The Most Powerful Objects in the Universe SpaceRip 2024-10-22 | The Most Powerful Objects in the Universe
Killer Asteroid: Defending Earth 4k SpaceRip 2022-12-23 | When natural disasters threaten, we turn to science and technology to warn us… to seek shelter or get out of the way. But can they face the ultimate threat: speeding projectiles from the depths of space? Cutting-edge space missions are underway to deflect and destroy space objects that threaten to rock our world. Can they save the planet from a killer asteroid?
Search for the Cosmic Dawn: James Webb Space Telescope - 4k SpaceRip 2022-10-15 | All eyes are on the images and data streaming in from the James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. This engineering marvel leads a new generation of observatories that are now probing the deepest regions of space for clues to an extraordinary chain of events at the brink of the Cosmic Dawn.
Other Earths: The Search for Habitable Planets - 4k SpaceRip 2022-05-21 | Our galaxy is made up of some four hundred billion stars and at least a hundred billion planets. How many are like Earth, with an atmosphere, flowing water, complex geology, and abundant life? Astronomers are seeking answers in countless photons racing past the Earth and in bold new theories about how planets form and evolve. What they are finding has only sharpened one of the oldest debates in science: Is biology a powerful and inevitable byproduct of cosmic evolution? Or is it rare, in a galaxy shaped by violence and mayhem?
Search for the Edge of Space - 4k SpaceRip 2022-04-25 | The universe has long captivated us with its immense scales of distance and time. Many astronomers today have come to believe that what we can see represents only a small fraction of all there is. They are pioneering bold new theories that describe a cosmic landscape that extends far beyond the limits of our vision. What lies beyond the streams of galaxies that extend as far as our telescopes can see? Where does it all end? How do we fit within it?
Planet Hunting with the James Webb Space Telescope SpaceRip 2021-12-22 | Astronomers have detected more than 5000 planets orbiting other stars. New space telescopes – exploiting aggressive new technologies and backed by Artificial Intelligence, could vastly expand this bounty.Are any of these alien worlds “alive”? Are living creatures common in the cosmos? These are among the most challenging questions science has ever faced. The answers may be found in the early Universe. But because space itself is relentlessly expanding, the light from those early times has been stretching – shifting further and further into the red part of the spectrum. To probe events that far back in time, astronomers must search with sensitive infrared detectors.Enter the Webb Telescope, with its ability to discern details only a 50 million years after “the beginning of time,” along with the details of alien atmospheres in the neighborhood of our Sun.
Mars Calling - 4k SpaceRip 2021-12-18 | Some believe Mars is calling humanity to our next home. But the real “red planet” is a trickster, strikingly beautiful yet sweetly sinister. Even as a growing armada of instruments arrives, this small cold world continues to conceal its secrets. Settlers beware; Mars may not be what you imagine. The technological means to cross space and bring this small world back to life is just now coming within our grasp. But Mars is likely to change Humanity as much as we change it.
The Most Powerful Black Holes in the Universe 4k SpaceRip 2020-12-04 | The study of extreme physics brought us the bomb. It has taken us inside the violent death of a star. Now, it has brought us face to face with the most destructive force in Nature: a supermassive black hole. How large, how powerful, can these monsters get? What can they tell us about the extremes of time and space?
Are There Other Earths: The Odds of Life Around Nearby Stars SpaceRip 2020-11-27 | Scientists, wielding sensitive new telescopes and "big data" tools, have detected planets around thousands of stars; some Sun-like and some very different from our star. Many newly discovered "exoplanets" lie in "habitable zones," where liquid water may support the chemistry that enables biology. How will astronomers discover if we have company in the cosmos and where they live?
Voyage of Curiosity: A Martian Chronicle 4k SpaceRip 2020-11-18 | This film tells the epic story of NASA's Curiosity Rover on a mission to find out whether life could ever have existed on Mars and whether the planet is safe for humans. This film tracks the robotic explorer's perilous journey, from its risky landing to its momentous climb up the slopes of Mt. Sharp. It will rank as one of the great space missions, from Cassini at Saturn to Apollo on the Moon and Voyager beyond the solar system.
Journey to the Pale Red Dot - 4k SpaceRip 2020-11-11 | On the hunt for other solar systems, scientists have discovered an Earth-sized planet orbiting the star nearest to our Sun, Proxima Centauri. It's an important test of whether we are alone in the universe. Stephen Hawking and others are calling for a mission to search for extraterrestrial life. NASA and private companies are studying what it will take to make our first interstellar space flight.
