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NASA Goddard Shorts
The mission of the Goddard Space Flight Center is to expand knowledge of the Earth and its environment, the solar system and the universe through observations from space.
Episodes:
NASA | Science for a Hungry World: Part 6
How will climate change impact agriculture? This episode explores the need for accurate, continuous and accessible data and computer models to track and predict the challenges farmers face as they adjust to a changing climate.
Duration: 00:05:12
2009-11-5
NASA | Einstein's Cosmic Speed Limit
In its first year of operations, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has mapped the entire sky with unprecedented resolution and sensitivity in gamma-rays, the highest-energy form of light. On May 10, 2009 a pair of gamma-ray photons reached Fermi only 900 milliseconds apart after traveling for 7 billion years. Fermi’s measurement gives us rare experimental evidence that space-time is smooth as Einstein predicted, and has shut the door on several approaches to gravity where space-time is foamy enough to interfere strongly with light.
Duration: 00:05:45
2009-10-29
NASA | Science for a Hungry World: Part 5
One of the biggest changes to global agriculture is less about the food itself as it is about the water we use to grow it. In some areas, farmers are using freshwater resources - including groundwater - at an alarming rate. The GRACE satellites enable scientists to discover changes to underground aquifers by monitoring changes in the Earth's gravity. In northern India, farmers rely heavily on irrigation to grow crops, and the resulting massive aquifer depletion creates an uncertain future for the region.
Duration: 00:04:53
2009-10-27
NASA | Women in Astronomy 2009
Space science research institutions have traditionally been populated by a strong male workforce, but this structure is rapidly changing. This short video is on the highlights and themes of the Women in Astronomy Conference for 2009.
Duration: 00:02:30
2009-10-26
NASA | Science for a Hungry World: Part 4
Sponsored by USAID, the Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET) was designed to help governments and aid agencies assess the need for food aid before a famine develops. This episode describes FEWS NET and looks at how FEWS NET uses NASA data to make decisions on the ground.
Duration: 00:05:52
2009-10-21
NASA | Keeping Up With Carbon
We hope people have enjoyed our six-part Earth Science Week series 'Tides of Change.' This final episode reminds us that carbon is all around us. The unique atom is the basic building block of life, and its compounds form solids, liquids, or gases. Carbon helps form the bodies of living organisms; it dissolves in the ocean; mixes in the atmosphere; and can be stored in the crust of the planet. A carbon atom could spend millions of years moving through this complex cycle. The ocean plays the most critical role in regulating Earth's carbon balance, and understanding how the carbon cycle is changing is key to understanding Earth's changing climate.
Duration: 00:05:38
2009-10-16
NASA | Melting Ice, Rising Seas
Sea level rise is an indicator that our planet is warming. Much of the world's population lives on or near the coast, and rising seas are something worth watching. Sea level can rise for two reasons, both linked to a warming planet. When ice on land, such as mountain glaciers or the ice sheets of Greenland or Antarctica, melt, that water contributes to sea level rise. And when our oceans get warmer - another indicator of climate change - the water expands, also making sea level higher. Using satellites, lasers, and radar in space, and dedicated researchers on the ground, NASA is studying the Earth's ice and water to better understand how sea level rise might affect us all.
Duration: 00:04:31
2009-10-15
NASA | Salt of the Earth
Salinity plays a major role in how ocean waters circulate around the globe. Salinity changes can create ocean circulation changes that, in turn, may impact regional and global climates. The extent to which salinity impacts our global ocean circulation is still relatively unknown, but NASA's new Aquarius mission will help advance that understanding by painting a global picture of our planet's salty waters.
Duration: 00:04:45
2009-10-14
NASA | The Ocean's Green Machines
One tiny marine plant makes life on Earth possible: phytoplankton. These microscopic photosynthetic drifters form the basis of the marine food web, they regulate carbon in the atmosphere, and are responsible for half of the photosynthesis that takes place on this planet. Earth’s climate is changing at an unprecedented rate, and as our home planet warms, so does the ocean. Warming waters have big consequences for phytoplankton and for the planet.
