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Aurora
Web Sites
Neal B. Brown
June 2002
Photos of aurora:
The best collection of photos of the aurora on the Internet, by
Jan Curtis
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/weather/aurora/images/aurora/jan.curtis/
Great photos by Dick Hutchinson
who lives along the Yukon River
http://www.ptialaska.net/~hutch/aurora.html
Electronic greeting cards with
aurora
http://www.ptialaska.net/~hutch/aurora.html
Space Weather:
The best Space Weather web site on the Internet
http://windows.engin.umich.edu/spaceweather/
Today’s Space Weather
from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/today.html
A Whole New Image of Earth
Good story about early results (June 2000) from NASA’s IMAGE
satellite
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/image-eo-00e.html
Click on Space Weather Center,
well organized collection of educational and information material
http://www.spacescience.org/1.html
Lesson plans, some
with standards:
Limited material, but National Standards highlighted, click on Sun/earth
tab
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/segway/
NASA Sun-Earth connection, some
lesson plans for various topics
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/educators/class.html
Good lesson plans, glossary
of words used, Space Science Institute
http://www.spacescience.org/1.html
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration Education and Outreach site
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/info/index.html
General interest:
Neal Brown’s educational/informational site
http://www.alaskascience.com/
Poker Flat Research Range, rockets,
aurora and more
http://dac3.gi.alaska.edu/
Geophysical Institute University
of Alaska, prediction of aurora
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/
Fraser Cain’s web site;
“My goal with this project is to build a comprehensive directory
of space links for
educators, students and space buffs.”
http://www.universetoday.com
Late breaking science news stories
http://www.stn2.com/environment.html
Space science news stories
http://www.spacedaily.com/news
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration space site
http://www.websites.noaa.gov/guide/sciences/atmo/space.html
Society for Amateur Scientists,
good place for reliable information
http://earth.thesphere.com/SAS/
Stanford University comprehensive
web site for space science
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/resources.html
A Space Science at NASA web
offering
http://www.thursdaysclassroom.com/index_06jan00.html
University Partnering for Operation
Support
http://sd-www.jhuapl.edu/UPOS/
Other:
Aurora Sounds:
http://members.tripod.com/~auroralsounds/
Hands On hardware
suppliers:
Arbor Scientific, source of magnetic earth balls and magnaprobes
http://www.arborsci.com/
Rainbowsymphony, source of diffraction
“opera glasses.”
http://www.rainbowsymphony.com/
suggestions,
comments? email me.
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