Venus Death of a Planet 4k SpaceRip 2020-10-16 | Billions of years ago, our nearest planetary neighbor, Venus, may have harbored lakes, oceans, and life-giving habitats similar to those on the early Earth. Today, Venus spins slowly in a backward direction. It's a planet knocked upside down and turned inside out. Its burned-out surface is a global fossil of volcanic destruction, shrouded in a dense, toxic atmosphere. Scientists have come to see Venus as the alien planet “next door,” a laboratory for testing ideas about how planets evolve and the challenges they face in nurturing life. They are now unveiling daring new strategies to reach down to its hostile surface. From floating bases stationed high in Venus’ atmosphere, they hope to send down new generation probes to search for clues from a time when the planet was alive. How did Venus descend into this hellish state? And how did its sister planet, Earth, manage to survive?
SkyRide to Mt. Washington SpaceRip 2020-09-01 | Zooming up Mt. Washington on a motorcycle is the closest thing to launching into space on the east coast of North America. Known for extreme and erratic weather, this natural monument is lined with fractured landscapes and forests splintered in brilliant sunlight. Mt. Washington is one of the ultimate must rides. Rev up with the Westchester Motorcycle riders on their Indians, Harleys, BMWs, Hondas and Triumphs and revel in the inspirational music of Digital3Public.
Venus: Warnings of a Doomed Planet SpaceRip 2020-08-18 | Venus is virtually a twin of Earth in size, mass and bulk composition; much more like our planet than is Mars. Yet it has gone down a completely different – and deadly – evolutionary path. Experts share valuable lessons from Venus on the origins of life, acid rain, ozone loss, global warming and other questions. They make the passionate case for further exploring Earth’s “evil twin sister.”
Is There Life in the Clouds of Venus? SpaceRip 2020-08-14 | For more than 100 years astronomers have seen them; dark patches swirling in the clouds of Venus, visible only in ultraviolet light. Could there be life-forms thriving in the balmy zone ~50km above the hellish surface? On Earth, researchers find life everywhere they look, including acid-loving bacteria that could easily live in Venus’ air. Experts share what they know – and how they’re going about finding out – about this fascinating possibility.
Venus: Doing Science in Hell SpaceRip 2020-08-13 | Watch the 50-minute 4k feature, Venus Death of a Planet, on:magellantv.com/video/venus-death-of-a-planet-4kAt Venus’ surface, the temperature is twice as high as in a pizza oven. The atmospheric pressure would make you feel like being 1 kilometer deep in Earth’s oceans. Yet visionary engineers are pushing the boundaries of materials science to build probes that can deliver data from the depths of this crushing inferno. Experts describe their battle strategies and technologies.
Cloud Cities of Venus: Settling Earths Twin SpaceRip 2020-07-31 | Four billion years ago, Venus, Earth and Mars each held the promise of supporting life, with oceans, supportive climates, and the chemical ingredients of biology. Over the eons since, Mars lost its atmosphere, turning ever colder, while Venus entered a death-spiral of ever-increasing heat. But, 50 km above its desolate surface, the cool cloud tops of Venus offer a potential refuge. This zone is protected from cosmic and solar radiation overhead and the blistering surface temperatures below. Solar powered ships and habitats could effortlessly float there, sailing the brisk winds that circle the globe. That has inspired visionary engineers and scientists to take the first steps toward settling the 2nd planet from the Sun.
Hubble Eye In The Sky - 4k SpaceRip 2020-07-29 | Based on the NASA mini-series. Positioned above Earth’s murky atmosphere, Hubble fundamentally changed the field of astronomy and our understanding of the universe. In this beautiful show, viewers get an inside look at the challenges of operating the telescope, along with an understanding of the groundbreaking discoveries that forever changed the way we view space. Leading scientists, engineers and a Nobel prize winner take us through the innovation and strategies that keep the telescope in prime condition.
