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Exploring the Geology of Mars using Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter Data part of DataSheets
The Mars Orbital Laser Altimeter (MOLA) data set consists of two years of altimetry data on surface features on Mars. MOLA data sets are produced by the MOLA Science Team and archived by the Planetary Data Systems ...

Exploring the Geology of Mars using Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter Data part of Using Data in the Classroom:Datasheets
The Mars Orbital Laser Altimeter (MOLA) data set consists of two years of altimetry data on surface features on Mars. MOLA data sets are produced by the MOLA Science Team and archived by the Planetary Data Systems ...

Rogers Atlas of Rocks in Thin Section part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://strabospot.org/giga/

This site comprises more than 100 images of whole petrographic thin sections, mostly in paired plane- and polarized-light views. Images are hosted at gigapan.com, and most are >20,000 ...

My NASA Data Lesson Plan: Seasons and Cloud Cover: Are They Related? part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/Solar_Decl.html

This lesson plan uses NASA satellite data to correlate cloud cover over Africa to the solar declination. The four seasons on Earth have a scientific basis. The earth is tilted 23.5 degrees from ...

My NASA Data Lesson Plan: State of the Atmosphere: Interpreting Weather Observations part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/docs/L2_Radiosonde_LaFra...

This user-contributed lesson plan provides instructions for several activities for students to perform to study the relationship of temperature, pressure, relative humidity, and dew point in cloud ...

My NASA Data Lesson Plan: Storm Clouds-- Fly over a Late Winter Storm onboard a NASA Earth Observing Satellite part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/Storm_Clouds.html

This lesson plan uses Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) cloud data and a weather map to explore cloud coverage during a winter storm. When atmospheric scientists, including ...

My NASA Data Lesson Plan: Using Imported Data in Excel: Plot Atmospheric Temperature part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/docs/L1_Excel_Starkins.doc

This user-contributed tutorial provides detailed instructions on how to make Excel graphs of data that is imported from the Internet. The tutorial contains sample screen images to assist in ...

My NASA Data Lesson Plan: A Comparison of Cloud Coverage over Africa part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/Cloud_Compare.html

This lesson plan uses NASA satellite data to contrast amounts of cloud coverage over different climate regions in Africa. It introduces the circulation pattern of Hadley Cells and the band of ...

My NASA Data Lesson Plan: Circle the Earth - Explore Surface Types on a Journey around Earth part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/Circle_the_Earth.html

This lesson plan uses NASA Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instrument percent coverage surface data with a world map to locate landmasses and bodies of water at the ...

My NASA Data Lesson Plans part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/lessons.html

MY NASA DATA (Mentoring and inquirY using NASA Data) is an effort to develop microsets of Earth science data that are interesting and useful to the K-12 and citizen scientist communities. The ...

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