LINKS TO PLANETARY GEOLOGY
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http://www.noaawatch.gov
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
http://www.badastronomy.com
An awesome site of everything astronomically-related
http://www.obspm.fr/planets
A database from the Paris Observatory
http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/
Catalog of Close Shaves
http://www.spaceweather.com/
Science news and information about the Sun-Earth environment
http://www.unb.ca/passc/ImpactDatabase/
Data on 169 earthly craters
http://adswww.harvard.edu/
Over 1.5 million astronomy and physics references can be searched at the Astrophysics Data
System, a free bibliographic database on the Internet
http://astrogeology.usgs.gov
General information and a database for specific planets and moons
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov
NASA's Earth Observatory. Statistics on everything from sea temperature to clouds fire and
vegetation
http://www.aao.gov.au
The Anglo-Australian Observatory has a Stellar Gallery
http://www.astrobiology.com
How did life get started on Earth? This and many other questions explored
within links at NASA's astrobiology home page
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/gallery/bestofsoho
Dozens of stunning images taken with an ultraviolet telescope about the Solar
and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
http://www.astrosociety.org/education/activities/astroacts.html
Pacific astronomers culled the best of the astronomy education sites to compile
this annotated list of activities for K-12 students.
http://etacha.as.arizona.edu/~eem/exo.html
Astronomer's research focused on planets outside our solar system.
http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Global Change Master Directory from NASA
http://impact.arc.nasa.gov
List of asteroids and space junk that could hit the earth
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov
NASA's JPL Near-Earth Object Program
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/meteorites.htm
Meteors, meteorites, and impacts. Report a meteor
http://topex.ucsd.edu/marine_topo/globe.html
Digital Globe: Fly Over the Global Spreading Ridges, Fly Along the Antarctic
Circumpolar Current, etc.
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/science_math/geology/docs/wetumpka/specific.htm
If Wetumpka structure is an impact crater,
how big was the meteorite?
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/solarsystem
The virtual solar system. Hopscotch from planet to planet
as celestial bodies spin around you
http://www.seds.org/billa/tnp
Built as a multimedia tour of the Solar System, this site offers 90 pages of
information about Earth, it's planetary kin, and their satellites.
http://www.si.edu/
Smithsonian Institution Home Page
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/messenger/pcs/PlanetSize.html
Find a clear demonstration about the relative size of the planets.
http://pdsmaps.wr.usgs.gov/
Customize and download your own image maps of the Moon, Mars, Venus, and other
planets and moons.
http://www.geology.com/meteor-impact-craters.shtml
Meteor Impact Craters
http://meteorite.com/meteor_crater/m_c_hike.htm
Meteor Crater in Arizona, USA
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects
Earth Impact Effects Program: an easy-to-use, interactive
web site for estimating the regional environmental consequences of an impact on
Earth