NASA Resources
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THEMES
The NASA Office of Space Science (OSS) under the direction of Wes Huntress has four major thematic areas for research and technology. Each theme has a director, and each theme has a home page.
Office of Space Science -- http://science.nasa.gov/
Heliophysics (Sun) - http://science.nasa.gov/sun/index.html
Planets (Solar System) - http://science.nasa.gov/solar_system/
Astrophysics - http://science.nasa.gov/universe/ ; http://universe.gsfc.nasa.gov/
The Sun-Earth Connection--George Withbroe http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/spd/
Structure and Evolution of the Universe (archival) http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/seuforum
--Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics http://www.cea.berkeley.edu Home page (top level)
--Public Affairs Home Page (NASA Headquarters): http://www.nasa.gov/hqpao/hqpao_home.html
Ames Research Center--Atlas: http://ic-www.arc.nasa.gov/fia/projects/bayes-group/Atlas/index.html also: FTP library ...
Astronaut Connection: http://www.nauts.com/index.html
Astronomical Data Center: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/adc/adc.html
Astronomy Picture of the Day" at http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html has various types of pictures, each with an explanation written by a professional astronomer, and, as the title suggests, a new picture is posted daily. Check the archives for about two years' worth of previous selections.
Astrophysics Data System: http://adswww.colorado.edu/adswww/adshomepg.html (general and account information) (Mosaic/lynx)
Aurora Images: http://pao.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/newsroom/flash/flash.htm
Ballooning: http://www.wff.nasa.gov/~web/balloons.html
Cassini (Mission to Saturn): http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini/
Calendar--This Month In Space History: http://newproducts.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/history.html
Challenger Center
Embrace Space Information http://www.challenger.org/embrace.html
Electronic Field Trip Information & Online Registration http://www.challenger.org/eft.html The official Embrace Space Website http://www.spaceday.com
Communications Strategy: http://dlt.gsfc.nasa.gov/cordova/scicom.html
CU-SeeMe: http://umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov/spartan/ask_astronomers.html " students and the general public were encouraged to discuss theSpartan mission during two planned "Ask the Astronomers"sessions. (Sept. 8-9, 1995). Dr. Madhulika Guhathakurta and Dr. Leonard Strachanwill were available at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston at the IP connection address 198.122.133.40 to answer questions and explain the purpose and goals of the Spartan 201 solar physics mission.
EARTH IMAGES--
Johnson Space Center http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/categories.html
LandSat/SeaSat Remote sensing data: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/rsd
Continental US: www.xmission.com/~idi/usfs.htm
Landsat educational CD-ROMs http://www.idi-ut.com/sis.htm
Earth Observing System: http://www.geo.mtu.edu/eos/ Earth science courses (resources for college level introductory): http://stargate.jpl.nasa.gov/alert/ or http://stargate.jpl.nasa.gov:1084/
Economic impacts of NASA on states - interactive map - http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/partnership/economic_impacts.html
EDUCATION-NASA
Live from Mars http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars
Online Educational Resources: http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/nasa_online_education.html
Online From Jupiter: http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/jupiter.html For Gopher area access: quest.arc.nasa.gov; see Interactive Projects directory - Via E-mail: To receive regularly updated information online, join the "updates-jup" list: Send an E-mail message to: listmanager@quest.arc.nasa.gov-- In the message body, write EXACTLY the following: subscribe updates-jup
S/MORE http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/smor Shuttle-MIR Online Research Experience
Fast Auroral Snapshot (FAST) Explorer satellite: http://sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov/smex/fast/fast_top.html
Email:
Chris Mckay mckay@gal.arc.nasa.gov
Friends and Partners in Space (FPSpace): http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/~jgreen/fspace.html International Workshop in Moscow
GALILEO--
Galileo countdown http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/countdown/
Probe mission ...http://ccf.arc.nasa.gov/galileo_probe/
Probe Sitehttp://astro.nmsu.edu/ftp/jupiter/ A series of Hubble images that show the evolution of the Galileo probe site over several Jovian rotations (1, 2, and 6 Jovian rotations after the first image made on 4 October 1995, ~18:00 UTC). The probe entered on the southern edge of the North Equatorial Belt near one of the so-called "Olivarez Blue Features".
New site http://ccf.arc.nasa.gov/dx or http://ccf.arc.nasa.gov/galileo_probe/ (1/17/96)
Galileo's first image http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/ganymede/opnav.html Galileo Optical Navigation Image of Ganymede.
Ganymede http://galileo.ivv.nasa.gov/
WHERE ON EARTH...? http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/photo/ [ send us your photograph or slide of someplace on Earth which you think will most closely represent one of the regions to be revealed during the flyby, together with your reasons for choosing that place.]
