Rachael Kroodsma is the instrument scientist for the CoSMIR on board NASA's DC-8 airborne laboratory as part of the OLYMPEX field campaign.



From November 10 through December 21, NASA and university scientists are taking...

The need for measuring the when and where and how much of precipitation goes beyond our weekend plans. We also need to know precipitaiton on a global scale. Rain gauges and radars are useful but are inconsistent and do not cover enough...

The allure of a Yosemite river on a hot day can mask its dangers: inviting pools can have deceptively swift currents and slippery rocks.

The future tense in English is not simple. When we talk about the Future Simple, we need to consider the auxiliary "will" plus the base of a verb. Instead, English offers also another important future tense structure "going to", which...

Join Bella and Beans as they sing 'Rain Rain Go Away' and 'Itsy, Bitsy Spider'. Nursery Rhyme Songs are so much fun. Sing along with us Jigglers. Bella & Beans are here to help.

Water on Earth focuses on water as most kids would think about it. We start with water in obvious locations such as oceans, lakes, and rivers. We quickly learn that water can change phase to remain a solid in glaciers. Many kids may be...

Srini Mandavilli is a practicing pathologist with expertise in gynecologic pathology. He has recently published a chapbook “Gods in the Foyer” and has poems published in Freshwater, SN Review, Caduceus, Drunken Boat, Theodate, The...

The Itsy Bitsy Spider Song! Kids will love to sing and watch this favorite nursery rhyme. They can do actions and sing along with the song while they watch.

The Itsy Bitsy Spider climbed up the water s
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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...

The Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) built by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission's Core Observatory arrived on Friday, March 16 and was unloaded today at NASA's...

NASA scientists can measure the size and shape distribution of snow particles, layer by layer, in a storm. The Global Precipitation Measurement mission is an international satellite project that provides next-generation observations of...

The varied landscapes of the United States have unique relationships with water. On the East Coast, rain is a regular occurrence. In the West, drought is a constant threat. Rivers and lakes fed by rainfall, snowmelt or a mix...

In this video, Jabzy brings us historical tidbits and unknown facts about Ninja Training

Erika L. Sanchez reads her poem "Saudade

This video is answering the question of how hot is lightning.

Learn 20 common English phrases for describing things using common English similes. Feel free to write your own similes in the comments section below.

Once upon a time, there was a chief who had a daughter so beautiful that she drew the attention of both Fire and Rain. She wanted to marry Rain, but her father agreed to marry her off to Fire. This led to an epic competition between the...

Every year millions of tons of dust from the Sahara Desert are swirled up into the atmosphere by easterly trade winds, and carried across the Atlantic. The plumes can make their way from the African continent as far as...

NASA has a unique and important view of hurricanes around the planet. Satellites and aircraft watch as storms form, travel across the ocean and sometimes, make landfall. After the hurricanes have passed, the satellites...

NASA finishes campaign to study extreme rain, snow and winds of the Olympic National Forest. Scientists Walt Petersen of NASA Marshall and Robert Houze of the University of Washington narrate this inside look at the Olympic Mountain...

NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement mission, or GPM, a joint NASA/JAXA mission, will provide rainfall data on storms and hurricanes like Irene that move out of the tropics. The data will be available when the GPM Core Observatory...

Built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., the GPM spacecraft travelled roughly 7,300 miles (11,750 kilometers) to its launch site at Tanegashima Space Center on Tanegashima Island, Japan, where it is scheduled for...

This video is about Confusing words in English: #all, #every and #each. All is used when you are thinking of a collection as a whole rather than its individual items. Every is used to refer to each individual item. We use each of (not...

This video is answering the question of what Is Uluru.