NASA
NASA in Silicon Valley: Jessie Dotson Talks About Discovering Exoplanets
A conversation with Jessie Dotson, project scientist for the Kepler spacecraft’s K2 mission at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.
NASA
Houston We Have a Podcast: Returning the First Martians
Experts from NASA’s Mars Architecture Team gather to discuss the mechanics of returning the first astronauts from the surface of Mars back home to Earth on the final episode of our Mars Monthly series. HWHAP Episode 185.
Flipping Physics
Magnetic Fields - Review for AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism
AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism review of magnetic fields including: the basics of magnetic dipoles, ferromagnetic and paramagnetic materials, the Earth’s B field, magnetic permeability, the magnetic force on a moving charge, the...
Curated Video
Alternators and the Generator Effect: How They Create Alternating Currents
This video discusses how alternators use the generator effect to produce an alternating current. The video explains how this effect can be utilized to generate both alternating and direct currents, and how the direction of the potential...
Curated Video
How Alternators Work
How does a car alternator work? learn from the basics where we use the alternator and how alternators work.
NASA
Earth, Sun from Moon's South Pole
This visualization shows the unusual motions of Earth and the Sun as viewed from the South Pole of the Moon. The animation compresses three months (a little over three lunar days) into two minutes. The virtual camera is on the rim of...
NASA
NASA Google+ Hangout: NASA Kicks Off Antarctic Mission
NASA Kicks Off Antarctic Mission This is the first year that IceBridge will operate directly from Antarctica, flying from McMurdo Station starting in mid-November instead of from southern Chile. This change will allow IceBridge...
NASA
Gravity Assist: Before You Launch: Practice, Practice, Practice
When future astronauts explore the surfaces of the Moon, Mars, or beyond, they’ll have big challenges communicating with Mission Control back on Earth.
Curated Video
Gravity Assist: The Sun’s Mysteries with Thomas Zurbuchen
Thomas Zurbuchen, the Associate Administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, joins NASA Chief Scientist Jim Green to discuss the mysterious we still need to solve about the Sun, and more!
NASA
NASA | Water on the Moon
Since the 1960's, scientists have suspected that frozen water could survive in cold, dark craters at the Moon's poles. While previous lunar missions have detected hints of water on the Moon, new data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter...
National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST Unscripted: Eric Cornell
Eric Cornell, NIST Fellow and Nobel Laureate tells the exciting story of how he and colleague Carl Weiman made the first-ever observation of a new state of matter, the Bose-Einstein condensate, in 1995. The breakthrough led to the duo,...
Maddie Moate
What Do Antarctic Explorers Wear? (Then and Now!) | Maddie Moate
Join me at the Polar Research Institute in Cambridge to find out first hand what Antarctic Explorers wore over 100 years ago! Greg helps me to see how modern expedition clothing works using the help of our thermal imaging camera, and I...
NASA
Pinpointing the Moon's South Pole
This video is a data visualization showing the location of the Moon’s South Pole. In the system of lunar latitude and longitude adopted by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission, the Moon’s South Pole is located on the rim of...
NASA
Shadows Near The Moon's South Pole
This video shows the movement of shadows near the Moon's South Pole over the course of two lunar days, which is approximately two months on Earth. The visualization was created from data gathered by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter...
NASA
LIVE: NASA Flying Parallel Science Campaigns at Both Poles
For the first time in its seven years of flights, NASA's Operation IceBridge, an airborne survey of changes in Earth’s polar ice, is conducting overlapping campaigns in Antarctica and the Arctic. Joining us are: Nathan Kurtz, IceBridge...
NASA
Traversing the South Pole: 14 days, 4 people and 750 kilometers
NASA cryospheric scientist Kelly Brunt and ICESat-2 Deputy Project Scientist Tom Neumann recall some of the highlights and challenges from the recent 88-South Antarctic Traverse, which provided elevation data support for the upcoming...
NASA
NASA | Big Ozone Holes Headed For Extinction By 2040
The next three decades will see an end of the era of big ozone holes. In a new study, scientists from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center say that the ozone hole will be consistently smaller than 8 million square miles by the year 2040....
NASA
NASA Scientists Trek to the South Pole
With extreme cold-weather gear, scientific instruments, and two tank-like snow machines called PistenBullys, they begin a traverse on Dec. 21 along section of the 88-degree south latitude line in an arc around the South Pole, documenting...
NASA
88-South Antarctic Traverse: Year Two
For the second straight year, NASA researchers (Kelly Brunt and Adam Greeley) endured low temperatures, biting winds, and high altitude to conduct another 88-South Traverse. The 470-mile expedition in one of the most barren landscapes on...
NASA
International Observe the Moon Night 2021
Friends from across the world will #ObserveTheMoon this Saturday evening, Oct. 16, 2021. Hear from a few of them and comment to let us know what observing the Moon means to you! Music: "A Better World" by L. Minelli via Universal...
NASA
Unusual Winds Drive a Small 2019 Ozone Hole
Every year, NASA and NOAA track the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica as it grows to its annual winter maximum. This year, the hole was smaller than expected, due to an unusual weather pattern in the stratosphere. Music credit:...
Guinness World Records
Teenager's Journey to the South Pole: Inspiring Adventure and Personal Achievements
In this video, Lewis Clarke, a 16-year-old from Bristol, shares her experience of being the youngest person to trek to the South Pole. He discusses his motivation, challenges faced, and the mixed emotions he felt upon completing the...
Wonderscape
Science Kids: Bacteria
This video discusses the characteristics, classification, history, and importance of bacteria. It explains how bacteria are everywhere and play a crucial role in our bodies, the environment, and even in the production of food. It also...
Curated Video
Electric Motor: How Current and Magnetic Fields Cause Rotation
The video is a lecture on electric motors, covering how a current carrying conductor placed in a magnetic field can cause rotation due to the motor effect, which is the force experienced by a current carrying wire in a magnetic field....