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The Solar System in HD
The 2017 Great American Eclipse
Apollo 11 Landing
25 Cool Solar System Facts
To Scale:  The Solar System

1995 Hubble Deep Field Image
Galileo
Copernicus
Kepler
Kepler's 2nd Law
Kepler's 2nd Law

2017 Solar Eclipse
2013/2014 Solar Magnetic Field Reversal
4K Footage of our Sun
2008 Solar Prominence
September 2014 Solar Weather
Formation of the Sun and Solar System

Earth's Rotation and Revolution
Seasons
Lunar Eclipses
Lunar Phases


Voyager's 40th Anniversary
Earth's Magnetism

Earth's Magnetic Shield
Early Earth and Plate Tectonics
Silly Putty Time Lapse
Conduction
Mantle Convection
Breakup of Pangea
Earth's Magnetic Field Reversals
Plate Tectonics Song
Seafloor Spreading
Seafloor Subduction
San Andreas Fault
Formation of the Hawaiian Hotspot
What is a Volcanic Hotspot? 
Lava & Coke
Preparedness Now:  The Great California Shakeout
Earthquake shaking
Liquefaction
Swaying Buildings
EarthScope Project Tracks Seismic Waves
Rivers of molten lava, Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii
Lava bombs
How Tides Work
Bay of Fundy
Tsunami Generation
Tsunami Runup
Sumatra Tsunami Animation (December 26, 2004)

Sumatra Tsunami Animation from NOAA
March 2011 Japanese Tsunami

2011 Japan Earthquake Tsunami Disaster

NASA at Saturn:  Cassini's Grand Finale
Crashing into Saturn:  The Cassini Mission
Enceladus:  Cassini Cracks the Case of the Icy Moon
What Huygens Saw on Titan
Cassini:  A Saturn Odyssey
The 5 biggest discoveries from NASA's Cassini spacecraft
Cassini's First Fantastic Dive Past Saturn

Apollo 11 Landing
Moon Hoax Not
Lunar Craters
A Tour of the Moon from LRO
Rotating Moon (gray)
Rotating Moon (colored topography)

Burp Theory Formation
Where Did The Moon Come From?
Moonquakes
Water on the Moon
NASA Confirms Water on the Moon

Day on Mercury interactive
Doppler Shift:  Siren (audio)
Mercury-Sun Transit (2003)
Messenger Mission Overview
Messenger Mission Tribute
Messenger Mission Ends on Mercury

Magellan Mission
Landing Probes on Venus
Venus Revealed
Maxwell Montes
Tectonics and Deformation
Why NASA Won't Send People to Venus
Should We Colonize Venus?
Venus Express Mission
Evolution of Venus' Atmosphere


Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit & Opportunity
The Challenges of Getting to Mars
Mars Curiosity Rover Trailer
What Its Like to Land on Mars
Where Where You When Curiosity Landed?
One Year on Mars
Sample Analysis on Mars
Curiosity's 5K Run
50 Years of Mars Exploration
Curiosity Sings Happy Birthday
Seeking Signs of Past Mars Habitability
Curiosity Looking for Organics
Mars One Astronaut Selection Round (play the movie on the website)
Visualizing the Surface of Mars
Impacts and Magnetism
Olympus Mons Comparison to Hawaii


What Dawn Discovered on Vesta and Ceres
Flight over Dwarf Planet Ceres
Unveiling Ceres
Large Asteroid Impact Simulation
Chicxulub Impact Simulation

Peekskill, NY Meteor
Comet Approaching Sun
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Collision into Jupiter

Cloud Belts
The Red Spot
Jupiter's Stormy Atmosphere
NASA JUNO Mission to Jupiter

March 2016 Jupiter Impact
New Views of Jupiter's Red Spot
Climate on Jupiter


Saturn and Rings
Saturn Storms
Saturn Rings Pamoramic View
Saturn in 4K
Saturn Spokes
Cassini Orbit Around Saturn
Cassini Mission
Views of Saturn from Cassini
What Huygens Saw on Titan - New Image Processing
Last images of Saturn from Cassini
See Cassini's most stunning images of Saturn
Cassini:  The Wonder of Saturn

Orbital Resonance and the Galilean Moons
Jupiter's Moon Io Erupts
Europa - Jupiter's Moon with the Hidden Ocean
Europa:  Ocean World
Alien Ocean:  NASA's Mission to Europa
Life on Europa?
Enceladus:  Cassini Cracks the Case of the Icy Moon
What Huygens Saw on Titan
Cassini:  A Saturn Odyssey
Destination:  Titan
Titan:  Saturn's Largest Moon - An Alternative Earth?
Callisto analogy:  Dry Ice Sublimation
Deep Dive into Enceladus's Plume
NASA Finds Vast Ocean on Jupiter's Moon Ganymede
Mimas:  Saturn's Death Star

Magnetic Field of Uranus
Neptune's Rotation
Neptune's Cloud Bands
Exploring Uranus and Neptune
Voyager's Last Encounter (1989)
Pluto and Charon Comparison
New Horizons Mission to Pluto
New Horizons First Mission to Pluto
The Man That Killed Pluto
New Horizon's Latest Images of Pluto
New Horizons' Best View of Pluto's Craters, Mountains, and Icy Plains
New Horizons' Colorful "Landing" on Pluto
The Year of Pluto
Dwarf Planets Song


Steven Hawking:  How Did Life Begin?
What is Astrobiology?
The Drake Equation

Calculating the Odds of Life
Steven Hawking:  The WOW! Signal
Breakthrough Starshot Project
Breakthrough Starshot Details