Gamma Ray Bursts--BATSE: http://www.ssl.msfc.nasa.gov
Global Climate: http://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov
Goddard Space Flight Center: http://pao.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc.html" Overview of NASA information on WWW ---or: http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov (Old URL)
Gravity Probe: http://stugyro.stanford.edu/RELATIVITY/GPB/GPB.html Test of Einstein's theory of relativity
High School--Barstow: http://www.bhs.barstow.k12.ca.us
High School--Silver Valley: http://www.svhs.svusd.k12.ca.us "LOW-COST NETWORKING TECHNOLOGY OPENS INTERNET ACCESS FOR SCHOOLS"
HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE--
http://www.stsci.edu/EPA/Recent.html Recent Results.
HST-Latest Images Saturn On Edge
Hubble Web site for science museum and planetarium staff:http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/education/informal-science/ - In-depth information about Hubble and its discoveries
Electronic image sources - including high resolution TIFF files
Where to obtain Hubble images in photograph and slide form
Sources of Hubble exhibits and planetarium programs
Educational resources
Plus more!
HST homepage (unofficial): http://iquest.com/~deesqrd/ota/ota.html
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: HST Nuggets. from Forrest Hamilton, HST Science Operations Specialist, OSS and PODPS Unified System, hamilton@stsci.edu
Offline images (photos, slides, negatives) Newell Colour Lab http://www.lainet.com/newell/; Space Images 800-877-8915; slides--Finley-Holiday http://www.finley-holiday.com
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) Institute information, programs. Hubble images
Electronic PictureBook --Exploration in Education (ExInEd) program. They may also be obtained via Anonymous FTP at: ftp.stsci.edu/ExInEd
HST observatory program page (http://www.stsci.edu/public/propinfo.html)
Crab Nebula--The Movie http://www.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR/96/22.html
HUBBLE DISCOVERIES--Eagle Nebula (M16) pillars and "EGGs": http://www.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR95/44.html
Mars Pathfinder mission-- HST Mars observations http://marswatch.tn.cornell.edu/hst96-97.html
HST Mars image archive: http://marswatch.tn.cornell.edu/hst_archive.html
Hubble Service Mission 1997 http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/sm97/
Image eXchange http://nix.nasa.gov As of 5/97, a great search engine for NASA images--umbrella over existing photo databases at the centers
A whole gallery of paper globes of planets and moons is at http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/Gallery/MapsAndGlobes/
Or from the Photojournal:
Mars Orbiter Laser Altimiter (MOLA) Globe http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02993
Mars Digital Image Mosaic Globe http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02992
Venus Hemispherical Globes http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03151
Venus Hemispherical Globes (with place names) http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03167
Europa Hemispherical Globes http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03526
Global Map of Ganymede http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03781
Callisto Hemispherical Globes http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03876
Earth's Moon Topographical (from Clementine) http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/Gallery/MapsAndGlobes/moon.html#LunarGlobe
Imaging Radar SIR-C: http://southport.jpl.nasa.gov/
Information Services: http://hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov/NASA_homepage.html
INSPIRE--observing natural and human-made radio waves http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/education/inspire/inspire.html
International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE): http://iuewww.gsfc.nasa.gov/iuedac/iuedac_homepage.html
Johnson Space Center: http://images.jsc.nasa.gov Images from U.S. crewed spaceflights
Kepler Mission -- Search for Habitable Planets http://www.kepler.arc.nasa.gov/ This site has a downloadable interactive Macintosh program that contains an excellent activity--the "Planet Detection Simulator"
KidSat: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/kidsat
Learning Technologies Project: http://iita.ivv.nasa.gov for free Internet kits, email kits@rspac.ivv.nasa.gov
Lewis Public Affairs: http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/Other_Groups/PAO/--- An anonymous File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server is also available. It includes press releases since 1993. They can be accessed at FTP.LERC.NASA.GOV in the /pao/pressrel/ --directory.
Life Sciences Data Archive (LSDA): http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/life/nssdc/life_home.html housed at National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC)
Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin : http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/newsletters/lpib/lpib75/lpib74.html
Lunar and Planetary Institute: http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/CASS_home.html Center for Advanced Space Studies information
Manned Spaceflight
Dragon V2 Unveil - http://www.spacex.com/webcast/ - about 15 min long and an may be worth watching. Dragon V2 is designed to be reusable, seats seven, propulsive land anywhere on terra firma and engines are manufactured using 3D printers.
