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Current Explorations

Mars Rover - current pics from the Mars Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity

Current Data

solar - current positions of the planets
asteroids - current positions

sun - current solar images
space - current spaceweather
aurora - current aurora
satellite - current earth orbit satellites
meteors - current earth meteors

volcanos- current world
waves, surf - current pacific, santa cruz waves
earthquakes - current world quakes
satbay- current weather photos
radar- current bay area radar
rain- current bay area storm rainfall totals
traffic - bay area traffic
air - bay area air araffic
roads- road conditions
alert- emergency alerts
sc-com- santa cruz jobs by company
movies- santa cruz movies

Business Locator

Super Pages -yellow pages online with maps
Thomas Registery -business in the USA
Amazon - Books
Fry's - Electronics
Costco - Whatever

Viewers

earthviewer- zoom around the world in 3D to 10 cm resolution. Download the the trial now

earthetc- tera-bytes of earth images to roam with ERviewer, or your browser - index
flight- a wonderful glider program lets you soar over topographies - download some terrains here
Cortona- a VRML viewer to fly/walk/examine 3D worlds. Then checkout Vladimir's worlds
Chime- a superb molecular viewer. Then try some tutorials

ImageServers

Terraserver- Microsoft's free image server of 1 meter USGS photography

SDSSsky- sky from SDSS scroll
virtualsky- the sky at 1 arc second
SDSS - the Sloan optical survey to .5 arc-sec
2MASS- 2 arc-sec 2um sky survey
SeaWifs - a 4 Km image of of the each each day
Map-a-planet - Images of the planets at up to 40 meter resolution
MOC- image server
MontereyBay - sonar images
California Coast - the entire coastline from a helicopter each about 100 m wide

Just Images

whole earth, BlueMarble - the entire earth at 1Km

EON - Earth at night
APOD -Astronomy photo of the day
Hubble- hubble photos
Chandra- xray photos
Map- cosmic microwave background

And Maps

Topozone - Topo maps

NatGeo - maps

UT- map collection
Geology- US map collection
Geology- Ca map collection

Image BBS

Earthviewer- Keyhole's BBS with lots of fun links to earthviewer viewpoints

Information Servers

mapquest - maps

NatGeo - map maker
Tiger - US census map server
Enviromapper - environmental hazards map
USGS - USGS map maker minerals, geology, geophysics
cornell - Cornell map maker minerals, geology, geophysics

Ecology - ecology maps
SC's best - the best stuff in Santa Cruz

Reference Servers

Webster's , Your , Cambridge - Dictionary

Biographical - Biographies
Online - Etymology
Britannica Columbia - Information Please -- 1911 - Encyclopedias
Translators - Translating Dictionary
MeasureConversions - Translating Dictionary
Proverbs - Idioms - WiseOld - Russian - Ancient Epictetus - Quotes, Sayings and Phrases

Name Servers

USGS name server -The names of earth's rivers and mountains ...

Zip code server - Associates a zip code with and address
swhois - loook up names in URL space

Elevation/Image/Map Datasets

USGS Seamless-10, 30m elevation data for the US

West US - DEMs
BARD - bay area data
Utah - quads, topo, dem
Calif - quads , topo , dem
Idaho - quads, topo , dem
GTOPO30- 1Km DEM
Topex- 1 Km Earth bathymetric elevation data
MOLA - .5Km Mars elevation data
GTDR- 4Km venus elevation data - use 3DEM to read
CEPS- 1Km lunar elevation data
CEPS- Mercury

Topo/ photo editors

3DEM - get topo data, export it as images, and layer images on top of it. Use this to create soaring terrains.

irfanview- a nice simple image editor with a million formats
gimp- an open free photoshop like image editor

Geometric Worlds Objects in VRML

Polyhedra - Kaleidoscopes-- eggs from Vladimir Bulatov.

3D object search- search the web for 3D models of objects

Molecules in Chime

Viper - The virus database.

PDB - The protein database.

wellesley- quite a few molecules organized alphabetically
porphyrins- some porphyrins
lattice- crystal packing schemes
zeolites- Zeolite packing's
networks- Molecular networks
electronic- Electronic Molecules

Bioinformatics

Bio Links - Bioinformatics links
Jpred - Structure server
Swiss Prot - Everything from pdb's to structures

Politics

Data - Political data

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