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"We catch a glimpse of a huge swirl of clouds out the window over the middle of the Pacific Ocean, or the boot of Italy jutting down into the Mediterranean, or the brilliant blue coral reefs of the Caribbean strutting their beauty before the stars. And...we experienced those uniquely human qualities: awe, curiosity, wonder, joy, amazement." (Russell L. Schweickart, Apollo Astronaut ("The Home Planet")






Photographing the Earth from the International Space Station

Earth Science-Related Projects and Sites

  1. Earth Science Enterprise (Overview of NASA's program to study the Earth as an environmental system)
  2. EarthKAM (Student-directed electronic still camera images taken from Shuttle / Station)
  3. Atlas of Ocean Internal Waves (a project by the University of Delaware Center for Remote Sensing that features analysis of numerous Space Shuttle photographs of ocean internal waves.)
  4. Earth Observing System Project Science Office
  5. Landsat 7
  6. Terra Satellite
  7. SIR-C/X-SAR ("Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar" A joint U.S.-German-Italian project that captures images of Earth. Data are available from two Shuttle Missions: STS-59 April 9-20, 1994 and STS-68 September 30-October 11, 1994.)
    1. Program Information
    2. Images On-line
  8. SeaWiFS Project ("Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor" to monitor ocean color)
  9. TOPEX/POSEIDON (A partnership between the U.S. and France to monitor global ocean circulation and sea levels)
  10. Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (A joint project with the Japanese Space Agency to study tropical rainfall and its affects on global weather and climate)