Sun-Earth Connections

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL): http://www.jpl.nasa.gov

Lewis Public Affairs: http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/Other_Groups/PAO/--- An anonymous File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server is also available. It includes press releases since 1993. They can be accessed at FTP.LERC.NASA.GOV in the /pao/pressrel/ --directory.

Living With A Star http://lws.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI): http://www.lpi.usra.edu/CASS_home.html Center for Advanced Space Studies information

National Solar Observatory at http://www.nso.edu or Big Bear Solar Observatory at http://www.bbso.njit.edu/ for solar images in hydrogen-alpha light, or calcium, and more!

Noctilucent Clouds http://lasp.colorado.edu/noctilucent_clouds/

Ozone--The POLARIS mission http://cloud1.arc.nasa.gov/polaris -- seeking to understand the fundamental chemistry that dominates the naturally occuring seasonal reduction of ozone over the pole in the course of the Arctic summer. Part of NASA's Mission to Planet Earth, a long-term, internationally coordinated research effort to study the Earth as a global environmental system.

POLAR mission http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/polar/ -- has "sounds" of the magnetosphere.

Safe Solar Viewing

• Sunspotter http://www.starlab.com/

SOHO (Solar & Heliospheric Observatory) - http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/.

Solar Events -- http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/ and http://solarevents.org/

Solar Observatories

• Amateur Solar Observatory http://home.worldonline.nl/~slooten
• Big Bear http://www.bbso.njit.edu
• Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network http://bison.ph.bham.ac.uk
• Mees Solar Observatory http://www.solar.ifa.hawaii.edu/mees.html
• Mt. Wilson Observatory 150-ft Solar Tower http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~obs/intro.html
• National Solar Observatory http://www.nso.edu
• Sacramento Peak http://nsosp.nso.edu/
• SOHO (NASA-European Space Agency Solar Heliospheric Observatory) - http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/ or http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/lasco.htmlhttp://sci.esa.int
• Swedish 1-meter Solar Telescope (SST) These are the sharpest images ever gotten of the Sun, with images put together in QuickTime movies -- look at the "Color movie in quicktime format". It's half an hour of images put together into a few-seconds movie, and is stunning.

Solar Filters http://www.astro-physics.com/ Baader AstroSolar

SOLAR MUSIC - HELIOSEISMOLOGY Copyright 1996 National Optical Astronomy Observatories

Solar Terrestrial Dispatch http://solar.uleth.ca/solar/

Solscape -- http://www.stimpsoft.com/products/solscape.html -- a "Solar Data Browser" Mac application that grabs real time, up to the minute images of the Sun in multiple light wavelengths. Solscape also monitors current solar flare, geomagnetic, and Aurora activity, providing current Aurora Borealis information and warnings for your location, along with real time Aurora images when available. Solscape gets all of its information via the Internet and compiles it in a single, easy to use application. You can save and archive the data that Solscape collects for later use, and you can tell Solscape to automatically grab the data when you want.

Space Environment Center http://www.sec.noaa.gov/

Space Environment Primer http://sec.noaa.gov/primer/primer.html -- NOAA

Space Weather

• Website about the human impacts of space weather and solar storms. It deals at length with all of the many impacts that space weather has, with full documentation for the claims, and upcoming resources on current research. http://www.solarstorms.org and http://www.spaceweather.us.
• SOHO website - http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/ - Sunspots shown with scale Earth and Jupiter; Space Weather link also.
• Space Weather Center
• Space Weather Scales http://www.sec.noaa.gov/NOAAscales/index.html -- communicate to the general public the current and future space weather conditions and their possible effects on people and systems. The scales have numbered levels, analogous to hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes that convey severity, and describe the environmental disturbances for three event types: geomagnetic storms, solar radiation storms, and radio blackouts .

SPACECRAFT

• Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) http://www.srl.caltech.edu/ACE/ - to measure and compare the composition of several samples of matter, including the solar corona, the solar wind, and other interplanetary particle populations, the local interstellar medium (ISM), and galactic matter.
• GOES/POES http://goespoes.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Polar Operational Environmental Satelites (POES), Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES)
• Hinode (Sunrise) http://solarb.msfc.nasa.gov/ is a project to study the Sun, led by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in collaboration with NASA, the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC), and the European Space Agency (ESA). Hinode's three year mission is to explore the magnetic fields of the Sun, and improve our understanding of the mechanisms that power the solar atmosphere and drive solar eruptions.
• RHESSI http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/hessi/ - to understand the following processes that take place in the magnetized plasmas of the solar atmosphere during a flare: Impulsive energy release, Particle acceleration, Particle and energy transport. High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (HESSI).
• Solar and Heliospheric Observatory http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/
• Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/ is designed to help us understand the Sun's influence on Earth and Near-Earth space by studying the solar atmosphere on small scales of space and time and in many wavelengths simultaneously.
• Solar Sentinels http://sentinels.gsfc.nasa.gov/
• STEREO http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/ consists of two space-based observatories - one ahead of Earth in its orbit, the other trailing behind. With this new pair of viewpoints, scientist will be able to see the structure and evolution of solar storms as they blast from the Sun and move out through space.

Stanford Solar Center http://solar-center.stanford.edu/

Student Observation Network -- http://son.nasa.gov/ -- View live images of the Sun (click on the "Sun-Earth Viewer link near top left), watch interviews of scientists, track solar storms, live data links. Sun images and Earth images (e.g. for aurora) in various wavelengths.

Sun Dial Primer http://www.mysundial.ca/tsp/tsp_index.html

Sun Images and Data (at SOHO) http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/. There are also Sun images at http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~obs/intro.html

Sunspots

• Sunspot Index Data Center for the nine most recent months
• Sunspot numbers dating from 1818!
• Sunspot page at Exploratorium http://www.exploratorium.edu/sunspots/
• SOHO website - http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/ - Sunspots shown with scale Earth and Jupiter; Space Weather link also.

Sun--Virtual Sun http://www.astro.uva.nl/michielb/sun/kaft.htm

Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE)

X-ray Timing Explorer (XTE) (Goddard Space Flight Center)

Yohkoh Public Outreach Project (YPOP) contains more than 100 pages of vibrant images with current information and focuses on recent movies of the X-ray output of our Sun taken by the Yohkoh Satellite. The YPOP Movie Theater features today's images, electronic flip-books, educational activities, and the capability to make your own on-line movies of the Sun.

Yohkoh http://www.solar.isas.ac.jp/

Stardust--Project Stardust http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/ Comet sample return mission.