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Title:

SIR-C Education Program Pre-Launch CD-ROM

Source:

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, California

Description:

NASA-JPL has prepared this CD-ROM educational package entitled The SIR-C Education Program (SIR-CED) as a two-three week module for middle school and high school students.

SIR-C stands for Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C and is the acronym used for a radar instrucment built to fly on the Space Shuttle. SIR-C is combined with another imaging radar called the X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar or X-SAR. Information about this instruments and how they are used is presented on the CD-ROM.

A variety of images which can be display on a Macintosh, PC, or Unix workstation are included on the CD-ROM along with extensive documentation.