Duration: 00:05:34
2009-10-14
NASA | Water, Water Everywhere!
Water is all around us, and its importance to nearly every natural process on earth cannot be underestimated. The water cycle is the movement of water around the Earth in all its forms, from the ocean to the atmosphere, to snow, soil, aquifers, lakes, and streams on land, and ultimately backs to the ocean. This video explains what the water cycle is and how important it is to life on Earth.
Duration: 00:06:31
2009-10-13
NASA | Climate Change and the Global Ocean
We know climate change can affect us, but does climate change alter something as vast, deep and mysterious as our oceans? For years, scientists have studied the world's oceans by sending out ships and divers, deploying data-gathering buoys, and by taking aerial measurements from planes. But one of the better ways to understand oceans is to gain an even broader perspective - the view from space. NASA's Earth observing satellites do more than just take pictures of our planet. High-tech sensors gather data, including ocean surface temperature, surface winds, sea level, circulation, and even marine life. Information the satellites obtain help us understand the complex interactions driving the world's oceans today - and gain valuable insight into how the impacts of climate change on oceans might affect us on dry land.
Duration: 00:05:15
2009-10-13
NASA | Science for a Hungry World: Part 3
NASA remote sensing data is used to measure how much land is used for agriculture and where farms are in relation to population density. This episode explore the transition between native vegetation, farms, and cities. Satellites show where land use changes have been most significant.
Duration: 00:04:21
2009-10-7
NASA | Arctic Sea Ice 101
NASA climate scientist Tom Wagner provides a look at the state of Arctic sea ice in 2009 and discusses NASA's role in monitoring the cryosphere.
Duration: 00:04:28
2009-10-6
NASA | SDO Engineers Create What Never Was
Engineers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center talk about what it is like to build, assemble, integrate, and test a custom-made spacecraft like the soon to be launched Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
Duration: 00:03:51
2009-10-2
NASA | Science for a Hungry World: Part 2
Episode two reveals why a space-based perspective is crucial to understanding how the food supply is distributed around the world. Satellites can reveal how many fields have been planted and how a crop is growing, providing a way to predict how much of a give commodity will be available at harvest. Governments and aid agencies around the world use this information to help them make informed decisions about food prices and trade and the possible need for aid long before harvest.
Duration: 00:04:45
2009-9-30
NASA | LARGEST: Check Your Local Sphere for Listings
LARGEST introduces mainstream audiences to the planet Jupiter. Though the film itself has been prepared exclusively for playback on spherical projections systems, this trailer showcases some of the visual themes contained in the movie and points to the film's main website.
Duration: 00:00:52
2009-9-24
NASA | Science for a Hungry World: Part 1
As the first of six episodes, Science for a Hungry World: Part 1 sets the groundwork for explaining why NASA data is critical to ensure a stable global food system. This video reveals how satellite remote sensing data provide the world with essential information like the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, or NDVI, which allows scientists and governments to see the health of crops on a global scale. This video reinforces the idea that a unique perspective from space is essential for continuous global agricultural monitoring and accurate forecasting.
Duration: 00:04:49
2009-9-23
NASA | SDO's Instruments: The Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE)
Dean Pesnell, the SDO Project Scientist, explains how the the EVE instrument will allow us to better measure solar irradiance in extreme ultraviolet wavelengths. This type of irradiance, which is absorbed completely by Earth's upper atmosphere, can be dangerous to astronauts and electronics in space.
