Students investigated what faults look like when viewed from space. They looked at several images of faults taken from the space shuttle and obtained from the EarthRise database. The students used a number of maps and diagrams to determine what was happening, tectonically, in each image. Above, students identifyed the San Andreas Fault which passes through Point Reyes in Northern California. Students also identified the Hayward Fault in that image.

To the left, the students identified the location of the Atacama Desert fault in Chile. Other faults that the students investigated and identified were the Dead Sea Fault and various locations along the Nayband Fault in Iran.