NASA
NASA Models the Complex Chemistry of Earth's Atmosphere
Air pollution can appear as a gray or orange haze enveloping a city. What the naked eye can’t see are the hundreds of chemical reactions taking place to produce that pollution. NASA science can reveal a more complete picture of...
Curated Video
NASA's AURA: Studying the Health of Earth's Atmosphere
NASA's AURA satellite is a crucial tool in studying the health of our atmosphere and understanding the impact of climate change. It collects data on ozone pollution, aerosols, and other factors that contribute to air quality degradation....
NASA
How Does NASA Model Atmospheric Patterns?
Better and faster computers have improved how we model and study Earth. More information is the other piece of the puzzle improving how we model and forecast our planet’s atmosphere. Since 1980, the 10th anniversary of Earth Day, the...
NASA
NASA | A Year in the Life of Earth's CO2
An ultra-high-resolution NASA computer model has given scientists a stunning new look at how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere travels around the globe. Plumes of carbon dioxide in the simulation swirl and shift as winds disperse the...
NASA
NASA | ATREX Studies Earth's Ultra-High Super Wind
High in the sky, 60 to 65 miles above Earth's surface, winds rush through a little understood region of Earth's atmosphere at speeds of 200 to 300 miles per hour. Lower than a typical satellite's orbit, higher than where most planes fly,...
NASA
NASA | CATS in Space Keep Eyes on Atmosphere
NASA Goddard is preparing to demonstrate for the fist time in space, a 3-wavelength, laser remote sensing instrument. The Cloud-Aerosol Transport System or CATS will measure clouds and aerosols in the Earth's atmosphere. This...
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During a Year in Orbit, IceCube Created a New Map of Earth's Clouds
Although it was only designed to last three months, the tiny CubeSat known as IceCube has been orbiting Earth for a full year, collecting data on a hard-to-study type of cloud. In that time, IceCube has created a global map of these ice...
SciShow
Earth Used to Have 19-Hour Days (and Pluto Has Dunes!)
According to a new model, days on Earth used to really fly by, and today Pluto has wind-swept dunes made of very weird sand.
Crash Course Kids
What On Earth
We've already talked about how the Earth is divided into four spheres (The Hydrosphere, the Biosphere, the Geosphere, and the Atmosphere). But, how do these different sphere interact with each other? In this episode of Crash Course Kids,...
SciShow
Earth Has a New, Orbiting Disco Ball!
Earth has some new orbiters, and while one of them is vexing many scientists, another will help us learn more about our atmosphere.
SciShow
How Earth's Rotation Affects Our Oxygen | SciShow News
Oxygen is crucial for life as we know it, but before it could build up in our atmosphere, earth had to slow down.
SciShow
How Earth's Rotation Affects Our Oxygen | SciShow News
Oxygen is crucial for life as we know it, but before it could build up in our atmosphere, earth had to slow down.
Bozeman Science
Thinking in Change - Level 4 - Quantifying and Modeling Change
In this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on quantifying and modeling change. Two examples are included in the video and two additional examples are included in the linked thinking slides. TERMS Change - to...
Curated Video
What on Earth is happening to our atmosphere?
To understand the Earth's atmosphere and how it affects our health and climate requires knowledge of a huge variety of gases, many at concentrations around a trillionth of nitrogen and oxygen. In this lecture, Professor Lucy Carpenter...
NASA
Following Carbon Dioxide Through the Atmosphere
Carbon dioxide plays a significant role in trapping heat in Earth's atmosphere. The gas is released from human activities like burning fossil fuels, and the concentration of carbon dioxide moves and changes through the seasons. Using...
MinuteEarth
The Faint Young Sun Paradox!
This video was supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation. To learn more, visit https://www.heisingsimons.org/ Credits (and Twitter handles): Script Writer: Emily Elert (@eelert) Script Editor: Rachel Becker (@RA_Becks) Video...
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TESS Mission's First Earth-size World in Star's Habitable-zone
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered its first Earth-size planet in its star's habitable zone, the range of distances where conditions may be just right to allow the presence of liquid water on the surface....
NASA
A New Model for Understanding Jupiter's Climate
Climate patterns and storms on Jupiter can have striking similarities to those on Earth. One such pattern is a four-year temperature cycle in the Jovian upper atmosphere called the QQO. This cycle has a little sibling in Earth's...
NASA
NASA Models Methane Sources, Movement Around Globe
NASA’s new three-dimensional portrait of methane shows the world’s second-largest contributor to greenhouse warming as it travels through the atmosphere. Combining multiple data sets from emissions inventories and simulations of wetlands...
NASA
How NASA Satellites Help Model the Future of Climate
Continuing key observations of the Earth is really important to see how our atmosphere, land and oceans are changing over time. A long-term record, combined with cutting edge observations from the new NASA Earth System Observatory, will...
Visual Learning Systems
Earth Interactions
This video explores how different parts of Earth including the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere interact with one another. Students then use this knowledge to develop their own models that illustrate how various parts of...
NASA
NASA | Dynamic Earth Excerpt: Viz Challenge Winner
Watch Earth's magnetic shield protect the planet from a pelting by the solar wind. See how the sun's energy drives a remarkable planetary engine, the climate. This video, originally created by NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio as...
NASA
Scientists Create First-Ever 3-D Model of a Melting Snowflake
This visualization is based on the first three-dimensional numerical model of melting snowflakes in the atmosphere, developed by scientist Jussi Leinonen of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. A better understanding...
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NASA | Dynamic Earth
This was the version submitted to the 2013 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. For the original version, with a narration by Liam Neeson, go here: Watch Earth's magnetic shield protect the planet from a pelting by the solar...