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Launched in the summer of 1977, Voyager was the audacious first mission that would visit all the outermost planets. This documentary tells the story of the mission through firsthand accounts of those who made the mission possible. They are a small band of resourceful, ambitious, and passionate men and women who reached for the stars and succeeded. Please note this title contains potentially offensive language and contains mature themes.
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MIT professor Tom Levenson retells the amazing history of planet Vulcan. It is a story that reveals how the power of an idea can shape the currents of thought, and sometimes, lead researchers down the wrong path. Meanwhile, Harvard experimental particle physicist Melissa Franklin reflects on how the lessons from Vulcan apply to research today and how, in the end, science manages to get things right. Part of the "Think Like a Scientist" series.
Features dozens of space professionals, from designers of space suits and life systems engineers to interior decorators and the "Lunar Lettuce Man." A touching story concerning famed teacher Jaime Escalante and one of his students is interwoven with imaginative vignettes that explore the humor and drama of day-to-day life away from Earth. Also stars Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates, Jeffery Tambor, Jesse "The Body" Ventura, Raymond Cruz, Weird Al Yankovic, Vincent Schiavelli, and Pat Morita.
New developments in gene editing reveals that wild plants can be put on the fast track for domestication and the grocery store. Advances in astronomy have captured the inner working of the rare star known as luminous blue variables. Other segments include the use of macrophages to help heal injured muscles and new evidence shows that wildlife is thriving in the suburbs. Part of the "4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn't Hear About This Week" series.
Gabriela, Manuel and Leonardo are three friends who accidentally start a rocket that takes them to space. Their journey through space takes them to different planets and strange worlds. Throughout their journey, they have the help of Maqui, an on-board computer. Maqui helps them learn about the universe. The three friends must avoid a collision with an asteroid. During this adventure, they learn about the atmosphere, meteorites, asteroids and shooting stars. Once they are safe from the asteroid, they arrive at a strange planet. While visiting the planet, they help the inhabitants avoid a giant meteor.
Sunspots have fascinated sky gazers through the ages. Now state-of-the art telescopes combined with the muscle of a supercomputer called “Bluefire” are allowing scientists to accurately model these mysterious structures, and unlock their secrets. Michael Knoelker and Matthias Rempel are solar scientists working at the High Altitude Observatory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, known as NCAR, in Boulder, Colorado. With support from the National Science Foundation, their study of sunspots is critical to the understanding of how stars, like the sun, produce magnetic fields which is still one of the big unanswered questions in stellar astrophysics.
Professor Lawrence Gilbert and his team at the University of Texas at Austin have discovered a population of tropical butterflies that exemplify "evolution in action," and a rare research opportunity. Gilbert says they may be witnessing a species of butterfly splitting into two different species. The stars of this research are the Heliconius butterflies, found in Central and South America. Despite the genetic similarities between the two groups of the butterflies, one group is showing a color preference during mating. With support from the National Science Foundation, Gilbert and his team are working to gain insights about genetics, behavior, ecology, and evolution.
Gabriela, Manuel and Leonardo are three friends who accidentally start a rocket that takes them to space. Their journey through space takes them to different planets and strange worlds. Throughout their journey, they have the help of Maqui, an on-board computer. Maqui helps them learn about the universe. The friends experience a very beautiful phenomenon known as a star cluster. Maqui tells them that it is an accumulation of stars that holds together as a family. They try to watch it with a telescope, but the telescope gets loose from the spaceship and lands in a planet close by. Their plan is to recover it during the night so they are not seen, but soon they discover that the star cluster prevents the sky from getting dark.
Features different systems of measurement and their value to science in five separate segments. Stardust Elements: Looks at the life cycles of stars and explains how the death of a star seeds the universe with all the elements of the periodic table. End of Dinosaurs: Debates several scientific theories about why and how dinosaurs became extinct. Earthly Thermometers: Demonstrates how the Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin scales measure the same thing in different ways and why we need precise measurements of temperature. Frozen in Time: Pieces together the past of a 5,300-year-old man whose body was preserved in ice in the Italian Alps. Hurricanes Take the Heat: Follows researchers who study how hurricanes form and try to predict where the next one will strike.
With support from the National Science Foundation, astronomers Marc Buie and John Keller are involving citizen scientists from throughout the western United States to participate in the Research and Education Cooperative Occultation Network (RECON). The project has provided telescope equipment and training to 14 small western U.S. communities north and south of Reno, Nevada, where night skies are clear and dark. When RECON students look out at the night sky, they look way out to the Kuiper Belt, a ring of icy debris that litters the Solar System out beyond Neptune. The network is looking to determine the sizes of Kuiper Belt objects as they pass in front of distant stars. Part of the National Science Foundation Series “Science Nation.”
Moko is an explorer. As he travels the world continent by continent, he makes many friends and discovers many natural phenomena which sometimes delight him, and other times scare him. Each animated episode recounts an adventure and takes an "original story" approach to explaining these natural phenomena. In this episode, after a long voyage Moko arrives in Amazonia. He thinks that all of the people from this country must be giants because the trees in the forest he comes across are enormous. He climbs the tallest tree he can find and looks out towards the landscape and sees that the trees stretch out as far as the eye can see. Moko wonders if this is what the end of the world looks like. He feels quite alone and makes a wish to the stars to put a new friend on his path.
Moko is an explorer. As he travels the world continent by continent, he makes many friends and discovers many natural phenomena which sometimes delight him, and other times scare him. Each animated episode recounts an adventure and takes an "original story" approach to explaining these natural phenomena. In this episode, as the stars twinkle in the night sky, Moko is thinking of his village. Totemie asks him if she can join him in his quest for the end of the world. The next morning they leave Totemie's village and find their way to a desert where they find strange mountains and a bizarre twisting valley, deep and narrow, that seems to go on forever. A man crosses their path and tells them that only the pure of heart and courageous ever find the end of the deep valley. Filled with courage they set off to find it. Moko plays his flute and the mountains echo leads their way through the canyon's maze.
Moko is an explorer. As he travels the world continent by continent, he makes many friends and discovers many natural phenomena which sometimes delight him, and other times scare him. Each animated episode recounts an adventure and takes an "original story" approach to explaining these natural phenomena. In this episode, Moko wonders why the moon changes shape so often. Sometimes, when he sees the moon rising in the distance like the sun, he thinks that by walking towards the horizon he could get closer and find out more. That way he could even ask the moon itself. During his long walk towards the ever-receding horizon, Moko watches the moon constantly changing shape. Sometimes it's a crescent like a smile, sometimes a disc of light; sometimes it's white, sometimes yellowish. It travels across the sky but you can't see it moving. One night, Moko decides to watch the moon perform its lovely dance among the stars. He figures he'll never reach the horizon, and in fact maybe the moon just wants to put on a show, to be watched more often.
Examines the science of travelling beyond our solar system with the latest developments from NASA. Looks at what technology and research steps are being taken that might enable us someday to go visit other planets. Reports on the Phoenix Lights, the most recent mass UFO sighting, as presented through witness accounts. Also includes commentary from skeptical analysts to represent both sides in this highly debated topic.