Duration: 00:01:46
2009-9-21
NASA | Take a 'Swift' Tour of the Andromeda Galaxy
NASA's Swift satellite has acquired the highest-resolution view of the neighboring spiral galaxy M31. Also known as the Andromeda Galaxy, M31 is the largest and closest such galaxy to our own. It's more than 220,000 light-years across and lies 2.5 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. Between May 25 and July 26, 2008, Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) acquired 330 images of M31 at wavelengths of 192.8, 224.6, and 260 nanometers. The images represent a total exposure time of 24 hours. Some 20,000 ultraviolet sources are visible in the image, including M32, a small galaxy in orbit around M31. Dense clusters of hot, young, blue stars sparkle in the disk beyond the galaxy's smooth, redder central bulge. Star clusters are especially plentiful along a ring about 150,000 light-years across.
Duration: 00:03:05
2009-9-16
NASA / USGS | Landsat: A Space Age Water Gauge
Water specialists Rick Allen, Bill Kramber and Tony Morse have created an innovative satellite-based method that maps agricultural water consumption. The team uses Landsat thermal band data to measure the amount of water evaporating from the soil and transpiring from plants' leaves. Evapotranspiring water absorbs energy, so farm fields consuming more water appear cooler in the thermal band. The Landsat observations provide an objective way for water managers to assess on a field-by-field basis how much water agricultural growers are using.
Duration: 00:04:51
2009-9-14
NASA | A Tour of the LRO Instrument Suite
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Project Scientist Rich Vondrak explains the LRO suite of instruments and how each will greatly benefit our understanding of the Moon.
Duration: 00:06:16
2009-9-11
NASA | A Tour of the Cryosphere 2009
It has been said that the frozen parts of our planet, also known as the cryosphere, may be the proverbial 'canary in the coal mine' when it comes to climate change. This video shows some of the most dramatic fluctuations to our cryosphere in recent years using visuals created with a variety of satellite-based data.
Duration: 00:05:12
2009-9-1
NASA | Feeling the Sting of Climate Change
NASA's Wayne Esaias sees honeybees as important data collectors to help us understand our changing climate.
Duration: 00:04:58
2009-8-25
NASA | Little SDO: Tons of Data
Little SDO demonstrates just how much data he sends every day.
Duration: 00:01:13
2009-8-6
NASA | Sentinels of the Heliosphere
What NASA calls its 'Heliophysics Observatory' is an impressive fleet of spacecraft designed (often with international partnership) to study the relationship between the Sun, Earth, and Solar System. Flying in an array of trajectories and orbits, many of these satellites do not take images in the conventional sense but record fields, particle energies and fluxes in situ to give mankind a better understanding of space weather and space environments.
Duration: 00:07:08
2009-8-3
NASA/NOAA | GOES-14: First Full Disk Image
On July 27, 2009 NOAA and NASA released the first full disk image of the Earth from GOES-14, evidence that the satellite is operating correctly.
Duration: 00:03:28
2009-7-28
NASA | Goddard Space Flight Center (1976)
Celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2009, Goddard Space Flight Center has seen a lot of changes over its first five decades. Yet despite the time that has passed, the core values and mission of the center has changed little. This vintage film from 1976 shows a time-capsule glimpse of GSFC's early foundations and how remarkably relevant they remain today.
Duration: 00:08:28
2009-7-23
NASA | Journey to Galapagos
NASA oceanographer Dr. Gene Carl Feldman is no stranger to the Galapagos Islands, although he has never been there. He has studied these 'Enchanted Isles' from the vantage point of space for the last 25 years, but in July 2009 he will set foot on the islands for the first time.
Duration: 00:03:36
2009-7-22
NASA | Partially Restored Apollo 11 Video
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, NASA released partially restored video of a series of 15 memorable moments from the July 20 moonwalk. This short video montage honors the events of the Apollo 11 Mission and uses parts of the newly restored footage.
Duration: 00:02:17
2009-7-16
NASA | SDO's Instruments: The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI)
Dean Pesnell, the SDO Project Scientist, explains how the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) instrument will allow us to see activity inside the sun and even on the other side of the sun.
Duration: 00:02:08
2009-7-10
NASA | Little SDO: Looking Inside the Sun
Little SDO explains both how he can see inside the sun and how he can tell what you ate for lunch today.
