These images are in the TIFF format and can be opened with NIH Image (Macintosh®) or Scion Image (Windows®). Click the thumbnail image to see a larger version of the image. Click on the image's name to save a copy of the image, stack or folder to your hard drive. Some images or folders are compressed using Stuffit Deluxe™ and can be expanded using Stuffit Expander™, free for Windows® and Macintosh® users from the Aladdin Systems site.
Basketball Stack:
This set of images, from the activity "Basketball Ballistics," is a seven-slice animation stack showing a portion of the trajectory of a basketball free throw. (Courtesy of John Morrow, University of Arizona)
Digital Elevation Models:
This folder contains two Digital Elevation Models (DEMs). The first shows a portion of the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam called Marble Canyon. This image has been calibrated for elevation. As you move the cursor around the image, the Info window reports the calibrated pixel value in feet above sea level. The second image shows the State of Colorado and the surrounding terrain. This image is not calibrated. (Courtesy of the United States Geological Survey and Larry Kendall, University of Arizona)
Fire Hydrant:
This image shows how everyday objects can become the source of fun investigations in mathematics and science. The fire hydrant image is from the "Going in Circles" activity, in which students measure and explore circles to develop an understanding of pi. (Courtesy of Larry Kendall, University of Arizona)
Galileo Earth:
These images show the Earth as seen by the Galileo spacecraft in December of 1993. The three images were taken through colored filters which allow us to reconstruct the approximate colors of the original scene. To create the color reconstruction, you will need to open the images in the order Red, Green, then Blue. Create a stack of the images by choosing Stacks/Windows to Stack. These three separate "channels" of color information can be combined to form a color image by choosing Stacks/RGB to 8-bit Color. Antarctica is the large white mass near the bottom of the globe, with South America filling most of its center. (Courtesy of NASA)
Head MRI (T1):
This image is a T1 phase Magnetic Resonance Image of a normal adult male head. No physiological abnormalities are visible in this image. (Courtesy of Julia Heisler Indik, University of Arizona)
Horsehead Nebula. (Courtesy of NASA)
Hurricane Andrew:
This set of infrared weather satellite images shows North America on August 25, 1992. These images can be stacked and animated using the commands under the Stacks menu. Among other phenomena, they show the movement of Hurricane Andrew in the Gulf of Mexico. (Courtesy of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
Karyotype:
This folder contains two images. The first is a partial karyotype (arrangement of the chromosomes of an organism or species according to a standard format), and the second contains the chromosomes required to complete the karyotype by cutting or copying and pasting into the karyotype. (Courtesy of Cytogenetics Lab, University of Arizona)
Mariner 10 (Mercury):
This image shows a compressional faulting feature on the surface of the planet Mercury, as seen by the Mariner 10 spacecraft. The salt-and-pepper appearance of the image is caused by noise (static) in the radio transmission from the spacecraft. (Courtesy of NASA)
Mars 3-D:
This pair of images can be used to create a 3-D image for viewing with special red/blue glasses. The resulting image shows an erosional feature on the surface of Mars that has been interpreted as being formed by flowing water. The images were taken by the Viking Orbiter spacecraft. (Courtesy of NASA and the University of Arizona)
Metaphase color:
This image shows a stained cross section of plant cells, showing their nuclei in various stages of cell division. (Courtesy of Deborah Alongi, CIPE)
Onion Root Tip:
This image shows a cross section of onion root tip, showing cells in various stages of mitosis. (Courtesy of Scott Greenhalgh, Tempe High School, Tempe, Arizona)
Shoemaker/Levy:
These images of Comet Shoemaker/Levy-9 show the impact of fragments of the comet with the planet Jupiter in July of 1994. The first image shows a series of images, taken through different filters and several minutes apart, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. The second image is made up of a sequence of sixteen separate frames, which can be turned into an animation showing the impact of one of the comet fragments. (Courtesy of the Space Telescope Science Institute and the South African Astronomical Observatory)
Silversword DNA Fingerprint:
This image shows a DNA "fingerprint" of sixteen native Hawaiian Silversword plants, to show the genetic variation within a population. (Courtesy of Deborah Alongi, CIPE)
Sine Wave:
This is a synthetic image, generated by a macro within NIH Image. (Courtesy of National Institutes of Health)
Solar Eclipse (July 11, 1991):
This weather satellite image, taken on July 11, 1991, shows the umbra (shadow) of the Moon passing over Mexico during a total solar eclipse. (Courtesy of NOAA)
Spandex (SEM):
This Scanning Electron Microscope image shows the synthetic fibers of spandex fabric weave. (Courtesy of Arizona Materials Lab, University of Arizona)
TOMS Data:
This image shows a monthly average of the ozone concentration over Antarctica for October 1989, as recorded by the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) instrument aboard the Nimbus-7 weather satellite. This instrument provides daily ozone maps of Earth's atmosphere. This image is calibrated to read in Dobson Units. (Courtesy of NOAA)
Velcro in Action (SEM):
This Scanning Electron Microscope image shows the action of common hook and loop fastener material. (Courtesy of David Bentley, University of Arizona)
These images are ©1995 Center for Image Processing in Education and The Arizona Board of Regents. They are intended for demonstration and evaluation purposes only, and may not be distributed, reproduced, or transmitted in any form without the written consent of the Center for Image Processing in Education.
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