Curated Video
I WONDER - Are Clouds Heavy?
This video is answering the question of are clouds heavy.
Soliloquy
How much water is floating in a cloud?
Clouds are amazing; they are made up of liquid water and ice (solid water) and yet they float in the sky seemingly weightless. But how much water do they really hold and how do they manage their levitation?
NASA
NASA’s IMPACTS Campaign Seeks to Decode East Coast Winter Storms
This winter, NASA is sending a team of scientists, a host of ground instruments, and two research aircraft to study the inner workings of snow storms. The Investigation of Microphysics Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening...
NASA
NASA Peers Inside Hurricane Edouard
The swirling nature of hurricane clouds are a familiar sight in satellite imagery, but in order to better understand these storms, scientists need to look inside them. In 2014, NASA's remotely piloted Global Hawk aircraft flew over...
Weatherthings
Water Smart: Water on Earth - Lakes
Water on Earth focuses on water as most kids would think about it. We start with water in obvious locations such as oceans, lakes, and rivers. We quickly learn that water can change phase to remain a solid in glaciers. Many kids may be...
NASA
NASA | How Do Active Volcanoes Change Clouds?
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center scientist Andrew Sayer talks about how emissions from volcanoes can affect clouds. This video provides an overview of research published in the Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. Research:...
NASA
NASA | CATS Up and Running on the ISS
On January 22, 2015, the Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) was installed on the International Space Station. The team monitored the progress of the installation from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where CATS was designed and...
Let's Tute
Painting Clouds: Quick and Easy Techniques for Realistic Skies
In this video, the teacher demonstrates various techniques for painting clouds in landscape paintings. They show how to use different brushes, such as a Filbert brush or a damaged brush, as well as using a sponge for a unique effect. The...
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Hybrid Clouds
Clouds manifest moisture condensed in the air. In this program they are appreciated and pondered. Clouds give clues to wind direction, humidity levels, weather patterns, and they just make pretty sights. We look at the basic type of...
NASA
NASA's 5 Newest Earth Expeditions Ready for Takeoff
NASA is sending five airborne campaigns across the United States in 2020 to investigate fundamental processes that ultimately impact human lives and the environment, from snowstorms along the East Coast to ocean eddies off the coast of...
NASA
NASA | This World Is Black and White
A look at how the historic DaisyWorld model illustrates earth science concepts, such as albedo and feedback loops. This webshort was produced as an educational tie-in with the Science on a Sphere feature LOOP.
NASA
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...
NASA
NASA | Glory: The Particle Puzzle
This episode explores the complexity of atmospheric aerosols- how they impact climate and how researchers study them. Glory's Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor and Cloud Camera will provide an unprecedented data set for helping scientists...
NASA
Interconnected: The Science of NAAMES
Most people wouldn’t expect microscopic life forms in the ocean to have much to do with Earth’s atmosphere. It turns out that their influence is profound, which is why an extraordinary team of scientists has taken to the sea and the air...
NASA
5 Years of Landsat 8
In its five years in space, Landsat 8 has racked up an impressive line of statistics. The satellite made 26,500 orbits around Earth. It captured 1.1 million "scenes" of our home planet. Its images now represent 16 percent of all the...
Weatherthings
Flight Passenger, Left Side Window View
A celebration of cloud types, colors, heights and textures, as seen out the window of a passenger airplane.
NASA
NASA's CAMP2Ex Heads to the Philippines for Monsoon Season
NASA, the Naval Research Laboratory and the Manila Observatory are working together in the Philippines to study how tiny particles in the atmosphere affect cloud formation. Music credit: "After the Sun" from Killer Tracks Credit: NASA's...
NASA
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...
NASA
NASA | An Introduction to Aqua
The first in a series of episodes looking at the instruments and applications of the Aqua satellite.
Curated Video
I WONDER - Why Do Clouds Form?
This video is answering the question of why do clouds form.
Poetry Foundation
Taylor Behnke reads “What It Looks Like to Us and the Words We Use”
Taylor Behnke reads Ada Limón's poem, “What It Looks Like to Us and the Words We Use”.
NASA
One Year on Earth – Seen From 1 Million Miles
On July 20, 2015, NASA released to the world the first image of the sunlit side of Earth captured by the space agency's EPIC camera on NOAA's DSCOVR satellite. The camera has now recorded a full year of life on Earth from its orbit at...
NASA
NASA | Rattling Jet Stream on Jupiter
New movies of Jupiter are the first to catch an invisible wave shaking up one of the giant planet's jet streams, an interaction that also takes place in Earth's atmosphere and influences the weather.
Rock 'N Learn
Learn English - Getting Ready for Bed
Here is a fun way to practice English words and phrases useful for bedtime. The onscreen mouth is perfect for young children learning to speak and for anyone learning English. It shows how to form sounds and helps model proper...