Space images and archaeology (fwd)

Hugh W Jarvis (hjarvis@ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU)
Tue, 16 May 1995 20:05:09 -0400

A little long but potentially very useful! (Sorry for those who already
saw it on arch-l).

Hugh

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Subject: Space images and archaeology

The enclosed list may be of use to archaeologists in terms of keeping up to
date with radar imaging of archaeological sites...

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Subject: Space www pages
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From: Van Sellars <vsellars@sfasu.edu>

Declassified Intelligence Satellite Photographs
http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/dclass/dclass.html

Earth Viewer
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html

Comet Shoemaker-Levy Collision with Jupiter
http://newproducts.jpl.nasa.gov/s19/s19.html

Jet Propulsion Laboratory
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/

National Aeronautics and Space Administration World Wide Web (WWW)
information services
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/NASA_homepage.html

National Air and Space Museum
http://ceps.nasm.edu:2020/NASMpage.html

Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/jsc/home.html

NASA - JSC Imagery Services Branch - Digital Image Collection
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/html/home.htm

Space Telescope Science Institute WWW Server
http://marvel.stsci.edu/top.html

Welcome to the Planets
http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/

The Nine Planets
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html

The "Face on Mars"
http://barsoom.msss.com/education/facepage/face.html

Spacelab Homepage
http://hvsun21.mdc.com:8000/~mosaic/spacelab.html

The European Space Information System
http://mesis.esrin.esa.it/html/esis.html

Space Camp
http://www.traveller.com/spacecamp/

Marshall Space Flight Center's WWW
http://www.msfc.nasa.gov/

NASA Center home pages:
http://www.msfc.nasa.gov/online/msfc/nasacenters.html

Space Resources
http://www.astro.nwu.edu/lentz/space/home-space.html

Imaging Radar Home Page
http://southport.jpl.nasa.gov/

images
ftp://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/pub/images/
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Compilation copyright (c) 1994 by Jonathan P. Leech. This document may
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NASA Headquarters (NASA HQ)
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NASA Ames Research Center (ARC)
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Some aeronautical research, atmosphere reentry, Mars and Venus
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Earth orbiting unmanned satellites and sounding rockets. Developed
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
California Institute of Technology
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vehicles.

NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
Huntsville, AL 35812
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CANADA
J3Y 8Y9

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2, place Maurice Quentin
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DARA (GERMAN SPACE AGENCY)
Koenigswinterer Strasse 522-524
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GERMANY

EARTH OBSERVATION SATELLITE COMPANY (EOSAT)
7500 Forbes Boulevard
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8-10, rue Mario-Nikis
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http://www.esrin.esa.it/

NATIONAL SPACE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (NASDA)
World Trade Center Building
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JAPAN
asuzuki@rd.tksc.nasda.go.jp (Public Relations Office)

NPO ENERGIA (Washington office)
Email: energia@delphi.com

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42 Schepkin street
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RUSSIA

SOYUZKARTA
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RUSSIA

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Registration and mailing list are handled through Huntsville -- both
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Programs offered at Space Camp are:

Space Camp - one week, youngsters completing grades 4-6
Space Academy I - one week, grades 7-9
Aviation Challenge - one week high school program, grades 9-11
Space Academy II - 8 days, college accredited, grades 10-12
Adult Program - 3 days (editorial comment: it's great!)
Teachers Program - 5 days

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504 Pluto Drive 69th flr, Texas Commerce Tower
Colorado Springs, CO 80906 Houston, TX 77002
(719)-578-5490 (713)-227-9000

SPACEHAB
David A. Rossi
1215 Jefferson Davis Highway, Suite 1501
Arlington, VA 22202 USA
(FAX) (703)-414-8107 (703)-414-8100
darossi@aol.com
http://hvsun4.mdc.com:1025/SPACEHAB/SPACEHAB.html

SPACE INDUSTRIES, INC.
101 Courageous Dr. 711 W. Bay Area Blvd. #320
League City, TX 77573 Webster, TX 77598
(713) 538-6000

I'm not certain which of these two addresses is correct.

SPOT IMAGE CORPORATION
1857 Preston White Drive,
Reston, VA 22091
(FAX) (703)-648-1813 (703)-620-2200


OTHER COMMERCIAL SPACE BUSINESSES

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_________________________________________________________________
From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)
Newsgroups: sci.astro,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: SIR-C Image of the Western Pacific Ocean Available
Date: 5 May 1995 01:05 UT
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A newly processed image from the Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/
X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR) mission that flew
on the space shuttle last year is now available at JPL's public
information online site.

The new image of the western Pacific Ocean is available
from JPL's World Wide Web home page, http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/,
from the "News flashes" menu.

The image is also available via anonymous ftp to
ftp.jpl.nasa.gov under the following path/filenames:

/pub/images/browse/sc-rain.gif 278K Western Pacific Ocean
/pub/images/hi-res/p45599.tif 20 MB Hi-res of above (note size!)
/pub/images/hi-res/p45599.txt 3K Caption for above

The files are also available from JPL's dialup BBS system at
+1 (818) 354-1333 in the libraries IMAGES and HI-RES.

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From: Lisa Smith <lsmith@eos.hitc.com>
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