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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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NASA Spinoff (resource)
Since 1976, Spinoff has profiled technologies that benefit from NASA investment and expertise. These developments have transformed into commercial products and services that are used throughout daily life, from your cell phone camera to the memory foam in your mattress. We feature dozens of these success stories annually online and in our print publication, demonstrating…
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20 Inventions We Wouldn’t Have Without Space Travel (Infographic)
Space travel has given us a wealth of knowledge which has in turn helped us create inventions and technologies that have made human life easier and helped us learn more and explore further into the universe. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/20-inventions-we-wouldnt-have-without-space-travel
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How Tech Designed for Space Is Saving Lives on Earth (video)
Space technology gets applied in all sorts of ways down here on Earth, making us more comfortable, healthier, and even saving lives!
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How Space Tech Is Changing Life on Earth: 2020 Edition (video)
We’ve developed thousands of technologies for space exploration, but luckily for us, sometimes those solutions apply to problems here on the ground, too.
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Top 10 Inventions By Nasa That You Must Know About (video)
The American space programme has sent several missions into the far reaches of our solar system, placed 12 men on the moon, and landed rovers on Mars over the years. Numerous goods and inventions, some of which you would not have expected, have been made possible by these and other projects thanks to science. Even…
