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A seven-minute tour of Earth's most impressive landscapes as captured by astronauts with their digital cameras. Dr. Justin Wilkinson from NASA's astronaut team describes the special places that spacemen focus on whenever they get a moment.
May 26, 2011 at 11:33 PM
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Ages: 10 - 18
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Home to millions of species, Earth is the only place in the universe where life is known to exist. Scientific evidence indicates that the planet formed 4.54 billion years ago, and life appeared on its surface within a billion years. (10:04)
June 6, 2011 at 11:03 PM
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Long before the 23 Degrees team shadows have been a significant indicator to the geometry of our planet's position around the sun and in this two minute video students can learn how to determine the tilt of the Earth using their own height on the Sum...mer Solstice.
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June 20, 2011 at 10:32 PM
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Ages: 8 - 18
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These high-res time-lapse sequences captured by astronauts aboard the International Space Station give us a beautiful and clear view of some well-known coastlines and countries around the world. Get a good look at England, France, Italy, Egypt, Alger...ia, Tunisia, Greece, the island of Crete, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, the United States, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Cuba, and more. (03:47)
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December 21, 2011 at 05:21 PM
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Ages: 10 - 18
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A shuttle mission to map planet earth might change our perspective of life itself. (47:07)
April 17, 2012 at 05:08 PM
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Ages: 10 - 18
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Sal Khan discusses how the Earth is a the by-product of a local supernova. (10:08)
June 2, 2012 at 03:23 PM
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Ages: 11 - 18
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From the ISS, We fly along over Earth's luminous nocturnal landscapes, with Dr. Justin Wilkinson as our guide. This intimate tour takes us over cities and coastlines in the Americas, the Middle East and Europe. (04:49)
October 2, 2012 at 07:45 PM
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Ages: 8 - 18
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This entertaining video explains how we know the Earth is round. (02:42)
December 28, 2012 at 11:54 AM
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Ages: 10 - 18
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Taking advantage of new satellite capabilities, scientists from NASA and NOAA released new imagery of Earth at night, providing a counterpart to the iconic "Blue Marble" image of the planet during the day. The imagery was generated by a sensor carrie...d aboard the NASA-NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite, known as the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, or VIIRS. It is sensitive enough to detect the nocturnal glow produced by the Earth's atmosphere. The day-night band from VIIRS is helping scientists monitor carbon emissions from natural gas and oil drilling operations, since it can detect flaring operations at night. The data has proven useful for monitoring wildfires, and has even provided a rare glimpse into upper atmospheric waves that can be generated from massive complexes of thunderstorms.
The sensor doesn't operate like a typical camera, which takes a picture in a single exposure. Rather, it produces an image by repeatedly scanning a scene and resolving it as millions of pixels. It then reviews the amount of light present in each pixel, amplifying very dark pixels and limiting the saturation of very bright pixels. (01:54)
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January 13, 2013 at 10:04 AM
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Ages: 13 - 18
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Explore how the earth's motion in space causes the earth's axis to remain stable just like a spinning top with the poles of our planet pointing in general towards the same place in the sky.
Vocabulary Focus:
Polestar, Precession
Concept Focus:
... Compare the Earth's motion in space and explain why we MUST have polestars.
Think of a top spinning... what happens to tops that can be compared to the precession of the Earth's axis?
Research and explain an easy way to locate the North Star.
Download this video and follow the lesson plans at: http://sciencewithhiggins.com/classes/astronomy/motion-of-the-sky/
(6:32) Justin Higgins
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November 21, 2013 at 01:40 PM
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