photograph a variety of weather phenomena, landforms, and other geographic features. When the astronauts return to Earth, they sit down and type up captions for their photographs that explains what you see in the photos. Take the time to visit this site and see our planet in action.
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Educational site featuring articles on "Today in Space," " Today in Space History," and "Kid's Space Story." Provides information on special interest topics such as current space shuttle missions, astronauts, and the International Space Station.
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Sites include exploring the moon, mars, thematic image collection, stereo atlas of the solar system, satellites of the outer planets, and education resources. LPI has the world's largest collection of space photography and related information.
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Tons of Mirror sites to help you learn more about Mars.
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MoonLink is based on NASA's discovery mission, the Lunar Prospector. The program allows students to participate in lunar exploration. MoonLink targets grades 4-12 and includes lesson plans, student activity guides, and unlimited access to data for the lunar site and an online data analysis lab.
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Images are searchable by type and location. Great Site!!!
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K-12 educational technologies and technology-based tools and resources.
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K-12 national distribution center for education materials.
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Includes connections to home pages for the various field centers.
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Site offers daily updates on upcoming shuttle missions, the International Space Station, daily space facts, and much more.
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Information about the current status of space shuttle missions, crew activities, and experiments.
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Home page for NASA Spacelink, an electronic information system designed to provide current educational information related to the space program. Contains links to educational services, instructional materials, Spacelink hot topics, and a teacher resource center among others.
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Access to a variety of astrophysics, space physics, solar physics, and lunar-planetary data from NASA Shuttle Missions. Newsletter, Photo Gallery, FTP sites, and FAQ.
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Based on NASA's first discovery mission NEAR (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous). The program allows students to explore the asteroid Eros and analyze the data from the NEAR spacecraft. Site targets grades 4-12 and includes lesson plans, student activity guides, unlimited access to the data for Eros and an online data analysis lab.
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Features scientists and engineers describing through journal entries what it's like to fly a mission to another planet. Archive of Q&A posed by students and teachers. Curriculum activities as well.
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Get the latest data on the planets.
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NASA brings Jupiter to your desktop. Great site to learn more about Jupiter.
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Links to WWW sites that give you tours of the planets.
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K-12 project that provides a look at the life sciences research conducted in space aboard Mir.
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Find space resources all over the globe by country. Information on space news and jobs.
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Information on developing orbital space settlements.
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A number of features including journal entries from the T/P team, El Nino info., Q&A, T/P lesson plans, and a lot more.
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Collection of photos from NASA organized by planet as well as the spacecraft from where the picture was taken. Textual explanations are included.
