Below is a sample list of CDs that can be purchased through CORE: |
Artic Observatory/Sea Ice in the Polar Regions
Addresses Arctic phenomena and processes allowing students to ask and answer questions about interrelationships among several physical aspects of the Arctic system. |
Deep Space: Featuring the Hubble Space Telescope Images
Provides an interactive menu that allows you to select from categories of deep space objects, such as galaxies and star clusters. |
Earth Observatorium: Mission to Planet Earth
Lets you look out a porthole of the Space Shuttle Endeavour during mission STS-68 to view 12,500 images of Earth, plus many of the radar images taken during the flight. |
Exploring Aeronautics
Offers an introduction to aeronautics, covers the fundamentals of flight, contains a historical timeline, examines different types of aircraft and teaches students to use the tools of aeronautics used by researchers to test aircraft designs. |
Exploring the Internet
Explains what the Internet is, how to get connected and how to explore the World Wide Web. |
Geomorphology From Space: A Global Overview of Regional Landforms
Offers a CD-ROM version of an out-of-print 1986 NASA publication. This resource is a study of landforms and landscapes, including the description, classification, origin, development and history of planetary surfaces. |
Glacier Power
Serves as a curriculum supplement that includes information about glaciers and their importance to climate studies. The CD includes lesson plans. |
Hubble Telescope
Features more than 200 digital Hubble images released by the Space Telescope Science Institute and includes a Screen Saver and Image Browser software for the viewer to easily review the photos, read and search the captions, and print for handy reference. |
Mars VE: The Virtual Exploration Mission
Serves as a curriculum supplement that allows students to understand basic concepts of space exploration and the search for life in the universe. |
Our Solar System
Offers an interactive exploration of the universe. More than 200 high-resolution images have been used to create this sight-and-sound voyage through space. |
Pathfinder and the Best of Mars
Provides a stunning collection of Pathfinder images of Mars and includes the best Mars images from all the Mars missions, including Mariner, Viking and Hubble views. |
PCs in Space
Offers an exciting collection of seven software programs, including: Exploring the Earth, Exploring the Sun, Exploring the Solar System, Exploring the Universe, Exploring North and South America, The Hubble Space Telescope First Servicing Mission and Exploring the States |
Space Shuttle Flights: 100 Stock Photos
Offers a collection of digital color photos selected from thousands of NASA images covering Shuttle missions from the first flight in 1981 to the second Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission in 1997. Photos of astronauts in space are included. |
Spaceborne Imaging Radar: Seeing the Earth in a New Way
Contains radar images of sites around the world as seen before and during the SIR-C missions of 1994. The CD-ROM contains handheld photographs from the Space Shuttle, QuickTime movies from the missions and photographs from the ground. |
The Dynamic Sun
Shows images and video clips of the Sun, presents factual information about the Sun and Sun-related topics, explains Sun features including Sun spots, shows how explosions on the Sun occur and how they affect the Earth, and details Sun study projects. |
The Hubble Library of Electronic Picturebooks
Welcomes you to the next millennium with an escorted tour of our solar system, a trip to the mountains of Venus, a walk on the Moon with Neil Armstrong, and a long, deep view into the wilderness of space. |
The Remote Sensing Tutorial
Helps the viewer understand how remote sensing is applied to study the land, sea and air,making up the environments of our planet. |
Views of the Solar System
Offers an extraordinary collection of images, animations, facts and historical perspectives about the planets, moons, Sun and other parts of our solar system. |
Visit to an Ocean Planet
Reveals the importance of our oceans to global climate and life. Allows users to explore the Gulf of Mexico with satellite data, investigate the 1997-98 El Nino, discover "what's up" with Earth-orbit satellites and learn about the research activities of real life oceanographers. |
Welcome to the Planets
Contains 190 selected images acquired over approximately 20 years of NASA planetary exploration. Images of all the planets, as well as comets, asteroids, meteorites, and lunar samples, are accompanied by information about the solar system bodies and the spacecraft that acquired the data. |
Winds of Change: An Educational CD-ROM From the NASA Scatterometer Project
Provides students a curriculum resource for thematic, interdisciplinary instruction and self-investigation of global climate Earth science activities. |
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