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How Dangerous Would A Supervolcano Eruption Be?

Have you ever wondered what would happen if a supervolcano like Yellowstone erupted? Is humanity doomed? Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/LifeNoggin Follow Us! https://twitter.com/LifeNoggin https://facebook.com/LifeNoggin Life Noggin is a animated educational series. Whether it'

Volcanism in the Andes

The volcanoes of the Andes are particularly explosive. The oceanic plate that dips below the continental one contains a lot of water. The water evaporates in the glowing magma. High pressure is created, which discharges at the Earth's surface in massive volcanoes. Source: https://www.zdf.de/dokumen

Deep Ocean Volcanoes

Learn about underwater volcanoes and the discovery of the erupting deep-ocean volcano West Mata. The video provides students with the opportunity to visualize a phenomenon that is too dangerous and too remote to experience. Students view a visualization of the ocean floor as well as footage that cap

NOVA scienceNOW: Mass Extinction

This video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW examines a developing theory that might explain a 250-million-year-old "murder mystery." While several possible causes have been considered for the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the Permian period, the scientists featured in the video thi

Saturn's Record-Setting Storm | NASA Planetary Sciences

Learn how a giant storm on Saturn sent temperatures soaring in this video from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. About once a Saturn year, the planet develops a massive storm called a Great White Spot. Planetary scientist Brigette Hesman describes observations of the storm that erupted on Saturn i

Mercury's MESSENGER Reveals Mysteries | NASA Planetary Sciences

Explore what makes Mercury so mysterious and what scientists are learning from NASA's first Mercury mission in 30 years. For the MESSENGER mission, NASA launched a probe and guided it toward Mercury using a technique called "solar sailing." The probe is studying the make-up of the planet's inner cor