EXPLO.TV - Webcasts, Video Clips, and Podcasts from the Exploratorium

Return to Mars: Testing the Mars Rover Curiosity (clip)

Running Time:
00:04:50

Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) explain how they simulate martian conditions and conduct tests with model rovers to prepare the Curiosity rover for its journey to Mars and its work on the red planet.

Project: Return to Mars | Browse All

Date: August 1, 2012
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): astronomy/space science

Return to Mars: Exploratorium at JPL: Explorando con Curiosidad (clip)

Running Time:
00:03:53

Fernando Abilleira, Ingeniero Español especializado en navegación y trayectorias quien trabaja para la NASA, describe como el astromóvil "Curiosidad" aterrizará sobre la superficie del planeta Marte en el cráter llamado "Gale", un lugar de alto inte

Project: Return to Mars | Browse All

Date: July 18, 2012
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science

Iron Science Teacher: Domes (webcast)

Running Time:
00:58:00

Cheer on the competitors in this zany science cook-off, where teachers compete before a live webcast audience for the sought-after title, "Iron Science Teacher."

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: July 13, 2012
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): physics, general science

Science in the City: Camera Obscura (clip)

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00:04:05

On the cliffs above San Francisco's Ocean Beach perches a landmark observatory—a giant camera obscura. Step inside with Robert Tacchetto and see how this centuries-old technology creates enchanting images of the outside world.

Project: Science in the City | Browse All

Date: July 11, 2012
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science

Return to Mars: Curiosity Model Teaser (clip)

Running Time:
00:01:00

A glimpse of the full-scale model of the Mars rover, Curiosity. On display at the Exploratorium from August 1st to September 16, 2012. This model is on loan from JPL, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and there are only two on loan in the United States!

Project: Return to Mars | Browse All

Date: July 11, 2012
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): astronomy/space science

Iron Science Teacher: Things Found Around the Lagoon (webcast)

Running Time:
00:40:00

Cheer on the competitors in this zany science cook-off, where teachers compete before a live webcast audience for the sought-after title, "Iron Science Teacher."

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: July 6, 2012
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): physics, general science

Iron Science Teacher: Exploratorium paper products (webcast)

Running Time:
00:40:00

Cheer on the competitors in this zany science cook-off, where teachers compete before a live webcast audience for the sought-after title, "Iron Science Teacher." Secret ingredient-

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: June 29, 2012
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): physics, general science

Miscellaneous: The Crucible of Innovation (clip)

Running Time:
00:07:19

At the 35th Annual Awards Dinner on May 8, 2012, the Exploratorium celebrated its 40 year history at the Palace of Fine Arts. This video gives an historical look at the Exploratorium and its place in the Bay Area's fabric of innovation.

Project: Miscellaneous | Browse All

Date: June 14, 2012
Format: Lecture
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science

Transit of Venus: Transit of Venus: Sonification (clip)

Running Time:
16:54:00

Exploratorium composer Wayne Grim used the video of the transit to create a sound composition in real time. As the video signal was received by Wayne's computer, a program he wrote converted the signal into a unique aural experience. http://www.waynegrim.com

Project: The Rarest Eclipse: Transit of Venus | Browse All

Date: June 12, 2012
Format: Event
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Art Astronomy

Science in the City: Pneumatic Tubes (clip)

Running Time:
00:03:27

Remember those pneumatic tubes at the drive-up bank? Finessed by modern engineering, this technology is alive and well at Stanford Hospital, where pressurized tubes deliver critical payloads—from medications and specimens to blood for transfusions.

Project: Science in the City | Browse All

Date: June 6, 2012
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): engineering, physics