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Return to Mars: Follow the Water (Webcast)
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Why is water, or evidence of water, so important to the Mars missions?
Join Exploratorium scientists Ron Hipschman and Karen Kalumuck as they examine water as one of the building blocks for life and what previous Mars missions have discovered about water on the red planet.
Project: Return to Mars | Browse All
Date: August 16, 2012
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science, General Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: mars, curiosity, rover, msl, mars science laboratory, spacecraft, water, life, rock, jpl, jet propulsion laboratory, exploration
Project: Return to Mars | Browse All
Date: August 16, 2012
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science, General Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: mars, curiosity, rover, msl, mars science laboratory, spacecraft, water, life, rock, jpl, jet propulsion laboratory, exploration
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Science at Burning Man: Triangle of Fire (Clip)
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Burning Man is a literal hotbed of explosions and fire. Join Exploratorium Senior Scientist Paul Doherty as he looks at the properties that make up fire through the lens of the Burning Man event.
Project: Science at Burning Man | Browse All
Date: September 11, 2010
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): General Science
Keywords: burning man, fire, detonation, gas, air, black rock desert
Project: Science at Burning Man | Browse All
Date: September 11, 2010
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): General Science
Keywords: burning man, fire, detonation, gas, air, black rock desert
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Science at Burning Man: Double Rainbows (Clip)
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Exploratorium Senior Scientist Paul Doherty explains a double rainbow sighting at Burning Man 2010!
Project: Science at Burning Man | Browse All
Date: September 10, 2010
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: burning man, rainbows, light, prisms, color, black rock desert
Project: Science at Burning Man | Browse All
Date: September 10, 2010
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Physics
Keywords: burning man, rainbows, light, prisms, color, black rock desert
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Science Teaching Tips: Find That Sound (Podcast)
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Take a little sound quiz with our host, Stephanie Chasteen, and learn something about how our brains locate sounds.
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: April 14, 2010
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
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Keywords: sounds, brains
Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All
Date: April 14, 2010
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s):
Keywords: sounds, brains
| Links: | Stephanie Chasteen’s Web site | Find That Sound activity |
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Ice Stories: Looking at Climate History for Clues to Our Future (Clip)
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Geologist Chistina Riesselman explains how studying 3-million-year-old sediment from Antarctica is providing a glimpse of what our planet's climate might look like if atmospheric carbon dioxide continues to rise as projected.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: August 5, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: sediment cores, climate change, climate history, diatoms, glaciers, sea level rise
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: August 5, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: sediment cores, climate change, climate history, diatoms, glaciers, sea level rise
Ice Stories: The Train from Pole to Troll (Clip)
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At the South Pole, the Ice Stories crew met up with correspondent Zoe Courville just before she and her team embarked on their 3,000 km traverse across the desolate and frigid East Antarctic Ice Sheet. In this video, Zoe gives us a tour of the vehicles they are taking on their cross-continent journey, including their living module, sleeping quarters, and science sled.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: February 25, 2009
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: south pole, ice, traverse, expedition, east antarctic ice sheet, norwegian-u.s. scientific traverse of east antarctica, glaciology, troll station
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: February 25, 2009
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: south pole, ice, traverse, expedition, east antarctic ice sheet, norwegian-u.s. scientific traverse of east antarctica, glaciology, troll station
| Links: | Dispatch: The Train from Pole to Troll |
Ice Stories: POLENET (Polar Earth Observing Network) (Webcast)
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Our Exploratorium team talks to scientists from POLENET (Polar Earth Observing Network).
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: January 2, 2009
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: glaciers, dry, desert, snow, mcmurdo, antarctica, ecology
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: January 2, 2009
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: glaciers, dry, desert, snow, mcmurdo, antarctica, ecology
| Links: | Project: Pulse of the Poles |
Ice Stories: Glaciers and the Simple Life in Antarctica’s Dry Valleys (Clip)
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In this interview from in front of the Canada Glacier in Antarctica’s Taylor Valley, Hassan Basagic from Portland State University describes the essential role of polar glaciers in supporting the bare-bones ecosystems in the Dry Valleys.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: December 31, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: dry valleys, antarctica, ecology, ecosystem, glaciers, canada glacier, taylor valley, ice
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: December 31, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: dry valleys, antarctica, ecology, ecosystem, glaciers, canada glacier, taylor valley, ice
| Links: | Dispatch: Glaciers and the Simple Life in Antarctica’s Dry Valleys |
Ice Stories: Why We Install GPS Systems (Podcast)
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The POLENET project installed their newest high-precision GPS system on Deverall Island, Antarctica. These GPS systems tell scientists how much the ground underneath the ice sheet is moving upward. This has important implications on the movement of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and its interplay with the rock below. Learn more about it in this audio report from correspondent Kelly Carroll.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: December 7, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: gps, antarctica, polenet, ice, west antarctic ice sheet, measurements, ice sheet, glacier
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: December 7, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: gps, antarctica, polenet, ice, west antarctic ice sheet, measurements, ice sheet, glacier
| Links: | Dispatch: Why We Install GPS Systems |
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Ice Stories: Life on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (Podcast)
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In this audio dispatch, correspondent Jack Walter describes his first week at the team's field camp on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Hear about their research on lakes under the glaciers and get a slice of life as a remote polar scientist.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: November 25, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: ice, glacier, west antarctic ice sheet, remote, camping, antarctica, deep field, glaciology
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: November 25, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: ice, glacier, west antarctic ice sheet, remote, camping, antarctica, deep field, glaciology
| Links: | Dispatch: Life on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet |
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