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Astronaut, Susan Helms, looking out the window on the International Space Station. Windows on Earth is a museum exhibit, website, and exploration tool, developed by TERC, Inc. (an educational non-profit organization, previously called Technical Education Research Centers [1]), and the Association of Space Explorers, that enables the public to explore an interactive, virtual view of Earth from ...
The series is available in the UK for Regions 2 and 4 as a four-disc DVD set (BBCDVD1233, released 1 September 2003) and as part of The Life Collection. In 2012 the series was released as a four-disc Blu-ray set (released 12 November 2012). A hardback book, Life on Earth by David Attenborough, was published in 1979 and became a worldwide ...
The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth is a BBC nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, first transmitted in the UK from 19 January 1984. The sequel to his pioneering Life on Earth, it is a study of the ways in which living organisms, including humans, adapt to their surroundings. Each of the twelve 55-minute ...
The Living Earth simulator is a proposed massive computer simulation system intended to simulate the interactions of all aspects of life, human economic activity, climate, and other physical processes on the planet Earth as part of the FuturICT project, [1] in response to the European FP7 "Future and Emerging Technologies Flagship" initiative.
The Images of Change project provides side-by-side photos of the same place over time to document the environment changes caused by nature and man. NASA's before and after images show Earth's ...
Planet Earth Live featured real-time footage of young animals from five continents [2] throughout the month of May. [1] Broadcast three times per week, teams of nature experts and documentary makers monitored the activity of animals in their area, reporting back on the day's events. [3]
The GeoEye-2 satellite is designed to provide panchromatic images at a highest resolution of 0.31 meters per pixel (12.2 in/px), and multispectral images at 1.24 meters per pixel (48.8 in/px). [20] The spacecraft was designed and built by Lockheed Martin, [ 21 ] while the camera payload was provided by ITT Corporation .
Earth's Greatest Spectacles (released in some countries as Seasonal Wonderlands) [1] is a 2016 British nature documentary series created and produced by the BBC, first shown in February 2016 at BBC Two and BBC Two HD.