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Australia: A Geographer's View From Space
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Audience: Educators and StudentsGrades: K-8
Year: 1997
This NASA video segment uses images taken from the space shuttle to explore the geography of Australia. Viewers see the vast red color that indicates the soil is high in iron content. They learn that the Pacific Ocean is so immense that even the space shuttle takes 20 minutes to fly over it.
Australia: A Geographer's View From Space
Duration: 49 seconds
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This video clip is part of the Liftoff to Learning: Geography From Space DVD that may be ordered from the Central Operation of Resources for Educators, or CORE →.
Other video learning clips in this series:
South America: A Geographer's View From Space
Africa: A Geographer's View From Space
Europe: A Geographer's View From Space
Asia: A Geographer's View From Space
North America: A Geographer's View From Space