TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How high altitude affects your body | Andrew Lovering
If you teleported from sea level to the top of Mount Everest, things would go bad fast. At an altitude of 8,848 meters, you would likely suffocate in minutes. However, for people that make this journey over the course of a month, it's...
SciShow
Why Do Planes Fly So High?
We've all been flying high ever since the development of the jet engine in the mid-1950s. But why were jets were designed to fly at those high altitudes in the first place?
Curated Video
The Sardine Run
Witness the action at positive and negative altitudes as predators from above and below hunt millions of sardines off the coast of Africa. Maths - Number A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the curriculum....
Curated Video
Tundra
Find out what animals and plants do to survive in Earth's coldest biome. Biology - Ecosystems - Learning Points. The tundra is Earth's coldest biome. The Arctic tundra is found near the North Pole. The alpine tundra is found around the...
TMW Media
Traveling Desert Sand: What equipment is used to measure sand storms
What are the three ways of measuring sand clouds? When measuring a sand cloud, what key points do scientists determine? Traveling Desert Sand, Part 2
NASA
NASA in Silicon Valley: Solving the Mystery of Pluto’s Giant Blades of Ice: Podcast
A feature from NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on September 26, 2017.
Brian McLogan
How to use the altitude of similar triangles to find the missing length
👉 Learn how to solve with similar triangles. Two triangles are said to be similar if the corresponding angles are congruent (equal). Note that two triangles are similar does not imply that the length of the sides are equal but the sides...
Brian McLogan
Special segments of similar triangles Altitude
👉 Learn how to find the missing measure of a segment. A segment is a line that has two endpoints. A segment can be subdivided into several portions. The length of the segment is the sum of all the sub-divisions of the segment. Thus, when...
The March of Time
1964: SUPERSONIC TRANSPORT (SST)
MOT 1964: SUPERSONIC TRANSPORT (SST): Lockheed Aircraft executive Robert Bailey at desk, SOT talking about commercial L-2000 model on desk, 1800 to 2000 mph, development, challenges for exterior heat, propulsion system, REVERSE PAN Edge...
NASA
IMPACTS 2022: NASA Planes Fly into Snowstorms to Study Snowfall
NASA’s Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Storms (IMPACTS) mission, which began in January and is planned to wrap up at the end of February, has seen upwards of 10 flights so far. Ultimately,...
Curated Video
Peru, the Amazon Basin and Cocama tribes
The Peruvian Amazon jungle is one of the most biologically diverse areas on Earth. As a nation, Peru has the largest number of bird species in the world and the third-largest number of mammals; 44% of bird species and 63% of mammal...
Next Animation Studio
Tibetan Plateau ideal position for powerful observatory to bridge East-West divide
The world’s most powerful astronomical observatories are currently almost all located in the Western Hemisphere, but a new study proposes that the Tibetan Plateau in China provides ideal conditions for large telescopes built in the East.
Professor Dave Explains
Special Lines in Triangles: Bisectors, Medians, and Altitudes
Working with triangles.
Brian McLogan
How to use the altitude of a triangle and similarity to determine missing values
👉 Learn how to solve with similar triangles. Two triangles are said to be similar if the corresponding angles are congruent (equal). Note that two triangles are similar does not imply that the length of the sides are equal but the sides...
Getty Images
Clouds quickly drift above snowy mountains.
Clouds quickly drift above snowy mountains.
Getty Images
CGI virtual tour of Vesta asteroid craters
/ CGIl black and white tour of Vesta's south polar basin / color imagery highlighting the topography of the Rheasilvia basin, with red indicating higher altitudes and blue indicating lower altitudes / 'snowman' set of craters in Vesta's...
Getty Images
Mists cover the snow-capped peaks of a mountain range.
Mists cover the snow-capped peaks of a mountain range.
Bloomberg
Pilot Who Survived Space Crash: Parachute Opened Itself
Nov. 13 -- The lone survivor of the Virgin Galactic crash is out of the hospital and telling a harrowing story of how he was flung from the spacecraft and only saved when his parachute automatically deployed. Bloomberg's Alan Levin...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN: Football: Australia first World Cup qualifiers to arrive
CLEAN: Football: Australia first World Cup qualifiers to arrive