April 16, 2005

The Haughton-Mars Project
http://www.marsonearth.org/

This is yet another interesting and highly informative site by Nasa, which focuses on a current project being carried out near the Arctic circle. This project aims at testing, on Earth, conditions which may exist on Mars. The site combines different links, with each one highlighting its special significance in the Nasa’s HMP analogue exploration programme near Haughton Crater, and is marked by an Inukshuk, a traditional Inuit “stone person.” Overall, this is an interesting and informative website.

Explore the periodic table
http://www.chemicool.com/

Created by David D. Hsu of MIT, Chemicool aims at helping out anyone involved in chemistry. It provides extensive data on the elements and periodic table. Not only this, but it also packs general information, energies, oxidation, characteristics, reactions, conductivity and property graphs in its pages. Due to the remarkable information and presentation of facts, the site has earned many laurels including being declared one of “Ten Cool Sites” for Exploratorium Learning Studio’s best in science and art.

Interactive solar system
http://www.troybrophy.com/projects/solarsystem/index.html

You must have read about plastic models of the solar system in science classrooms, which represented the distance between the sun and revolving planets. But you won’t really understand what that means until you check out this amazing page. An interesting feature of this website is that it represents both size and distance to scale. It’s simply awesome and you must visit it.

Discover the science behind news
http://whyfiles.org/

Here’s another excellent and informative site, which provides an in-depth insight into the progress, explorations and discoveries made in the world of science. The “In brief” section gives you a taste of some exciting discoveries. “In the news” section showcases other science stories. Not only that, but you will also find an archive of stories about health, physical science and environment.

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