By: NASA.gov Video
This animation features actual satellite images of the far side of the moon, illuminated by the sun, as it crosses between the DSCOVR spacecraft’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) and telescope, and the Earth – one million miles away.
Read more: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/f…
Credit: NASA/NOAA
Why do butterflies flutter? Nic and Si reveal exactly what’s happening during the flight of these beautiful creatures with the help of a super slow motion camera.
Check out how butterflies are inspiring flying robots here: http://releases.jhu.edu/2012/02/01/bu…
And to discover more on the science behind their complex flight click here: http://www.unix.eng.ua.edu/~japalmore…
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Original and stunning high definition slow motion footage of animals and their actions. Brought to you by our very own team members; butterfly admirer Nic and camera geek Simon.
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Witness the eerily beautiful growth of larvae into bees in this mesmerizing time-lapse video from photographer Anand Varma. Varma said the six-month project, for which he built a beehive in his workshop, gave him a new respect for the meticulous job of beekeeping.
Click here to read the behind the scene’s story of exactly how photographer Anand Varma made this amazing time-lapse:http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2…
PHOTOGRAPHER: Anand Varma
COMPOSER: Rob Moose
By: the Jane Goodall Institute
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By: Rob Nelson Films
Once a year a holiday known as Earth Day rolls around. For those of us that are in school, it’s a time to plant trees, start recycling programs and do other “earthy” things. But what does that mean? It seems that most people treat Earth Day day a bit like Valentines day or Saint Patricks day. Its simply an event on the calendar that doesn’t seem to have a lot of meaning anymore. In fact, the role Earth Day plays has changed since it was first concieved. But to understand that we need some history
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By: Project Yosemite (http://www.projectyose.com)
Originally Published on Feb 27, 2014
A 200+ mile backpacking experience through Yosemite National Park captured by Colin Delehanty and Sheldon Neill. This project was filmed over the course of 10 months. We spent a combined 45 days in the park capturing the images in this video.
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Music by M83 – Lower Your Eyelids to Die with the Sun
Note by: Earthmyplanet.com Beautiful Music and Butterflies, perfect combination! Enjoy!
Video showing the complete life cycle of the Monarch Butterfly at our home in Southern California. Original music by Gianni Pascuzzi – Hapi Drum, Hang Drum, Didgeridoo, Tuvan igil, Array Mbira, Waterphone and more. If you’d like to attract monarchs to your garden, plant some varieties of Milkweed. Adult female monarchs lay their eggs on the underside of milkweed leaves. These eggs hatch, depending on temperature, in about 3-4 days. The larvae feed on the plant leaves for about two weeks and develop into caterpillars about 2 inches long. The caterpillars attach themselves head down to a convenient twig, they shed their outer skin and begin the transformation into a pupa (or chrysalis), a process which is completed in a matter of hours.
The pupa resembles a waxy, jade vase and becomes increasingly transparent as the process progresses. The caterpillar completes the miraculous transformation into a beautiful adult butterfly in about 10 – 14 days. The butterfly finally emerges from the now transparent chrysalis.
It inflates its wings with fluids it has stored in its abdomen. When this is done, the monarch expels any excess fluid and rests. The butterfly waits until its wings stiffen and dry before it flies away to start the cycle of life all over again.
Most predators have learned that the monarch butterfly makes a poisonous snack. The toxins from the monarch’s milkweed diet have given the butterfly this defense. In either the caterpillar or butterfly stage the monarch needs no camouflage because it takes in toxins from the milkweed and is poisonous to predators. Many animals advertise their poisonous nature with bright colors… just like the monarch!
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If you are not in love with our planet Earth, I guarantee you will be after you watch these two videos. (Choose the highest quality your hardware allows, relax and enjoy!)
By: David Peterson
Originally Published on Dec 3, 2013
Serving Suggestion: 1080p, lights off, volume up. Even better, go ‘Original’ for 4K.
Images: http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/
Music: ‘Fill My Heart’ by Two Steps from Hell
Editor: David Peterson
Optional Extras: View in 4K by selecting ‘Original HD’ in settings.
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This montage of time-lapse photography from the International Space Station is collected from many taken in Expeditions 29, 30 and 31.
The previous sequence, ‘All Alone In The Night’ (http://youtu.be/FG0fTKAqZ5g), highlighted night sequences and spectacular aurora light shows and intended to give a feeling of flying through space.
The goal with this sequence was to bring a bit more attention to the station itself, including the humans aboard it, particularly Don Pettit (appearing in the final shot) who took many of the sequences in this montage.