How Large is the Universe? 4k SpaceRip 2020-04-13 | The universe has long captivated us with its immense scales of distance and time. How far does it stretch? Where does it end, and what lies beyond its star fields and streams of galaxies extending as far as telescopes can see?These questions are beginning to yield to a series of extraordinary new lines of investigation and technologies that are letting us to peer into the most distant realms of the cosmos. But also at the behavior of matter and energy on the smallest of scales. Remarkably, our growing understanding of this kingdom of the ultra-tiny, inside the nuclei of atoms, permits us to glimpse the largest vistas of space and time. In ancient times, most observers saw the stars as a sphere surrounding the earth, often the home of deities. The Greeks were the first to see celestial events as phenomena, subject to human investigation rather than the fickle whims of the Gods. One sky-watcher, for example, suggested that meteors are made of materials found on Earth... and might have even come from the Earth. Those early astronomers built the foundations of modern science. But they would be shocked to see the discoveries made by their counterparts today. The stars and planets that once harbored the gods are now seen as infinitesimal parts of a vast scaffolding of matter and energy extending far out into space. Just how far began to emerge in the 1920s. Working at the huge new 100-inch Hooker Telescope on California's Mt. Wilson, astronomer Edwin Hubble, along with his assistant named Milt Humason, analyzed the light of fuzzy patches of sky... known then as nebulae. They showed that these were actually distant galaxies far beyond our own. Hubble and Humason discovered that most of them are moving away from us. The farther out they looked, the faster they were receding. This fact, now known as Hubble's law, suggests that there must have been a time when the matter in all these galaxies was together in one place. That time, when our universe sprung forth, has come to be called the Big Bang. How large the cosmos has gotten since then depends on how long its been growing and its expansion rate. Recent precision measurements gathered by the Hubble space telescope and other instruments have brought a consensus... That the universe dates back 13.7 billion years. Its radius, then, is the distance a beam of light would have traveled in that time ... 13.7 billion light years. That works out to about 1.3 quadrillion kilometers. In fact, it's even bigger.... Much bigger. How it got so large, so fast, was until recently a deep mystery.That the universe could expand had been predicted back in 1917 by Albert Einstein, except that Einstein himself didn't believe it until he saw Hubble and Humason's evidence. Einstein's general theory of relativity suggested that galaxies could be moving apart because space itself is expanding. So when a photon gets blasted out from a distant star, it moves through a cosmic landscape that is getting larger and larger, increasing the distance it must travel to reach us. In 1995, the orbiting telescope named for Edwin Hubble began to take the measure of the universe... by looking for the most distant galaxies it could see. Taking the expansion of the universe into account, the space telescope found galaxies that are now almost 46 billion light years away from us in each direction... and almost 92 billion light years from each other. And that would be the whole universe... according to a straightforward model of the big bang. But remarkably, that might be a mere speck within the universe as a whole, according to a dramatic new theory that describes the origins of the cosmos.ABOUT USHere at SpaceRip, we value the exploration of the unknown. We surpass boundaries for the sake of uncovering the mysteries of the cosmos and what they may tell us about our origin and our future. With our videos, we hope to educate our viewers on how we fit into the universe, and more so how we can do our part to better it.
SuperTornado: Anatomy of a Megadisaster - 4K SpaceRip 2020-01-26 | May 22, 2011, the costliest tornado in American history struck Joplin, Missouri, carving a mile-wide swath of destruction and death. Scientists descended on the city to find out what made this tornado so destructive. This film visits Joplin at the five-year mark, as its people continue to pick up the pieces and struggle to make sense of one of the worst natural disasters ever to hit the heartland.
Seeing Inside the Sun - 4K SpaceRip 2020-01-24 | How can we peer inside the Sun to find out how it delivers its life-giving warmth to planet Earth? Dr. Robert Stein, professor of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State Universe has long envisioned a day when he could use supercomputer programs to "see" through the roiling surface of the sun and glimpse its dynamic interior. He describes his quest and offers ideas about what drives the violent outbursts known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, known to disrupt the electrical systems that power our civilization.You can find all our 4K UHD content and more great space and science shows here: magellantv.com/genres/space
When Will Time End? - 4k SpaceRip 2020-01-11 | You can find this and many other great 4k docs on our MagellanTV app. magellantv.com/genres/spaceThe answer to this question may depend on whether Stephen Hawking was right in his theory that describes how black holes shed mass and eventually decay. Time is flying by on this busy, crowded planet as life changes and evolves from second to second. At the same time, the arc of the human lifespan is getting longer: 67 years is the global average, up from just 20 years in the Stone Age.Modern science provides a humbling perspective. Our lives, indeed even that of the human species, are just a blip compared to the Earth, at 4.5 billion years and counting, and the universe, at 13.7 billion years.It now appears the entire cosmos is living on borrowed time. It may be a blip within a much grander sweep of time. When, we now ask, will time end? Our lives are governed by cycles of waking and sleeping, the seasons, birth and death. Understanding time in cyclical terms connects us to the natural world, but it does not answer the questions of science.What explains Earth's past, its geological eras and its ancient creatures? And where did our world come from? How and when will it end? In the revolutions spawned by Copernicus and Darwin, we began to see time as an arrow, in a universe that's always changing. The 19th century physicist, Ludwig Boltzmann, found a law he believed governed the flight of Time's arrow. Entropy, based on the 2nd law of thermodynamics, holds that states of disorder tend to increase.From neat, orderly starting points, the elements, living things, the earth, the sun, the galaxy. are all headed eventually to states of high entropy or disorder. Nature fights this inevitable disintegration by constantly reassembling matter and energy into lower states of entropy in cycles of death and rebirth. Will entropy someday win the battle and put the breaks on time's arrow? Or will time, stubbornly, keep moving forward? We are observers, and pawns, in this cosmic conflict. We seek mastery of time's workings, even as the clock ticks down to our own certain end. Our windows into the nature of time are the mechanisms we use to chart and measure a changing universe, from the mechanical clocks of old, to the decay of radioactive elements, or telescopes that measure the speed of distant objects. Our lives move in sync with the 24-hour day, the time it takes the Earth to rotate once. Well, it's actually 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.1 seconds if you're judging by the stars, not the sun. Earth got its spin at the time of its birth, from the bombardment of rocks and dust that formed it. But it's gradually losing it to drag from the moon's gravity.ABOUT USHere at SpaceRip, we value the exploration of the unknown. We surpass boundaries for the sake of uncovering the mysteries of the cosmos and what they may tell us about our origin and our future. With our videos, we hope to educate our viewers on how we fit into the universe, and more so how we can do our part to better it.We believe there is no better time to inform ourselves about the world around us. Our partnership with MagellanTV is aimed to educate viewers on our complex world to prepare for our rapidly changing future. Through our videos we hope to capture a variety of important topics with the overall goal of promoting positive discussion and action.
