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NASA | ESW12 Career Spotlight: Christy Hansen
Join Operation IceBridge Project Manager Christy Hansen on location near Antarctica as she discusses her career at NASA. Hansen, who began in NASA's space flight program, recently joined the Operation IceBridge team. As Project Manager,...
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Water in Helheim Glacier Makes Its Way to the Ocean
New NASA research found that large crevasses provide aquifer water upstream of Greenland's Helheim Glacier with a clear escape to the ocean. This discovery helps confirm that the water, which is held in a layer of crunchy, granular snow...
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NASA | Operation IceBridge Antarctica 2011 Mission Preview
In preparation for Operation IceBridge's Antarctica 2011 campaign, flight crews at NASA Dryden worked to outfit the DC-8 aircraft -- NASA's long-haul "workhorse" -- with an array of different instruments designed to measure sea ice, ice...
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NASA Views Laser Landscapes of Helheim Glacier
What if you could measure a glacier in such detail that you could visualize its surface in 3D? And what if you could compare that view with data from one, two, even 20 years ago? NASA airborne campaigns like Operation IceBridge have been...
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Massive Crater Discovered Under Greenland Ice
In a remote area of northwest Greenland, an international team of scientists has made a stunning discovery, buried beneath a kilometer of ice. It’s a meteor impact crater, 300 meters deep and bigger than Paris or the Beltway around...
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AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C02) Exam Prep Course - 2021 UPDATED! - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Storage Services
This video explains the advanced storage services and other computing services offered by AWS This clip is from the chapter "Solutions Architect Chapter 2 – Amazon Web Services (AWS) Storage Design" of the series "AWS Solutions Architect...
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AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C02) Exam Prep Course - 2021 UPDATED! - Performant Design
This video explains the best practices used for performant design. This clip is from the chapter "Solutions Architect Chapter 15 - Operational Excellence with Amazon Web Services (AWS)" of the series "AWS Solutions Architect Associate...
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NASA | Laser Mapping The Earth
NASA scientist Bryan Blair introduces a laser mapping sensor known as LVIS (the Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor), which is flown by aircraft over target areas to collect data on surface topography and vegetation cover. Bryan also...
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C02) Exam Prep Course - Storage Gateway
This video introduces you to storage gateway. This clip is from the chapter "High Performance Architectures" of the series "AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C02) Exam Prep Course".This video introduces you to the section.
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Water Smart: Water on Earth - Lakes
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...
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AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C02) Exam Prep Course - 2021 UPDATED! - Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Advanced Features
This video explains some of the most advanced features of Amazon S3. This clip is from the chapter "Solutions Architect Chapter 2 – Amazon Web Services (AWS) Storage Design" of the series "AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C02) Exam...
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NASA | Warm Ocean Melting Pine Island Glacier
For five years an international team of experts, led by NASA emeritus glaciologist Robert Bindschadler and funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA, planned and orchestrated a mission to drill through the floating ice shelf of...
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ATom Postcard - Azore Islands to Kangerlussuaq
Atmospheric scientists Bernadett Weinzierl of the University of Vienna, Paul Newman of Goddard Space Flight Center, and Róisín Commane of Harvard University sent back a video postcard from the last three legs of the Atmospheric...
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ICESat-2 Celebrates One Year for Photon Phriday
Photon Phriday is a weekly look at what ICESat-2 is measuring as it orbits the Earth. ICESat-2 Project Scientist Tom Neumann takes a look back at some recent passes in celebration of the first year on orbit for the mission. Follow...
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AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C02) Exam Prep Course - 2021 UPDATED! - Endpoints
This video explains how AWS uses the term endpoint to access other services indirectly. This clip is from the chapter "Solutions Architect Chapter 3 - Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)" of the series "AWS Solutions Architect Associate...
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NASA | Rising Seas: Science on the Greenland Ice Sheet
Enjoy a deep dive into sea level rise research as NASA scientists and their colleagues discuss their research on and around the Greenland Ice Sheet.
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NASA | Petermann Ice Island 2012
This time-lapse video shows the calving of an ice island from Greenland's Petermann Glacier and the drifting of the ice down the fjord and southward through Nares Strait. The images were captured between July 9 and September 13, 2012, by...
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Field Study Sheds New Light on Melt Zone
Five years after a NASA-funded field study returned to to set up camp once again in the melt zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet, a new study adds to the rich findings from this innovative project. We look back on this bold undertaking,...
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C02) Exam Prep Course - Some Key Services of AWS
This video explains some key services of AWS. This clip is from the chapter "The Basics of Cloud with AWS" of the series "AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C02) Exam Prep Course".This section introduces you to the basics...
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NASA | A Laser Scientist Answers 5 Questions About LVIS
With winter closing in, a new NASA airborne campaign launched October 31, 2013 in Greenland. For the first time, the Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor, or LVIS, is flying about NASA's new C-130 aircraft to measure the island's ice...
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Landsat 9 At Work
Landsat 9, which NASA is launching in September 2021, will collect the highest quality data ever recorded by a Landsat satellite, while still ensuring that these new measurements can be compared to those taken by previous generations of...
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IceBridge Flies 300 Hours of Antarctic Science Flights
Flying low over the Earth’s southernmost continent, Operation IceBridge is wrapping up its eighth consecutive field season of mapping the ice sheet and glaciers of Antarctica, as well as the surrounding sea ice. With more than 300 hours...
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NASA | IceBridge Flies High over Both Poles
For the first time NASA’s Operation IceBridge is flying simultaneous missions over both the Arctic and Antarctic, on smaller, faster aircraft. These campaigns and aircraft represent both a unique opportunity for measuring polar ice, and...
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NASA | Keeping a Close Eye on Jakobshavn
Jakobshavn Glacier, one of the fastest moving glaciers in Greenland, has been the focus of IceBridge survey flights for five consecutive years. Here, images from an IceBridge mission on Apr. 4, 2013 and video footage from the 2012 Arctic...