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Nasa: Astronomy Picture of the Day:
A different image is featured each day along with descriptive narrative. NASA offers different and sometimes unexpected views of our Earth and the universe.
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Nasa: Solar System Dynamics
This resource provides information related to all known bodies in orbit around the sun. Content includes planetary orbits, JPL's Horizon System, natural satellite information, and more.
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Nasa: Magellan Mission to Venus
This home page from NASA offers Venus images taken by Magellan and other highlights from the mission. In orbit around Venus for four years this mission provided maps of 98 percent of the surface of Venus that are more detailed than most...
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Nasa: Mars Pathfinder
Images of Mars from the surface of the Red Planet. The site includes 3-D images and animations of the Mars Pathfinder.
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Nasa: Latest Conclusions of the Comet Collision
This site from NASA allows one to read the reports by scientists of what we learned from observing the giant collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter. Some are very technical, others for general audiences.
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Nasa: Top 20 Comet Shoemaker Levy Images
This site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration provides the most popular images at the JPL Comet Shoemaker-Levy home page during the month of July 1994, when the comet was impacting Jupiter.
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Nasa: Hubble Observations Shed Light on Jupiter Impact
Scientists continue to learn from their observations long after the largest collision in history was recorded. Was Comet SL-9 actually an asteroid? What were the dark impact clouds made of? What were the effects on Jupiter's magnetic field?
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Nasa: Mt. Rainier
A radar image of Mt. Rainier can be seen on this page. Mt. Rainier had its last eruption 150 years ago. Click on this page to find out more info.
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Nasa: Basics of Radio Astronomy
Site developed by NASA to support training at the Goldstone-Apple Valley Radio Telescope. A manual in PDF format that covers everything from the basics of electromagnetic spectrum through radio sources through mapping the sky in the...
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Nasa: Welcome to the Planets Neptune
NASA offers a photo gallery of Neptune images. Each image includes a detailed caption describing what the image is of, and the captions are also available in streaming audio.
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Nasa: Celebrating Voyager 1 & 2
This press release contains information about the Voyager and its history. The page gives facts about the past twenty years with the Voyager and all of its accomplishments.
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Nasa: Stardust: Be a Spacecraft Engineer
Some interesting projects for students interested in the space program.
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Nasa: Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 Collision With Jupiter
This site from NASA provides information on the Shoemaker-Levy collision which, even though the impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter happened in 1994, it continues to make news. Read the latest information related to the...
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Nasa: Planetary Photojournal
This NASA site provides access to publicly released images from various Solar System exploration programs.
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Nasa: Stardust
This site provides information regarding the NASA mission to understand and protect our planet.
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Nasa: Deep Impact Slideshow
This slideshow chronicles the mission to analyze Tempel 1. It begins with the launch on January 12 and ends with an artist's rendering of the anticipated result. Video and links are also included.
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Nasa: The Infrared Universe
View some of the vivid images taken from the Spitzer Space Telescope.
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Nasa: Our Restless Planet
This animation library is a great resource for a diverse list of earth science topics including: tsunamis, land subsidence, magnetic fields, volcanoes earthquakes, floods, and sea level changes.
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Nasa: Planetary Data Sytem: Welcome to the Planets
Collection of images, with vocalized explanatory captions, of the planets acquired by NASA as part of its exploratory space programs.
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Nasa: Welcome to the Planets the Explorers
View photographs of space craft and read about their assembly, launching, and where they went.
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Nasa: Mars Exploration
Teachers can request their free Earth/Mars comparison poster from NASA. Also find links to Mars activities and information.
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Nasa: Deep Space 2
NASA providese an interactive site for kids to learn about the Deep Space 2 mission.
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Nasa: Follow Your Curiosity: How Do I Land?
Understand each step as the Curiosity landed with this animation. The animation shows the entry, descent, and landing of the robot on Mars.
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Nasa: Learn About Me: Curiosity
Learn about the robot that is exploring Mars to see if the planet could supported microbes with this interactive site. Students investigate the parts of the robot by clicking and rotating a picture of the rover.