Podcast21:36
NASA

‎NASA in Silicon Valley: Bruce Yost Talks About Small Satellite Collaboration with NASA

Pre-K - Higher Ed
A conversation with Bruce Yost, the Director of the Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute (or S3VI) at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.
Podcast6:42
NASA

‎NASA in Silicon Valley: Know Thy Star, Know Thy Planet: NASA in Silicon Valley Podcast

Pre-K - Higher Ed
A feature story from NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on September 14, 2016.
Instructional Video4:14
NASA

Searching for Signs of Life on Mars

3rd - 11th
ESA's (The European Space Agency) ExoMars rover is headed to the red planet in 2020, on a mission to search for signs of past or present life. One of its primary tools in this endeavor is MOMA, the Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer. MOMA is...
Instructional Video3:50
NASA

OSIRIS-REx Tech - Surveying an Asteroid with X-rays

3rd - 11th
NASAs OSIRIS-REx mission launches in September 2016 and plans to return a sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023. This video profiles a student-built instrument aboard the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft called REXIS - the Regolith X-Ray...
Instructional Video4:36
NASA

NASA Referees Test of Footballs vs. Webb Telescope

3rd - 11th
While two football teams will be put to the test at Super Bowl LI in Houston, engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, are testing the most powerful space telescope ever built, the James Webb Space...
Instructional Video58:31
NASA

NASA Hangout: All Eyes on the Sun

3rd - 11th
On March 29, 2014, an X-class flare burst off the right side of the sun . . . and NASA was watching. Coordinating their observations, five NASA observatories and one ground-based telescope were able to see things in the flare they'd...
Instructional Video5:17
NASA

NASA | TIRS: The Thermal InfraRed Sensor on LDCM

3rd - 11th
The Thermal InfraRed Sensor (TIRS) is one of the instruments on the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite. It will continue the archive of thermal imaging and support emerging applications such as evapotranspiration rate...
Instructional Video3:06
NASA

NASA | Take a "Swift" Tour of the Andromeda Galaxy

3rd - 11th
NASA's Swift satellite has acquired the highest-resolution view of the neighboring spiral galaxy M31. Also known as the Andromeda Galaxy, M31 is the largest and closest such galaxy to our own. It's more than 220,000 light-years across...
Instructional Video4:01
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NASA | Supercomputer Shows How an Exoplanet Makes Waves

3rd - 11th
A new NASA supercomputer simulation of the planet and debris disk around the nearby star Beta Pictoris reveals that the planet's motion drives spiral waves throughout the disk, a phenomenon that greatly increases collisions among the...
Instructional Video2:51
NASA

NASA | The Women of Astronomy

3rd - 11th
Space science research institutions have traditionally been populated by a strong male workforce, but this structure is rapidly changing. Todays workforce is much more diverse with individuals from various cultures and backgrounds, a...
Instructional Video3:44
NASA

NASA | Developing a Comet Harpoon for Sample Return

3rd - 11th
The Comet Nucleus Sample Return mission will collect subsurface samples from a comet and return them to Earth. Comets and asteroids are leftover remnants from the early solar system and by studying samples from these objects, we can...
Instructional Video3:02
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NASA | IBEX Spacecraft Observes Matter from Interstellar Space

3rd - 11th
A great magnetic bubble surrounds the solar system as it cruises through the galaxy. The sun pumps the inside of the bubble full of solar particles that stream out to the edge until they collide with the material that fills the rest of...
Instructional Video3:21
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NASA | Alien Atmospheres

3rd - 11th
Since the early 1990's, astronomers have known that extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets," orbit stars light-years beyond our own solar system. Although most exoplanets are too distant to be directly imaged, detailed studies have been made...
Instructional Video2:33
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NASA | Afterschool Universe: Stellar Fusion Demonstration

3rd - 11th
Afterschool Universe is an out-of-school-time astronomy program for middle school students that explores basic astronomy concepts through engaging hands-on activities and then takes participants on a journey through the Universe beyond...
Instructional Video4:10
NASA

HIRMES: SOFIA's latest high-resolution Mid-infrared Spectrometer

3rd - 11th
A team from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is developing a new, third-generation facility science instrument for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA. The High Resolution Mid-InfrarEd...
Instructional Video2:38
NASA

Fermi Sees Gamma Rays from Far Side Solar Flares

3rd - 11th
An international science team says NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has observed high-energy light from solar eruptions located on the far side of the sun, which should block direct light from these events. This apparent paradox is...
Podcast44:28
NASA

‎NASA in Silicon Valley: Karen Bradford Talks About Connecting People

Pre-K - Higher Ed
A conversation with Karen Bradford, chief of staff for the center director at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.
Podcast30:20
NASA

‎NASA in Silicon Valley: Charlie Sobeck Talks About Kepler’s Upcoming End of Flight

Pre-K - Higher Ed
A conversation with Charlie Sobeck, Kepler’s former mission manager and now system engineer at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.
Podcast7:00
NASA

‎NASA in Silicon Valley: Doing Science with Transits and Occultations: Podcast

Pre-K - Higher Ed
A feature from NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on August 17, 2017.
Podcast23:26
NASA

‎NASA in Silicon Valley: Yvonne Pendleton Talks About Building A Dream Team For Exploring The Solar System

Pre-K - Higher Ed
A conversation with Dr. Yvonne Pendleton, the Director of the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI).
Podcast27:06
NASA

Gravity Assist: TESS & Exoplanets with Martin Still

Pre-K - Higher Ed
On Monday, April 16th, NASA is scheduled to launch its newest exoplanet hunter: the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).
Podcast30:00
NASA

Gravity Assist: Science & Science Fiction with Andy Weir

Pre-K - Higher Ed
NASA’s Jim Green and bestselling author Andy Weir explore the fascinating intersection of science and science fiction.
Podcast38:30
NASA

‎On a Mission: Season 3, Episode 5: Frozen in Time

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Bundle up! We’ll be diving into ice-covered waters with an upside-down robot, and exploring Greenland’s massive ice sheet with oceanographer Josh Willis.
Podcast52:45
NASA

‎Houston We Have a Podcast: The International Space Station and Beyond

Pre-K - Higher Ed
NASA experts Robyn Gatens, Jennifer Fogarty, and Laura Shaw explore how the International Space Station has enabled scientific and technological advancement that has benefitted humanity on Earth and framed the future of space exploration...