"Space Update is a must-have for science teachers."
--- Sky & Telescope, December 2003
PROJECT IN THE NEWS
"Earth's Wild Ride" getting rave reviews at HMNS and now available on our portable domes!

NOW SHOWING: "Lucy's Cradle" at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Come see Lucy, the amazing fossil whose first time out of Ethiopia is Houston! See how changes in Earth changed Earth's inhabitants! We now have created twelve fulldome digital shows, to play in our new "Discovery Dome", with airlock entry, that can come to your school by rentals from our 36 partners around the globe, or to purchase through our spinoff company, e-planetarium.com. Contact Tom Pham for Northeast area shows and system sales, for Northeast area shows and system sales, and Gary Paczosa for the rest of the country. All of our shows may be previewed in their entirety... see http://www.e-planetarium.com/shows.htm for a full listing.


ALL NEW 2008 EDITIONS

Bring the Museum Home!™ You can now have the experience of a major science museum on your own personal computer! The Rice Space Institute created the first online earth and space digital museum, on display at the Houston Museum of Natural Science (HMNS) (and at many other fine museums). It is now available for your home or school! Note: much of our material is available from our web site, but there's just too much to download - get it all on our CDs! Our software in written in Macromedia Director, so it's safe for an unattended school library, and yet you can update it with one click!

ALL NEW VERSION SPACE UPDATE 7!
FREE SPACE WEATHER CD with a COMBO PACK!
(for a limited time only)
2008 skymovies ready for free download!
Be sure to REGISTER YOUR CD to get FREE ONLINE UPGRADES!

Fill out a SPACE UPDATE or EARTH UPDATE satisfaction survey and qualify to win free software!


New!

Online SECURE ordering, including our NEW "Space Update", "Survey Software" and "Ham TicTacToe"!
Space Update Version 7 with 2008 Sky Maps is shipping now on CD and DVD with Cassini and Huygens images and Mars Rover images and VR's! See the Review in the Dec 2003 Sky and Telescope! Registered users can download free the 2006 sky movies to upgrade the edition you have now, BUT you'll want to get the all new edition for a very special upgrade price!
Mac OSX/Win 2000 or XP hybrid CD-Rom.

Earth Update Version 6 now shipping!
Mac OSX/Win 2000 or XP hybrid CD-Rom includes "Earth Squares" TIC-TAC-TOE Game, a new EASIER "Data Miner" game which maps data from the World Resources Institute, a "HOT SPOTS" game that allows you to find the Xtreme places on Earth, more Teacher Activities, regional and state weather maps selected during the installation process, highlighted word click for glossary definition, and MORE! A Spanish glossary and Spanish TicTacToe game is also now included on the CD!




Our Project Includes...
Space Update
  Four point-and-click Space Science modules (Sky Tonight, Solar System, Astronomy, and Space Weather), which can be run separately or as a single linked system. A click brings down the latest new images!
Earth Update
  The best of Earth science, updateable on demand (like a browser) but SAFE for unattended use in a museum or school. Organizes by "spheres" (atmosphere - air, biosphere - life, hydrosphere - water, geosphere - land, cryosphere - ice). Sample imagery from the CD can be viewed from our web site http://earth.rice.edu/mtpe/ spheres.html. FREE online Upgrades for Registered users!

Digital Immersive Planetarium Shows and Portable Theaters
  The most fun way to learn earth and space science by being surrounded by moving imagery! Students learn better because they actually experience the science! Check our portable planetarium site for our new shows and systems!

Project Director :  Patricia Reiff, Rice University 
Co-Director :  Carolyn Sumners (HMNS)
Chief Designer :  Colin Law
 


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The "Public Connection": is an outreach arm of the Rice Space Institute at Rice University in collaboration with the Houston Museum of Natural Science [ Project Director: Patricia Reiff ]. This project is funded by NASA as part of the Earth Science Information Partners, the IMAGE mission, and the Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling. . The project was originally part of NASA/Goddard's Digital Library Technology Program, and now is part of the Learning Technologies Program. We are now of part of DLESE (Digital Libraries for Earth Science Education).
connect@space.rice.edu

UPDATED: 01-19-07