The Earth: Crash Course Astronomy #11

2015-04-02

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Phil starts the planet-by-planet tour of the solar system right here at home, Earth.

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Chapters:

Introduction: The Earth 00:00

Layers of Earth 1:25

Continental Plates 3:01

Why is the Earth's Core so Hot? 4:21

Earth's Magnetic Field 5:10

Earth's Atmosphere 5:58

Atmospheric Pressure 7:30

Liquid Water on Earth 7:51

The Greenhouse Effect: CO2 in the Atmosphere 8:16

Review 9:27

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PHOTOS/VIDEOS

Planets:

Mercury: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080116.html

Venus: http://www.msss.com/all_projects/magellan.php

Earth: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=36019

Mars: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-mars.html

Jupiter: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia04866.html

Saturn: http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/06/Ten%20Years%20at%20Saturn/cassini_ugarkovic_saturn.jpg.CROP.original-original.jpg [credit: Photo by NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute/Gordan Ugarkovic]

Uranus: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1998/35/image/a/

Neptune: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/05/15/neptune_voyager_images_updated_for_portrait_of_the_eighth_planet.html

Ulaan Tsutgalan waterfall: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkhon_River#mediaviewer/File:Ulaan-Tsutgalan-waterfall.jpg

Perspective on a cloudy day: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/09/05/clouds_from_space_photo_by_iss_astronaut_oleg_artemyev.html [credit: Oleg Artemyev]

Rain droplets: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rain_droplets.jpg

Yellowston Mud Pot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_bubble#mediaviewer/File:Yellowstone_mud_pot_p1090998.jpg

Sea otters holding hands: http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%AA_%D7%94%D7%99%D7%9D#mediaviewer/File:Sea_otters_holding_hands.jpg

Continental Drift: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=73 [credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio]

Mission to Bennu: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=11697 [credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab]

http://www.es.ucsc.edu/~glatz/GarysImages/surf.gif [credit: San Diego Supercomputer Center / Nature]

Excerpt from "Dynamic Earth" http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=11003 [credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center]

Clouds: http://www.beachfrontbroll.com/2013/07/BrightSkyandClouds.html

Aurora Borealis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YjCIoPHT0U [credit: Fotograf Göran Strand]

Waves On Rocky Shore 1080 (2011): https://archive.org/details/wavesOnRockyShore-1080

A Year In The Life Of Earth’s CO2: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=11719 [credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center]

NASA | 2014 Continues Long-Term Global Warming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtPkFBbJLMg