NASA Images, created through a Space Act Agreement between NASA and the Internet Archive, offers public access to NASA's image, video, and audio collections in a single, searchable online resource.
So what do you do when you’ve found content on NASA Images perfect for a course, study aid, presentation, or paper? Make use of it. Create a Media Group with it. Create a Presentation with it, and then link to that Media Group or Presentation. Make use of the content you discover on NASA Images, and then share what you’ve created! In this weeks How-To we will explain how you can create collections of your favorite images (Media Groups) and Presentations right from NASA Images, so you can share all of that content you’ve been collecting with your class, friends, or colleagues.
With the tools on nasaimages.org you can go beyond exporting and attaching objects in emails. Use the Web 2.0 tools we have built into NASA Images to make sharing your select content as easy as copying and pasting a URL. Our tools are dynamic, so if you create a link to a Media Group and then make edits to that Media Group you don’t have to worry about running around and updating that URL- it’s already been done. So link and embed to your hearts content. Read the rest of this entry for more information.
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Check out the free NASA Images iPhone App, a window to the content available on nasaimages.org. With the app you can access the entire NASA Images library from your iPhone along with the metadata for each image, video, and animation.
The NASA Images app delivers the following features:
-Search and browse media from nasaimages.org
-View images with interactive zoom (zoom images by double taps)
It’s been another productive month here at nasaimages.org. From new content updates to the NASA-produced Public Service Announcement promoting nasaimages.org, there is plenty of exciting new content to explore. Here’s the update in-case you missed anything:
-Explore thousands of new images and video uploaded in October to our updated Featured Collections.
-We have almost completed the RSS backlog of NASA image galleries, which means we’re ready to keep current with NASA’s Image of the Day and new mission galleries on a weekly basis.
-There is a new NASA-produced Public Service Announcement (PSA) promoting nasaimages.org. The PSA is being shown hourly on NASA TV and at NASA public outreach events. View the video in our previous post.
-We have a new monthly blogging schedule that will include Monthly Reports, How-to’s, and New Content, so this is the spot for all news concerning new content on nasaimages.org.
-NASA Images was included in the Stem Connections Newsletter, a newsletter published by the International Technology Education Association for technology and engineering education professionals.
Check back next week to learn how to make the most out of sharing content you find on nasaimages.org!
Here’s a NASA-produced Public Service Announcement (PSA) promoting nasaimages.org. The PSA is being shown hourly on NASA TV and at NASA public outreach events.
It can be overwhelming to have more than 200,000 NASA-related media files at your fingertips when all you are looking for is a specific aerial shot of the 2009 Australia bushfires, or an animation illustrating a gamma-ray burst, or if you have no idea what you are looking for at all. Today’s how-to will explain how NASA Images’ search engine operates and how you can use it to sort through the wealth of content on nasaimages.org.
We’re used to having information at our fingertips: enter a keyword and get pages of results. NASA Images’ keyword search works much like any search engine, making use of adding variables like “And” , “or”, “equals”, and “”, and also supports the use of “wildcard” characters. But if you want to go deeper than a simple keyword search, then the Advance Search is the tool for you. Take advantage of the speed list results and pinpoint the exact objects you’re looking for. Don’t know what you are looking for? Learn how to use NASA Images’ browsing features to discover new material you didn’t even know existed! Read the rest of this entry »
This week we have nine new galleries which means about 500 new images, Including this beautiful ASTER image of Morenci open-pit copper mine in southeast Arizona:
ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) is an imaging instrument flying on Terra, a satellite launched in December 1999 as part of NASA’s Earth Observing System (EOS).
Below are links to view the Stennis Space Center Institutional Collection, learn about SOFIA (NASA’s new world-class airborne observatory currently in development), view images of the Kepler launch, check out featured images from the Glenn Research Center, or study rare celestial events in the Solar System Eclipse Image Gallery, such as The Rare Venus Transit:
It has been a busy month at NASA Images! Here is what we have been up to:
-We have been busy updating the software that powers our site. This means faster performance, improved searching, and new tools, such as the ability to add annotations to items in media groups. (More to come about these improvements in a future post.)
-You can now follow us on Twitter, where we like to expose hidden treasures from NASA Images.
-We are in the process of uploading a new batch of LCROSS-related material, which will be available soon.
NASA Images, created through a Space Act Agreement between NASA and the Internet Archive, offers public access to NASA's image, video, and audio collections in a single, searchable online resource.
