Podcast23:53
NASA

‎NASA in Silicon Valley: Erin Flynn-Evans, Fatigue Countermeasures: NASA in Silicon Valley Podcast

Pre-K - Higher Ed
A conversation with Dr. Erin Flynn-Evans, Research Psychologist and the Director of the Fatigue Countermeasures Laboratory at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.
Podcast23:17
NASA

Gravity Assist: Puffy Planets, Powerful Telescopes, with Knicole Colon

Pre-K - Higher Ed
NASA astrophysicist Knicole Colon describes her work on the Kepler, Hubble, TESS and Webb missions, and takes us on a tour of some of her favorite planets.
Podcast22:04
NASA

Gravity Assist: Astronauts Go Back to Moon School, with Kelsey Young

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Besides learning how to live in space, astronauts training for Artemis missions to the Moon will need to become experts in geology, so they know what to look for when they're scoping out rocks and other features. Kelsey Young of NASA's...
Podcast29:31
NASA

‎On a Mission: True Grit on the Road to Mars

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Space missions often defy the odds, overcoming all obstacles. The people who work on these missions also face challenges to get where they are today. Marleen Martinez Sundgaard, the testbed lead for InSight, personifies this tenacious...
Podcast24:24
NASA

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 70, Lucy Mission Small Steps, Giant Leaps

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Lucy Deputy Project Systems Engineer Mike Sekerak discusses the first space mission to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroid swarms.
Podcast50:28
NASA

‎Houston We Have a Podcast: Your 2017 Astronaut Class

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Anne Roemer, Manager of the Astronaut Selection Office at the NASA Johnson Space Center, talks about the new Astronaut Class of 2017: who they are, what they bring to the table and why these 12 people were chosen out of more than 18,000...
Podcast59:45
NASA

‎Houston We Have a Podcast: The International Space Station Begins: Part 1

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Doug Drewry, former FGB Program Manager, discusses leading the joint U.S and Russian teams during the development and launch of Zarya, the first element of the International Space Station, for its 20th anniversary in space. HWHAP Episode...
Podcast53:30
NASA

‎Houston We Have a Podcast: Making It Work in Space

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Brandon Vessey and Cherie Oubre discuss how they integrate and manage all the human research work in areas such as human performance, health, and radiation for research on the International Space Station, on Earth, and for future space...
Podcast19:42
NASA

‎NASA's Curious Universe: Webb Space Telescope: The Global Village

Pre-K - Higher Ed
A scientist from Italy who studies baby stars. A Californian spacecraft refrigeration pioneer. A Dominican-American engineer who saw space as her refuge from a tough life at home. Meet three people who represent a small slice of the...
Instructional Video3:49
NASA

NASA’s New Scientific Breakdown of Dramatic Caldor and Dixie Fires

K - 11th
This visualization shows the spread of the Caldor fire between August 15 and October 6, 2021, and the Dixie fire between July 14 and October 22, 2021, updated every 12 hours from a new fire detection and tracking approach based on...
Instructional Video4:23
NASA

NASA | Dynamic Earth Excerpt: Viz Challenge Winner

3rd - 11th
Watch Earth's magnetic shield protect the planet from a pelting by the solar wind. See how the sun's energy drives a remarkable planetary engine, the climate. This video, originally created by NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio as...
Instructional Video3:33
NASA

NASA Team Explores Using LISA Pathfinder as a 'Comet Crumb' Detector

3rd - 11th
LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by the European Space Agency (ESA) with contributions from NASA, has successfully demonstrated critical technologies needed to build a space-based observatory for detecting ripples in space-time called...
Instructional Video2:37
NASA

NASA Goddard Hosts 'STEM Girls Night In'

3rd - 11th
The 2018 "STEM Girls Night In," held Nov. 2-3, 2018, at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, had about 40 young participants who designed and built Mars rover models, spoke with astronaut Jeanette Epps and supported...
Instructional Video2:46
NASA

NASA Explores Earth's Magnetic 'Dent'

3rd - 11th
Earth’s magnetic field acts like a protective shield around the planet, repelling and trapping charged particles from the Sun. But over South America and the southern Atlantic Ocean, an unusually weak spot in the field – called the South...
Instructional Video2:38
NASA

NASA | Observing Comet Siding Spring at Mars

3rd - 11th
Follow Comet Siding Spring at #MarsComet On October 19, Comet Siding Spring will pass within 88,000 miles of Mars – just one third of the distance from the Earth to the Moon! Traveling at 33 miles per second and weighing as much as a...
Instructional Video2:54
NASA

NASA | The Global Hawk Eyes for Science

3rd - 11th
NASA pilots and flight engineers, together with colleagues from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), have successfully completed the first science flight of the Global Hawk aircraft over the Pacific Ocean. The...
Instructional Video3:57
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NASA | Propylene on Titan

3rd - 11th
With a thick atmosphere, clouds, a rain cycle and giant lakes, Saturn's large moon Titan is a surprisingly Earthlike place. But unlike on Earth, Titan's surface is far too cold for liquid water - instead, Titan's clouds, rain, and lakes...
Instructional Video4:00
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NASA | Missions Take an Unparalleled Look into Superstar Eta Carinae

3rd - 11th
Eta Carinae is a binary system containing the most luminous and massive star within 10,000 light-years. A long-term study led by astronomers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, combined data from NASA...
Instructional Video5:27
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NASA | Highlights of Swift's Decade of Discovery

3rd - 11th
NASA's Swift satellite rode to orbit aboard a Delta II rocket on November 20, 2004, and it's still going strong. Swift's unique instrumentation allows it to quickly locate an interesting high-energy outburst, automatically determine its...
Instructional Video4:32
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NASA | Earth Science Week: Melting Ice, Rising Seas

3rd - 11th
"Melting Ice, Rising Seas" is Episode 5 in the six-part series "Tides of Change", exploring amazing NASA ocean science to celebrate Earth Science Week 2009. Sea level rise is an indicator that our planet is warming. Much of the world's...
Instructional Video4:27
NASA

NASA | Dynamic Earth

3rd - 11th
This was the version submitted to the 2013 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. For the original version, with a narration by Liam Neeson, go here: Watch Earth's magnetic shield protect the planet from a pelting by the solar...
Instructional Video3:12
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NASA | Fermi Provides New Insights on Dark Matter

3rd - 11th
There's more to the cosmos than meets the eye. About 80 percent of the matter in the universe is invisible to telescopes, yet its gravitational influence is manifest in the orbital speeds of stars around galaxies and in the motions of...
Instructional Video2:21
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NASA | Fermi Detects Gamma Rays from a Solar Flare

3rd - 11th
During a powerful solar blast in March, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected the highest-energy light ever associated with an eruption on the sun. The discovery heralds Fermi's new role as a solar observatory, a powerful new...
Instructional Video1:55
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NASA | Earth’s Oceans Show Decline In Microscopic Plant Life

3rd - 11th
The world's oceans have seen significant declines in certain types of microscopic plant-life at the base of the marine food chain, according to a new NASA study. The research is the first to look at global, long-term phytoplankton...