Watch a video of a single glacier’s terminus, covering eight years of retreat.
Ebb (of the Grail spacecraft) has returned its first video of the far side of the Moon.
The National Park Service has now released security camera videos from inside the Washington Monument during the August 23, 2011 5.8 magnitude earthquake.
NASA has released an update summarizing what scientists have found since Dawn went into orbit around Vesta in July. The video below, compiled from images Dawn has taken, gives a nice visual overview. The most interesting big feature, understated by the video, is the series of grooves that appear to encircle the asteroid’s equator. To my eye it almost looks like Vesta was once two asteroids that got merged into one, with these grooves indicating the weld point.
The direct link to the video can be found here.
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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology
In the last week there has been a flurry of avalanches and rockfalls at Mt. Rainier. On June 25 two climbers had cameras rolling when a major rockfall started on Nisqually Glacier. Below is the better of the two videos.
