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Carl Sagan: Cosmos Intro

Beautiful intro to the Cosmos television series. Carl Sagan talks about the universe and our place within it.

Inspiring Talk on Exploring the Saturn System

Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco is the leader of the Imaging Team for the Cassini mission. She gave an 18 minute talk on the Cassini-Huygens mission and on some of the amazing scientific results from Titan, Enceladus, and Saturn itself at the TED conference in Monterey in March 2007. Here is the video of that inspiring talk.

Link to this talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/carolyn_porco_this_is_saturn

Allgemein • Video

Night Sky With Google Earth

The following video demonstrates the new „Sky“ feature of Google Earth 4.2, just released today. The tool provides information about various celestial bodies, from stars to planets, and includes imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope and other sources. It also allows users to take virtual tours through galaxies, including the Milky Way.

Mars • Video

Video: Phoenix Launch – August 4

A Delta II rocket lit up the early morning sky over Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida as it carried the Phoenix spacecraft on the first leg of its journey to Mars. The powerful three-stage rocket with nine solid rocket motors lifted off on Saturday at 5:26 a.m. EDT.

Forschung & Technik • Video

Super Touch Screen (not only) for Google Earth

Last fall, Jeff Han demonstrated a touch-driven computer screen, which can be manipulated intuitively with the fingertips. Now, Jeff has formed a company called „Perceptive Pixel“ to bring this idea to the market. Recently, he was interviewed by „Fast Company“ and they have released this really awesome video demonstrating even more applications including Google Earth being used with a wall-sized touch screen.

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Burning Space Junk Lights Up the Sky

On January 4, 2007, SkyFOX pilot Rob Marshall and photojournalist Josh White captured this incredible video of a Russian rocket body bursting into flames while they were flying over Denver in a helicopter. The rocket was used to carry a satellite called CoRoT into space on December 27, 2006.