Is the Universe Infinite? - 4k SpaceRip 2019-10-28 | Check out our full collection of 4k and other space shows at:magellantv.com/genres/spaceThis film, remastered in 4k Ultra High-Def, explores the biggest question of all. How far do the stars stretch out into space? And what's beyond them? From intensive computer modeling, and myriad close observations, scientists have uncovered important clues to the ongoing evolution of the universe. Many now conclude that what we can see, the stars and galaxies that stretch out to the limits of our vision, represent only a small fraction of all there is. Does the universe go on forever? Where do we fit within it? And how would the great thinkers have wrapped their brains around the far-out ideas on today's cutting edge? ABOUT USHere at SpaceRip, we value the exploration of the unknown. We surpass boundaries for the sake of uncovering the mysteries of the cosmos and what they may tell us about our origin and our future. With our videos, we hope to educate our viewers on how we fit into the universe, and more so how we can do our part to better it.We have partnered with MagellanTV with the goal of providing our viewers with insight regarding our uncertain future on Earth and beyond. Equipped with knowledge, we hope to inspire people to enact change and pave the way for a better tomorrow.
Climate Change NOW SpaceRip 2019-08-22 | The information presented in this video comes from the "Fourth National Climate Assessment," published in 2018 by the US Global Change Research Program administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Climate change is one of the most intensively studied phenomena in the world today. This video offers a brief summary of the direction of Earth's climate today. Researchers have documented changes in a range of areas, including land, atmospheric and ocean temperatures, glacial melting, shrinking sea ice, rising sea levels, ocean acidification, increased water vapor and more. It's hard, given what we know and what many people around the world have experienced, that climate change is already a distressing reality.
Apollo 8 and the Reading of Genesis - 4K SpaceRip 2019-08-01 | The day before Christmas, 1968. The astronauts of Apollo 8 read from Genesis as they orbited the moon for the first time, crossing the dark side and into the brilliant light of the sun. The reading, broadcast to the world, not only expressed the wonder experienced by the astronauts and marked the historic moment: the first time humans had flown to the moon and looked back at Earth. Subsequently, an atheist group sued. The action that went nowhere, but on later missions astronauts were a little more circumspect about expressing purely Christian themes and readings.
Apollos New Moon - 4k SpaceRip 2019-07-18 | This extraordinary film features NASA film footage enhanced by AI-based software and other digital processing. The clarity of the images gives viewers a whole new perspective on what it was like to step onto lunar soil and ramble about the alien landscapes. The film shows how teams of astronauts collected evidence that has revolutionized our understanding of the origin of both Earth and the moon.
Hubble Legacy Field: One of the Most Important Images of All Time - 4K SpaceRip 2019-07-02 | For more 4K space, and more great History and Science than you'll ever watch, check out our sister network...magellantv.com/featuredSince its launch in 1990, the NASA ESA Hubble Space Telescope has completed a million and a half observations of nearly 50,000 celestial objects. The Hubble team has now released what may be their most detailed image of the deep universe, and one of the most important in all of human history.Explore the Hubble Legacy Field, a mosaic of 7,500 images that tells the story of our universe going back to nearly the time of the Big Bang. It's a crowning achievement in this golden age of astronomy.
