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Earth Observatory
Global Warming
Image
Composite Editor (ICE)
Patterns of
Change
Mission: Biomes
Fire Detection
with False-Color Images
Earthquake!
Einstein&s Relativity: The house What happens when you move very very RELATIVITY fast? Mercator which however mixes up the relativistic distortion with the fish-eye distortion that comes from the Mercator Projection of the sphere. Light Speed! Daniel Richard G.'s does a snazzy job. It offers many options you can turn on or off, including colour shifts. Requires OpenGL. Warp Adam Auton's is an interactive simulator with many options, and a nice tutorial. Requires Windows and OpenGL. Relativistic Flight Simulation Nobel e-Museum: Relativity a basic, non-technical introduction to the development of special relativity Einstein's Relativity: The Special and General Theory Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) MacTutor History of Mathematics: Special Relativity by Professor Edmund Robertson and Dr. John J. O'Connor of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland Acceleration in Special Relativity http://library.thinkquest.org/28327/main/cockpit.html Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) at MIT Vitual cockpit tour of the solar system Life, the Universe, and the Electron - Do you know what an electron is? Or how electrons can be used to see on a microscopic level? This well-designed site is a celebration of the centenary of the discovery of the electron. http://library.thinkquest.org/28327/main/cockpit.html
The ABCs of Nuclear Science - A soup-to-nuts site exploring the atom, with a detailed glossary and many activities and high-school level experiments. This site requires frames and, due to its horizontal layout, may be hard to view on small monitors. paper airplanes.
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You are now in the Experiments section. Listed below are
interactive experiments that can be used to teach all ages about the art and
science of space-based Remote Sensing. The experiments focus on how NASA uses
Remote Sensing to study how and why Earth changes. 
The Image Composite
Editor is designed to be an easy first step into the realm of Earth system
science, image processing, data analysis, and satellite remote sensing via your
Web browser. ICE is a java applet with several modes for analysing remote
sensing data, including color image composites with multiple wavelengths,
display of time series, mathematical functions between multiple datasets, and
analysis tools such as scatterplots and histograms.
Build a composite false-image of a scene of the Amazon rainforest
using 3 of the fifty bands provided by the MODIS Airborne Simulator (MAS)
Compositer. Learn how various bands of the electromagnetic spectrum can be
combined to show things that the normal human eye can’t detect. In this case
it’s the difference between fire, smoke, and clouds. 
This pair of lessons uses
satellite imagery to investigate earthquake faults near San Francisco,
California. Urban Sprawl asks students to compare maps of earthquake
locations to regions of urban growth shown by satellite data. Students evaluate
recent seismic activity near geologic faults in Active or Not? That Is The
Question.
