SATELLITE PICTURES OF EARTH (4 pages)

VISIBLE HUMAN BEING

SOLAR SYSTEM MODEL

NIGHT SKY WITH PLANETS

ROTATING EARTH (165K)

ASTRONOMY

• Solar System Model Fits in a pocket, expands to the size of a small town
• Night Sky A map of the stars' homes; planets updated monthly
• Interactive solar system model JPL + Caltech: view the solar system or any planet from any perspective http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/

• Skymaps.com via Griffith Observatory: monthly sky calendar (also ˆ "related links" for list of events
• www.griffithobs.org/Skyinfo.html NB planets
• stardate.org
• radiouniverso.org Stardate site in Spanish
• stardate.org/nightsky/moon/ moon graph
• Earth and Moon Viewer
• Solar System Live: interactive orrery.
• custom sky maps

• NASA Planetary Photojournal
• Solar System Live Diagram shows current positions of the planets
• Sun pictures and movies
• StarDate Daily update from U. of Texas
• Space Shuttle
• Planet Science
• Hubble Space Telescope Pictures Awesome color pictures of space by an orbiting telescope
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• Hubble Telescope
• Solar System
• The Nine Planets
• Views of the Solar System
• Project Galileo
• Bradford Robotic Telescope
• Hubble space stamps
• Hubble Space Telescope Pictures
• Griffith Observatory Sky Information
• Sky and Telescope Magazine News
• SkyMaps.com Updated Information/map in PDF (printable) format
• Astronomy for Kids Useful maps/guides and tips

MISCELLANEOUS

• Tides tables and graphs Excellent--makes color graphs per settings
• moon phases
• Exploratorium San Francisco's science museum
• Exploratorium Cool Sites Science, art, and education sites
• Weather cams Live (or "semi-live") pictures of current weather in southern California, Las Vegas, Yosemite, San Francisco, etc.
• ArchNet Archaeology
• Volcano World
• SCORE Science
• Periodic table
• Recommended sitesNew Scientist magazine
• Scientific American Magazine
• Visible Human Cadavers sliced into 1mm thick wafers, then photographed and compiled as a computer graphic of the human body

SATELLITE PICTURES

• Terra launched 12-99
• Various selected NASA pictures of Earth thumbnails
• Los Angeles Weather
• WeatherNet
• Current Pacific satellite
• Current world satellite
• Current Images and animated "loops" from Volcanoes
• Space Imaging One meter resolution, from 400 miles above
• Space Imaging Gallery and Pictures of the week
• TerraServer and Space Imaging

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