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URLS ** CASDE http://www.casde.unl.edu/casde.html This Web site for CASDE, the consortium for the Application of Space Data to Education, has easily accessible imagery and data sets for Nebraska and California. The wide range of data sets includes radar, DEM (digital elevation maps), shuttle images, NAPP (National Aerial Photography Project). TM (Thematic Mapper), GOES, and others. NOTE: Most imagery is presently of California and Nebraska, but the site should provide useful in terms of ideas for imagery in other locations. ** EarthRISE http://earthrise.sdsc.edu/ This Web site is a database of images of the Earth, taken by astronauts from the shuttle. The images can be searched by key word, by political map, and by topographical map. ** EarthWeek http://www.earthweek.com/(changing on March 2; should still be linked) This Web site has a highly visual weekly summary of important natural and human caused events in the environment worldwide. Archived summaries are available. ** NASA Homepage http://www.nasa.gov/ The number of interesting and helpful NASA Web sites makes listing them all impossible; however, most of these sites are accessible from the NASA home page. For example, you can access each of the NASA Centers (under Welcome to NASA,Web),Earth Science (formerly Mission to Planet Earth). NASA Educational Resources, the history of NASA, current news, photo and other multimedia galleries, and more. Some sites of particular interest include: * Earth from Space http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/ A database of many of the best, astronaut acquired photos of the Earth. Images can be searched easily by areas of interest: city, human impact, weather, geographical feature, technical, etc. * Goddard Earth Sciences Pictures http://pao.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/earth/pictures/earthpic.htm A regularly changing site with remotely sensed images, animations, etc. of current interest. * NASA Image eXchange http://nix.nasa.gov/ NASA Image eXchange(NIX)is an engine for simultaneously searching multiple Web site collections of NASA images and photos. Searching is done using keywords. NIX returns thumbnail images, descriptions, and relevant links. * NASA Photo Gallery http://www.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/index.html A large collection of NASA images organized by topic and image type. * Spacelink HTTP://spacelink.nasa.gov/.index.html The Spacelink Web site contains various NASA news and resources, including a great Internet search engine. It Provides great links to virtually every one of NASA's web pages. **Sources of Earth and Planetary Photography HTTP://ceps.nasm.edu:2020/RPIF/RPIFsources.html A gray but rich source of Web links, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and more to help you find images and photos of the Earth. Earth science information, U.S. and world maps, teacher/education resource centers, etc.