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Name |
Timescale |
Description |
File Size |
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New York Forest.1 |
Actual Elapsed Time: 17 minutes (1,000 seconds) |
A mist shimmers in the early morning light falling on a New York forest. At normal speed, this scene would seem quiet and still... |
304 K |
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New York Forest.2 |
Actual Elapsed Time: 2.8 hours (10,000 seconds) |
The morning fog lifts as the sun rises on a forest in New York state. The morning fog consists of tiny droplets of water... |
396 K |
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New York Forest.3 |
Actual Elapsed Time: 13 hours (46,800 seconds) |
Sitting in front of a forest for a day sounds restful. Not much happens in the 13 hours of daylight, or does it? In... |
312 K |
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New York Forest.4 |
Actual Elapsed Time: 4 months (10,500,000 seconds) |
In four months the landscape of this New England forest changes color completely. The green of summer makes way for the rich hues of... |
284 K |
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New York Forest.5 |
Actual Elapsed Time: 1 year (31,500,000 seconds) |
A forest in New York state undergoes dramatic changes over the course of a year. As the days get longer and warmer in spring... |
632 K |
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New York Stream |
Actual Elapsed Time: 4 months (10,500,000 seconds) |
Winter snow gives way to spring growth. Spring weather melts the snow and swells the stream. The snow leaves nothing alive, it seems, only... |
556 K |
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Night.1 |
Actual Elapsed Time: 2.8 hours (10,000 seconds) |
The evening sky is usually a quiet scene. But sped up 1,000 times, we can see how active it really is. Stars appear to... |
308 K |
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Night.2 |
Actual Elapsed Time: 12 hours (43,200 seconds) |
Stars seem to rotate in the evening sky. What's really happening is that you are seeing the effect of the Earth's rotation about its... |
320 K |
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Night.3 |
Actual Elapsed Time: 1 year (31,500,000 seconds) |
The positions of stars seem to move over the course of a year. In fact, it is the Earth that is moving, traveling around... |
400 K |
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Outer Planets |
Actual Elapsed Time: 100 years (3.2 billion seconds) |
The outer planets of the solar system - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto - take long periods of time to revolve around the sun. In... |
136 K |
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