Visual Learning Systems
The Tall Grass Prairie
Join us on a journey through the tall grass prairie, a remarkable grassland that once spanned across Iowa, parts of Illinois, Missouri, and Minnesota. In this video, we delve into the rich history, diverse plant and animal life, and the...
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For 15 Years, GRACE Tracked Freshwater Movements Around the World
Between 2002 and 2016, the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) tracked the movement of freshwater around the planet. NASA scientists used GRACE data to identify regional trends of freshwater movement, and combined that...
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Using Precipitation Data to Assess Risk of Cholera Outbreaks
A new modeling approach using satellite data will likely to enhance our ability to develop cholera risk maps in several regions of the globe. The model (GCRM) is based on monthly air temperature, precipitation, availability of WASH...
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NASA | Water for Tea: Part I
View "Water for Tea: Part II" at:One of the critical components of the Earth's hydrological cycle is precipitation. Rainfall is essential for providing the fresh water that sustains life. Water cycling and the future availability of...
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NASA | TRMM at 15: The Reign of Rain
TRMM Project Scientist Scott Braun looks back at the legacy of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and a few of the major scientific milestones the satellite has helped achieve.
Curated Video
The Cycling of Life: Understanding the Carbon, Water, and Organic Material Cycles in Ecosystems
This video discusses the importance of material recycling in ecosystems, specifically focusing on the carbon and water cycles and the process of decomposition. It explains how plants play a crucial role in the carbon cycle by removing...
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NASA | GPM: The Fresh(water) Connection
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) is an international satellite mission to provide next-generation observations of rain and snow worldwide every three hours. NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will launch a...
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Guiding Farmers With NASA Satellites
Agriculture in Pakistan is dependent on irrigation from the Indus River. But over the years, these freshwater resources have become scarce. Today, it is one of the world’s most depleted basins. To tackle this, farmers are attempting to...
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NASA Tracks the Arizona Bush Fire
On the afternoon of June 13, 2020, a vehicle fire near the intersection of Bush Highway and State Route 87 ignited the brush and grass nearby. As of June 25, 2020, the Bush Fire is one of the five largest fires in Arizona's history....
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NASA | Water for Tea: Part II
View "Water for Tea: Part I" at:One of the critical components of the Earth's hydrological cycle is precipitation. Rainfall is essential for providing the fresh water that sustains life. Water cycling and the future availability of fresh...
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NASA | TRMM Mission Ends
In 1997 when the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM, was launched, its mission was scheduled to last just a few years. Now, 17 years later, the TRMM mission has come to an end. NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency...
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NASA | Show Me the Water
Freshwater seems abundant, but when accounting for all the water on Earth, it's in limited supply. Just three percent of the water on our planet is freshwater. A majority of this water, about two percent of the world total, is contained...
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NASA | Researchers Gear Up for OLYMPEX
The Olympic Mountain Experiment, or OLYMPEX, is a NASA-led field campaign, which will take place on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State from November 2015 through February 2016. The goal of the campaign is to collect detailed...
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NASA | OLYMPEX Scientists in the Field: Joe Zagrodnik
Joe Zagrodnik is a student at the University of Washington who is working with NASA scientists to measure the properties of rain and snow in the Olympic National Park. From November 10 through December 21, NASA and university scientists...
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NASA | Anatomy of a Raindrop
This short video explains how a raindrop falls through the atmosphere and why a more accurate look at raindrops can improve estimates of global precipitation.
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NASA | IPCC Projections of Temperature and Precipitation in the 21st Century
New data visualizations from the NASA Center for Climate Simulation and NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio show how climate models -- those used in the new report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
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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,...
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Flying Over Hurricanes For New NASA Mission
NASA scientists are investigating key questions about hurricanes in a new mission from the skies. This August, the East Pacific Origins and Characteristics of Hurricanes, or EPOCH, mission will fly over East Pacific storms to better...
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Properties Of Water: Future use of water
What research is being conducted currently? How does it work? If successful, how can it help society? What careers deal with science and water?
Properties Of Water, Part 5
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NASA | GPM Wraps Up Cold Season Field Campaign
For six weeks in Ontario, Canada, scientists and engineers lead a field campaign to study the science and mechanics of falling snow. The datasets retrieved will be used to generate algorithms which translate what the GPM Core satellite...
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NASA | Making Science Fun For Kids Through Comics
To get young students reading about science, NASA is trying something different. Instead of a press release or a scientific paper, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission has launched a Japanese manga-style comic book. GPM, a...
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NASA | Earth from Orbit 2014
Every day of every year, NASA satellites provide useful data about our home planet, and along the way, some beautiful images as well. This video includes satellite images of Earth in 2014 from NASA and its partners as well as photos and...
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NASA | GPM's Stormy New View
On March 10, the Core Observatory passed over an extra-tropical cyclone On March 10, the Core Observatory passed over an extra-tropical cyclone about 1055 miles (1700 kilometers) due east of Japan's Honshu Island. Satellite data shows...
Professor Dave Explains
Practice Problem: Gravimetric Analysis
What the heck is gravimetric analysis? Well let's say we want to know how much of a substance is in some mixture. We could toss it in solution and cause it to form a precipitate with some other ion in solution. We can measure the mass of...