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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/

 

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