This video tour gives you a glimpse of how to explore Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History collections using Google Earth. To take your own tour, download Google Earth and dive down to the Gulf of Mexico to begin to explore the Smithsonian's marine collections.

Roy Clarke, an authority on meteorites, shows some of the specimens from the Allende meteorite fall. He came to the Smithsonian in 1957, after several years as an analytical geochemist in a U.S. Geological Survey laboratory. Clarke has been involved in the acquisition of numerous meteorites on...

Geologist and Curator of the US National Gem Collection, Dr. Jeffrey Post presents this talk on gems and minerals in the national collection.