• Outreach

    NOAA Game Portal

    NOAA's Game portal is an arcade of games and interactive activities focused on Earth's ocean and atmosphere. It highlights the science and work of NOAA and other agencies and organizations that promote environmental stewardship. The site includes two games, one based on a western coastal estuary and one in an eastern coast sea turtle habitat to help players understand the unique threats and actions that are needed to preserve these essential habitats.

    http://games.noaa.gov/

  • Content

    Jet Propulsion Laboratory

    Established at the California Institute of Technology in the 1930s, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has been a leader in technical and exploratory innovation ever since. Following the launch of the United States's first satellite in 1958, JPL has sent dozens of unmanned spacecraft and instruments into orbit, all with the goal of better understanding Earth, the solar system, and our universe. JPL currently operates 22 orbiting spacecraft and 10 instruments, including some of the missions providing data and imagery for the Cloud Lab's Reconstructing a Storm activity.

    http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/

  • NASA-Goddard

    NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation's largest organization of scientists, engineers, and technologists who build spacecraft, instruments, and new technology to study Earth, the Sun, our solar system, and the universe. Named for American rocketry pioneer Dr. Robert H. Goddard, the center was established in 1959 as NASA's first space flight complex. Goddard and its several facilities are critical in carrying out NASA's missions of space exploration and scientific discovery. The data mapping and visualization tool that was adapted for Reconstructing a Storm was developed at Goddard as part of NASA's Earth Science Data Systems Program.

    http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html

  • The Ceres S'COOL Project

    The CERES experiment is one of the highest priority scientific satellite instruments in NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS). The first CERES instrument was launched in December 1997. Today, CERES instruments are collecting observations aboard three separate satellite missions, including the EOS Terra and Aqua observatories, which provide data and imagery for the Cloud Lab's Reconstructing a Storm activity. The related S'COOL Project involves students of all ages in real science, making and reporting ground truth observations of clouds to help validate NASA's CERES satellite instruments. The S'COOL Project provided invaluable help in the refinement and development of the Cloud Typing and Reconstructing a Storm activities.

    http://scool.larc.nasa.gov/