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Ecology, Ecosystems and the Environment
Resources and Information (Internet)
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"The purpose of NASA's Earth Observatory is to provide a freely-accessible publication on the Internet where the public can obtain new satellite imagery and scientific information about our home planet. The focus is on Earth’s climate and environmental change. In particular, we hope our site is useful to public media and educators. Any and all materials published on the Earth Observatory, including images, are freely available..."
Studying Earth's Environment From Space: Satellite images of Earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere have proved to be valuable tools for studying the complexity of Earth's environmental systems. Earth observing satellites are routinely used to monitor rapidly changing weather, El Nino-Southern Oscillation phenomena in the Pacific Ocean, ocean currents, land and oceanic vegetation, polar sea ice distribution, and stratospheric ozone depletion. Rarely, however, do students have the opportunity to access and manipulate such data for scientific inquiry into Earth Science. Teaching faculty may find incorporating satellite data into their science curriculum difficult because of the technical complexity of the data, the computer hardware and software required to process the data, the diverse ocean and atmosphere processes illustrated by the satellite data, and little available time during the academic year to develop a new curriculum.
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