NASA
NASA’s Asteroid Heist: The Challenges of TAG
NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx, will make a daring attempt to “TAG” asteroid Bennu on Oct. 20 – touch its surface and collect a sample for return to Earth. Sample site Nightingale, the mission’s targeted touch...
NASA
NASA | Playing Tag With an Asteroid
What's the best way get a sample of an asteroid? Play tag with it! That's the plan for OSIRIS-REx, a NASA spacecraft that will approach the asteroid Bennu in 2018. The collection will be done with an instrument on board called the...
NASA
How OSIRIS-REx will Steer Itself to Sample an Asteroid
In late August, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will navigate to asteroid Bennu’s surface for its first sample collection attempt. To do this, it will use an onboard image software known as Natural Feature Tracking (NFT) — a form of optical...
National Parks Service
Acadia National Park - Floating Classroom: Water Sampler
These videos compliment the variety of water quality programs that occur in Acadia National Park. For teachers looking for good background information on water quality or those looking to attend the Floating Classroom field trip, this...
NASA
OSIRIS-REx TAG Trailer
On Oct. 20, the OSIRIS-REx mission will perform the first attempt of its Touch-And-Go (TAG) sample collection event. Not only will the spacecraft navigate to the surface using innovative navigation techniques, but it could also collect...
Curated Video
API Testing with Postman - Using Parameters in API Calls
Understand different kinds of parameters used in APIs and how to use them in Postman. • Show examples of query parameters • Explore an example of path parameters • Discuss header and request body parameters This clip is from the chapter...
TMW Media
The Everglades Ecosystem: Plantlife in the everglades
How was the land for farmers south of the lake? What is good and bad about peat soil? How does other plant life help the everglades? The Everglades Ecosystem, Part 3
Curated Video
Learning ASP.NET Web API (Video 16)
Revolutionary changes in the mobile world introduced various type of devices such as smart phones, tablets, and IoT devices, all connected to a network based on a HTTP protocol and HTML 5. This lead to a big push to build REST-based...
NASA
OSIRIS-REx: Above and Beyond
Since arriving at asteroid Bennu in Dec. 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has achieved many feats – from setting a record-breaking orbit, to mapping the asteroid’s surface better than any planetary body. The mission is now preparing to...
NASA
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Approaches Asteroid Bennu
NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission launched in 2016 and now (August, 2018) is entering its approach phase. OSIRIS-REx will arrive at asteroid Bennu in December, 2018. OSIRIS-REx will help unveil the mysteries of our solar...
NASA
NASA | NASA selects OSIRIS-REx as New Frontiers Mission
OSIRIS-Rex will visit asteroid 1999 RQ36 and return with samples that may hold clues to the origin of the solar system and life on Earth. For the mission, NASA has selected the team led by Principal Investigator Dr. Michael Drake from...
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Sheila Willis on DNA Transfer
What are DNA Mixtures? And why are they sometimes so difficult to interpret? Sheila Willis, a guest researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the former director general of Forensic Science Ireland,...
Curated Video
Learning CSS (Video 13)
As a modern day web designer, it is very critical for you to prepare for the CSS3 world we live in. A major challenge that designers face in their day-to-day life is making their designs stand out from the rest and ensuring they work on...
Packt
Sample Application to Derive Test Cases
This video explains how to develop an application to derive test cases. This clip is from the chapter "End-to-End Testing Activities - Defect Tracking Tool" of the series "Selenium WebDriver with Java - Basics to Advanced and...
NASA
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx: Mission to Bennu
OSIRIS-REx is the third mission in NASA's New Frontiers Program. Its goal is to explore near-Earth asteroid Bennu, a remnant from the dawn of the solar system, and to return a sample of Bennu to Earth in 2023. OSIRIS-REx launched in...
NASA
NASA | The Molecule Dissector - Mass Spectrometry
What do you do if you have a sample from another planet, and you want to find out if it contains a certain molecule...maybe even one that will reveal that the planet can sustain life? When scientists face a situation like this, they...
NASA
ATom Mission interview clips — Jack Dibbs
Flying into "clean" air during #EarthExpedition ATom mission, Jack Dibbs of the University of New Hampshire explains what he expects to find on his aerosol filters as they travel to the remotest parts of the atmosphere. The ATom mission...
Brian McLogan
Using an equation to model part and whole of an angle - Free Math Videos - Online Tutor
👉 Learn how to find the value of an unknown variable in the expressions representing the values of angles given the relationship between the angles. When given expressions representing the values of angles and the relationship between...
Curated Video
Apache Maven Beginner to Guru - Upgrading the Dependent Projects to Release Version
This video demonstrates how to update the dependent projects to release version. This clip is from the chapter "Maven in the Real World" of the series "Apache Maven: Beginner to Guru".This section focuses on Maven in the real world.
Brian McLogan
Algebra 1 - Graphing an inequalty when your variable is on the right side - Math Help
In this video series I show you how to graph linear inequalities. When graphing linear inequalities we now have to account for two variables. We graph linear inequalities using the same process as linear equations. We then use shading to...
Curated Video
Taking a Systematic Sample
In this video, the teacher explains how to take a systematic sample from a population to decide on a hall-wide event in a college residence hall. They discuss the importance of selecting a system that matches the population and desired...
NASA
Why Bennu?
The goal of the OSIRIS-REx mission is to collect a sample from an asteroid and bring it back to Earth. But just how did the OSIRIS-REx team choose Bennu from the over 500,000 known asteroids in the solar system? Watch this cartoon to...
Science360
Pioneering effort to detect Ebola
According to the World Health Organization, the Ebola outbreak that started in West Africa in 2014 has sickened nearly 30,000 people, killing about one third of them. Detection of the Ebola virus is currently the only way to keep the...
Curated Video
Practical Data Science using Python - Random Variables and Normal Distribution
This video explains random variables and normal distribution. This clip is from the chapter "Statistical Techniques" of the series "Practical Data Science Using Python".This section explains advanced visualizations using business...