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GCSE Secondary Maths Age 13-17 - Geometry & Measures: Similar Shapes - Explained
SchoolOnline's Secondary Maths videos are brilliant, bite-size tutorial videos delivered by examiners. Ideal for ages 13-17, they cover every key topic and sub topic covered in GCSE Maths in clear and easy to follow steps. This video...
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Representing Measurements with Line Plots
Make a line plot to represent fractional length measurement data (halves and quarters).
NASA
Go Now! Landsat & the Calypso Caper
During the summer of 1975, Jacques Cousteau and his divers helped NASA determine if Landsat could measure the depth of shallow ocean waters. The story of this NASA-led satellite bathymetry experiment unfolds through the photography and...
NASA
Mars Wind Currents Reveal a Surprising Feature
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...
NASA
Why Do Raindrop Sizes Matter In Storms?
Not all raindrops are created equal. The size of falling raindrops depends on several factors, including where the cloud producing the drops is located on the globe and where the drops originate in the cloud. For the first time,...
NASA
NASA, Partner Space Agencies Measure Forests In Gabon
NASA researchers have their boots on the ground and wings in the skies in Gabon, on Africa's west coast, for a comprehensive survey of the carbon storage of tropical forests. Partnering together with the European Space Agency, the German...
NASA
NASA| On Board NPP - VIIRS: Enabling Future Climate Science
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...
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NASA | Looking Down a Well: A Brief History of Geodesy
Geodesy is a field of study that deals with the measurement and representation of the Earth, and it all started when a clever human named Eratosthenes discovered that you could measure the circumference of the Earth by looking down a...
NASA
ATom Postcard - Samoa to New Zealand
Principal Investigator Steven Wofsy of Harvard University and atmospheric scientist Paul Newman of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center sent back a video postcard of the second two legs of the Atmospheric Tomography, or ATom mission. They...
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NASA Surveys Hurricane Damage to Puerto Rico’s Forests
On September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria barreled across Puerto Rico with winds of up to 155 miles per hour and battering rain that flooded towns, knocked out communications networks and destroyed the power grid. In the rugged central...
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NASA | OLYMPEX Scientists in the Field: Rachael Kroodsma
Rachael Kroodsma is the instrument scientist for the CoSMIR on board NASA's DC-8 airborne laboratory as part of the OLYMPEX field campaign. From November 10 through December 21, NASA and university scientists are taking to the field to...
Brian McLogan
Find the value of x given two chords and arc measures
Learn how to solve problems with chords. A chord is a line that has its two endpoints on the circle. A chord passing through the center of the circle is refered to as the diameter of the circle. A chord divides the circle into two...
Makematic
Foot Traffic
People measure all types of things everyday: distances walked, sizes of clothing, quantities of food and time for cooking. In this activity, children aged 3-7 will trace their feet and cut them out to use as non-standard measurements,...
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NASA and NOAA Take to the Air to Chase Smoke
NASA, NOAA and university partners are taking to the skies, and the ground, to chase smoke from fires burning across the United States. The Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX-AQ) is starting in...
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NASA | Our Wet Wide World
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) is an international satellite mission to provide next-generation observations of rain and snow worldwide every three hours. NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will launch a...
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NASA | Dual Precipitation Radar Arrives at Goddard
The Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) built by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission's Core Observatory arrived on Friday, March 16 and was unloaded today at NASA's...
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Organizing Measurement Data
Generate and organize fractional length measurement data (halves and quarters).
NASA
NOAA Team Helps NASA’s Operation IceBridge Tackle Arctic Spring
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...
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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...
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NASA | Space Geodesy Profile: Chopo Ma
Space geodesist Chopo Ma explains the science of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI): using radio emissions from distant galaxies to create a precise reference frame for the Earth.
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NASA | GPM: The Trouble with Irene
NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement mission, or GPM, a joint NASA/JAXA mission, will provide rainfall data on storms and hurricanes like Irene that move out of the tropics. The data will be available when the GPM Core Observatory...
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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...
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NASA | Intro to LIDAR - 3D Version
Want to know the 3D shape of terrain on another planet? Want to study the height and density of Earth's forests? An amazing tool called LIDAR can help! Learn more in this video. This version of the video is presented in several formats...
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NASA | Arctic Sea Ice Reaches 2015 Minimum Extent
On September 11, Arctic sea ice reached its annual minimum extent for 2015. At 1.70 million square miles (4.41 million square kilometers), it’s the fourth lowest extent on record.