Mars
Mars Panorama Shot http://www.sun.com/mars/ops/81126_full.jpg
Center for Mars Exploration http://cmex-www.arc.nasa.gov/
Mars Global Surveyor mission http://mgsw3.jpl.nasa.gov/ or http://mgs-www.jpl.nasa.gov/
Mars Pathfinder mission http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/ (JPL) and http://www.physics.utoledo.edu/~pbj/pathpage.html (prepared by Phil James--Univ. of Toledo)
MarsNet/Marswatch http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/marsnet/mnhome.html This coming July 4th (1997) NASA lands the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft on the Red Planet... and on July 6th and 9th, from 14:00 - 16:00 hours Eastern, PASSPORT TO KNOWLEDGE and the AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY offer two special LIVE FROM MARS interactive programs designed for museums, science centers and planetariums. The Sunday, July 6th, program will feature the latest images from Mars, and "virtual reality" traverses made by Pathfinder's Sojourner rover. Museum visitors at selected sites will be able to interact live, on camera, NASA scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and at The Planetary Society's "PLANETFEST" celebration of space exploratiuon and discovery, being held in Pasadena, just a few miles from JPL. The following Wednesday's program will be designed to appeal to "camp" visitors, and again feature live interactions with NASA researchers and Mars experts. The free, un-encrypted, programs will be carried on GE-2, transponder 21, C-band, 85 degrees West, 4120 Mhz, Vertical polarity, audio on 6.2 and 6.8. (This is the same satellite where NASA-TV may be found, and will thus already be easily accessible to many museums and science centers.) Support materials suggesting hands-on Activities and workshop topics for museum educators are being developed by AMNH and PTK. PTK's Web site at http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars provides extensive background on the mission, and links to other valuable Mars sites. Questions? Contact Amie Gallagher at AMNH (amieg@amnh.org) or Geoff Haines-Stiles (ghaines@quest.arc.nasa.gov).
Passport To Knowledge" Project LIVE FROM MARS: http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars/
Marshall Spaceflight Center--Lesson Plans: gopher://quest.arc.nasa.gov
Metrics In Space: http://spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov go to Instructional Materials, Curriculum Materials, Mathematics
Mir status reports ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/statrpt/jsc/mir21/ Text files, updates, etc. written on site at Mir mission control in Kaliningrad (just outside of Moscow) -- they are not "fluff" pieces.
Mission to Planet Earthhttp://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/mtpe
Nanotechnology http://www.nas.nasa.gov/nanotechnology Image of the nanogear http://ccf.arc.nasa.gov/dx/basket/storiesetc/Nanopix.html NASA Directoryhttp://hypatia.gstc.nasa.gov/NASA_homepage.html Directory of NASA branches and divisions
NASA NEWS--Magnetic Storm of 11/95: http://bolero.gsfc.nasa.gov/~solart/cloud/cloud.html
NASA Science Communications Strategy, The Final Report of the NASA Communications Working Group : http://dlt.gsfc.nasa.gov/cordova/scicom.html
National Aeronautics and Space Museum: http://ceps.nasm.edu:2020/RPIF/SSPR.html
National Space Science Data Center: http://nssdc.gstc.nasa.gov/nssdc/nssdc_home.html Information about astronomical data products (CD-ROMs)
Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT): http://huey.jpl.nasa.gov/~spravdo/neat.html
Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous http://sd-www.jhuapl.edu/NEAR/Mathilde/
Newsroom Flash Goddard Spaceflight Center: http://pao.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/newsroom/flash/flash.htm
NewsRoom: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/NewsRoom/today.htm
Newsroom: http://www.nasa.gov/hqpao/newsroom.html Press releases and other information are also available via ftp: FTP.HQ.NASA.GOV in the pub/pao directory
Observatorium--http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/ Oceans Pathfinder Sea Surface Temperature Data (NOAA/NASA AVHRR): http://podaac-www.jpl.nasa.gov or email: podaac@.jpl.nasa.gov
Origins: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/oss/Origins.html
Ozone--The POLARIS mission http://cloud1.arc.nasa.gov/polaris -- seeking to understand the fundamental chemistry that dominates the naturally occuring seasonal reduction of ozone over the pole in the course of the Arctic summer. Part of NASA's Mission to Planet Earth, a long-term, internationally coordinated research effort to study the Earth as a global environmental system. PLAN FOR EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF SPACE: http://www.osf.hq.nasa.gov/heds/
Planet Images: http://www-pdsimage.JPL.NASA.GOV/PIA/ or: http://www-pdsimage.wr.usgs.GOV/PIA/
Planetary Imaging: http://cdwings.jpl.nasa.gov/PDS/
Planetary Photojournal: aahttp://www-pdsimage.jpl.nasa.gov/PIAa or http://pdsimage.wr.usgs.gov/PIA
Planetary Science Research Discoveries http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/PSRdiscoveries/, also hands-on classroom activities in planetary science... http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/spacegrant/class_acts/
Pluto Express "Sciencecraft": http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/pluto/
Pioneer 10 http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/pioneer10
Policy and Plans--Space Summit Update http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/codez/updates.html Procurement home page: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/procurement ---Federal Acquisition Jumpstation: http://procure.msfc.nasa.gov/fedproc/home.html
Robots-- Nomad in Atacama Desert http://img.arc.nasa.gov/Nomad/
RSPAC IITA Bulletin: http://developers.ivv.nasa.gov/collab/pubs/bulletin/
Satellite Passes:
Scientific and Technical Information (STI; NASA): http://www.sti.nasa.gov/
Shuttle http://ceps.nasm.edu:2020/SSPR.html is the repository of pictures taken from (and of) the Space Shuttle.