The Incredible Journey of Apollo 12 - 4K SpaceRip 2019-06-24 | For more 4K space, and more great History and Science, check out our sister network...magellantv.com/featuredThis is the ultimate buddy movie. November 14, 1969... three astronauts with spacesuits, food, water, and a battery of scientific and communications equipment prepared to fly to the moon. Thousands gathered at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, including President and Mrs. Richard Nixon, to witness the historic launch. It was raining that day, but that was no cause for delay. The ship that would carry them into space was designed to launch in any weather. But how would it respond to a powerful electrical storm now gathering above the launch pad? That was just the beginning of the incredible journey of Apollo 12. With three astronauts fastened into their seats, the countdown proceeded. Astronaut and Mission Commander Pete Conrad would say later: "The flight was extremely normal, for the first 36 seconds." The five engines of the Saturn 5's huge first stage were designed to burn through 5 million pounds of liquid oxygen in just two and a half minutes, and to send the spacecraft up 67 kilometers above the Atlantic Ocean. When it reached an altitude of 2000 meters, something unexpected happened. Racing through the stormy environment, the rocket generated a lightning bolt that traveled down its highly conductive exhaust trail. Another bolt hit 16 seconds later. All of the spacecraft's circuit breakers shut off. The tracking system was lost. A young flight controller in Houston, Texas instructed astronaut Alan Bean on how to turn on an auxiliary power system. The mission was back on track. Once in Earth orbit, all systems appeared to check out, and flight control officials gave the crew the green light to leave Earth.The astronauts were not told of concern that the lighting strikes had damaged the pyrotechnic system used to deploy the parachutes that would ease them back through the Earth's atmosphere. If that system failed, the astronauts would not return alive.This mission would have its share of perils, not unlike those faced by a long line of past explorers, whose courage and restless spirit propelled them into the unknown. This one, however, was backed by years of technology development, test flights, astronaut training, and the largest support team back home that any mission ever had.But hundreds of thousands of kilometers out in space the three astronauts were pretty much on their own. What made Apollo 12 unique was the friendship and chemistry of its crew. Conrad, Bean, and Richard Gordon were all Navy men. Working and training together on the Gemini program, they had gained each other's respect and trust. Now, hurtling across more than 400,000 kilometers to the moon, they prepared to fullfill the mission's goals. One was to set up a scientific station designed to record seismic, atmospheric, and solar data. Another was to visit an unmanned lunar probe called Surveyor III that had landed there two and a half years before. The idea was to bring back a part to study the effect of the lunar environment. A third goal was to improve on the landing of Apollo 11 just 5 months before. Dropping down over a region called the Sea of Tranquility, pilot Neil Armstrong found himself heading straight for a crater full of boulders. He had to fly over the planned landing site and find a new one. Now kilometers beyond the target, the lander, called Eagle, was literally running out of gas.With less than 30 seconds of fuel left, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin finally touched down on a landscape obscured by dust stirred up by the vehicle's thrusters. Future astronauts would have to be able to make precision landings at locations dictated by science. That meant they would have to touch down on landscapes filled with all kinds of rocks and craters.For Apollo 12, the science pointed to a region known as the Ocean of Storms, some 2000 kilometers from where the Eagle had landed. Here, the landscape is dark from lava that cooled to form its flat expanse billions of years ago.
Earths Most Destructive SuperVolcanoes 4K SpaceRip 2019-06-19 | For more 4K space, and more great History and Science than you'll ever watch, check out our sister network...magellantv.com/featuredThis video was converted to 4K from HD using an AI-based computer program. This documentary explores volcanic eruptions so vast, so Earth-shattering, they have changed the history of our planet. Climate collapse. Toxic turmoil. Mass extinction. Worse than a killer asteroid, or nuclear war, they are Earth's most destructive Supervolcanoes.
