NASA announced today a new web site dedicated to centralizing and enhancing information about their wide range of scientific missions and achievements.
They’ve done a good job of organizing and presenting information with enhanced links on the main page.
The main page contains links to:
- Interactive tables and searches for Earth, heliophysics, planetary and astrophysics missions;
- Insight into dark matter and dark energy, planets around other stars, climate change, Mars and space weather;
- Resources for researchers including links to upcoming science solicitations and opportunities;
- A mapping of science questions for NASA science missions and the data they produce;
- A citizen-scientist page with access to resources that equip the public to engage in scientific investigation;
- Expanded “For Educators” and “For Kids” pages to provide access to a broader range of resources for learning the science behind NASA missions;
- Easy-to-navigate design and an improved search engine to help find information;
The site can be found at: http://nasascience.nasa.gov .
A nicely laid out site map that shows all the available links is: http://nasascience.nasa.gov/sitemap .
April 11, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Wow – this new site is really cool. It’s much more fun and engaging when pages are full of animations and flashy graphics, and so on. And of course the information itself is great as well. I like the pop-up search thing as well.
Thanks for pointing this new site out Bill – I’d have missed it otherwise. The whole of NASA.gov seems to be getting better since they relaunched it a few months ago.
April 11, 2008 at 1:13 pm
It is rather nice. I really like the graphics too. They have so many projects and missions going on that centralizing the links in one site makes it very convenient.