Weatherthings
Weather and Seasons: seasons and dressing for seasons
A little girl and her grandfather spend a summer afternoon sitting by a pond. The conversation changes from how warm the summer day is to how the pond gets cold and freezes in the winter. The grandfather helps the girl understand how the...
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Weather Things: Satellite
Weather forecasting requires observation. Beyond the things we can see, hear and sense, meteorologists need detailed data to observe distant weather, whether that is distant along the ground, or distant up into the sky. Weather...
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Weather Things: Spring
The orbit of Earth on a tilted axis around the sun leads to the seasons. The resulting change of angle of the sun, and length of day controls how warm we get at different times of the year. With those changes in seasons come changes in...
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Water Smart: Water in the Air - Clouds
Water in the Air reveals the varied phases of water that surround us, fall on us, travel in air, and serve as a crucial component of the water cycle. Emphasis is on the fact that water in air can be vapor or solid, visible or invisible,...
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Weather Things: Hurricane Safety
For their size and impact, hurricanes are often called the greatest storms on Earth. They expend a tremendous amount of energy through the water cycle, and through wind, to maintain the balance of the atmosphere. Known by different names...
Visual Learning Systems
Stars and Galaxies: Tools of Astronomy
Upon viewing the Stars and Galaxies video series, students will be able to do the following: Explain that our solar system is part of the Milky Way galaxy. Understand that the Milky Way galaxy is huge and contains billions of stars....
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Weather Things: Hurricane Formation
For their size and impact, hurricanes are often called the greatest storms on Earth. They expend a tremendous amount of energy through the water cycle, and through wind, to maintain the balance of the atmosphere. Known by different names...
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Weather Things: Seasonal Changes
The orbit of Earth on a tilted axis around the sun leads to the seasons. The resulting change of angle of the sun, and length of day controls how warm we get at different times of the year. With those changes in seasons come changes in...
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Weather Things: Causes of Seasons:
The orbit of Earth on a tilted axis around the sun leads to the seasons. The resulting change of angle of the sun, and length of day controls how warm we get at different times of the year. With those changes in seasons come changes in...
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Weather Things: Autumn
The orbit of Earth on a tilted axis around the sun leads to the seasons. The resulting change of angle of the sun, and length of day controls how warm we get at different times of the year. With those changes in seasons come changes in...
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Storms: hurricanes
Children on a playground use creativity and their imaginations to simulate the many different types of storms found on Earth. From thunderstorms to wind storms, to snow storms and rain storms, to hurricanes and tornadoes, the children...
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Weather and Seasons: sun and seasons, meteorologists, instruments
A little girl and her grandfather spend a summer afternoon sitting by a pond. The conversation changes from how warm the summer day is to how the pond gets cold and freezes in the winter. The grandfather helps the girl understand how the...
Curated Video
NASA's newest satellite provides crucial data on climate change trends
Data from NASA'S newest Earth-observing satellite will provide insight into ocean health, air quality, and the effects of a changing climate.
Curated Video
Deforestation of Gaza for food, fuel due to lack of humanitarian aid
The IDF has cleared thousands of acres of trees throughout the Gaza Strip, something that's readily apparent in satellite imagery.
Bloomberg
Kim, Putin Agreed on 'Important' Issues, North Korea Says
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin met on Wednesday for the first time in four years. The two agreed to strengthen "strategic and tactical cooperation" between the two nations, according to North Korea's...
Bloomberg
Eutelsat CEO: Connectivity via Satellite to Quadruple
The CEO of European satellite provider Eutelsat says connectivity via satellite will quadruple to 16 Billion euros by 2030. The company just bought OneWeb to compete with Elon Musk's Starlink in the low-earth orbit segment. The CEO Eva...
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An animation illustrates the rocket launching of the communications satellite Echo 1 in 1960.
An animation illustrates the rocket launching of the communications satellite Echo 1 in 1960.
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Space scene. Spaceship fly through planet and asteroids. https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=79765
Space scene. Spaceship fly through planet and asteroids. https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=79765