Great Links

Space learning centers and lessons

• Basics of Space Flight (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/bsf-toc.htm) -- NASA JPL
  
• Earth and Sky (http://www.earthsky.com/) -- radio (and RealAudio online) broadcasts
  
• The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere (http://www.phy6.org/Education/Intro.html) -- NASA GSFC
  
• From Stargazers to Starships (http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Sintro.htm) -- NASA GSFC
  
• Imagine the Universe! (http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov) (See Disc1) -- NASA GSFC
  
• Mt. Wilson Observatory (http://www.mtwilson.edu/) --Mt. Wilson Institute
  
• The Nine Planets (http://www.nineplanets.org) -- SEDS
  
• Observatorium (http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/) -- NASA
  
• Oulu Space Physics Textbook (http://www.oulu.fi/~spaceweb/textbook/Welcome.html) -- Space Physics Group of Oulu, Finland
  
• The RXTE Learning Center (http://legacy.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/learning_center/) -- NASA GSFC
  
• Science for the Millennium (http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/Expo/main.html) -- The National Center for Supercomputing Applications
  
• Solar Physics (http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/) -- NASA MSFC
  
• StarChild -- NASA GSFC
  
• Web Space for Kids and Non-Scientists (http://solar-heliospheric.engin.umich.edu/hjenning/Welcome.html) -- University of Michigan Solar and Heliospheric Research Group
  
• Welcome to the Planets (http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/) -- NASA JPL
  
• Windows to the Universe (http://www.windows.ucar.edu) -- NASA and University of Michigan
  
• Yohkoh Public Outreach Project (http://solar.physics.montana.edu/YPOP/)
  

Specific science topics

• Auroras (http://www.phy6.org/Education/waurora1.html) -- NASA GSFC
  Also:
  • Northern Lights (http://www.northern-lights.no) -- NORDLYS
    
  • Sun-Earth Day 2003 (http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/sunearthday/2003/sed2003aurora.htm)
    
• Black holes (http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/black_holes.html) (See Disc1) -- NASA GSFC
  
• Comets (http://www.nineplanets.org/comets.html) -- SEDS
  
• Cosmic Distance Scale (http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/cosmic/cosmic.html) -- NASA GSFC
  
• Cosmic rays -- NASA GSFC
  Also:
  • Cosmic rays (http://phy6.org/Education/wcosray.html) -- NASA GSFC
    
  • Particle Physics in the UK (http://hepweb.rl.ac.uk/ppUK/) -- PPARC
    
• Earth's moon (http://www.solarviews.com/eng/moon.htm) -- R. Hamilton
  
• Eclipses (http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/eclipse.html) -- NASA GSFC
  
• Electron volts (http://www.phy6.org/Education/wenpart1.html) -- NASA GSFC
  
• Energy spectrum (http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/education/reference/emspec/emspectrum.html) -- NASA
  
• Interstellar medium (http://www-ssg.sr.unh.edu/ism/) -- University of New Hampshire
  
• Magnetic substorms (http://phy6.org/Education/Imsphere.html) -- NASA GSFC
  
• Magnetosphere (http://www.phy6.org/Education/Intro.html) -- NASA GSFC
  
• Meteoroids and meteorites (http://www.solarviews.com/eng/meteor.htm) -- R. Hamilton
  
• Nucleosynthesis (http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101bbtest2.html) -- NASA GSFC
  
• Planets and solar system (http://www.nineplanets.org) -- SEDS
  Also:
  • Astronomy 161 (http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/index.html) -- University of Tennessee
    
  • Science Education (http://www.spacescience.org/Education/ResourcesForEducators/CurriculumMaterials/Cassini/) -- Space Science Institute
    
  • Solar Sytem Live (http://www.fourmilab.to/solar/) -- Fourmilab
    
  • Views of the Solar System (http://www.solarviews.com) -- C. Hamilton
    
  • Welcome to the Planets (http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets) -- NASA JPL
    
  • Windows to the Universe (http://www.windows.ucar.edu) - UCAR
    
• Plasma (http://www.spaceweathercenter.org/amazing_plasmas/01/01.html) -- Space Science Institute
  
• Solar cells (http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/PV/home.html) -- University of Rochester, NY
  
