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View Resource International Solar-Terrestrial Physics Science Initiative

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) of Japan have collaborated to make available the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Science Initiative. The ISTP Science initiative has five primary objectives. For example, the initiative seeks to "determine structure and dynamics in...

https://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/misc/istp_project.html
View Resource NASA Sun Earth Media Viewer: Live Solar Images

Developed jointly by NASA and the University of California at Berkeley, this elegant site allows the general public to look at a number of truly astonishing images of the sun, as rendered from various telescopes and other image-capturing devices such as NASA's Image Spacecraft. On the main page, there are twelve different views (all updated daily). Visitors can zoom in and out around areas of...

http://ds9.ssl.berkeley.edu/viewer/flash/flash.html
View Resource Stanford SOLAR Center

The Stanford Solar Center is a project of the Solar Oscillations Investigation Team at Stanford and "is dedicated to sharing the joy and excitement of solar science exploration by providing hands-on web-based activities." Several quality educational lesson plans are provided on the site with titles such as Effects of the Sun on Our Planet, Build a Spectroscope, What is Ultraviolet Light?, The...

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/
View Resource Student Observation Network: Tracking a Solar Storm

At this NASA website, students and educators can find numerous materials on the changes in the activity of the sun. The site is divided into four topics: sunspotters, radio waves, magnetosphere, and auroral friends. Within each of these components, users can find fun and educational activities as well as information and data from observatories and satellites. For instance, in the Sunspotters link,...

https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/son/home/index.ht...
View Resource The Michelson Doppler Imager

A joint effort of the Solar Oscillations Investigations (SOI) at Stanford University and the Lockheed-Martin Advanced Technology Center, the Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) is aboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft and assists in collecting data of the interior structure and dynamics of the sun. Users can find information on the instrument observable and the nature of the...

http://soi.stanford.edu/