The “Global View of the Earth” Web site offers lesson plans and other material for middle school teachers interested in classroom use of images taken by NASA’s Landsat-7 satellite. Students learn about the spacecraft and try to identify “mystery” images–full-color, visible-light images of objects such as airports and bridges, as seen from Landsat more than 400 miles above.

Go to: http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/landsat7/teacherkit/index.html

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