With computer access limited to school settings and lesson planning time at a premium, not much imaging and visualization is used in classroom settings. But classification systems, created by scientists, evolve and a ground rule could be adopted for the distribution of public domain images. Imaging tasks are facilitated by software which becomes outdated as does the system on which it runs. The value of the data assets acquired from space extends well beyond the life of the probe or interplanetary mission. In science data is used in studies not originally envisioned and dynamically defined as the heuristic process evolves.
Collaboration is now international in scope.
Scientific questions are multidisciplinary and involve widely dispersed experimental teams acquiring data from multiple sources. Data, will transcending project and science discipline boundaries, needs to be archived and distributed. A website displaying images, providing lessons, abstracts of technical reports, and concept papers, and eventually involving sharing of data in real time, control of instruments, and tools allowing students to work together over a wide area network. It allows the user to begin a search that builds a list of potential data sets of interest. It is crucial to list curator information to ensure communication between novice and expert users of such data forms when dealing with the questions that arise when engaged with image analysis.