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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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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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How high up are our Satellites?
Dr. Andrea Albert answers the question in this physics snippet.
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Station Benefits for Humanity (resource)
The International Space Station is an unprecedented achievement in global human endeavors to build and utilize a research platform in space. Since 2000, the station evolved from an outpost into a highly capable microgravity laboratory. Results are compounding, new benefits are emerging, and the third decade is building on research. https://www.nasa.gov/international-space-station/space-station-research-and-technology/benefits-for-humanity/
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8 stunning James Webb Space Telescope discoveries made in 2023 (article)
Dec. 25 is a pretty special birthday for many around the world, but it’s also a big deal for fans of astronomy — who will be celebrating the second anniversary of the launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Since coming online in mid-2022, the most powerful telescope ever built has both blown our minds…
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Spacecraft AR and other Augmented Reality Content (Resource)
List of NASA mixed reality projects. https://informal.jpl.nasa.gov/museum/content/spacecraft-3d
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Video: What Does Your Sky Look Like? Globe Observer- Clouds
Clouds are a major component of the Earth’s system that reflect, absorb, and scatter sunlight and infrared emissions from Earth. This affects how energy passes through the atmosphere. Different types of clouds have different effects, and the amount of cloud cover is also important. Clouds can change rapidly, so frequent observations are useful to track…
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Video: Icarus Initiative: Wildlife Observation from Space
“Martin Wikelski and his team at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology are investigating the global migration of animals – initially focusing on small animals such as birds, bats and flying foxes. Tiny transmitters weighing less than five grams, attached to the animals, collect information about their migratory behaviour and transmit it to the ISS.…
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Resource: Space Audio
“These are the “sounds of space” collected by UIowa instruments on various spacecraft.” https://space-audio.org/