• Sunspots (http://www.exploratorium.edu/sunspots/) -- Exploratorium
  Also:
  • National Solar Observatory/Sacramento Peak (http://www.sunspot.noao.edu/PR/answerbook/sunspots.html)
    

Space and physics glossaries

• Basics of Space Flight Glossary (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/bsfgloss.htm) -- NASA JPL
  
• Glossary (http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/Bima/glossary.html) -- The National Center for Supercomputing Applications
  
• Glossary of Solar-Terrestrial Terms (http://www.sel.noaa.gov/info/glossary.html) -- NOAA's Space Environment Center
  
• Glossary of Space Weather Terms (http://www.spaceweathercenter.org/glossary/001/01.html) -- Space Science Institute
  
• Solar Physics Glossary (http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/sftheory/glossary.htm) -- NASA GSFC Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics
  
• Welcome to the Planets Glossary (http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome/glossary.htm) -- NASA JPL
  

Spacecraft and ballooncraft in cosmic and heliospheric studies

Spacecraft

• Apollo 11 (http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo11info.html)
  
• Apollo 12 (http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo12info.html)
  
• Apollo 17 (http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo17info.html)
  
• DS-1/PEPE (http://nmp.jpl.nasa.gov/ds1/tech/spectrometer.html)
  
• IMAGE (http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/)
  
• ISEE 3 (http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/space/isee.html)
  
• Luna 2 (http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/1959-014A.html)
  
• GEODESIC (Geo-electrodynamics and Electro-Optical Detection of Electron and Supra-thermal Ion Currents)
  
• Luna 3 (http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/1959-008A.html)
  
• Mariner 2 (http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/1962-041A.html)
  
• NINA (http://wizard.roma2.infn.it/nina/)
  
• Pioneer 10 (http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/1972-012A.html)
  
• Pioneer 11 (http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/1973-019A.html)
  
• SNOE (http://lasp.colorado.edu/snoe/)
  
• SOPHIE (http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~hassler/sophie_rocket/)
  
• Spartan 201-05 (http://www.shuttlepresskit.com/STS-95/payload9.htm)
  

Ballooncraft

• ALICE (A Large Isotope Composition Experiment)
  
• ATIC (http://atic.phys.lsu.edu/aticweb/)
  
• BESS (http://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/astroparticles/programs/bess/BESS.html)
  
• CAPRICE (http://www.roma2.infn.it/research/comm2/caprice/)
  
• CAPRICE 2 (http://ida1.physik.uni-siegen.de/caprice2.html)
  
• GUMPHS (Goddard-University of Maryland Proton Helium Spectrometer)
  
• HEAT (High Energy Antimatter Telescope)
  
• HEGCS (High-Energy Gas Cerenkov Spectrometer)
  
• IMAX (http://www.srl.caltech.edu/imax.html)
  
• ISOMAX (http://lheawww.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/gamcosray/hecr/ISOMAX/index.html)
  
• JACEE (http://marge.phys.washington.edu/jacee/)
  
• NIGHTGLOW (http://lheawww.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/gamcosray/hecr/NightGlow/ng.html)
  
• SOFCAL (http://www.ssl.msfc.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/balloon/sofcal.htm)
  
• TIGER (http://tiger.gsfc.nasa.gov)
  

CURRENT

Spacecraft

• ACE (http://www.srl.caltech.edu/ACE/)
  - View the ACE brochure as a PDF file (5 MB)
• ACRIMSAT (http://acrim.jpl.nasa.gov/)
  
• CHIPS (http://chips.ssl.berkeley.edu/chips.html)
  
• Cluster (http://sci.esa.int/cluster/)
  
• Genesis (http://genesismission.jpl.nasa.gov/)
  
• Geotail (http://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/geotail.shtml)
  
• GOES (http://www.oso.noaa.gov/goes/)
  
• Hinode (Solar-B) (http://solarb.msfc.nasa.gov)
  
• IMP 8 (http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/space/imp-8.html)
  
• PAMELA (http://wizard.roma2.infn.it/pamela/)
  
• Polar (http://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/polar/)
  
• RHESSI (http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/hessi/)
  
• SAMPEX (http://lasp.colorado.edu/sampex/sampex.html)
  
• SOHO (http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/)
  
• SORCE (http://lasp.colorado.edu/sorce/)
  
