NASA ScienceCasts
NASA Science news is too exciting for plain text. Educational "ScienceCast" videos are fun, lively, entertaining--anything but plain. Join us for a new episode weekly as we look into the science behind discoveries on Earth, the Solar System, and beyond...
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ScienceCast 112: The Mystery of the Missing Waves on Titan
Saturn's giant moon Titan is dotted with hydrocarbon lakes and ...
Saturn's giant moon Titan is dotted with hydrocarbon lakes and seas that bear an uncanny resemblance to bodies of water on Earth. Strangely, though, Titan's lakes and seas have no waves.
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ScienceCast 111: The Zero Gravity Coffee Cup
Physicists researching the strange behavior of fluids onboard the International ...
Physicists researching the strange behavior of fluids onboard the International Space Station have invented a zero-g coffee cup to make the morning "cuppa Joe" a little easier to swallow.
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ScienceCast 110: Opportunity's Improbable Anniversary
Opportunity is still going strong and could be poised to ...
Opportunity is still going strong and could be poised to make its biggest discoveries yet at a place named Solander Point.
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ScienceCast 109: The "Sleeping Giant" in Arctic Permafrost
Arctic permafrost soils contain more accumulated carbon than all the ...
Arctic permafrost soils contain more accumulated carbon than all the human fossil-fuel emissions since 1850 combined. Warming Arctic permafrost, poised to release its own gases into the atmosphere, could be the "sleeping giant" of climate change.
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ScienceCast 108: Strange Flames on the International Space Station
Researchers experimenting with flames onboard the International Space Station have ...
Researchers experimenting with flames onboard the International Space Station have produced a strange, cool-burning form of fire that could help improve the efficiency of auto engines
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ScienceCast 107: An Early Start for Noctilucent Clouds
Glowing electric-blue at the edge of space, noctilucent clouds have ...
Glowing electric-blue at the edge of space, noctilucent clouds have surprised researchers by appearing early this year. The unexpected apparition hints at a change in the "teleconnections" of Earth's atmosphere.
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ScienceCast 106: Big Asteroid Flyby
NASA is tracking a large near-Earth asteroid as it passes ...
NASA is tracking a large near-Earth asteroid as it passes by the Earth-Moon system on May 31st. Amateur astronomers in the northern hemisphere may be able to see the space rock for themselves during the 1st week of June.
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ScienceCast 105: Big Weather on Hot Jupiters
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are making weather maps ...
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are making weather maps of an exotic class of exoplanets called "hot Jupiters." What they're finding is wilder than anything we experience here in our own solar system.
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ScienceCast 104: Bright Explosion on the Moon
NASA researchers who monitor the Moon for meteoroid impacts have ...
NASA researchers who monitor the Moon for meteoroid impacts have detected the brightest explosion in the history of their program.
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ScienceCast 103: Sunset Triangle
The three brightest planets in this month's night sky are ...
The three brightest planets in this month's night sky are lining up for a beautiful sunset conjunction at the end of May.