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Sequences:
0:03 – Bosnia & Herzegovina to Ukraine
Mission: ISS031, Frames: 55446-55591
0:08 – South Atlantic Ocean, between Brazil and Liberia
Mission: ISS031, Frames: 154281-154472
0:16 – Greece and Turkey
Mission ISS031, Frames: 26008-26202
0:24 – South Pacific Ocean, near Peru
Mission: ISS031, Frames: 48993-49186
0:32 – Turkey to Syria
Mission: ISS031, Frame: 76590-76782
0:39 – Libya to the Mediterranean
Mission: ISS031, Frames: 25782-25972
0:47 – Indian Ocean, between Kenya and Madagascar
Mission: ISS031, Frames: 50818-51010
0:54 – Pacific Ocean, south of Japan
Mission: ISS031, Frames: 117700-117772
0:58 – Pacific Ocean, facing North passing Hawaii
Mission: ISS031, Frames: 101027-101674
1:02 – China, Japan, Pacific Ocean
Mission: ISS030, Frames: 112458-112553
1:06 – South Pacific to North Atlantic, across Colombia/Venezuela
Mission: ISS031, Frames: 75421-75513
1:10 – South Pacific to South Atlantic, across Chile/Argentina
Mission: ISS031, Frames: 42147-42242
1:14 – South Pacific to North Atlantic, across Colombia/Venezuela
Mission: ISS031, Frames: 48140-48199
1:17 – Pacific Ocean, from New Zealand to USA
Mission: ISS031, Frames: 66043-66136
1:22 – Southern Chile to Angola, facing south
Mission: ISS031, Frames: 49203-49277
1:25 – Iran to Australia
Mission: ISS031, Frames: 180064-180120
1:29 – North America to South America
Mission: ISS031, Frames: 180172-180222
1:33 – Pacific Ocean to Chile/Argentina/Brazil, facing south
Mission: ISS031, Frames: 48094-48139
1:37 – South Pacific/Japan & North Pacific
Mission: ISS031, Frames: 154164-154204,154205-154256
1:40 – South Pacific to South Atlantic, across Chile/Argentina/Brazil
Mission: ISS031, Frames: 44598-44645
1:44 – South Pacific to North Atlantic, across Chile/Argentina/Brazil
Mission: ISS030, Frames: 159064-159113
1:48 – India/Thailand/Indonesia/Australia/New Zealand
Mission: ISS031, Frames: 177704-177764
1:52 – South Pacific to South Atlantic, across Chile/Argentina/Brazil
Mission: ISS031, Frames: 37675-37735
1:56 – DR Congo/Zambia/Mozambique/Madagascar/India
Mission: ISS030, Frames: 21632-21819
2:03 – Lovejoy Comet over Australia
Mission: ISS030, Frames: 14225-14455
2:11 – Moon rising over China
Mission: ISS031, Frames: 27699-27763
2:13 – Moon rising over Pacific Ocean, south of Japan
Mission: ISS031, Frames: 27468-27526
2:14 – Moon rising over Taiwan & Philippines (with Don Pettit)
Mission: ISS031, Frames: 27802-28017
Second Video: All Alone in the Night – Time-lapse footage of the Earth as seen from the ISS
By: David Peterson
Originally Uploaded on Oct 6, 2011
Images: http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/
Music: ‘Freedom Fighters’ by Two Steps from Hell
Inspiration: http://youtu.be/74mhQyuyELQ
Editor: David Peterson
Serving Suggestion: 1080p, lights off, volume up 🙂
Inspired by a version of the opening sequence of this clip called ‘What does it feel like to fly over planet Earth?’, I tracked down the original time-lapse sequence taken on the International Space Station (ISS) via NASA, found some additional ones there, including the spectacular Aurora Australis sequences, and set it to a soundtrack that almost matches the awe and wonder I feel when I see our home from above.
To those brave men and women who fly alone in the night to take us to the stars, we salute you.
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Sequences:
1. North-to-south down the western coast of North and South America.
2. North-to-south over Florida, the Bahamas and other Caribbean islands.
3. South-East Asia, approaching the Philippine Sea
4. Western Europe, from France through Italy, Greece, Turkey and the Middle East.
5. Aurora Australis, over the Indian Ocean, approaching Australia
6. Aurora Australis, over the Indian Ocean.
7. Aurora Australis, unknown location in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Featured on NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day!
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120305.html
Explanation from NASA: Many wonders are visible when flying over the Earth at night. A compilation of such visual spectacles was captured recently from the International Space Station (ISS) and set to rousing music. Passing below are white clouds, orange city lights, lightning flashes in thunderstorms, and dark blue seas. On the horizon is the golden haze of Earth’s thin atmosphere, frequently decorated by dancing auroras as the video progresses. The green parts of auroras typically remain below the space station, but the station flies right through the red and purple auroral peaks. Solar panels of the ISS are seen around the frame edges. The ominous wave of approaching brightness at the end of each sequence is just the dawn of the sunlit half of Earth, a dawn that occurs every 90 minutes.