-Miscellaneous Data

                                                                                
NASA discs:                                                                     
  Various discs available, including:  Voyager spacecraft images (12 discs,     
under $20 each!), Viking images of Mars, Magellan Venus data, Halley's          
comet data (25 discs), excerpts from astronomical catalogs, and more.           
  Contact:  NSSDC (NASA Space Science Data Center), Code 933.4, NASA            
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD  20771.  301/286-6695.  They         
also publish a free newsletter.                                                 
                                                                                
CD-ROM, INC:		*COMMERCIAL*                                                      
  Several hundred discs available, including:  "GRIPS 2" high resolution        
images of topography, Landsat, vegetation maps, plus software ($49),            
"JEDI" 3 discs full of earth, space, and sea science data intended for          
school use ($31), 13 business/economic discs, >50 literature and                
entertainment discs, >40 health-related discs, many science discs.              
Prices range from $29-$895.  Free catalog available from them.                  
  Contact:  CD-ROM, Inc, 1667 Cole Blvd. Suite 400, Golden, CO  80401.          
303/526-7600, FAX 303/231-9581.                                                 
                                                                                
Digital Chart of the World ($200):                                              
  The Digital Chart of the World (DCW) is a comprehensive 1:1,000,000-scale     
vector basemap of the world containing cartographic, attribute, and             
textual data.  It is provided with software that permits the database to        
be accessed, queried, and displayed on PC-class computers.  The primary         
source for the database is the U.S. Defense Mapping Agency (DMA) Operational    
Navigation Chart (ONC) series.                                                  
  There are 4 discs:   (1)North America, (2)Europe/Northern Asia, (3)South      
American/Africa/Antarctica, and (4)Southern Asia/Australia.  The data are       
organized into 17 thematic coverages, including political boundaries and        
ocean coast lines, cities, transportation networks, drainage, land cover,       
and elevation contours.                                                         
  Contact:  USGS Open File Section, Box 25286, Denver, CO  80225.               
303/236-7476.                                                                   
                                                                                
GOES Space Environment Data (price unknown):                                    
  This disk includes data from January 1986 - April 1994 in 1-minute and        
5-minute averages.  Includes measurements of the 3 components of the            
Earth's magnetic field, whole-sun X-ray fluxes for the 0.5-to-4.0 and           
1-to-8 Angstrom wavelength bands, photon, alpha particle, and electron fluxes.  
  The CD-ROM includes software to display and analyze the Space Environment     
Monitor data.  DOS and IDL (Interactive Data Language) versions of the          
software allow the use of data on many platforms.                               
  Contact:  Solar-Terrestrial Physics Division, National Geophysical Data       
Center, NOAA Code E/GC2, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO  80303.  303/497-6761,       
fax 303/497-6513, email goes@farpoint.ngdc.noaa.gov.                            
                                                                                
Windows on the Weather (price unknown):                                         
  This is an educational disc which allows the user to explore typical          
airmasses over Britain using satellite sequences, weather charts, weather       
data, pictures, diagrams, text and audio descriptions.  Samples from            
this disc can be seen at:                                                       
http://www.rmplc.co.uk/eduweb/sites/advunit/wow.html                            
  Contact:  The Advisory Unit computers inEducation, 126 Great North Road,      
Hatfield Herts, AL9 5JZ UK, email advunit@rmplc.co.uk                           
                                                                                
Landsat images ($10):				*COMMERCIAL*                                           
  Over 500 Landsat satellite images (JPG and GIF) from around the world,        
along with many Windows and DOS utilities for CAD and image processing,         
some educational games and a tutorial about LANDSAT satellites.                 
  Contact:  Intermountain Digital Imaging, LC, 275 East 200 South, Suite 15,    
Salt Lake City UT  84111.  801/355-4030, US toll-free 800/280-4030,             
fax 801/355-4063, email sales@idi-ut.com