Xploration Awesome Planet

Yosemite National Park: El Capitan; Half-Dome; Mariposa Grove's 500 giant sequoia trees.

The Mohave Desert; Death Valley; Joshua Tree National Park.

The Grand Canyon; Bryce Canyon; Monterrey Bay; unusual sea creatures.

An estuary in North Carolina; sea life in Curacao; a NASA satellite monitors precipitation.

Mount Saint Helens; how mountains are formed and earthquakes caused; oceans and waterways.

The Canadian Rockies: Lake Louise; a glacier; the woodland caribou; white-bark pine trees.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center; satellites; flight in a DC-3 aircraft; an observatory.

Alaska: a brown bear hunting for salmon; Denali National Park; scuba diving in frigid waters.

Petrified National Forest; Crater Lake; a giant forest of kelp; glowworms in New Zealand caves.

Grand Canyon; an ancient cave on the island of Curacao; Lake Michigan; ice ages.

Lionfish near the coral reefs off Curacao; oysters of the Chesapeake Bay; an oil spill's effects.

Delaware Bay salt marsh; Pamlico Sound; tide pools in Hawaii; the Bore tide in Alaska.

New Hampshire; why leaves turn colors in the fall; Acadia National Park; Napatree Point.

Canals of Chicago; Lake Seneca; gathering fish in Philadelphia; Quebec City.

Amazing feats of construction by animals; honeycombs; spider webs; beaver dams; bird nests.