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Landsat Data Continuity Mission: The Long Swath

May 16, 2013

The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) reached its final altitude of 705 kilometers (438 miles) on April 12, 2013. One week later, the satellite’s natural-color imager scanned a swath of land 185-kilometers wide and 9,000 kilometers long (120 by

World earthquakes visualization map 2012-2013

May 10, 2013

World Earthquakes Visualization Map shows animation of earthquake activity from January 2012 until May 2013. Worldwide Earthquakes of 2012. All recorded earthquakes greater than magnitude 4.0 are shown for the full year, along with their depths and

May 2013 Skywatching guide

April 30, 2013

May 2013 brings few interesting sky events. This years Eta Aquarid meteor shower will peak on May 6 with expected zenith hourly rate of 55 meteors per hour. We are about to experience annular solar eclipse on May 9/10. Annularity will be visible from

Planetary alignment / earthquake watch - April 27-28, 2013

April 27, 2013

Two very strong planetary alignments (Mars-Earth-Sun-Saturn), supported by (Mercury-Venus-Jupiter) fall during this time-frame with an added influence involving the Asteroid Ceres and astrological aspects involving Pluto indicate a potential for a 7.8 magnitude

The Global Precipitation Measurement - Our Wet Wide World

April 15, 2013

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 a "Core" satellite

The Beginning of the Universe in 3 Minutes

April 11, 2013

CERN physicist Tom Whyntie shows how cosmologists and particle physicists explore these questions by replicating the heat, energy, and activity of the first few seconds of our universe, from right after the Big Bang.Source:

MinutePhysics: The True Science of Parallel Universes

April 08, 2013

Imagine if there were multiple universes, where you live a different life, have different friends, work a different job, and tackle different life problems, where you don’t even have access to the internet. These multiple universes are all related to ours and they

Comet ISON could become Comet of the Century

April 04, 2013

NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio released another excellent video of Comet ISON (C/2012 S1). It is expected to become one of the most dazzling skywatching event while making a passage around the Sun later this year. Based on

Earth from orbit 2012

April 02, 2013

A look back at the best views of our planet from space in the last year, including true color satellite images, Earth science data visualizations, time lapses from the International Space Station, and computer models.Source:

What's up for April 2013

April 01, 2013

JPL released another video guide for skywatchers, introducing sky events in April 2013. Jupiter's moon Io crosses Jupiter's face on April 3, followed by its tiny black shadow. Comet PanSTARRS will pass 2° west (lower right) of the Andromeda Galaxy, M31 on April 4.

(Some) EXTINCTION IS (not necessarily) FOREVER: Carl Zimmer at TEDxDeExtinction

March 31, 2013

Carl Zimmer is the author of "Bringing Them Back to Life", the April 2013 cover story for National Geographic Magazine. He writes about evolution, biology, and medicine for National Geographic, The New York Times, and many other publications. He has written a dozen

The First De-extinction: Alberto Fernandez-Arias at TEDxDeExtinction

March 30, 2013

Alberto Fernández-Arias, head of the Hunting, Fishing and Wetland department in Aragon, Spain worked with his team in 2003 to bring a bucardo (a species of wild goat) back from extinction using cloning methodology. It was the first successful de-extinction.

Not All Mammoths Were Woolly: Hendrik Poinar at TEDxDeExtinction

March 29, 2013

Hendrik Poinar (Ancient DNA Centre at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario) is a molecular evolutionary geneticist and biological anthropologist by training, and relies heavily on interdisciplinary research.To learn more about de-extinction, please visit Revive

MinuteEarth: Why are leaves green?

March 24, 2013

Have you ever wondered why leaves are green and not red, blue, or even black? Well, MinuteEarth released another interesting movie answering the question. Source:

"In Search of Our Cosmic Origins (The ALMA Movie)"

March 21, 2013

This 16-minute video presents the history of ALMA from the origins of the project several decades ago to the recent first science results. Illustrated by dramatic helicopter footage, the movie takes you on a journey to the 5000-metre-high Chajnantor Plateau, where ALMA

Corona aurora over UAF ski trail, Alaska

March 18, 2013

Time-lapse movie of the corona aurora that appeared over UAF ski trail, Fairbanks, Alaska after strong CME hit Earth's magnetic field. Red aurora was also captured. (1:54 - 2:32am AKST, March 17, 2013) Corona aurora is a shape of aurora in which rays

Ron Finley: Guerilla gardening in South Central L.A.

March 18, 2013

Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA -- in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to fast food in a community where "the drive-thrus are killing more people than the

How can cattle help us fight back desertification?

