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  • July 25, 2005
    Virtual Lab 2.0 (beta) updated
  • April 8, 2005
    Virtual Lab featured in Science Magazine (link)
  • September 1, 2004
    LT Virtual Lab site open
             
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       NASA Learning Technologies (NLT) is a NASA R&D effort for the engineering of teaching tools that deliver NASA content in the most engaging and dynamic manner possible. NLT builds the pipeline and the delivery point for unencumbered access to the best data NASA has to provide.

     Virtual Lab completely emulates a scanning electron microscope and allows any user to zoom and focus into a variety of built-in microscopic samples. It also comes with a set of educational materials such as a demo on how a SEM works and movies of the real thing in action. Virtual Lab is freely available with a growing library of samples to choose from.

 
   
       Virtual Lab is developed at NASA Kennedy Space Center by principal investigator Berta Alfonso. Implementation and imagery were provided by The Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, co-producers Glenn Fried and Benjamin Grosser.  
   
             
Curator: Randolph Kim
Responsible NASA Official: Patrick Hogan
Last Updated: 9/13/2004
 
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