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NASA Follows Changing Freshwater from Space
When we look into the vastness of space, our home planet stands out in many ways. One of the most crucial is the presence of abundant, accessible freshwater -- as a liquid, solid and gas. Water helps make our planet habitable. The first...
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NASA | TDRS: Communicating Critical Data
As a vital information pipeline for space-based research and exploration ambitions, the TDRS constellation fulfills NASA's broadest communication demands. Now into it's fourth operational decade, the TDRS legacy continues to be...
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NASA | Hurricane Scientist talks GRIP, Hurricane Earl
NASA's Hurricane expert Dr. Jeff Halverson explains how NASA's GRIP mission is keeping a close eye on Hurricane Earl and other storms over the Atlantic. Scientists use data collected from NASA's DC-8, Global Hawk and WB-57 aircraft to...
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NASA | Earth's Climate Checkup: Operation IceBridge Monitors Arctic
NASA scientists have just begun the most recent leg of the Operation IceBridge Mission, an unprecedented six-year mission to study the Earth's polar regions, not through the lens of a satellite, but from onboard an airplane. In fact,...
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NASA | GOES-R: Living with Space Weather
In addition to monitoring weather on Earth, the GOES-R satellites will monitor weather in space caused by electromagnetic radiation and charged particles released from solar storms on the Sun. Many people rely on space weather data,...
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NASA | Arctic Sea Ice Live Shot 2014
Dr. Tom Wagner talks about Arctic sea ice and the ARISE mission in this canned liveshot interview.
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A Decade of Discovery for Suomi-NPP
Since its launch on Oct. 28, 2011, the remarkable instruments on the Suomi-NPP satellite have captured a wealth of valuable data and beautiful images of our home planet. Suomi-NPP is the first of a series of polar-orbiting weather...
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CompTIA Network+ Certification N10-007: The Total Course - Connecting with Satellites
This video explains how to connect with satellites. This clip is from the chapter "Remote Connectivity" of the series "CompTIA Network+ Certification N10-007: The Total Course".In this section, you will learn to work with remote...
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The Structure of the Solar System and Gravity: A Brief Overview
This video provides an overview of the structure of our solar system and how gravity plays a crucial role in maintaining this structure. The video begins with the description of the sun at the center of our solar system, and then it...
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Science Comes Alive at NASA Goddard - (short cut)
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is home to the nation's largest organization of scientists, engineers and technologists who build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study Earth, the sun, our solar...
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NASA | Water for Tea: Part I
View "Water for Tea: Part II" at:One of the critical components of the Earth's hydrological cycle is precipitation. Rainfall is essential for providing the fresh water that sustains life. Water cycling and the future availability of...
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NASA | The Heliophysics Program
This short program overview for NASA's heliophysics division explains how NASA studies the sun--and more importantly--how it affects our daily lives. Learn more:Or get tweeted by NASA:
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NASA | Observing the 2015 El Niño
People the world over are feeling, or soon will feel, the effects of the strongest El Niño event since 1997-98, currently unfolding in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. New satellite observations are beginning to show scientists its...
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NASA | NOAA-N Prime Mission Overview
The NOAA-N Prime satellite is slated for launch by NASA on February 4th, 2009. Operated by NOAA, N Prime will be the last in the Television Infrared Observation Satellite Series (TIROS) that have been observing Earth’s weather and...
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NASA/NOAA | GOES-O: Countdown To Launch
In this video, two days prior to the GOES-O launch, NASA Goddard Producer Silvia Stoyanova visits Cape Canaveral's Air Force Station, launch pad 37, to talk to NASA GOES N-P Deputy Project Manager Andre' Dress, about the factors that...
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NASA | Van Allen Probes Reveal Previously Undetected Radiation Belt Around Earth
These two nearly identical spacecraft launched in August 2012 and with only six months in operation, they may well be rewriting science textbooks. The probes study the Van Allen belts, gigantic radiation belts surrounding Earth, which...
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KS2 Primary Maths Age 9-13 - Statistics: Pictogram - Explained
SchoolOnline's Primary Maths videos are brilliant, bite-size tutorial videos delivered by examiners. Ideal for ages 9-13, they cover every key topic and sub topic covered in Maths in clear and easy to follow steps. This video looks at...
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NASA Explores High-Energy Rainfall in the Atmosphere
Our planet is nestled in the center of two doughnut-shaped regions of powerful, dynamic radiation: the Van Allen belts, where high-energy particles are trapped by Earth’s magnetic field. Depending on incoming radiation from the sun, they...
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NASA | Scientists Answer Top Space Weather Questions, Part II
NASA scientists answer some common questions about the sun, space weather, and how they affect the Earth. This is a two-part series. Part Two addresses: 1. Do all flares and CMEs affect the Earth? 2. What happens when a flare or CME hits...
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NASA | The Mystery of the Aurora
With spring right around the corner it is the season for auroras. The beautiful and mysterious auroras are spectacular to watch, but they are actually a manifestation of violent space weather. This weather can create big problems here on...
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NASA | A Tribute to Tim Samaras
This 2012 NASA video was done in connection with the GOES-R program. It features renowned researcher and storm chaser Tim Samaras. Samaras, his son Paul, and his chase partner Carl Young passed away in Oklahoma on Friday, May 31, 2013...
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NASA | Big Ozone Holes Headed For Extinction By 2040
The next three decades will see an end of the era of big ozone holes. In a new study, scientists from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center say that the ozone hole will be consistently smaller than 8 million square miles by the year 2040....
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What is GOES-R?
The GOES-R series, NOAA's next-generation geostationary weather satellites, is a game changer. These satellites will provide continuous imagery and atmospheric measurements of Earth’s Western Hemisphere, total lightning data, and space...
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TDRS Continuing the Fleet
The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS, project is building the follow-on and replacement spacecraft necessary to maintain and expand NASA’s Space Network. The third satellite of the third generation, TDRS-M, is set to launch in...