Synopsis
NASA Connect segment explaining how scientists determined the distance between the earth and the sun. The video also explores the geometric technique called parallax.
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Details
- Running time
- 6 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- NASA
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- NASA Connect
- Parallax
- Astronomical Unit
- Earth
- Sun
- Kepler
- Ratio
- Baseline Unit
- Geometric Technique
- Scale
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