Curated Video
How Volcanic Lightning Is Making the World a Safer Place
The closely observed Hunga Haʻapai volcano in Tonga erupted in January 2022. The hot plumes of ash they spew into the atmosphere are the most dangerous part of these eruptions, threatening downwind communities and even planes. It turns...
Curated Video
Crater
A bowl-shaped depression, usually circular, in the surface of a planet or moon. A Twig Science Glossary Film. Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds using stunning images and concise textual definitions. Twig Science Glossary...
Curated Video
The Moon - Earth’s Natural Satellite
An introduction to the Earth's moon. What makes a moon a moon? Physics - Our Solar System - Learning Points. A moon is a natural satellite. Our Moon orbits the Earth roughly every 28 days. The Moon's glow is caused by the reflection of...
Curated Video
What is a Volcano?
The cycle of lava as a destructive and constructive force, building the structure of volcanoes and powering their devastating impact. Earth Science - Geology - Learning Points. Volcanoes are landforms that occur along plate boundaries....
Curated Video
Volcanoes: MEDC Response
In the Spring of 1980, the Mount St Helens Volcano in Washington State erupted in one of the most violent events in recorded history. But a human catastrophe was prevented due to the More Economically Developed Country's capacity to...
Curated Video
The first Moon landing
The story of how three men made history when they became the first humans to travel to and land on the Moon. Physical processes - The Earth and beyond - The Moon Learning Points The first manned moon landing occurred on the 20th of July...
Curated Video
The Lasting Legacy of Nuclear Testing
Learn about the history of nuclear testing in the United States, from the atomic bomb explosions in New Mexico, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki to the continuation of testing in the Nevada desert during the Cold War. This video showcases the...
Wonderscape
The Catastrophic End of the Dinosaurs
Discover how the age of dinosaurs, which lasted 165 million years, came to an abrupt end 65 million years ago. Learn about the massive asteroid impact on the Yucatan Peninsula and how the resulting shockwaves, tsunamis, and global...
Curated Video
Volcano /Volcanoes Song
Learn about the different parts and stages of a Volcano. And learn about how and watch it erupt with this fun educational music video and parents. Brought to you by KLT. And don't forget to sing along!
Curated Video
Asteroid Strikes Yucatan Peninsula
Dr. Forrester defines the terms comet, asteroid, meteors, meteoroids, and meteorites by classifying them as objects found within space. She also discusses the Chicxulub crater at the tip of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and the theory...
TMW Media
Mercury, The Solar System Historian: Mercurys orbit and other mysteries
How long is a typical day on Mercury? How does an elliptical orbit affect the sunrise on Mercury? What are other unique features of Mercury? Mercury, The Solar System Historian, Part 3
Next Animation Studio
Dwarf planet Ceres is an ocean world: scientists
Scientists say Ceres is an ocean world with brine under the surface after reviewing data from NASA’s Dawn orbiter, according to new studies published separately in Nature Astronomy and Geoscience.
Next Animation Studio
ASA concept would turn Moon crater into a giant telescope
NASA is funding an early-stage concept to build a giant telescope in a crater on the far side of the moon through its NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program, the space agency announced on April 7.
Visual Learning Systems
Our Distant Neighbors: Other Objects in the Solar System
Upon viewing the Our Distant Neighbors video series, students will be able to do the following: Create a simple diagram of the sun and the orbital paths of each planet around the sun. Label each of the eight planets. Explain that the sun...
Next Animation Studio
NASA & ESA to conduct planetary defense tests on asteroid
NASA and the European Space Agency are joining hands for a planetary defense mission in order to learn how to protect Earth from a possible asteroid collision.
Next Animation Studio
Weird! Mercury's scorching temps may actually lead to ice.
Mercury’s close orbit around the sun and extreme heat may have helped the planet to generate ice. Writing in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, scientists say solar wind may contribute to a chemical process that forms ice in Mercury’s...
Next Animation Studio
Meteor killed dinosaurs with dust, not wildfires, study finds
New research shows that the great dinosaur die-off was caused by airborne particles ejected directly from the crater made by the Chicxulub meteor
Astrum
What did NASA's Dawn mission discover while at Vesta?
NASA's Dawn spacecraft was the first spacecraft to orbit two extraterrestial bodies, Vesta and Ceres. But what did it do and discover while it was there?
NASA
On a Mission: A Lifetime on Mars: The Adventures of Spirit and Opportunity - S4E4
Born together, the Spirit and Opportunity twin rovers followed divergent paths after they landed on opposite sides of Mars. Opportunity’s journey was marked by good fortune, while Spirit’s was troubled from the start.
Visual Learning Systems
The Amazing Universe: Meteors and Comets
This show explores the fascinating features of the universe, the different types of galaxies in our solar system and the position of our solar system in the Milky Way Galaxy. Other terminology includes: constellations, spiral galaxy,...
Next Animation Studio
Asteroid that led to dinosaur extinction impacted Earth at ‘deadliest possible angle’: study
Scientists have determined the angle of impact for the asteroid that contributed to the dinosaurs’ extinction 66 million years ago.