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Real World: Food Security – Monitoring Crops from Space (Video)
Discover how NASA’s Earth-observing satellites gather data to monitor food growth. Dr. Inbal Becker-Reshef describes how mathematics is used to interpret satellite data and describe vegetation and crop yield. Dr. Hannah Kerner shares how algorithms and models use NASA data to describe and predict food supply and food shortages. This work through NASA Harvest provides…
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Our World: Systems to Grow Plants in Space (Video)
No matter where plants grow, they have the same basic needs: water, nutrients, light, temperature, and atmosphere. No matter where humans may live, they need plants. Dr. Gioia Massa explains how NASA grows plants on the International Space Station in preparation for growing plants beyond Earth and, someday, on the Moon and Mars. Jacob Torres…
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NASA encouraging everyone to grow chile plants after space experiment (Video)
NASA encouraging everyone to grow chile plants after space experiment
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Design for Humanity (Video)
Pre-historic humans designed the sewing needle to survive the elements, and started planting crops to feed their growing tribes. Today, we have customized transformative technology to help us perform better, like the Oura Ring and Fitbit. And soon, we’ll have AI and machine learning powered technology to help us become even healthier and happier. In…
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STEMonstrations: Engineering Design Process (video)
Astronauts Tom Marshburn and Matthias Maurer discuss how engineers use the nine steps of the engineering design process to create solutions to technical problems. Watch Tom and Matthias aboard the International Space Station to see how technology was engineered for the station’s microgravity environment and learn how station technology continues to evolve, meeting the ever-changing…
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NASA’s Eyes (Interactives)
Experience Earth, our solar system, nearby asteroids, the universe, and the spacecraft exploring them with immersive real-time 3D web-based apps. Start exploring your solar system now! https://science.nasa.gov/eyes/
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6 space technologies we can use to improve life on Earth
Danielle Wood leads the Space Enabled research group at the MIT Media Lab, where she works to tear down the barriers that limit the benefits of space exploration to only the few, the rich or the elite. She identifies six technologies developed for space exploration that can contribute to sustainable development across the world —…
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How the Space Debris Problem Is Spinning Out of Control (Interactive)
Like many other modern marvels, space exploration has yielded huge technological benefits for humankind, but it can’t help but have the same major side effect as many other advances: It has left a trail of garbage in its groundbreaking wake. Check out this interactive on space debris and why we should care. https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/assets/media/multimedia/0212-spacejunk/space-junk.html
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Space is Full of Junk. Here’s How to Clean It Up…
We know pollution is a problem on earth, but we’re filling space with our junk too. And if we don’t figure out a way to clean up space junk, we could end our interstellar dreams before they even get started. Today, we’re visiting some cool engineers in Switzerland to learn about the space junk problem…
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How New Mexico chiles ended up on the space station (article)
A NASA mission to harvest Hatch green chiles in space just might help farmers on earth adapt their growing methods.
