Geographix **
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
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
EON
- Earth at night
APOD -Astronomy
photo of the day
Hubble-
hubble photos
Chandra-
xray photos
Map-
cosmic microwave background
And 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
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
BritannicaColumbia
- Information
Please -- 1911
- Encyclopedias
Translators
- Translating Dictionary
MeasureConversions
- Translating Dictionary
Proverbs
-
Idioms - WiseOld
- Russian
- AncientEpictetus
- Quotes, Sayings and Phrases
Name Servers
Zip code
server - Associates a zip code with and address
swhois
- loook up names in URL space
Elevation/Image/Map
Datasets
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
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