US GOVERNMENT AGENCY WEB PAGES FOR SATELLITES, SPACE PROBES, AND REMOTE SENSING PROJECTS

Listed below are Internet links to many of the satellite, space probe, and other remote sensing projects currently operated or archived by NASA, NOAA, or the USGS. These can provide excellent sources of data for student projects.

NASA Project Home Pages (http://www.nasa.gov/projects.html)

Astronomy

Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics (ASCA)

Chandra Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility

Compton Gamma Ray Observatory

Hubble Space Telescope

Microwave Anisotropy Probe -- studying the Big Bang and the

structure of galaxies.

Origins Program

ROSAT

Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer

Earth Science

Commercial Remote Sensing Program

Earth Observing System

EOS AM Satellite

EOS Chemistry Satellite

EOS PM Satellite

EOS Project Science

Earth Observer One

Earth System Science Pathfinder

GOES Project Science, from U.S. weather satellites in

geosynchronous orbit.

GLOBE -- Graphic representations of Earth science data by

students.

ICESat

Landsat 7

Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites (POES), U.S. weather

satellites in polar orbit.

Sea-Viewing Wide-Field Sensor (SeaWiFS)

TOPEX/POSEIDON, U.S-French mission to study ocean

topography and circulation (includes information on El Niñ o).

Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) Home Page

Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)

Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS)

General Reference

The Space Calendar

Tour of the Solar System

Human Space Flight

NASA Human Space Flight Web, including the Space Shuttle

and International Space Station

The Space Shuttle Reference Manual, technical descriptions of

the spacecraft's systems.

Life and Microgravity Sciences

Astrobiology

Microgravity Science

Planetary and Solar System Exploration

Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards

Cassini

RTGs, Cassini's nuclear power source.

Deep Space 1

Deep Space 2

Galileo

Lunar Prospector

Mars Missions, including:

Mars Global Surveyor

Mars Pathfinder

Mars Surveyor '98, including the Mars Polar Lander and

Mars Climate Orbiter

Mars Surveyor 2001 Orbiter and Lander

Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Mission

Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking Home Page

Pioneer Home Page

Stardust -- NASA's mission to return a sample from a comet to

Earth

Voyager Project Home Page

Solar and Space Physics

Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE)

Geospace Electrodynamic Connection

Magnetospheric Constellation mission

Magnetospheric MultiScale mission

SOHO

Solar-B

STEREO

Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Mesosphere Energetics & Dynamics

(TIMED) Explorer

Ulysses

Voyager 1 and 2

Space Transportation

Reusable Launch Vehicles and Space Transportation Programs,

including the X-33, X-34, Future X and Liquid Flyback Boosters

NOAA NESDIS

GOES http://www.oso.noaa.gov/goes/

POES http://www.oso.noaa.gov/poes/

Defense Military Satellite Program http://www.laafb.af.mil/SMC/CI/

USGS

Terraserver http://terraserver.microsoft.com/default.asp

TerraWeb http://TerraWeb.wr.usgs.gov/TRS/

TerraWeb for Kids http://terraweb.wr.usgs.gov/TRS/kids/

National Satellite Land Sensing Remote Data Archive

http://edc.usgs.gov/programs/NSLRSDA.html

National Spatial Data Infrastructure http://mapping.usgs.gov/nsdi/

Includes National Mapping and Remotely Sensed Data

National Mapping and Remotely Sensed Data Other USGS Thematic Data Clearinghouse Sites

EROS Data Center Clearinghouse Gateway National Biological Information Infrastructure

Alaska Geospatial Data Clearinghouse Gateway Biological Resources Information

Global Land Information System Clearinghouse Server Geologic Information

Lake Tahoe Data Clearinghouse Water Resources Information

National Atlas of the United States http://www.nationalatlas.gov/

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(URLs are current as of the date this list was created, but may have changed since then.)