Order it here from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The CD-ROM contains over an hour of digital video, audio, images, and text captions which describe everything from the impetus for the mission to the science results obtained in the first three years. Topics include weather, atmosphere, and oceanography. It emphasizes the materials produced by the Magellan mission, which used an imaging radar to map the planet Venus, and by the Solar System Visualization Project, which used sophisticated computer techniques to produce special displays from data collected by other NASA missions. FoilSim Free Aeronautics Educational Software - Developed at the NASA Glenn Research Center, FoilSim is interactive simulation software that determines the airflow around various shapes of airfoils.
Students change the position and shape of the wing.
The software displays plots of pressure or airspeed above and below the airfoil surface and calculates the lift of the airfoils, allowing students to learn the factors that influence lift. Download the software from this site. Investigating the Universe is a CD-ROM based multimedia program that provides teachers and students with ten complete investigations in astronomy intended to complement and extend the science curriculum in 9th and 10th grade classes. This CD-ROM is a multimedia program that acts as a supplement to any existing middle school science curricula. Two core research areas, with seven focused investigations, form the basis for student explorations.