Nearly 50 years ago, astronauts from NASA visited Craters of the Moon National Monument to train for their trip to … well, the moon. Today, the rugged, volcanic landscape (some would call it “alien”) in Idaho still serves as a living laboratory for NASA and other scientists.
The latest video in the “Outside Science (inside parks)” series follows an interdisciplinary team over rocks and into caves in an effort to better understand what our planet can teach us about other planets, like Mars.
Every month in 2016, the “Outside Science (inside parks)” video series will showcase ways “the next generation is getting involved in park science.” This is the 11th episode released by the National Park Service and produced by students from Colorado State University. Previous videos chronicle:
- A BioBlitz at Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park
- Collecting dragonflies to study mercury levels at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Rocky Mountain National Park
- Red tides at Cape Cod National Seashore
- Baby turtles at Gulf Islands National Seashore
- A backcountry hiking and photography program at Denali National Park and Preserve
- Counting cacti at Saguaro National Park
- Vegetation mapping at Everglades National Park
- Cave ecology and geology at Buffalo National River
- Monitoring underwater communication at Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
- Searching for fossils at Point Reyes National Seashore
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