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NASA | Earth Observing Landsat 5 Turns 25 Years Old
On March 1, the Earth-observing Landsat 5 satellite celebrated 25 years in orbit. Twenty-two years beyond its primary mission lifetime, Landsat 5 is still going strong, making it a keystone of the 37-year Landsat Program. Among Landsat...
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Conversations with Goddard: Jody Davis
Jody Davis, deputy payload systems engineer for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), inspires and uplifts the world. Davis supports the design, development, build and test of the WFIRST payload including collaborating with...
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Environmental Engineer - Tamar Losleben
Tamar Losleben is an environmental engineer passionate about balancing urban grown with environmental protection and preservation. She works on a number of projects where she has the opportunity to work in the office and outdoors in the...
APMonitor
Solve Nonlinear Equations with MATLAB
MATLAB solves nonlinear equations either symbolically or numerically with solvers such as "fsolve". This example demonstrates how to obtain a solution to sets of nonlinear equations.
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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 | On Board NPP: The Five Instruments
The NPP satellite has 5 instruments on board: VIIRS, CERES, CrIS, ATMS, and OMPS. Each one will deliver a specific set of data helping weather prediction and climate studies. This video is a quick overview of each instrument and its...
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NASA | LRO: Mapping Our Future
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is the first mission in NASA's planned return to the moon. LRO is an unmanned mission to create the comprehensive atlas of the moon's features and resources necessary to design all future lunar...
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NASA | Meet the SAM Team: Dan Carrigan
Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) is a suite of instruments developed for use on the Mars Science Laboratory. By looking for evidence of water, carbon, and other important building blocks of life in the Mars soil and atmosphere, this suite...
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Lucy’s Journey: Episode 1 – 'Launch'
Episode 1: Launch. Meet Lucy as she prepares for the first ever journey to the Trojan asteroids, a population of primitive small bodies orbiting in tandem with Jupiter. Music is "Fizzy and Witty" by Fabien Langard and Philippe Villar and...
Curated Video
Open Differential Explained
Learn how an open differential works, the main parts and why we use them in this video on open differential explained
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Limited Slip Differential
Learn how a limited slip differential gear works in automotive engineering and why we need the LSD limited slip differential
True Calling
Power Line Technician
When you're keeping the lights on for an entire province, it can be pretty satisfying work. As a Power Line Technician for BC Hydro, Logan Aird has gotten quite comfortable 70 feet in the air; whether it's at a construction site or at...
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How We Prepare: OSIRIS-REx and WNBA
An inside look into how an elite athlete and a NASA engineer prepare for the challenges ahead. Natasha Cloud, a professional basketball player for the Washington Mystics of the WNBA, and Nayi Castro, a mission operations manager for...
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NASA | SDO Engineers Create What Never Was
Engineers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center talk about what it is like to build, assemble, integrate, and test a custom-made spacecraft like the soon to be launched Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
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NASA | SAM Engineer Profile: Synthia Tonn
This video profiles Synthia Tonn, a junior engineer on the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument team responsible for SAM's ground support equipment as well as its 'plumbing,' or the series of tiny, winding gas lines that connect...
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NASA | LRO: Coming Soon to a Moon Near You
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission will conduct investigations preparing for and supporting future human exploration of the Moon.
Curated Video
Docker - A Complete Hands-On Guide - How to Change the Permission of Volume from Read Write to Read Only
This video explains how to change the permission of volume from read write to read only. This clip is from the chapter "Docker Volume with RO/RW Permission" of the series "Docker A Beginner- HandsOn Guide".This section explains Docker...
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NASA | GLAST Prelude for Brass Quintet, Op.12
NASA's GLAST mission is an astrophysics and particle physics partnership, developed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy, along with important contributions from academic institiutions and partners in France, Germany,...
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NASA | Maryland's Place in Space
What a spectacular day for the Goddard Space Flight Center. During the day the Marylands Place in Space Expo was held at the Baltimore Convention Center. It was like exploring the universe in your own back yard. There was over 100...
Science360
Science of the Winter Olympic Games - Alpine Skiing and Vibration Damping
Kam Leang, a professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, and Tom Watson, of Watson Performance in Hood River, Ore., describe how advanced materials and engineering help reduce unwanted vibration, optimizing the performance of athletes....
Zach Star
Is Studying Engineering Really Worth It
Most people will tell you that engineering is definitely worth the hard work. I would agree with this but there are people who may not see it as "worth it" depending on their situation. This usually comes down to not truly wanting to go...
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Solve Linear Equations with Excel
Excel MMULT and MINVERSE functions are used to solve systems of linear equations such as A * x = b by inverting A and multiplying by the right hand side (x = A^-1 * b).
Physics Girl
What do programmers actually do?
I left a physics job to do software engineering. Was it worth it? What do software engineers actually do?
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Exercise Scientist - Beth Mooradian
What's it really like to be an engineer or a scientist? What does an exercise scientist really do all day? You're about to find out! Meet the next generation of engineers and scientists in these profiles of young professionals, who may...