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  Perpetual Ocean from NASA

  July 27, 2019 at 1:49 pm / Global Patterns, NatureDocumentaries.org, Video

  Understanding large-scale global climate and local weather patterns is life saving. Majority of our planet is covered by oceans therefore understanding ocean dynamics is key for making climatic forecasts. Here you can watch four interrelated animations produced by NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio in a single video. All animations are based on simulations of high resolution satellite data on an impressively realistic General Circulation Model (GCMs) that NASA uses called ECCO2 (Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean Phase II). […]

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  Annotated Features of Moon Surface – Kaguya/JAXA

  July 23, 2019 at 11:32 am / Cosmological, Video

  Some astrobiologists consider that having a satellite as big as The Moon could be one of the prerequisites of life on a planet. Satellites with sufficient mass can exert a stabilizing effect on the rotation axis of its planet preventing erratic wobbles like a top loosing its speed. In fact, our Earth experiences such wobbles known as the Milankovich Cycles but thanks to our moon the effects are dampened. 2019 marked the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing […]

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  A Shark Swallowed Whole by a Wreckfish | Okeanos Explorer/NOAA (2019)

  July 12, 2019 at 4:03 pm / Ecological Documentaries, Natural history, Short Observations

  The remotely operated vehicle Deep Discoverer (D2) and the telepresence capabilities of NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer, brought a quite rare biological occurrence for Humans to observe. During the Dive 07 of the Windows to the Deep 2019 expedition viewers watching live have witnessed this fascinating predation in action taking place in the deep ocean. D2 was following a straight-line on a small topographic rise originally thought to be a shipwreck at about 450 meters (1,476 feet) of depth. As D2 […]

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