Shuttle/Mir Info: http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/ShuttleMir.html or write to Space Life Sciences Shuttle/Mir Outreach Coordinator, D. Duncan Atchison, Mail Stop 19-15, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
...http://shuttle-mir.nasa.gov
Shuttle Team Online http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/shuttle It takes thousands of people to fly the Space Shuttle, and now students can use the Internet to communicate with Shuttle workers to learn about the workers' jobs, simulate Shuttle flights and suggest Shuttle improvements. Shuttle Team Online will be active until the end of May, 1997. SKY IMAGES--Satellite Image Gallery: http://www.xmission.com/~idi/gallery.htm
SKY IMAGES--STScI Digitized Sky Survey: http://stdatu.stsci.edu/dss/-select parts of the sky and get image(s)
SKY IMAGES--Welcome to SkyView: http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/skyview.html --select parts of the sky and get image(s)
Snowball hitting Earth http://pao.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/newsroom/flash/flash.htm
SOFIA (Airborne Telescope): http://sofia.arc.nasa.gov
SOHO (NASA-European Space Agency Solar Heliospheric Observatory): http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/lasco.html
Solar Airplane--Pathfinder: http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/PhotoServer/photoServer.html remotely-controlled aircraft, using the Sun's energy to fly to stratospheric altitudes
Solar Energy Data http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/DATDOCS/Surface_Solar_Energy.html
Sounds - Download NASA sounds - http://www.nasa.gov/connect/sounds/
Soviet Union (former) Space Program info http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/~jgreen/fpspace.html
Spacecraft images (ground-based) by Ron Dantowitz http://www.skyshow.com/
SPACE SHUTTLE--ASTRO-2 mission home page: http://astro-2.msfc.nasa.gov Temporary?
SPACE SHUTTLE--Atlantis-Mir Docking: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/NewsRoom/today.html
SPACE SHUTTLE--Current Mission Images: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/NewsRoom/today.html
also: Shuttle Mission (http://shuttle.nasa.gov)
Shuttle Sighting http://shuttle.nasa.gov/sts-75/orbit/orbiter/sighting/shuttle.html
Space Calendar: http://newproducts.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/
covers space-related activities and anniversaries for the coming year anonymous ftp to explorer.arc.nasa.gov --file pub/SPACE/FAQ/space.calendar
Space Program Newsletter: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/QEDT/jcm/space/jsr/jsr.html by Jonathan Space Programs--summaries http://web.state.ut.us/bbs/space/ Space Station (International) http://issa-www.jsc.nasa.gov/ or http://station.nasa.gov
Space station information, the ISS office at JSC: http://issa-www.jsc.nasa.gov/ss/iss1.html
Spaceflight--The Basics of Spaceflight Learners' Workbook http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/
Spacelink: http://spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov ftp, telnet and gopher: spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov
StarChild Project: http://guinan.gsfc.nasa.gov/K12/StarChild.html
Stereo Atlas http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/research/stereo_atlas/SS3D.HTM
Teacher Resources:
The Observatorium: http://www.rspac.ivv.nasa.gov
Today@NASA: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/NewsRoom/today.html 1/18/96: has six new Hubble images
TOPEX-Posiedon: http://www.jpl.nasa.govftp site: jplinfo.jpl.nasa.gov
Video--Live--Shuttle Mir Docking Mission http://shuttle.nasa.gov
Vulcanology Team (NASA) http://www.geo.mtu.edu/eos/
Wind-measuring NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT) instrument images http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/winds from Japan's Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS) Women of NASA: http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/hpage.html or http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/intro.html
X-ray Explorer--Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE): http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/XTE.html December 1995 - ....disk of matter around black hole (image) ftp://PAO.GSFC.NASA.GOV/newsmedia/JAN_AAS/BH.JPG