March 10, 2013

In this informative TED talk, biologist and environmentalist Allan Savory talks about the need to mimic nature - by using livestock. Challenging the belief that cattle grazing causes desertification, he claims we can even reduce atmospheric carbon levels to that of

SciShow: 3 Ways to save Earth from an asteroid

March 10, 2013

Hank from SciShow gives us the skinny on three plans NASA scientists have come up with to save Earth from an asteroid impact. NEO/JPLIMPACTSource: SciShowFeatured image: Artist rendering asteroid (Credit:

MinuteEarth: The Story of Our Planet

March 09, 2013

Agriculture, hula hoops, SARS, and THIS video: how long did they take to get around the earth? The genius guys behind MinutePhysics started a new project MinuteEarth - Science and stories about our awesome planet! This is the first MinuteEarth video

Voyager - Grow through life

March 04, 2013

All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves. Bill Hicks The video below is a collection

Aquarius satellite: One year observing the salty seas

February 27, 2013

Launched on June 10, 2011, aboard the Argentine spacecraft Aquarius/Satélite de Aplicaciones Científicas (SAC)-D, Aquarius is NASA’s first satellite instrument specifically built to study the salt content of ocean surface waters.Salinity variations, one of the

Space for ESA: Our Colourful Planet

February 24, 2013

Images in HD quality taken by the optical and radar instruments on board ESA's Envisat Satellite orbiting 800 km above the Earth are set to relaxing music. Originally produced for Lufthansa inflight entertainment (released December 2010).Credit:

Marillion's soundtrack for space

February 23, 2013

Rock band Marillion have a long-standing interest in science and exploration. In particular, guitarist Steve Rothery is fascinated by the images of Earth as seen from the International Space Station. He wrote a piece of music called "Space" some time ago and thought it

Orbit - Yet another incredible ISS timelapse

February 22, 2013

Edited by Brian Tomlinson: http://www.btprints.comOriginal stills for the time lapse sequences courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.Music: 'Eve' by

Fiery looping rain on the Sun

February 20, 2013

Eruptive events on the sun can be wildly different. Some come just with a solar flare, some with an additional ejection of solar material called a coronal mass ejection (CME), and some with complex moving structures in association with changes in magnetic field lines

Humanity's Epoch: ANTHROPOCENE

February 17, 2013

A look at Humanity's geological epoch: the Anthropocene. In collaboration with Elementa: Embracing the concept that basic knowledge can foster sustainable solutions for society, Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene is a new scientific journal published on an

Minute Physics: What Is The Universe?

February 17, 2013

Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in a minute! This time they tried to explain what is the Universe! MinutePhysics is on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6And facebook

New video reveals how geysers work

February 17, 2013

Alexander Belousov and Marina Belousova, researchers at Russia's Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, lowered a camera into six geysers in the famed Valley of the Geysers on Russia's volcanic Kamchatka Peninsula. The results provide a new model for understanding

Aurora displays over Large Animal Research Station (LARS) in Alaska

February 15, 2013

The following video is a time-lapse movie of the aurora displays over Large Animal Research Station (LARS), University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) from February 13, 2013 captured by Taro Nakai, a researcher of micrometeorology (dynamics of the interaction between plant

Plasma rockets & solar storms

February 10, 2013

This is a preview of Cosmic Journeys episode. Ancient people saw them as messages from the Gods... as supernatural winds that blew from the realm of spirits. Modern science has linked these polar light shows, called auroras, to vast waves of electrified gas hurled in

"Infinity is bigger than you think"

February 10, 2013

Sometimes infinity is even bigger than you think... Dr James Grime explains with a little help from Georg Cantor. Credit: NumbersphileMinute Physics video on this topic: How to count infinity?Featured image:To Infinity and Beyond by

Space to Relax / Earth & Mars: 2 Planets, 1 Blueprint

February 07, 2013

Watch landscapes easily blend from one world to the other in this gallery of Earth and Mars images taken from space. Images: ESA/DLR/FU BerlinMusic: Crystals licensed by Ambient Music Garden.Credit:

Exoplanets: detection, atmospheres and habitability

February 07, 2013

In this 8th session of the internet-based live lectures between Universities and Institutes, Dr Heike Rauer gives an overview on the current status of exoplanet detections with focus on terrestrial planets in and near the habitable zone, detected by different

Plate Tectonics by Isaac Frame

February 05, 2013

An informative documentary from Isaac Frame explains plate tectonics and formation of our planet. This subject covers a variety of processes including subduction, transduction, etc.Credit: Isaac

"Full Moon Silhouettes" - Moon rising over the Mount Victoria Lookout in Wellington, New Zealand

February 03, 2013

Full Moon Silhouettes is a real-time video of the moon rising over the Mount Victoria Lookout in Wellington, New Zealand. People had gathered up there this night to get the best view possible of the moon rising. Photographer Mark Gee captured the video from 2.1km away

Time-series of dome and glacier growth at Mount St. Helens (2004-2012)

February 02, 2013

The video bellow shows time-lapse changes in the lava dome and Crater Glacier from 2004-2012. The images were created from 1:12,000 scale vertical aerial photographs combined with ground control points from campaign GPS and targets. Photogrammetry software was used to

Is the Sun Dying? Eric Dollard reveals 3 secrets about the Sun

January 31, 2013

Eric Dollard is the only man known to be able to accurately reproduce many of Tesla's experiments with Radiant Energy and wireless transmission of power. He is able to do this because he understands that conventional electrical theory only includes half of the

"Immovable object vs. Unstoppable force" by Minute Physics

January 30, 2013

Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in a minute! What happens if immovable object meets an unstoppable force?Music by Nathaniel SchroederCredit:

Lava effusion continues at Plosky Tolbachik, Kamchatka

January 29, 2013

Russian volcano Plosky Tolbachik in Kamchatka peninsula continues to erupt with strong seismicity as of January 28, 2013. Lava flow is ongoing through southern fissure on Tolbachinsky Dol. Also, satellite images suggest big thermal anomaly i northern portion