Presentation at the Fall 2009 Meeting of the American Geophysical Union
Windows to the Universe staff member Randy Russell presented a talk at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in December 2009 in San Francisco. The talk was presented as part of session ED54A - Simulations, Animations, and Interactive Multimedia for Planetary Sciences Teaching and Learning. The title of the talk was "Interactives: Comets, Orbital Motions, and Virtual Ballooning to Explore Planetary Atmospheres".
Follow the links below to view interactives and animations highlighted in the talk:
- Comets - orbits and tails
- Comet interactive
- Animation of SOHO coronagraph images of Comet NEAT near the Sun in February 2003 (web page | animation)
- Orbit shapes and orbital motion animations/interactives
- Orbit Shapes Interactive
- Perihelion and Aphelion
- Elliptical Orbits (animated GIF - complements interactives)
- Eccentricity (animated GIF - complements interactives)
- Mars Orbit and Opposition (interactive)
- Virtual Ballooning (on Earth and other planets/moons)











