The Space Sciences Lab HELP Page

Navigating Space Science Lab Pages
Space Sciences Related Links

Navigating our Pages: | Just Surfin' | Students | Researchers | SSL Employees |

Just Surfin': Welcome! The Space Sciences Laboratory is a NASA group that performs basic scientific research in the fields of astronomy, low-gravity science (industry and biophysics in space), and Earth Science. Read on...

Students: Our home page shows the major fields of the space sciences we do. They are Earth Science, the Sun/Earth Connection, Astronomy, and Low-Gravity Science. Click on the Earth from the home page, for example, and we show the branches of Earth Science that we do. One more click and we explain what we study and why it's important. One more click below that will get you to the researchers pages. At that point, we can't guarantee you'll understand everything you see!

We are building a series of tutorials based on our research in astronomy, Earth science, and low-gravity science. Take a look here for help on some space sciences concepts.

If you're interested in becoming a scientist, you'll be happy to know that scientists don't wear short pants, glasses, and pocket protectors. (Okay, okay - MOST scientists don't ...) SSL researchers come from all parts of the planet and have all kinds of backgrounds. If you want to see if we have any scientists from your state, try the hometown page, or for more personal stories, try the people page.

Researchers: Hit the "access by organization" button on the home page for division/discipline related information. The "research" button on the home page provides a table of contents for links to research topics, and also to various scientific abstract searches available to the public.

SSL Employees: Hit the "access by organization" button on the home page for division related information. Put a bookmark to "SSL IntrAnet Pages " for quick access to meeting announcements, proposal opportunities and information, and computer services. A Marshall domain userid and password is required to access the SSL IntrAnet.

Space Sciences Related Educational Links

• Space Sciences Tutorials: Overviews of various science topics directly related to Space Sciences Laboratory research
  
  
• Space Sciences Glossary: Selected terms from Space Science Laboratory tutorials and articles.
  
  
• Curator's favorite space images:

Johnson Space Center Digital Image Collection images from manned spacecraft
Hubble Space Telescope Images images from the world's largest space telescope
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Planetary Collection NASA's best images from the planetary exploration program
NASA Public Photo Gallery All the above and more
6/19/97: NASA Langley Image Scanning, Archival, and Retrieval
6/19/97: The NASA Image eXchange (NIX) a first attempt at tying all NASA's online photo archives together. Still incomplete, but growing

• Spacelink: NASA educational information for teachers and students
  
  
• NASA Thesaurus: Need another word for "thioplastics?". Look up your favorite words or phrases in NASA's online thesaurus, a combination thesaurus and dictionary for scientific and technical terms.
  
  
• Online Dictionary: Look up a term - scientific or not - in Carnegie Mellon University's online Webster dictionary interface. This service also includes a thesaurus. Very useful and fast. (Forms-capable browser needed.)
  
  
• General Services: On line information on a variety of subjects provided by the Marshall Space Flight Center.

Curator/Author: Bryan Walls
NASA Official: John M. Horack

last update: June 17, 1997