This collection of images was acquired by astronauts as they flew various missions on the space shuttle and the International Space station. The collection is searchable by geographic location (an interactive map), landforms, human-created features, weather phenomena, water habitats, and others. The images are available in three resolutions and include cataloging data and a caption. Full description.

This collection of images was captured by the Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar, which was flown on two flights of the space shuttle Endeavour in 1994. Images are classified into categories for ease in searching: archaeological sites, cities, ecology and agriculture, geology, interferometry, oceans, rivers, snow and ice, and volcanoes. Full description.

This site provides information on the vast collection of deep-sea core samples that are stored in Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory's (LDEO) facility in Palisades, New York. Materials presented here include a summary of how cores are taken, processed, and stored, some results of examinations of cores, a searchable database of the cores themselves, and a sample history database. Full description.

During most of the last one billion years the globe had no permanent ice. However, sometimes large areas of the globe were covered with vast ice sheets. Users can read and view pictures which help explain what ice ages are, when they occurred, and why they occur. This site, sponsored by the Illinois State Museum, has links to web pages on paleontology of the midwestern United States during the last ... Full description.

NASA's Visible Earth is a searchable directory of images, visualizations, and animations of the Earth. The images are also listed under the following categories: agriculture, atmosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, human dimensions, hydrosphere, land surface, oceans, radiance or imagery, solid earth, locations, and satellites. Accompanying each image are credits, data about the image, the satellite it ... Full description.

This site presents a summary of current volcanic eruptions and images and videos of volcanoes on Earth. Discussions of the characteristics of volcanism on other worlds in our solar system are also presented and are accompanied by maps and imagery. Links to volcano observatories, parks, and monuments around the world are also included. Full description.