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  • [We are at 45N latitude and 93W longitude]
  • Trial download of Starry Night     [I think this is the best one]
  • WUnderground

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Astronomy Information

Area Colleges with 4-year Astronomy degrees

Missions, Spacecraft, and Telescopes

  • Space agencies / Programs
            NASA homepage
        NASA/JPL Missions
        European Space Agency
        NASA's Human Spaceflight site
        X-prize--to stimulate space tourism
        Japan--Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science
        SpaceX
        Space junk
            Tracking reentry (SATVIEW)
            NASA Orbital Debris Program
  • Planets
          Mercury
          JPL site for Messenger
      Venus
          Pioneer
          ESA Venus Express
      Moon
          Artemis--study interaction of moon and Sun
          GRAIL--Gravity recovery and Interior Lab
          Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
          Lunar Prospector
          Mini-RF--explore the lunar poles
          SMART-1
      Mars
              NASA Mars Exploration program--overview
          Mars Quest online    --GREAT site!!!
          Global Surveyor (1996)
          Pathfinder  (1996)
          Mars Polar Lander (1999)  with Mars Climate Orbiter
          Odyssey (2001)
          Exploration Rover (2003)
          Express from ESA  (2003)
            from NASA  (2003)
          Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter (2005)
          Curiosity--Mars Science Laboratory (2011)
          MAVEN--Mars atmosphere (2013)
         InSight--2018    NASA    JPL
         Mars2020    NASA     JPL
          Outer planets
              CASSINI--Mission to Saturn and Titan
          Galileo--Exploring Jupiter and its moons
          JUNO--Jupiter
          New Horizons to Pluto
          Voyager--Outer planets
          Asteroids and comets
          Dawn--Encounter with asteroids
          Deep Impact--Collision with a Comet
             JPL site
             NASA site
              Deep Space 1--Encounter with a comet
          EPOXI--Fly-by of Comet Hartley
          Hayabusa--Return with asteroid samples
          NEAR--Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous
          Pan-STARRS--search for threatening asteroids and comets
          Rosetta--Land on a comet
              Stardust--Fly close to comet and bring back samples
      Other
          IBEX--See beyond the solar system
  • Space telescopes
            ACE--Advanced Composition Explorer--determine composition of basic space matter
            ACRIMSAT--Active Cavity Irradiance Monitoring Satellite-measuring amount of Sun's energy that reaches Earth
            ASCA--Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics
        Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
        CHIPS--study interstellar space
        CINDI--study space weather and the Earth's equator
        Compton Gamma Ray Observatory
            FUSE--Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer
        GALEX--Galaxy Evolution Explorer
        Genesis--Search for origins--Solar wind
        GLAST Fermi--Gamma Ray Large Area Telescope
        GRACE--Gravity, Recovery, and Climate Experiment
        Herschel space observatory
        HETE--gamma ray bursts
        HINODE--mission to the sun
            Hipparcos Space Astrometry Mission
        Hubble Space Telescope
        IMAGE--Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global     Exploration
        INTEGRAL--Gamma ray observatory
        IRIS--Solar atmosphere
        Kepler--Planet hunting
        MAP--Microwave Anisotropy Probe
        NuSTAR--X-rays
        Planck--CMB
        RHESSI--solar flares
        Rossi--x-rays from close binary systems
        RXTE--Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer
        SDO--Solar dynamics observatory
            Spitzer Space Telescope
            SOHO--Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
        SORCE--incoming solar radiation
            Space Telescope Science Institute
        Suzaku--x-ray
        SWAS--infrared
            Swift--Capture gamma ray burst
            Ulysses--Poles of the Sun
        WIND--solar wind
        XMM-Newton--x-rays
  • Land-based
            DENIS--DEep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky
        Gemini observatory
        Keck observatory
        SOFIA--from a plane
        Subaru telescope
        VLT--Very Large Telescope project

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