Planetary Science Links Page

Welcome to our Planetary Science Links page.

We hope this newly formatted listing helps you more easily find the weather information you are looking for.

If you would like to recommend a site for inclusion, please let us know and we'll consider it.

If you find that a site doesn't work properly or that a link has become outdated, please let us know that as well. We'll update it promptly.

Until then, happy "surfing"!

Mike & Barbara (How the Weatherworks educators)

Lunar Illusion
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/20jun_moonillusion.htm?list49016
Is the moon really larger at moonrise and moonset? Find out here thanks to NASA scientists.

Meteor Showers - 2000 and beyond
http://www.stargate-2000.com/meteors.html
Basic meteor shower information from Robert Winfree, who runs star parties in South Florida.

http://www.imo.net/calendar/cal00.html
For the more serious astronomer, detailed information from the International Meteor Organization...

MSNBC - Space Gallery
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/spacegallery/
Cool graphics and imagery from Interactive Information designer Clay Frost.....

MSNBC - Space News
http://www.msnbc.com/news/spacenews_front.asp
News stories with a space-related them.

NASA - Astronomy Picture of the Day
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Everyday there's something new about space. A brief writeup and a great picture. Also includes an incredible historical archive section.

NASA - Human Spaceflight Pages
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/index-n.html
Monitor the latest shuttle mission via NASA-TV; check on the time you can look up and see various spacecraft from Earth; and learn a whole lot more about space history. Be sure to download the necessary viewer to see the real-time mission TV.

NASA - SOHO Imagery
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has collected some awesome solar imagery.

See current imagery at http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/

See historical imagery at http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/pastshots.html

See main SOHO page at http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/

Also, learn about the mission, instrumentation, and collaborating organizations.

Space Weather
http://www.spaceweather.com
This site provides the latest news and information about the combined Sun-Earth environment. Includes sunspot activity, NOAA's space forecasts, image galleries, and headline archives. You can even subscribe to the spaceweather.com e-mail service to receive the latest news stories.

Sunrise - Sunset - Moonrise - Moonset
http://www.sunrisesunset.com
This site gives you lots of lunar and solar rise and set information. It's easy to use, too.

"Tornadoes" in Space!!!
Tornado-like events are not unique to Earth. NASA has discovered "dust devils" on Mars
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/msss/camera/images/lpsc2000/3_00_dustdevil/ and http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/marspath/dustdevil.html

and the SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) space craft (a joint NASA - European SpaceAgency project) has discovered tornado-look alikes on the Sun. Note that while this site calls them "tornadoes." that may not be exactly correct. A tornado by definition must be appended to a cumulonimbus cloud.
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/headline_universe/solartor.html&edu=high and http://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/sol.html

US Weather Pages - Lunar information
http://www.uswx.com/us/almanac
Want to find lunar information? Easy to do here. Enter your city and state (or zip code) and you'll be whisked to the current day's almanac page. In addition to lots of weather stuff, you'll find current moon data at bottom of the page. Want to change the date? Just go to top of the page.

This site not only provides times of moon rise and moon set, for example, but it matches this information with appropriate phase and phase picture.

MICHIGAN, UNIVERSITY OF -Windows to the Universe
http://windows.engin.umich.edu/spaceweather/
For the latest information on what's happening in space today, check out this site. Includes images of the Sun's invisible outer layers and Earth's aurora viewed with the Visible Imaging System onboard the Polar spacecraft. Also information about the solar wind, the Ionosphere, space radiation, and more.

WASHINGTON, UNIVERSITY OF - Mars Pathfinder Mission
http://www-k12.atmos.washington.edu/k12/mars/pathfinder.html
For the latest information on the Pathfinder Mission, including weather data and graphics, check out this site "Live from Earth and Mars".

United State Naval Observatory Site
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/data/docs/RS_OneDay.html
Information about sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset by day.

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/data/docs/RS_OneYear.html
Information about sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset by year.

This page was updated on June 20, 2005.

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