Birth of a Black Hole 4K SpaceRip 2019-06-05 | For more 4K space, and more great History and Science than you'll ever watch, check out our sister network...magellantv.com/featuredThis SpaceRip classic explores one of the greatest mysteries in modern science: a series of brief but extremely bright flashes of ultra-high energy light coming from somewhere out in space. These gamma ray bursts were first spotted by spy satellites in the 1960s. It took three decades and a revolution in high-energy astronomy for scientists to figure out what they were: black holes at the moment of their birth.Far out in space, in the center of a seething cosmic maelstrom. Extreme heat. High velocities. Atoms tear, and space literally buckles. Photons fly out across the universe, energized to the limits found in nature. Billions of years later, they enter the detectors of spacecraft stationed above our atmosphere. Our ability to record them is part of a new age of high-energy astronomy, and a new age of insights into nature at its most extreme. What can we learn by witnessing the violent birth of a black hole?The outer limits of a black hole, call the event horizon, is subject to what Albert Einstein called frame dragging, in which space and time are pulled along on a path that leads into the black hole. As gas, dust, stars or planets fall into the hole, they form into a disk that spirals in with the flow of space time, reaching the speed of light just as it hits the event horizon. The spinning motion of this so-called "accretion disk" can channel some of the inflowing matter out into a pair of high-energy beams, or jets. How a jet can form was shown in a supercomputer simulation of a short gamma ray burst. It was based on a 40-millisecond long burst recorded by Swift on May 9, 2005. It took five minutes for the afterglow to fade, but that was enough for astronomers to capture crucial details. It had come from a giant galaxy 2.6 billion light years away, filled with old stars.Scientists suspected that this was a case of two dead stars falling into a catastrophic embrace. Orbiting each other, they moved ever closer, gradually gaining speed. At the end of the line, they began tearing each other apart, until they finally merged. NASA scientists simulated the final 35 thousandths of a second, when a black hole forms. Chaos reigns. But the new structure becomes steadily more organized, and a magnetic field takes on the character of a jet. Within less than a second after the black hole is born, it launches a jet of particles to a speed approaching light. A similar chain of events, in the death of a large star, is responsible for longer gamma ray bursts. Stars resist gravity by generating photons that push outward on their enormous mass. But the weight of a large star's core increases from the accumulation of heavy elements produced in nuclear fusion. In time, its outer layers cannot resist the inward pull... and the star collapses. The crash produces a shock wave that races through the star and obliterates it.In the largest of these dying stars, known as collapsars or hypernovae, a black hole forms in the collapse. Matter flowing in forms a disk. Charged particles create magnetic fields that twist off this disk, sending a portion out in high-speed jets. Simulations show that the jet is powerful enough to plow its way through the star. In so doing, it may help trigger the explosion. The birth of a black hole does not simply light up the universe. It is a crucial event in the spread of heavy elements that seed the birth of new solar systems and planets. But the black hole birth cries that we can now register with a fleet of high-energy telescopes are part of wider response to gravity's convulsive power.
Buzz Aldrin Shows Us How to Walk on the Moon - 4k SpaceRip 2019-05-13 | For more 4K space, and more great History and Science than you'll ever watch, check out our sister network...magellantv.com/featuredJuly 20th 1969: 49 minutes after Neil Armstrong delivered his “one small step” line, Buzz Aldrin conducted a series of mobility tests to determine the best ways for astronauts to get around the lunar surface. His walkabout was seen live on television screens across planet Earth. Here – presented in 4K video for the first time – is the view from a motion picture camera in the Lunar Module. NASA’s original slow-scan TV stream has been inset for comparison.Buzz’s test ended when Mission Control patched through a call from the President of the United States, Richard Nixon.Suggested Tags: Moonwalk, Apollo 11, Buzz Aldrin, walking on the moon, mobility.Buzz Aldrin: I'd like to evaluate the various paces that a person can (static) traveling on the lunar surface. I believe I'm out of your field-of-view. Is that right, now, Houston?Bruce McCandless CAPCOM (Mission Control): That's affirmative, Buzz. You're in our field-of-view now.Buzz Aldrin: Alright, you do have to be rather careful to keep track of where your center of mass is. Sometimes, it takes about two or three paces to make sure you've got your feet underneath you. About two to three or maybe four easy paces can bring you to a fairly smooth stop. (To) change directions, like a football player, you just have to put a foot out to the side and cut a little bit. The so-called kangaroo hop does work, but it seems as though your forward mobility is not quite as good as it is in the more conventional one foot after another. As far as saying what a sustained pace might be, I think that one that I'm using now would get rather tiring after several hundred (static). But this may be a function of this suit, as well as the lack of gravity forces.
Seeing the Beginning of Time 4k SpaceRip 2019-04-19 | For more 4K space, and more great History and Science than you'll ever watch, check out our sister network...magellantv.com/featuredAstronomers have begun one of the most far-reaching efforts to study the cosmos. They are building giant new telescopes, while marshaling vast computational power. These technologies are part of a historic quest: to peer into space and time, to find out how the universe gave birth to galaxies and planets, to discern the amazing world of gravity and test theories by Einstein and other scientists.ABOUT USHere at SpaceRip, we value the exploration of the unknown. We surpass boundaries for the sake of uncovering the mysteries of the cosmos and what they may tell us about our origin and our future. With our videos, we hope to educate our viewers on how we fit into the universe, and more so how we can do our part to better it.We believe there is no better time to inform ourselves about the world around us. Our partnership with MagellanTV is aimed to educate viewers on our complex world to prepare for our rapidly changing future. Through our videos we hope to capture a variety of important topics with the overall goal of promoting positive discussion and action.
Hurricane Florence: Storm of the Future SpaceRip 2018-10-04 | For more 4K space, and more great History and Science than you'll ever watch, check out our sister network... magellantv.com/featuredHurricane Florence offers a glimpse of the rising dangers posed by tropical storms and other major weather systems to American coastal states. Populations are steadily rising, not just along the beach, but inland as well. With ocean temperatures rising, hurricanes and tropical storms transport vast amounts of rain to these inland communities, causing catastrophic flooding. Hurricanes Harvey, Matthew, and Florence are part of a perfect storm of rising vulnerability and rising threat. Sadly, they also show how unprepared we are.
