Instructional Video1:51
NASA

NASA | Scientists Link Earlier Melting Of Snow To Dark Aerosols

3rd - 11th
Tiny particles suspended in the air, known as aerosols, can darken snow and ice causing it to absorb more of the sun’s energy. But until recently, scientists rarely considered the effect of all three major types of light-absorbing...
Instructional Video3:24
NASA

NASA | NPP: Making the News

3rd - 11th
When it comes to a NASA mission, it is not just about the science and engineering but it is also important to educate the public about the program. In this video television crews work night and day to make sure that the audience is well...
Instructional Video2:12
NASA

NASA | HS3 Mission: S-HIS Instrument

3rd - 11th
Interview with Henry "Hank" Revercomb, principal investigator for the NASA HS3 Mission's Scanning High-Resolution Interferometer Sounder Instrument. He is responsible for the infrared remote sensing of temperature, water vapor, and cloud...
Instructional Video2:55
NASA

Mars Wind Currents Reveal a Surprising Feature

3rd - 11th
MAVEN is the first spacecraft specifically designed to study the Mars upper atmosphere, in order to better understand the evolution of its climate. By measuring windspeed and direction near the top of the atmosphere, MAVEN has discovered...
Instructional Video5:04
NASA

Our Living Planet From Space

3rd - 11th
Life. It's the one thing that, so far, makes Earth unique among the thousands of other planets we've discovered. Since the fall of 1997, NASA satellites have continuously and globally observed all plant life at the surface of the land...
Instructional Video2:13
NASA

NASA Earth Expeditions: An Animated Tour

3rd - 11th
NASA takes you on a world tour with this animation as we kick off major new field campaigns to study regions of critical change from land, sea and air. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Jefferson Beck
Instructional Video3:27
NASA

NASA| On Board NPP - VIIRS: Enabling Future Climate Science

3rd - 11th
NASA's NPP mission will continue collecting critical climate data to help scientist unravel the mysteries of climate change. NPP is carrying five instruments on board. The biggest and most important instrument is The Visible/Infrared...
Instructional Video0:52
NASA

NASA | NASA's Analysis of 2012 Global Temperature

3rd - 11th
NASA's analysis of Earth's surface temperature found that 2012 ranked as the ninth warmest year since 1880. NASA scientists at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) compare the average global temperature each year to the average...
Instructional Video6:05
Ancient Lights Media

Pakistan

6th - 8th
Video Atlas of Asia: This clip looks at the physical features, climate and culture of Pakistan.
Instructional Video8:12
Ancient Lights Media

Russia: Cold War and the Collapse of the Soviet Union 1953-1991

6th - 8th
This clip examines the Cold War Era and the end of the Soviet Union.
Instructional Video2:24
Science360

Answers - How Do We Know?

12th - Higher Ed
How close are we to having all the answers?
Instructional Video3:33
NASA

NASA’s New View of the Daily Cycle of Rain

3rd - 11th
The most detailed view of our daily weather has been created using NASA's newest extended precipitation record known as the Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM, or IMERG analysis. The IMERG analysis combines almost 20 years of...
Instructional Video4:39
NASA

How NASA Satellites Help Model the Future of Climate

3rd - 11th
Continuing key observations of the Earth is really important to see how our atmosphere, land and oceans are changing over time. A long-term record, combined with cutting edge observations from the new NASA Earth System Observatory, will...
Instructional Video2:30
NASA

NASA | The Puffin-Satellite Connection

3rd - 11th
In 2007, science video producer Maria Frostic took a leave of absence from her work at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to pursue a Fulbright Scholarship in Iceland. But when she got there and launched into a film about Icelandic...
Instructional Video1:20
NASA

NASA | Ask a Climate Scientist

3rd - 11th
Have a question that's always confounded you about Earth's climate? Wonder why it matters that the climate is changing now if it has changed before? Or how scientists know changes seen in recent decades are the result of human...
Instructional Video2:33
NASA

Arctic Sea Ice Reaches 2019 Minimum Extent

3rd - 11th
Arctic sea ice likely reached its 2019 minimum extent of 1.60 million square miles (4.15 million square kilometers) on Sept. 18, tied for second lowest summertime extent in the satellite record, according to NASA and the National Snow...
Instructional Video4:52
NASA

PACE: Persistence and Perseverance Despite Pandemic

3rd - 11th
In the Spring of 2020, the physical construction of the PACE spacecraft moved into high gear, with engineers working hard to build, assemble, and test the actual machine. When the global COVID-19 pandemic forced social distancing among...
Instructional Video2:53
Ancient Lights Media

Atlas of the United States: Idaho

6th - 8th
This program explores the geography, history, and some important cultural features of the Mountain Region of the United States. The individual states of Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana are presented in detail.
Instructional Video4:06
NASA

First Map of Mars Electric Currents

3rd - 11th
Five years after NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft entered into orbit around Mars, data from the mission has led to the creation of a map of electric current systems in the Martian atmosphere. Unlike Earth, Mars lacks a protective global magnetic...
Instructional Video1:30
Science360

Projections by the IPCC - How Do We Know?

12th - Higher Ed
Overviewing what the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts some startling events and effects due to climate change.
Instructional Video3:03
NASA

Warmer Ocean Temperatures May Decrease Saharan Dust Crossing the Atlantic

3rd - 11th
Every year millions of tons of dust from the Sahara Desert are swirled up into the atmosphere by easterly trade winds, and carried across the Atlantic. The plumes can make their way from the African continent as far as the Amazon...
Instructional Video2:34
NASA

Satellites Aid Active Fire Response

3rd - 11th
Front-line responders do the heavy lifting when it comes to fighting and managing wildfires, but they’re often helped by the view from higher up. Each year, a coordinated effort from US Forest Service aircraft teams and satellite teams...
Instructional Video2:12
NASA

NOAA Team Helps NASA’s Operation IceBridge Tackle Arctic Spring

3rd - 11th
NASA’s Operation IceBridge has returned from its spring campaign measuring changes in the Greenland ice sheet and in sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. Flying for the first time on board a borrowed NOAA P-3 aircraft, the airborne mission...
Instructional Video1:25
NASA

NASA | Warm Ocean Melting Pine Island Glacier

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For five years an international team of experts, led by NASA emeritus glaciologist Robert Bindschadler and funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA, planned and orchestrated a mission to drill through the floating ice shelf of...