by Barbaree | Apr 3, 2012 | Free Resources, Our Blog
Image courtesy Science/AAAS – The moon\’s magnetic rocks are pictured to the left in dark red. Unlike Earth, the moon has no global magnetic field, but patches of the satellite\’s surface are magnetic. According to new models, these unusually...
by Barbaree | Apr 2, 2012 | Free Resources, Our Blog
We always get questions from teachers and students on matching career paths with majors, so when we ran across this great career matching tool from ESRI, we knew we had to share!
by Barbaree | Mar 28, 2012 | Free Resources, Our Blog
The night sky seems unchanging to the naked eye, but beauty is hidden beyond the limits of unaided human perception. As Earth rotates, the sky moves, revealing astronomical events that only time-lapse photography – a series of exposures lasting for minutes...
by Barbaree | Mar 27, 2012 | Free Resources, GIS Happenings, Our Blog
Ten years ago this March, the European Space Agency launched an 8-ton satellite called Envisat that would deliver back to Earth some of the most beautiful images of our planet taken from space. Since then, Envisat has orbited Earth more than 50,000 times and has lived...
by Barbaree | Mar 26, 2012 | Free Resources, Our Blog
“Just like the advent of radiocarbon dating, LiDAR will have the same impact” proclaimed archaeologist Chris Fisher. LiDAR, or “light detection and ranging,” acts as a sort of radar with light, painting the target area with lasers and recording the time it takes to...
by Barbaree | Mar 22, 2012 | Free Resources, Our Blog
An Indiana University geophysical experiment detected unusual seismic signals associated with tornadoes that recently struck regions across the Midwest – information that may have value for meteorologists studying the atmospheric activity that precedes tornado...
