Browse results: The Solar System
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Allison Bolinger: Spacewalk Flight Controller and TrainerIn this video from Design Squad Nation, NASA spacewalk flight controller and trainer Allison Bolinger teaches astronauts how to work outside their spacecraft. Accessibility features: Caption |
4-8 |
Video |
All Planet SizesThis illustration from the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory shows the approximate
sizes of the planets relative to each other. Note that the planets are not shown at appropriate
distances from the Sun. |
3-12 |
Image |
Changing Views of PlutoSee images from the Hubble Space Telescope that show evidence of seasons on Pluto, in this video adapted from NASA. Accessibility features: Caption |
5-12 |
Video |
Characteristics of the SunThis video segment adapted from NASA describes the basic characteristics of our star, the Sun. Accessibility features: Caption |
3-12 |
Video |
Comets Bombard the Early EarthVisualize how comets carrying chemicals necessary for life could have made their way to Earth billions of years ago in this video segment adapted from NOVA. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Comets Deliver Amino Acids to EarthAmino acids, essential ingredients for life, may have been delivered to Earth by comets billions of years ago, as visualized in this video segment adapted from NOVA. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Down to the Core ChallengeIn this video from Design Squad Nation, kids design and build devices that can extract a core sample from a potato “asteroid.” They also learn how samples give NASA scientists insight into solar system objects. Accessibility features: Caption |
4-8 |
Video |
Europa Jupiter System MissionThis video from NASA introduces a proposed mission to study potential habitable worlds around gas giants such as Jupiter. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Eve: Extreme Ultraviolet Variability ExperimentIn this NASA video, scientists describe how the Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment will sample and track the Sun's ultraviolet irradiance, providing a detailed time sequence of extreme ultraviolet output -- data that can provide advance warning for potentially disruptive energy bursts. |
9-12 |
Video |
The Evolution of the Kuiper BeltThis video from NASA explores how the structure of the Kuiper belt can provide insight into the formation of the solar system and indicate the presence of planets. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
Video |
Evolution of the MoonThis video from NASA looks at how Earth's moon has changed since its formation about 4.5 billion years ago. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
Video |
Expedition 8 Crew Talks to Students in JapanIn this video segment adapted from NASA, students in Matsuyama City, Japan, interview Expedition 8 Commander and NASA Science Officer Mike Foale and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri about life and work aboard the International Space Station. Accessibility features: Caption |
K-8 |
Video |
Exploration of CometsIn this interactive activity from NASA, explore the anatomy and life cycle of a typical comet and learn about several comet missions. |
6-12 |
Interactive |
Extreme Temperatures on the MoonIn this video segment adapted from Interactive NOVA, astronaut John Young experiences extreme temperatures on the Moon that are a result of the Moon's low gravity and lack of atmosphere. Accessibility features: Caption |
3-12 |
Video |
First Spacecraft at UranusLearn about some of the discoveries made by the Voyager 2 spacecraft during its 1986 trip to Uranus in this video from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
Video |
Galileo: Discovering Jupiter's MoonsThis video segment adapted from NOVA shows how Galileo, using his newly developed refracting telescope, observed four of Jupiter's moons, the first astronomical bodies to be discovered since ancient times. Accessibility features: Caption |
3-12 |
Video |
Galileo on the MoonWatch Apollo 15 astronaut David Scott perform Galileo's falling objects experiment on the Moon in this video segment from NASA. Accessibility features: Caption |
3-12 |
Video |
Galileo: SunspotsThis video segment adapted from NOVA shows how Galileo used his telescope to carefully observe and study sunspots. Accessibility features: Caption |
3-12 |
Video |
How the Inner Solar System FormedIn this video segment adapted from NOVA, explore the theory that small bits of gas and dust combined to form protoplanets billions of years ago, which in turn collided to create the four rocky planets of the inner solar system. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Inspector Detector ChallengeIn this video from Design Squad Nation, kids design and build magnetic-field detectors and use them to find hidden magnets. They also learn how NASA uses magnetometers to learn what is going on inside a planet or moon. Accessibility features: Caption |
4-8 |
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