NASA
NASA | SLIC: The Unsung Hero of Hubble SM4
The composite Super Lightweight Interchangeable Carrier (SLIC) is a new breed of equipment carrier that will allow the Space Shuttle to transport a full complement of scientific instruments and other components to Hubble. Made of carbon...
NASA
Episode 1: Driving The Telescope (Hubble – Eye in the Sky miniseries)
Episode 1: Driving the Telescope – Visit Hubble’s control center to learn about the challenges and techniques of performing extraordinarily detailed observations with an orbiting space telescope. Tour the rarely seen, life-size simulator...
Curated Video
Mastering Swift 2 Programming (Video 33)
Swift 2 is a multi-paradigm programming language that has expressive features familiar to modern functional languages, and does not forget the object-oriented features of Objective-C. Things that took a block of code in Objective-C are...
NASA
OSIRIS-REx Tech – Surveying an Asteroid with Light
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is on a mission explore to near-Earth asteroid Bennu, a carbon-rich body that may contain clues to the origins of life. OSIRIS-REx is equipped with a suite of technologies designed to map and study Bennu in...
NASA
Hubble’s Servicing Mission 2
The Second Servicing Mission, launched Feb. 11, 1997, greatly improved Hubble's productivity. The installation of new instruments extended Hubble's wavelength range into the near infrared for imaging and spectroscopy, allowing us to...
Curated Video
Gravity Assist: The Sun’s Mysteries with Thomas Zurbuchen
Thomas Zurbuchen, the Associate Administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, joins NASA Chief Scientist Jim Green to discuss the mysterious we still need to solve about the Sun, and more!
Two Minute Music Theory
Making Sense of Transposing Instruments
A Guide to transposing instruments, and what to do with them
Next Animation Studio
Put a sock in it
Max sings loudly while Moon tries to read. Moon tells Max to "put a sock in it" and Max takes this literally.
NASA
NASA | Aqua's AMSR-E Scans Earth's Water Cycle
From June 2002 to early October 2011, the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for the Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) on the Aqua satellite provided a wealth of data about the Earth's water cycle. Among the many variables calculated...
The Business Professor
Negotiable Instrument - Factors Affecting Negotiability
Commercial paper is often traded between parties through a process known as negotiation. The commercial paper must meet certain requirements to be negotiable or to be considered a negotiable instrument. This video explains what are the...
Maddie Moate
What is the James Webb Space Telescope?! | Maddie Moate
The world’s largest, most powerful telescope was launched into space on Christmas Day - it’s called the 'James Webb Space Telescope' but WHAT IS IT and WHAT WILL IT DISCOVER? I went to the UK's National Space Laboratory (RAL Space) where...
Super Geek Heroes
Learn about Musical Instruments with Ronnie Rock
A fun 3D animated learning episode to support the early years development area of Expressive Arts and Design. Ronnie Rock is a Super Geek Hero on a mission to learn. In this mission he sings about his favourite musical instruments by...
NASA
NASA | Return with LRO
The Deputy Project Manager for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) program, Cathy Peddie, expresses her personal and professional thoughts on the upcoming LRO mission. From following in the footsteps of her childhood heroes,to...
NASA
NASA | MAVEN: NASA's Next Mission to Mars
Ancient riverbeds, crater lakes and flood channels all attest to Mars's warm, watery past. So how did the Red Planet evolve from a once hospitable world into the cold, dry desert that we see today? One possibility is that Mars lost its...
NASA
Launching Rockets Through the Leak in Earth's Atmosphere
NASA scientists are seeking a strange breed of northern lights in the Arctic. When these auroras shine, Earth’s atmosphere leaks into space. In the tiny Arctic town of Ny-Ålesund, where polar bears outnumber people, winter means three...
NASA
Hubble’s Servicing Mission 1
Shortly after the Hubble Space Telescope was deployed in 1990, the observatory's primary mirror was discovered to have an aberration that affected the clarity of the telescope's early images. Fortunately, Hubble, orbiting 353 miles (569...
NASA
Meet the Goddard Instrument Field Team
This video is an introduction into the world of the Goddard Instrument Field Team, known as GIFT. This team of scientists conducts fieldwork all over the world at sites that resemble the Moon, Mars, and other planetary surfaces. These...
Curated Video
The Role of Financial Markets in Facilitating the Economy
This video is a lecture on the role of financial markets and the functions they play in facilitating an economy. The speaker discusses various financial assets such as shares, bonds, securities, and currencies that are traded in...
NASA
NASA | Spacecraft Chamber of Horrors
To prepare for Servicing Mission 4, Hubble components must endure harsh tests at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. This feature explores test facilities at Goddard like: launch phase simulator centrifuge, the acoustic test chamber,...
NASA
NASA | Planetary Scientist Profile: Emily Wilson
NASA scientist Emily Wilson discusses her work developing miniaturized instruments that measure greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Her latest instrument, the mini-LHR, works in tandem with AERONET, and will contribute to the global...
Two Minute Music Theory
Orchestrating my FIRST piece! (Score Study Composition exercise)
Orchestration can seem daunting. There can be too many possibilities, and there are a lot of instruments to keep up with. Today we're doing a writing exercise based on Ligeti's Ricercata III, which we looked at in a previous video - I'm...
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Storms
The atmosphere is dynamic and forever changing to maintain balance. The ingredients of air, sunlight and water allow life to exist on Earth, but they also generate calm scenes like rainbows, as a tornado ends. All storms move moisture,...
NASA
NASA Views Laser Landscapes of Helheim Glacier
What if you could measure a glacier in such detail that you could visualize its surface in 3D? And what if you could compare that view with data from one, two, even 20 years ago? NASA airborne campaigns like Operation IceBridge have been...
NASA
NASA | MAVEN MOI Live Shot with Jim Garvin
Jim Garvin gives a canned interview for the 09/19/2014 MAVEN Mars Orbit Insertion liveshots.