Enables students to take photographs of Earth from a camera flown on the Shuttle. Exploring Earth From Space - This NASA educational lithograph set includes instructional materials and thirteen pictures of Earth taken from aboard the Shuttle as part of the NASA EarthKAM program. This incredible resource will enhance studies of science, mathematics, technology, and geography. From space, Earth is seen as a whole structure, the land, oceans, and atmosphere that provide our life-supporting environment. Explore how geography, seasons, and weather affect habitats and the migrations of species.
Students utilize real-time scientific data from various technologies and sources.
Works with satellites to study oceans. M.S. thesis on using satellite data to detect the breathing holes that ringed seals make in winter ice. Greenland Ice thinning Chesapeake Bay benefits from land cover maps. Urban Growth Biosphere Read more about Earth observation discoveries, benefits, science and research . EO-1's primary focus is to develop and test a set of advanced technology land imaging instruments.