NOVA

Ultima Thule Comes Into Focus as New Images Reveal Secrets

After years of anticipation, NASA scientists received the most detailed images from its spacecraft, New Horizons.

Ultima Thule Comes Into Focus as New Images Reveal Secrets

1m 13s

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    Solar System: Storm Worlds

    S51 E9 - 53m 34s

    Out in the solar system, the weather gets wacky – with globe-spanning dust storms, monsoons of liquid methane, and lightning 10 times stronger than here on Earth. Discover the forces driving the dramatic weather on neighboring planets and moons.

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    Tides of Tradition

    9m 47s

    Kanesia McGlashan-Price (Unalaska, Alaska) - Communities like the Unangax̂ rely on traditional foodways in lieu of customary, expensive grocery suppliers. Following the journey of a local subsistence hunter, we learn the realities of food access in the changing Arctic and the values that inform their harvest.

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    Harvesting the Future

    9m 22s

    Wenona & Sal Baldenegro (Tucson, Arizona) - Agriculture can thrive in the desert. The Tohono O'odham people have used Ak Chin farming, a form of dry farming, to grow crops for thousands of years, and in this short documentary, cultural experts demonstrate these traditional practices as well as implementations for future community planning.

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