Best of NASA: Landmark Ghost Particle Detection in 4k SpaceRip 2018-07-12 | For more 4K space, and more great History and Science than you'll ever watch, check out our sister network... magellantv.com/featuredHigh-energy neutrinos are hard-to-catch particles that scientists think are created by the most powerful events in the cosmos, such as galaxy mergers and material falling onto supermassive black holes. They travel at speeds just shy of the speed of light and rarely interact with other matter, allowing them to travel unimpeded across distances of billions of light-years.For the first time ever, scientists using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have found the source of a high-energy neutrino from outside our galaxy. This neutrino traveled 3.7 billion years at almost the speed of light before being detected on Earth. This is farther than any other neutrino whose origin scientists can identify. Artist visual of a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxyThe discovery of a high-energy neutrino on September 22, 2017, sent astronomers on a chase to locate its source—a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy.Video: NASA's Fermi Links Cosmic Neutrino to Monster Black HoleThe neutrino was discovered by an international team of scientists using the National Science Foundation’s IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station. Fermi found the source of the neutrino by tracing its path back to a blast of gamma-ray light from a distant supermassive black hole in the constellation Orion.
Best of NASA: Tour Of The Moon in 4K SpaceRip 2018-06-08 | For more 4K space, and more great History and Science than you'll ever watch, check out our sister network... magellantv.com/featuredIn this grand tour of the Moon's surface from NASA, the camera flies over the lunar terrain, coming in for close looks at a variety of interesting sites ased on data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Location and scale provided for the image center. Music Provided By Killer Tracks: "Never Looking Back" - Frederick Wiedmann. "Flying over Turmoil" - Benjamin Krause & Scott Goodman.
Collision That Formed The Moon SpaceRip 2018-02-28 | Hey Everyone, You can find our 4K UHD content and more great space and science shows on: magellantv.com/genres/spaceOver five decades ago, Apollo astronauts brought back to Earth a wide variety of rocks from the Moon. Analysis of these rocks gave rise to a set of ideas describing the origin of the Moon called the Giant Impact Theory. In the last decade, scientists like Robin Canup have been testing a number of predictions of this theory using a new generation of powerful supercomputers. In this video, Dr. Canup showcases her recent results. The visualization is a work in progress produced for the upcoming giant screen fulldome film "Birth of Planet," with funding from the National Science Foundation.
Seeing Inside the Sun SpaceRip 2018-02-05 | Dr. Robert Stein, professor of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State Universe has long envisioned a day when he could use supercomputer programs to "see" through the roiling surface of the sun and glimpse its dynamic interior. He describes his quest and offers ideas about what drives the violent outbursts known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, known to disrupt the electrical systems that power our civilization.
Star Crash: The Explosion that Transformed Astronomy SpaceRip 2017-11-13 | For more 4K space, and more great History and Science than you'll ever watch, check out our sister network... magellantv.com/featuredA startling collision in an ancient galaxy slews Earth's largest telescopes to a spot in the Hydra constellation. Two rapidly spinning neutron stars have violently merged to form a possible black hole. And, for the first time, astronomers see its electromagnetic flash and hear its gravitational thunder as they watch new elements being born.ABOUT USHere at SpaceRip, we value the exploration of the unknown. We surpass boundaries for the sake of uncovering the mysteries of the cosmos and what they may tell us about our origin and our future. With our videos, we hope to educate our viewers on how we fit into the universe, and more so how we can do our part to better it.We believe there is no better time to inform ourselves about the world around us. Our partnership with MagellanTV is aimed to educate viewers on our complex world to prepare for our rapidly changing future. Through our videos we hope to capture a variety of important topics with the overall goal of promoting positive discussion and action. Narrator: Perry Anne NortonWriter / Director: @DavidSkyBrodyExecutive Producer: Thomas Lucas
Grand Journey to Understand the Evolution of the Universe SpaceRip 2017-10-27 | For more 4K space, and more great History and Science than you'll ever watch, check out our sister network... magellantv.com/featuredThere is a strand in contemporary astronomy that aims to survey and map the universe on larger and larger scales, going all the way back to the beginning of time. In this video, Josh Frieman, Director of the Dark Energy Survey and Astrophysics Professor at the University of Chicago, describes the promise these projects hold for understanding the hidden dynamic of the cosmos, including the identity and influence of Dark Matter and Dark Energy, and whether Albert Einstein's theories are correct.