• STEREO (http://sd-www.jhuapl.edu/STEREO/)
  
• TIMED (http://www.timed.jhuapl.edu)
  
• TRACE (http://trace.lmsal.com)
  
• Ulysses (http://ulysses.jpl.nasa.gov/)
  
• UARS (http://umpgal.gsfc.nasa.gov/)
  
• Voyager (http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/)
  
• Wind (http://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/wind.shtml)
  
• Yohkoh (http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/1991-062A.html)
  

Ballooncraft

• ANITA (http://www.phys.hawaii.edu/~anita/web/index.htm)
  
• CREAM (http://cosmicray.umd.edu/cream/cream.html)
  
• TRACER (http://tracer.uchicago.edu)
  

FUTURE

Spacecraft

• GLAST (http://glast.gsfc.nasa.gov)
  
• OWL (http://owl.gsfc.nasa.gov/)
  
• Solar Probe (http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/spd/solar_probe.html)
  
• TWINS (http://nis-www.lanl.gov/nis-projects/twins/)

Space history

• The Great Moon Hoax (http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast23feb_2.htm?list24639) -- Science@NASA
  
• Some Dates in the Exploration of the Magnetosphere (http://www.phy6.org/Education/whchron.html) -- NASA GSFC
  
• NASA Timeline (http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/timeline.html)
  
• Timeline of the Universe (http://origins.jpl.nasa.gov/library/poster/poster.html) -- NASA
  

Space-related organizations

• APL (http://www.jhuapl.edu) (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)
  
• Caltech (http://www.caltech.edu) (California Institute of Technology)
  
• ESA (http://www.esrin.esa.it/index.html) (European Space Agency)
  
• GSFC (http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/) (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
  
• ISAS (http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/e/) (Institute of Space and Astronautical Science - Japan)
  
• JPL (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov) (NASA Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
  
• LANL (http://www.lanl.gov/worldview/) (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
  
• NASA (http://www.nasa.gov) (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
  
• NOAA (http://www.noaa.gov) (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
  
• NSF (http://www.nsf.gov) (National Science Foundation)
  

Great space pictures

From NASA

• Astronomy Picture of the Day (http://apod.nasa.gov/) -- NASA GSFC
  
• Solar Image Sites (http://www.sec.noaa.gov/solar_sites.html) -- NOAA
  
• HubbleSite (http://hubblesite.org/gallery/) -- Space Telescope Science Institute
  
• Images from High Energy Astrophysics Missions (http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/objects/) -- NASA GSFC
• NASA Image Gallery (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/)
  
• NSSDC Photo Gallery (http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery.html) -- NASA GSFC National Space Science Data Center
  
• SOHO Gallery (http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/gallery/) -- NASA GSFC
  
• SOHO Pick of the Week (http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/pickoftheweek/index.html) -- SOHO Mission
  

From other sources

• NSO Kitt Peak (http://diglib.nso.edu/recent.html) -- National Solar Observatory
  
• Photographs from the Anglo-Australian Observatory (http://www.aao.gov.au/images.html)
• The Web Nebulae (http://astro.nineplanets.org/twn/) -- SEDS
  

Teacher resource links

From ACE -- We'd love to hear your feedback (chlc@cosmicra.gsfc.nasa.gov) on these.

• Education Briefs
  
  • Composition of Matter, Atomic Structure -- NASA GSFC Ambassador Program - Grades 9-12
    
  • Cosmology and Stellar Evolution -- NASA GSFC Ambassador Program - Grades 9-12
    
  • Space Weather -- NASA GSFC Ambassador Program - Grades 9-12
    

• Classroom investigations and activities
  
  • ACE Paper Model (http://www-ssg.sr.unh.edu/tof/Missions/Ace/Model/acemodel.html) -- ACE/University of New Hampshire - All ages
    
  • ACE RTSW Data and Traditional Physics Problems -- NASA GSFC Ambassador Program - Grades 9-12
    
  • Concentrate! (http://www.windows.umich.edu/cgi-bin/tour.cgi?link="/sun/concentrate/game.html&sw=false&sn=393830&d=/sun/concentrate&edu=mid&br=graphic&cd=pcx&fr=f&tour=) - Windows to the Universe
    
  • Interpreting Realtime ACE Data From Space -- NASA GSFC Ambassador Program - Grades 9-12
    
