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Observation of the Week Archive

1999 || 1998 || 1997 || 1996 || 1995


 
 
Earth Sciences -- 1996
 
December 18 El Niņo -- The "Christ Child"
December 11 Live from Antarctica 2
October 29 The Santa Ana and Wildfires
October 23 Radar Views of the Earth
October 9 Space-Based Radar, Typhoons, and Weather Forecasting
October 2 The Ultimate Field Trip (Astronauts' view of the Earth)
August 30 Where There's Smoke . . . (California forest fire)
August 28 Sunrise from Space
August 14 Southern Light Show
July 24 Volcanoes, Typhoons, and Acid Rain
July 17 New Zealand's Ruapehu Volcano Blows Its Top
June 19 Seafloor Exposed by Navy Satellite
June 5 Space Radar Spies Great Wall
May 15 A Link Between Lightning and Tornadoes?
May 8 Logging Activities in the US Northwest
April 24 Bringing a Superfund Site into Focus
April 10 Scars of an Ancient Continental Collision
March 13 Red Sprites and Blue Jets
February 28 That's One Big Baby! (The calving of an iceberg in Antarctica)
January 17 Rumbles on Mt. Etna

Sun and Solar System -- 1996
 
November 13 Music from the Sun
November 6 Live from Mars
October 16 The Saturn Family Portrait
September 25 Billions of Icy Bodies Beyond Neptune (Objects of the Kuiper Belt)
September 18 Happy Discovery Day, Neptune!
September 11 The Key to Predicting Magnetic Storms? (Mass ejections from the Sun's corona)
August 7 Shower of Shooting Stars
July 10 Viking on Mars -- 20 Years Ago
May 29 The Garcia Asteroid -- A Long Strange Trip Continues (Honoring Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia)
May 22 Volcanic Io
May 1 The Lunar Surface in 3-D
April 17 A Snapshot of the Sun's Magnetic Field
March 20 Brightest Comet in 20 Years to Pass Earth this Weekend (Comet Hyakutake)
March 8 Pluto's Surface Exposed for the First Time
February 14 Venus--The Goddess of Beauty and Love
February 7 NEAR to Near Asteroid
January 31 A Cloudy Day in Space (A Solar Magnetic Cloud approaches Earth)

Stars, Galaxies, Universe -- 1996
 
December 4 Globular Star Clusters -- Relics from the Distant Past
November 27 Nova Cygni 1992
November 20 Galaxies under Construction
September 4 Cosmic Collision
August 21 Where's All the Matter in the Universe?
July 3 Surfing at Half the Speed of Light!
June 26 When the Sun Dies, Will It Look Like This?
April 3 A Strange New Neighbor in Our Galaxy (Discovery of an X-ray and gamma ray pulsar)
March 27 A Supermassive Black Hole
January 18 Far Out! The Most Distant Galaxies in the Universe
January 10 A Cosmic Lens
January 3 A New Planet (Discovery of a planet around star 51 Pegasi)

Education -- 1996
 
October 30 Women of NASA
July 31 Hello, Shuttle, this is the sixth grade calling. Over?
June 12 Nation's Science Museums -- Wired
March 6 Live from the Hubble Space Telescope

Technology -- 1996
 
February 21 The Gemini Project--A Pair of Giant Eyes (Construction of two 8-meter telescopes)
January 24 The Fast Lane for Images on the Internet

Observatorium Greetings -- 1996
 
December 24 Season's Greetings


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