Cassini at Titan: A World Unveiled SpaceRip 2017-09-08 | For more 4K space, and more great History and Science than you'll ever watch, check out our sister network... magellantv.com/featuredAs the Cassini-Huygens mission winds down to its Grand Finale, we recognize it as one of the greatest voyages of discovery in the history of science. We have learned and discovered more things about a previously unknown dynamic system--a system that's a billion miles from us: the Saturn system--than we ever could have imagined.One of the pinnacles of that has been the discoveries on Titan. Titan has turned out to be a very complex world. It has geology. It has methane rain. It has lakes and seas. It has dunes of organic molecules. And it has a lot more secrets that it's still hiding from us. I think that really what makes people so excited about Titan is this combination of familiarity and alienness.
I Will Rescue You Scenes from Hurricane Harvey SpaceRip 2017-09-01 | Hey Everyone, You can find our 4K UHD content and more great space and science shows on: magellantv.com/genres/spaceAfter dumping tens of trillions of gallons of water on Texas, Hurricane Harvey swamped millions out of their homes. No one was spared: Black, White, Asian, Latino, Rich, Poor, and scraping by. The men and women of the Armed Services led battalions of volunteers who set to work with only one thought in mind: I Will Rescue You. The expressions on faces tell stories ranging from quiet heroism, to despair and profound relief.
Voyager: Silent Ambassador 40 Years Later SpaceRip 2017-08-31 | NASA launched the twin Voyager spacecraft in the late summer of 1977, These remote ambassadors still beam messages back to Earth 40 years later. After delivering unprecedented views of the outer planets, they are now sending back data from beyond the solar system. How many millennia, how many millions of years will their journey last?
Mars Atmospheric Erosion SpaceRip 2017-08-30 | Scientists have long suspected the solar wind of stripping the Martian upper atmosphere into space, turning Mars from a blue world to a red one. Now, NASA's MAVEN orbiter is observing this process in action, providing significant data on solar wind erosion at Mars.Video from NASA
Greenlands 100,000-Year-Old Ice SpaceRip 2017-08-29 | This movie shows the new 3D map of the age of the Greenland ice sheet, using a collage of live footage and animation to explain how scientists determined the age from data collected by ice-penetrating radar.Video from NASA
Neptune Through the Eyes of Kepler SpaceRip 2017-08-29 | In late 2014 and early 2015, NASA's Kepler telescope observed the eighth planet in our solar system, Neptune. Kepler detected Neptune's daily rotation, the movement of clouds, and even minute changes in the sun's brightness, paving the way for future studies of weather and climate beyond our solar system.Video from NASA.
Space Rush: The Quest to Live in Space - 4k SpaceRip 2017-06-10 | Experience the International Space Station in 4k-UHD. ISS is the single largest collaborative engineering project ever undertaken. Brimming with experiments and life support systems, the International Space Station flies around the Earth every 92 minutes and 39 seconds. A crew of six astronauts fills its days producing science, testing new technologies, and exploring the kaleidoscopic world below. Their mission, to learn to live in space… to understand what it will take to one day build permanent colonies on other planets.
Tribute to John Glenn SpaceRip 2016-12-12 | July 18, 1921 - December 8, 2016. Aviator, engineer, astronaut, US Senator. The first American to orbit Earth. The oldest person to fly in space.
Black Hole-powered Starship SpaceRip 2016-09-16 | Hey Everyone, You can find our 4K UHD content and more great space and science shows on: magellantv.com/genres/spaceTwo scientists have laid out the basic technical specifications of a black hole powered starship. The concept embodies a surprisingly hopeful vision of the future promoted by Stephen Hawking. How feasible is it technically? How far could it take humanity one day in the distant future?
Pine Island: An Iceberg as Large as New York City SpaceRip 2016-09-16 | Scientists are closely monitoring a giant iceberg in the making, as a crack in Antarctica's Pine Island glacier widens.
A High Energy Revelation SpaceRip 2016-09-13 | Measurements of unprecedented detail returned by Japan's Hitomi satellite have allowed scientists to track the motion of X-ray-emitting gas at the heart of the Perseus cluster of galaxies for the first time. Located about 240 million light-years away and named for its host constellation, the Perseus galaxy cluster contains a vast amount of extremely hot gas. At temperatures averaging 90 million degrees Fahrenheit (50 million degrees Celsius), the gas glows brightly in X-rays. Prior to Hitomi's launch, astronomers lacked the capability to measure the detailed dynamics of this gas, particularly its relationship to bubbles of gas expelled by an active supermassive black hole in the cluster's core galaxy, NGC 1275.
The Future of Hubble SpaceRip 2016-09-12 | The Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized the science of astronomy and redefined space for the general public. What lies in its future, and how will it's dovetail with that of the new James Webb Space Telescope?
