Summary EARTH UPDATE is an interactive, real-time display system of Earth images and data designed for Museums and Schools and available to the general public as a "museum in a case"! Running from the CD-ROM, the program displays hundreds of images and movies of the best of earth images and data, documented, with web references of how to find out more. Roughly 15% of the ... material represents "today's data" - weather maps, bioactivity maps, earthquake maps, etc. By copying the software onto a hard drive, you can see "today's data" by downloading today's images free from the internet with a single click. Museums can subscribe to our automatic updating service. Each of the submodules can be run separately, resulting in 6 different kiosks if desired. Over a million visitors have interacted with our software in museum and school settings. This powerful software suite is now available for purchase as a single CD which includes both Mac OSX and Windows (2000/XP) versions.
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Description:
Rice University in collaboration with Houston Museum of Natural Science created
Museum Teaching Planet Earth.
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Description:
Earth Update is an interactive, real-time display system of Earth images and
data designed for Museums and Schools and now available to the general public
as a "realtime museum on a disk"! Running from the CD-ROM, the program
displays hundreds of images and movies of the best of earth images and data,
documented, with live web links of how to find out more.
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Description:
Earth Update allows users to choose between:
Atmosphere
Biosphere
Cryosphere
Geosphere
Hydrosphere
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Description:
Houston Museum of Natural Science in collaboration with Rice University created
Museum Teaching Planet Earth.
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(Adapted from Public Connection home page)
We have created the "Public Connection" in collaboration with the Houston
Museum of Natural Science (HMNS), by developing interactive real-time displays
of real-time earth and space science data. The "Space Update" software has now
been fully field-tested by over 800,000 visitors and is available for purchase
for display at museums and schools! The all-new "Earth Update" software is also
ready for sale. This project was initially funded by NASA/Goddard's Digital
Library Technology Project and is now part of the Learning Technologies
Program. "Earth Update" is funded by NASA's Office of Earth Science. Our logo,
a 6-pointed star, is created from interlocking triangles. The silver triangle
symbolizes observing space from the Earth (the bottom point is man with two
upward arms reaching to the solar system on the left and the galaxy and beyond
on the right). The blue triangle symbolizes observing Earth from space (the top
point is a spacecraft viewing down to observe the curved Earth below). The
former symbolizes our "Space Update" software - the second, our "Earth Update"
software.
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Description:
Earth Update CD can be purchased here.
Name:
PATRICIA
REIFF
Phone:
(713)348-4634
Fax:
(713)348-5143
Email:
reiff at rice.edu
Email:
connect at space.rice.edu
Contact Address:
Rice Space Institute
6100 Main Street
MS - 108 City:
Houston
Province or State:
Texas
Postal Code:
77005-1892
Country:
USA
Distribution Media
Distribution_Media:
CD-ROM
Fees:
$15
Personnel
TYLER
B.
STEVENS Role:
SERF AUTHOR
Phone:
(301) 614-6898
Fax:
301-614-5268
Email:
Tyler.B.Stevens at nasa.gov
Contact Address:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Global Change Master Directory City:
Greenbelt
Province or State:
MD
Postal Code:
20771
Country:
USA
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