NASA Explorers: Cryosphere - The Big Thaw

NASA Explorers is a new digital series that takes you inside the space agency and follows the pioneers, risk-takers and experts at the front line of exploration. Season 1, “Cryosphere,” joins NASA scientists on their journey to the frozen ends of the Earth as they study our rapidly changing world from satellites, planes and boots on the ground. The Cryosphere is a place we all depend on, but many of us will never go to. As temperatures rise, the frozen regions of Earth are changing rapidly. NASA scientists are locked in a race against time to understand our shifting climate and how it affects life on Earth.

[mmmk]

I am liking this new series! Looking forward to more :)

[anthoffable]

Yes. Great video. Very approachable. Just what NASA needed. I hope you'll continue to make videos like this. Good job, everyone who worked on it! I'm very excited for the next episode. 🤠

[ScullBayProductions]

Don’t say the ends of the earth. You will get the Flat Earth believers deepening their belief in the Flat Earth.

[darringreen]

Hey all.

Well, as some of you have noted, NASA does have a budget, and although somewhat smaller than in the 60's (adjusted for inflation), it is still significant. With that said, however, that budget has to be spread out over several different fields where space exploration is only one of them. Companies like ULA, SpaceX, Blue Origin and the like devote all their efforts into getting rockets into space, where NASA (contrary to most people's beliefs...and what the full name implies) was founded not only to explore the possibilities of space travel, but what it would take humans to be able to survive in space. Its charter extended to study various attributes of the Earth and how our environment here could be replicated elsewhere, or the lack there of that environment, would affect humans for long durations. Over the years, NASA has morphed, for one reason or another, into a veritable smorgasbord of scientific disciplines to include medicine, biochemistry, propulsive and electrical energy producing methods, meteorology, astronomy, mathematics, hydrology, physics, mechanical engineering, thermodynamics, and many others. The studies NASA has made in many of those disciplines had led to breakthroughs that have, and will continue to benefit humanity even if we never become a space fairing species.

To that end, NASA has developed this series. Its intent is to educate people, not only on what NASA is really all about, but what their environment contributes to their daily lives, and how fragile the Earth really is. This is a series, and Cryosphere is only the topic of season 1. Stick around for subsequent seasons/topics.

[elsaalvarez]

Saludos NASA ¡¡ Muchas gracias por este video ¡¡

[mocko]

I am so sorry that you have small public. I am proud of your work!

[General_Ace]

When the US won't give you a bigger budget to explore space, so you just look at the worlds ice and make videos about it.

[elsaalvarez]

Es una aventura en nuestro planeta¡ =[]

[Calypso]

Oh nice seems like the series I've been waiting for! The big question - when comes the next episode?

[filipevenancio]

Hello, nasa im 12 years old and my dream its work in nasa, i stude a lot and i love all aboute the universe and the milky way ...

[jimconradgobot]

That's why I'm waiting for your new video thanks NASA 🚀🚀🌏🌍🌎🌐

[stormbornstudios]

I am glad to see you tackling the most important question of our times. Question: where does that 1 to 3 feet of sea level rise come from? And how confident are you that it won't be significantly more? Curious about the underlying assumptions of that estimate

[aylindobryden]

We think our problems are the end of the world. Just look at what language of the world we live in, where? Our home is part of the world, it's like a small dot that is hard to see under a "microscope." Let's appreciate what we have, keep what we have!

[ravenken]

I love the fact that you are doing this... come on... where is the next one?!?

[Jhouserok]

Well its spring in Antarctica now, please keep sending us updates from the great down under.

[lobosolitario]

This is truly amazing! I’m learning a lot about the cryosphere and at the same time I’m improving my English xD. Thank you for bringing us this type of content!

[romanregman]

A little bit of contention: the cryo is NOT a sphere, since it's NOT continuous, even partially. Atmo is, Aqua is, Litho is, Bio is (especially thanks to the penguins), but NOT the Crio.

[noctisandres]

Yo soy voluntario para lo que sea que precisen no me interesan los fines comerciales o prefiero la experiencia también ayudar hacerlo estaré listo siempre en cualquier momento puedo servir sostengo lo que digo saludos soy de uruguay

[lydsylver]

l'espace nous montre que le temps est notre mesure donc hyper temps n'est qu'une contre mesure

[scottlarsh]

Somebody actually believes (the) Earth is Flat? .... Frightening