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Visuals
The following index provides links to images from many scientific
disciplines provided by government, academic, and other research
organizations.
By linking to these sites, AAAS does not mean to imply that permission
has been granted to reproduce the images; permission to do so must be
sought from the owner of the copyright for each image.
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NASA has compiled a large photo
gallery of still images, including images of the solar system, the
Earth and its oceans, flight vehicles, robotics, aeronautical and space
flight equipment, and mission patches. A video
gallery includes footage shot from space vehicles; satellite views
of hurricanes and monsoons; and live video from NASA Television.
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The SIR-C/X-SAR
project, a joint US-German-Italian initiative, provides space
radar images useful to scientists in disciplines ranging from
archaeology to climatology.
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The SeaWiFS
Project allows users to create custom-designed satellite images
for any region of the world.
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The Nine
Planets, compiled by software engineer Bill Arnett, illustrates
the planets and major moons in our solar system. Resources include
images, sounds, and movies; Arnett provides an index
of online images of the solar system.
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National Radio Astronomy Observatory provides access to a
virtual exhibit of NRAO related
images, and general
astronomical images, including stars, galaxies, and comets.
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The Space Environment Center's solar
images collection offers a glance at solar images received each
day.
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National Center for Atmospheric Research offers a peek at
water vapor imagery from GOES-8.
NCAR also offers a gallery
of interesting imagery taken from space and collected or analyzed at
NCAR.
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The Clementine spacecraft page provides images of the moon and
earth and animation
created by the Clementine. The page also features an online version of
the catalog
accompaning the exhibit of Clementine imagery that opened at the
National Academy of Sciences.
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The National Space Science Data Center's photo gallery
presents images of the planets, spacecrafts, asteroids, comets,
galaxies, globular clusters, and more.
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The Space Telescope Science Institute maintains "a photo gallery
of the universe," which features the Hubble Space Telescope's most
spectacular images. STSI also maintains a collection of visualizations,
movies, and animations produced by the Astronomy Visualization
Laboratory. The page also provides a detailed
explanation of what the the Hubble Space Telescope's images really
look like in space and how they are produced.
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The
Messier deep space objects page, offers over 100 images of
nebulae, clusters, and galaxies.
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The Solar Data Analysis Center maintains a gallery of solar
images.
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The National Center for Atmospheric Research provides
multiple links to satellite
images of the Earth's atmosphere and weather patterns.
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NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory's ET6 Radar Image
Gallery includes images such as clouds, gravity waves, and storms.
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The Center for Scientific Computing maintains a chemist's art gallery with
images of polymers, molecules, proteins, and electrons.
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The National Renewable Energy Laboratory provides an
extensive collection of renewable
energy and energy efficient technology photographs.
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Visit the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Scientific
Visualization page to see images of flow volumes, textured splats,
line bundles, spot noise, a unstructured volume rendering using hardware
texture mapping, and a high accuracy volume rendering of unstructured
data.
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The Department of Entomology at Colorado State University
hosts images of Insects and
their Relatives, clearly indexed by species. Movies
of insects are also available.
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The Iowa State University Department of Entomology offers
various images of common pests such as
ticks and mosquitos, as well as an index of online
entomology images.
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Visual Media Sources provides a browse-only search engine of
images
of Fermilab work, equipment, employees, and grounds.
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The European Laboratory for
Particle Physics (CERN) press office offers a wide range of
downloadable images covering the work of the world's largest research
center.
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Particle Physics and Astronomy
Research Council (PPARC) features a collection of physics
images, including the Electron Positron (LEP) collider tunnel,
simulation of the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) in orbit, telescopes
and more.
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Physics News
Graphics, maintained by the American Institute of Physics, is an
archive of graphics depicting important physics research topics.
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Emilio Segre Visual
Archives, maintained by the American Institute of Physics, is a
collection of photographs and short biographies of important people in
physics throughout history.
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The National
Zoo homepage features photographs of mammals, birds, reptiles,
amphibians, and invertebrates.
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