NASA
Gravity Assist: Exploring Mars with Spirit and Opportunity with Steve Squyres
NASA’s Spirit and Opportunity rovers were only supposed to rove around Mars for 90 days. Listen in with Steve Squyers from Cornell University as he recounts the amazing discoveries we’ve made about the Red Planet because of these two...
NASA
Gravity Assist: Set Sail for Europa, with Bob Pappalardo
NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will give us the most detailed look yet at Jupiter’s extraordinary moon Europa.
NASA
Q&A: Hubble Finds Evidence of Possible Exomoon
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble and Kepler space telescopes have uncovered tantalizing evidence for what could be a moon orbiting a gas-giant planet that orbits the star Kepler 1625, located 8,000 light-years away in the constellation...
NASA
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 9, Mars Opportunity Rover Mission Small Steps, Giant Leaps
Abigail Fraeman, deputy project scientist on the Mars Exploration Rover mission, discusses the Opportunity rover mission.
Visual Learning Systems
Our Distant Neighbors: Introduction
Upon viewing the Our Distant Neighbors video series, students will be able to do the following: Create a simple diagram of the sun and the orbital paths of each planet around the sun. Label each of the eight planets. Explain that the sun...
NASA
Hubble Observes Atmospheres of TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets in the Habitable Zone
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have conducted the first spectroscopic survey of Earth-sized planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system's habitable zone. Hubble reveals that at least the inner five planets do not seem to contain...
Learning Mole
Earth
This animated video is all about earth's only natural satellite - The Moon. Students will love this engaging and interactive video.
Next Animation Studio
Scientists find cluster of underwater lakes on Mars
Scientists have found a network of salty liquid water lakes on Mars beneath the planet’s south pole, according to new research published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy.
NASA
NASA's Curious Universe: We're Going to Mars!
In this episode of our Curious Universe podcast, join us on a journey to the Red Planet.
NASA
Earth Climate Models Bring Exoplanet To Life
In a generic brick building on the northwestern edge of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center campus in Greenbelt, Maryland, thousands of computers packed in racks the size of vending machines hum in a deafening chorus of data crunching....
NASA
How to Find a Living Planet
The more we see other planets, the more the question comes into focus: Maybe we're the weird one? Decades of observing Earth from space has informed our search for signs of habitability and life on exoplanets and even planets in our own...
Mazz Media
Heat of Vaporization
This program begins by defining heat of vaporization is the amount of heat that must be added or given off to vaporize one gram or kilogram of a substance and is expressed as J/g or J/kg. Through real, live footage and animation,...
Schooling Online
Chemistry Properties and Structure of Matter: Properties of Matter - Separation Techniques Part 2
But why is the rum gone? Don’t worry, pirates. Long Jane Silver is refilling the rum barrels. Elsewhere, Blackbeard and Cookie the Chef have a showdown. Who is the best separator of seawater across the seven seas? This lesson will...
Professor Dave Explains
Practice Problem: Calculating Free Energy Change
We know that the free energy change associated with a process will tell us whether it is spontaneous or not. And we also know that this depends on the change in enthalpy and the change in entropy for that process, as well as the...
NASA
Greenland's Extreme Melt, 1 Year Later
Last spring, NASA’s Operation IceBridge flew over one of Greenland’s earliest melt seasons on record. This year, the melt is progressing more typically, despite warm temperatures in the Arctic. Brooke Medley reflects on the differences...
NASA
Ocean Worlds: The Search for Life
Life as we know it requires three ingredients: energy, organic molecules, and liquid water. Astrobiology, our search for life beyond Earth, is a search for planets, dwarf planets, and moons that harbor substantial liquid water. We call...
Maddie Moate
How Do Rainforests Make Clouds? | Maddie Moate
We were lucky enough to get early access to THE WORLD'S LARGEST INDOOR TROPICAL RAINFOREST at The Eden Project. Whilst playing on the awesome cloud bridge we thought what better question to tackle than...How do Rainforests Make Clouds?!...
NASA
On a Mission: Season Two, Episode 8: Diamonds in the Ice
Every year, intrepid Antarctica explorers hunt for space rocks that have fallen to Earth.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Britannica Insights: Summer Weather
Learn about why thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, and other weather phenomena typically form during the summer.
NASA
Is There Water on Mars? We Asked a NASA Scientist
Is there water on Mars? There sure is! It’s not exactly like water on Earth, but Martian H20 can tell us a lot about the planet’s distant past while potentially aiding explorers in the future. Some of the water is even trapped inside...
Mazz Media
Solar Energy
This live-action video program is about the word Solar Energy. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word Solar Energy through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and...
Next Animation Studio
Scientists confused by all the water they’re finding on Mars
Researchers looked at radar data and found there’s even more liquid-water lakes under Mars — or there may be something going on inside Mars that they don't fully understand.
Schooling Online
Chemistry Properties and Structure of Matter: Properties of Matter - Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Mixtures
Life is tough for thirsty pirates – the sea is filled with water that can’t be drunk! Thankfully, Blackbeard has figured out a trick. This lesson will compare heterogeneous and homogeneous mixtures. We’ll also look at solutions, which...
Visual Learning Systems
Physical Changes: Freezing and Melting
If you have ever torn up a piece of paper or seen ice melt, then you have witnessed physical changes. This fascinating program helps students understand some of the different ways matter changes physically. Vivid animations also...