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Resource Title:Earth Observatory
Description:The site provides "new satellite imagery and scientific information about our home planet. The focus is on Earth's ongoing climatic and environmental changes. The objective is to provide ample written and audio-visual resources explaining the causes and effects of change on Earth." Site is searchable by keyword.

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Author National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Intended Audience High School
Middle School
Resource Type Full Text Short Readings/articles
Photographs/images
Primary Sources/data
Searchable Info Collections (databases, Clearinghouses, Encyclos)
Subject Keyword(s) ACRIMSAT
AIRSAR
AVHRR
Aerosols
Alfred Wegener
Animations
Artificial Satellites In Earth Sciences
Atmosphere
Benjamin Franklin
Biosphere
CALIPSO
CZCS
Chlorophyll
Climate
Climatic Changes
Climatology
Clouds
Coccolithophores
DAAC
Data
Data Set
Dataset
Drought
EO-1
EOS Aqua
EOS Aura
EOS Terra
Earth
Earth Observatory
Earth Science
El Nino
Emissions
Energy
Environment
Experiment
Experiments
Fires
Forecasting
GRACE
Global Change
Global Environmental Change
Global Environmental Change -- Remote Sensing
Global Temperature Changes
Global Warming
Gravity
Heat
ICESat
IHOP2002
Image
John Tyndall
LIDAR
La Nina
Land Cover
Landsat
MAS Image Compositer
Milutin Milankovitch
NASA Earth Observatory
Natural Disasters
Natural Hazards
Observing System
Ocean
OrbView
Ozone
Planet
Polar Ice
Preciptation
QuickSCAT
Rachel Carson
Radiation
Rain
Remote-sensing Images
Robert Goddard
Roger Revelle
SAFARI2000
SORCE
Samuel Pierpont Langley
Satellite
Science -- Atmosphere and Weather
Science -- Geology/Earth Science
Science Education
Science News
Sea
Smog
Snow
Sun
Sun Spots
Sunspots
Svante Arrhenius
TRMM
Tropical Deforestation
Vegetation
Verner Suomi
Vilhelm Bjerknes
Water
Weather
Web
Wernher Von Braun