  • Lessons and Classroom Activities (http://set.lanl.gov/programs/LASSO/LASSOmain.htm) - elementary through post secondary levels -- LANL
    
  • Solar Word Search (http://www.windows.umich.edu/cgi-bin/tour.cgi?link="/sun/Java/wordsearch/index.html&sw=false&sn=393830&d=/sun/Java/wordsearch&edu=mid&br=graphic&cd=pcx&fr=f&tour=) - Windows to the Universe
    
  • Space Weather and You! Introduction 1 -- NASA GSFC Ambassador Program - Grades 5-8, or grades 9-12 as an introductory activity
    
  • Space Weather and You! Introduction 2 -- NASA GSFC Ambassador Program - Grades 9-12
    
  • Space Weather and You -- NASA GSFC Ambassador Program - Grades 9-12
    
  • The Sun or the Supernova? -- NASA GSFC Ambassador Program - Grades 9-12
    

From NASA

• Grades 7 - 9: What is Solar Activity? (http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry//workbook/workbook.html) -- NASA GSFC IMAGE/POETRY Teacher and Student Consortium
  
• Grades 11 - 12: Sun-Centered Physics (http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/~knisely/course_development.html) -- NASA GSFC
  
• Everyday Classroom Tools - The Threads of Inquiry (http://hea-www.harvard.edu/ECT/thrcontents.html) - Harvard University
  
• Educator Resource Center Network (http://education.nasa.gov/about/contacts/Educator_Resource_Center_Network.html) -- NASA
  
• Imagine the Universe! The Teachers' Corner (http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/teachers/teachers_corner.html) (See Disc1) -- NASA GSFC
  
• Live From the Sun (http://passporttoknowledge.com/ptk_lfsun.html) -- Passport to Knowledge program
  
• NASA CORE (http://core.nasa.gov) -- Central Operation of Resources for Educators
  
• NASA Education Programs (http://education.nasa.gov/) -- NASA
  
• Science Fair Projects (http://www.astronomycafe.net/qadir/asfair.html) -- Astronomy Cafe
  
• Science Question of the Week (http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/science.html) -- NASA GSFC
  
• Earth and Space Science (http://vathena.arc.nasa.gov) -- Athena
  

From other sources

• AstroCapella: A Musical Exploration of the Universe (http://www.astrocappella.com)
  
• The Library in the Sky (http://www.nwrel.org/sky/index.asp) -- Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
  
• The Math Forum (http://www.mathforum.org/) -- Drexel University
  
• The Montillation of Traxoline (http://solar.physics.montana.edu/tslater/montillation_of_traxoline.html) (this one makes you think about how you evaluate your lessons) -- Montana State University
  
• Office for Mathematics, Science and Technology Education (http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/) -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne
  
• Practical Uses of Math and Science (http://pumas.jpl.nasa.gov/) - The online journal of math and science examples for pre-college education from NASA JPL
  
• Science Gems (http://www.sciencegems.com) -- F. Potter
  
• Science Fiction Stories with Good Astronomy & Physics (http://www.astrosociety.org/education/resources/scifi.html) -- Astronomical Society of the Pacific
  

Miscellaneous links

• Office of Higher Education (http://university.gsfc.nasa.gov) -- NASA GSFC
  
• Data sonification (http://www-ssg.sr.unh.edu/index.html?tof/Outreach/music.html) -- University of New Hampshire
  
• Usenet Physics FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) (http://www.weburbia.demon.co.uk/physics/) -- various authors
  
• Conversion of Units (http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemistry/general/units_en.html) - Institute of Chemistry, Berlin
  
• Energy converter (http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/Tools/energyconv/energyConv.pl) - HEASARC at NASA GSFC
  
• Online metric converter (http://www.sciencemadesimple.net/conversions.html) -- Science Made Simple
  
• NASA Space Physics Data System (http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/spds/coshel/coshel.html) -- Cosmic and Heliospheric Pages and Services
  
• NASA Spinoffs (http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/)
  
• Periodic Table of the Elements (http://pearl1.lanl.gov/periodic/) -- LANL
  
• Periodic Table of Comic Books (http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/index.html) -- University of Kentucky
  
• How to Search the Web and Find What You Want (http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/web_search.html) (See Disc1) -- Imagine the Universe!