Bringing the Universe to America's Classrooms
(OBS) Illuminating Earth over a Year

Credits

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The material contained in this product is based upon work supported by NASA under cooperative agreement award No. NNX16AD71A.  Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

 

  • Page 01: Warm Summer Day - Image

    ©2018 WGBH Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved. Stockphoto Mania/Fotolia

  • Page 01: Cold Winter Day - Image

    ©2018 WGBH Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved. Kiravolkov/Fotolia

  • Page 02: June in New York City - Image

    ©2018 WGBH Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved. Touch/Fotolia

  • Page 02: June in Melbourne - Image

    ©2018 WGBH Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved. AndreaBordonali/Fotolia

  • Page 02: December in New York City - Image

    ©2018 WGBH Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved. Kandoolapitou/Fotolia

  • Page 02: December in Melbourne - Image

    ©2018 WGBH Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved. Friedberg/Fotolia

  • Page 03: Daylight Data for New York City - Image

    ©2018 WGBH Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

  • Page 03: Daylight Data for Melbourne - Image

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  • Page 04: Daylight Graphs for New York City and Melbourne - Image

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  • Page 05: Polar Perspective of Earth's Orbit - Image

    ©2018 WGBH Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved. Adapted from the resource, "Earth's lopsided orbit," from NASA's Space Place, Science Mission Directorate/JPL. 

  • Page 06: Earth at Four Points Orbit - Arrange It

    ©2018 WGBH Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

  • Page 06: Blue Marble Showing North America - Image

    No copyright, in the public domain. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Image by Reto Stöckli (land surface, shallow water, clouds). Enhancements by Robert Simmon (ocean color, compositing, 3D globes, animation). Data and technical support: MODIS Land Group; MODIS Science Data Support Team; MODIS Atmosphere Group; MODIS Ocean Group Additional data: USGS EROS Data Center (topography); USGS Terrestrial Remote Sensing Flagstaff Field Center (Antarctica); Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (city lights).

  • Page 07: Earth in June - Image

    ©2018 WGBH Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved. AndreaBordonali/Fotolia, Touch/Fotolia

  • Page 07: Earth in December - Image

    ©2018 WGBH Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved. Friedberg/Fotolia; Kandoolapitou/Fotolia

  • Page 08: Earth in Orbit

    Produced by California Academy of Sciences

    ; Seasons © 2018 California Academy of Sciences

  • Page 09: Earth at Four Points Orbit - Arrange It

    ©2018 WGBH Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

  • Page 09: Polar Perspective of Earth's Orbit - Image

    ©2018 WGBH Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved. Adapted from the resource, "Earth's lopsided orbit," from NASA's Space Place, Science Mission Directorate/JPL. 

  • Page 10: Daylight Graphs for New York City and Melbourne - Image

    ©2018 WGBH Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

  • Page 10: Summer and Winter Daylight in Boston

    Adapted from ThinkSpace | Seasons Curriculum, produced by World Wide Telescope.

    ; ©2017-2018 World Wide Telescope

  • Page 11: Earth at Four Points Orbit - Arrange It

    ©2018 WGBH Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved.