Category: Found on the Internet
Earth from Space: The Moraines of Malaspina
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In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space program, we take a look at the remarkable moraine patterns of Malaspina Glacier – the largest piedmont glacier in the world – through the eyes of Copernicus Sentinel-...
illUmiNations: Protecting our Planet
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United Nations General Assembly and Secretariat buildings lit up on Saturday night in a revolutionary call for climate action in connection with the Secretary-General's climate Summit. #climate2014. "illUmiNations: Protecting Our Planet" was collaboratively designed and produced for UNDPI by the Oceanic Preservation Society, Obscura Digital and Insurgent Media.
Weather Versus Climate Change
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Neil deGrasse Tyson breaks down the difference between weather and climate change.
BeetleCam Project
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New video footage from BeetleCam in the Serengeti, plus announcing the new BeetleCam Hybrid!
Maker Trailer: A Documentary on the Maker Movement
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"Maker" is a feature-length documentary that looks into the current maker movement in America -- a new wave of Do-It-Yourself and Do-It-Together fueled by passion and powered by the advent of new technologies. The "Maker Movement", sometimes called the "Third Industrial Revolution," subverts traditional manufacturing by building on innovative concepts such as open source, local manufacturing, crowd funding, and digital fabrication. Breaking the hobbyist movement stereotype, "Maker" delves deep into this ecosystem of design and manufacturing in the Internet era. The film explores the ideas, tools, and personalities that are driving the Maker Movement -- and returns with a timely snapshot of one of the transforming influences of the current age.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Mission Launches to Touch the Sun
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission launched Aug. 11 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The mission will be the first to fly directly through the Sun’s corona – the hazardous region of intense heat and solar radiation in the Sun’s atmosphere that is visible during an eclipse.
Can the Next Generation of Satellites Help Predict and Battle Wildfires?
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Re/code visits NASA's Silicon Valley research center, where a pair of startups are working together to democratize satellite data. Aquila Space is building a fleet of satellites while its partner Astro Digital is developing software tools that allow anyone to process and analyze the data. Among other things, the information could be used to help inform policy and responses for ecological disasters, including the droughts and wildfires plaguing California.
Exploring Space: Cosmic Revolutionaries
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Global Forest Change, 2000-2012
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NASA Finds Second Massive Greenland Crater
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A NASA-led team discovered the feature using satellite data of the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet as well as radar measurements from the airborne campaign Operation IceBridge.
