This poster, part of a four-part series, highlights recent images from select NASA Earth Science spacecraft and showcases related research results. The back gives a brief overview of the science and missions behind NASA's study of WATER. Full description.

This lithograph shows images from NASA?s Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus instrument of the Boulder, Virgin, and Gregg basins that comprise the southern portion of Lake Meade. About 96% of the water in Lake Mead is from melted snow that falls in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Wyoming. During the period from May 2000 to April 2003 severe drought occurred in the western states, and Colorado ... Full description.

This tutorial provides detailed information about how clouds receive their names and the importance of root words. It was designed to help students make accurate observations for the Students' Cloud Observations On-Line (S'COOL) project. Students will also learn to associate different clouds into height groupings. Information is provided about the cloud types and on how to distinguish similar clouds ... Full description.

This full-color identification chart is intended as a basic guide to observing contrails for scientific investigations being conducted by NASA scientists. It is translated into several languages and is designed help to motivate students throughout the world to become involved with a real-time collaborative scientific experiment. Full description.

This lesson is designed to help students gain knowledge in accessing current weather data and in using the MY NASA DATA Live Access Server (LAS) to specify and download historical satellite data. Students then use the data to examine the relationship between altitude, atmospheric pressure, temperature and humidity at a particular location. In this lesson, weather data from ground-based and satellite ... Full description.

This activity allows students to use radiosonde data from a weather balloon launch to distinguish the characteristics of the lower atmosphere. Full description.

This activity allows students to use real satellite data to determine where the greatest concentrations of aerosols are located in the tropical Atlantic region during the course of a year and their source of origin. Full description.

This lesson plan explores a historical El Nino event using real satellite data and correlates El Nino to local weather. Full description.

This lesson plan examines data in several formats in order to determine the presence or absence of seasonal variability in tropospheric nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentrations. Full description.

This lesson plan employs inquiry-based methods to investigate how latitude and longitude (and distance from oceans) impact climatic factors such as temperature range, average temperature, and precipitation. Full description.