Insight Into: Clouds
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Clouds influence weather and climate, regulating Earth's temperature by absorbing and reflecting sunlight, and by trapping heat.
Clouds: Video Segments
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Time
At a Glance: Cloud Types
02:46
Terrestrial Tour: Clouds Hot and Cold
05:09
Above and Beyond: Ship Tracks Above the Pacific
01:05
Myth vs Reality: The Effects of Clouds on Earth's Temperatures
00:41
Myth vs Reality: Clouds and Air Temperature
00:41
Insight Into: Clouds
01:20
Above and Beyond: Noctilucent Clouds Above Northern Europe
01:16
Above and Beyond: Valley Fog in British Columbia
00:56
Credits
- +All programs produced by: Space Telescope Science Institute, Office of Public Outreach
All images, illustrations, and videos courtesy of NASA
except:
· Cloud illustrations by Marc Lussier, STScI
· Sea creature illustration copyright The National Library of Israel, Shapell Family Digitization Project and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, _Department of Geography – Historic Cities Research Project
· Various cloud photos courtesy of Marc Lussier
· Valley fog photo courtesy of Lucy Albert
· Clouds time-lapse video courtesy of Ethan Alexander Cook
· Photo of cumulus clouds over field courtesy of PiccoloNamek, Wikipedia
· Towering cumulus cloud photo courtesy of Jim W. Lee
· Noctilucent cloud photo copyright Jan Erik Paulsen
· Noctilucent cloud photo courtesy of P-M Hedén, www.clearskies.se, www.twanight.org
Music courtesy of Associated Production Music
Written by Andrea Gianopoulos
Designed by Marc Lussier
Transcript
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Planet Earth against the blackness of space.
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Text, Our sapphire-blue world has 331 million cubic miles of water.
3/4 of Earth cut in the form of a pie chart.
Text, Water covers about 75% of Earth's surface.
Almost all of Earth's water - about 98% - is liquid, and about 2% is stored as ice and permanent snow.
Earth with the continents Europe and Africa surrounded by blue water, and an area of white at the North Pole.
Text, Our atmosphere holds only one-thousandth of 1% of Earth's water.
A very small fraction of that condenses to form clouds. But it has an enormous effect on our lives.
Clouds high in the sky range in size and shape, from wispy to fluffy.
On the surface of Earth, clouds move in spiral motions in various directions.
Text, Clouds influence weather and climate.
Clouds carry water from one region of the planet to another.
Clouds also regulate Earth's temperature by absorbing and reflecting sunlight, and by trapping heat.