NASA satellite imagery provides an overview of the cryosphere in the Antarctic. Learn about Antarctic features such as clouds, glaciers, ice streams, ice shelves, and icebergs. In addition, explore how rising temperatures affect the region, for example by increasing the number of meltwater ponds, wh
Do Penguins Have Knees? Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/LifesBiggestQuestions Hello and welcome back to Life’s Biggest Questions, I’m Ron McKenzie-Lefurgey. Penguins are some of the cutest animals in the world. It’s undeniable. They’re small, they’re cuddly, they look hilarious
Ice cores from Antarctica are a kind of climate archive. They provide information about the contents of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere thousands of years ago. Author: By ZDF/Terra X/Group 5/Luise Wagner, Jonas Sichert Dubbing: alugha Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/TerraX
Patagonia is notorious for its extreme winds. At the tip of South America, very cold air masses from Antarctica collide with warmer air from the north. Heavy storms rage at the southern end of the continent 300 days a year. Author: ZDF/Terra X/R.Marel/S.Hillmann/C.Gerisch/A.Kindler/SpiegelTV/Maximi
This ocean current transports cold, nutrient-rich deep water from Antarctica northward along the west coast of South America. Every second it moves 15 million cubic meters of water, about 75 million full bathtubs. Author: ZDF/Terra X/R.Marel/S.Hillmann/C.Gerisch/A.Kindler/SpiegelTV/Maximilian Mohr
The Antarctic ice sheet is the world's largest permanently iced area. If the sea warms by only 0.5 degrees, the ice shelf melts from below and breaks at the edges. Author: 3sat/nano/mobyDOK/Alexander Lahl/Max Mönch/Jean Schablin/Robert Coellen/Mirko Tribanek/Mandy Blaurock,Susan Kreher/Jochen Schmi
Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/LifesBiggestQuestions Our earth is really old. Estimates put the age of our earth at 4.5 billion years. For 1.5 billion years, it was desolate, no life existed. But Somewhere around 3 billion years ago, life began to sprout on planet earth. Scientis
The Antarctic ice sheet is the world's largest permanently icy area. If the sea warms by just 0.5 degrees, the ice shelf melts from below and breaks at the edges. Author: 3sat/nano/mobyDOK/Alexander Lahl/Max Mönch/Jean Schablin/Robert Coellen/Mirko Tribanek/Mandy Blaurock,Susan Kreher/Jochen Schmid
14,205 kilometres from Berlin, storms rage across the Antarctic Peninsula at speeds of up to 250 kilometres per hour. Perched on the northern tip, the German Antarctic Receiving Station GARS O'Higgins, operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) has defie
Chinstrap penguins are some of the only penguin species with a white face. They have a cute little line of black across their chin giving them the appearance of wearing a helmet. These little birds live in Antarctica among other places and are the most populous of all the penguin species - they're a
Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more. On Sunday, February 26th, the moon will pass in front of the sun, transforming rays of sunlight across parts of South America, southern Africa and Antarctica into fat crescents and thin rings of light. Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/NASA
