Mars Opportunity Discoveries @ 8 Years

Mars Opportunity Discoveries @ 8 Years

The Mars rover Opportunity was supposed to last three months. It's now going on Nine. It's proved so durable that in 2011 it was essentially sent on a whole new mission.

Opportunity reached a multi-year driving destination, Endeavour Crater, in August 2011. At Endeavour's rim, it has gained access to geological deposits from an earlier period of Martian history than anything it examined during its first seven years. It also has begun an investigation of the planet's deep interior that takes advantage of staying in one place for the Martian winter.

Opportunity landed in Eagle Crater on Mars on Jan. 25, 2004, Universal Time and EST (Jan. 24, PST), three weeks after its rover twin, Spirit, landed halfway around the planet. In backyard-size Eagle Crater, Opportunity found evidence of an ancient wet environment. The mission met all its goals within the originally planned span of three months. During most of the next four years, it explored successively larger and deeper craters, ad... more

Wandering Stars: a tour of the planets

Wandering Stars: a tour of the planets

Based on the Science on a Sphere program "The Wanderers." In ancient times, humans watched the skies looking for clues to their future and to aid in their very survival. They soon observed that some stars were not fixed, but moved in the sky from night to night. They called these stars the wanderers.

At the center of our solar system is the sun, binding the planets with its gravitational pull. From our viewpoint on earth, the sun appears small in the sky, but in reality it dwarfs even Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system.

The distance from the sun to the small worlds traveling it are vast. Light takes eight minutes to reach earth, and nearly a day to reach the farthest known bodies. Join us now as we tour our solar system, starting with sun-baked mercury and traveling to the remotest outskirts, where small, icy bodies move with only the faintest connection to our sun.

Mercury
Mercury, the closest planet to Sun is also the smallest terrestrial planet. It o... more

Hundimiento del Titanic Español (Sinking of the Titanic)

Un documental en Castallano sobre el Hundimiento del Titanic.

Birth of the Moon PREVIEW

Birth of the Moon PREVIEW

The latest from "Cosmic Journeys." Earth, over its 4.5 billion year history, has been pummeled by asteroids, Rroded by wind and rain, covered over with flowing lava, wrinkled and gouged by shifts in its crust.

Most traces of its distant past have long since been destroyed. But there is a place where clues to the early history of our planet are still largely intact.

The moon...

Scientists have been reconstructing its history by scouring its surface, mapping its mountains and craters, and probing its interior regions.

What are they learning about our own planet's beginnings, by going back in time, to the mysterious "Birth of the Moon." more

Creation Today : It Was Good - The Garden of Eden

Creation Today : It Was Good - The Garden of Eden

After God created the world, He saw that it was very good! Eric and Paul discuss the conditions of the original creation that may explain dinosaurs, giants, and people living hundreds of years.

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National Geographic Live! - Exploring the Edge of Existence

National Geographic Live! - Exploring the Edge of Existence

Nobel Laureate John Mather and Nat Geo Explorer-in-Residence Robert Ballard discuss how technology expands the limits of the known universe. more

Fingerprints of Creation - Dr. Robert Gentry

Fingerprints of Creation - Dr. Robert Gentry

Fingerprints of Creation Fingerprints is a 33 minute video based on the book Creation's Tiny Mystery. It details the nature of polonium halos and how they provide evidence that the Earth was rapidly formed and did not cool over millions of years. The video, shot mostly in California takes the viewer to picturesque Yosemite National Park during the winter and the regions surrounding Palm Springs and Bishop where granites are plainly visible. Three-dimensional graphic animations are included to help convey the process of halo formation from nuclear particles. Instrumentation similar to that used to gather the published data on the polonium halos is shown along with simple demonstrations which illustrate the basic concepts of a short-lived nuclear emitter. Dr. Gentry explains the history of the origin of granite and scientists' attempts to arrive at a universally accepted model of its formation.
The companion book, Creation's Tiny Mystery, can also be read online in its entirety: h... more