Duration: 00:00:58
2009-7-10
NASA | Lunar Flyover of the First LRO Camera Images
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has transmitted its first images since reaching lunar orbit June 23. The spacecraft has two cameras -- a low resolution Wide Angle Camera and a high resolution Narrow Angle Camera. Collectively known as the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, or LROC, they were activated June 30. The cameras are working well and have returned images of a region a few kilometers east of Hell E crater in the lunar highlands south of Mare Nubium. The Narrow Angle Camera image shown here has not been calibrated and the pixel values were stretched to enhance contrast. The full image width is 3.5 kilometers making features discernable down to a few meters in size.
Duration: 00:03:38
2009-7-7
GOES-O Ready to Launch!
This video shows a quick tour and overview of the facilities where the GOES-O satellite was built and tested prior to launch. GOES-O is scheduled for liftoff Friday, June 26, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Duration: 00:03:41
2009-6-25
Back to the Moon. It's Official.
After a four and a half day journey from the Earth, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, successfully entered orbit around the moon. Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., confirmed the spacecraft's lunar orbit insertion at 6:27 a.m. EDT Tuesday, June 23, 2009.
Duration: 00:02:32
2009-6-23
LRO/LCROSS Launch
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter launched at 5:32 p.m. EDT aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The satellite will relay more information about the lunar environment than any other previous mission to the moon.
Duration: 00:02:54
2009-6-18
Behind the Scenes at the LRO/LCROSS Launch Prep
Excitement is running high at Kennedy Space Center as NASA's top lunar experts prepare for the LRO/LCROSS launch.
Duration: 00:01:42
2009-6-18
GOES-O Mission Overview Video
GOES-O is set for an upcoming launch in 2009 and it will be the latest in a series of satellites that has forecasted the development of severe weather for over 25 years. Operated by NOAA and launched by NASA, GOES-O will continue providing critical data used for real-time weather prediction on Earth as well as space weather events.
Duration: 00:03:45
2009-6-10
LRO: The Next Step
LRO, coming soon to a moon near you.
Duration: 00:01:47
2009-6-7
LRO: Mapping Our Future
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is the first mission in NASA's planned return to the moon. LRO is an unmanned mission to create the comprehensive atlas of the moon's features and resources necessary to design all future lunar exploration efforts. LRO focuses on the selection of safe landing sites, identification of lunar resources and the study of how lunar radiation will affect humans.
Duration: 00:05:53
2009-5-20
Making Hubble More Powerful
The Hubble Space Telescope would not be able to produce its breathtaking science without the upgraded infrastructure targeted during the HST SM4 mission: Fine Guidance Sensor, Scientific Instrument Command and Data Handling, Soft Capture Mechanism, Batteries, and New Outer Blanket Layers. Along with all new cameras, scientific instruments, the Hubble telescope will work better than it ever has in its lifetime.
Duration: 00:05:59
2009-5-19
Inside Hubble's Control Room During a Spacewalk
Keith Walyus describes the experience of the Servicing Mission 4 spacewalks as head of communications in the Goddard STOCC. The Space Operations Control Center, also known as the STOCC, is responsible 24/7, 365 days a year for monitoring all Hubble systems and facilitating all of the telescope's science observations. Two teams of flight controllers designated as the Orbit Team and the Planning Team will work closely with the mission control flight team in Houston in coordinating all of the activities planned as part of the final shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Telescope.
Duration: 00:01:10
2009-5-15
STS-125 Launch for Hubble Servicing Mission 4
Atlantis and the STS-125 crew lifted off on a mission on May 11, to upgrade the world's most famous telescope.
Duration: 00:01:22
2009-5-13
Hubble SM4 Launch Highlights
Employees at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center cheered and applauded as shuttle Atlantis successfully launched at 2:01:56 p.m. ET on May 11. The Atlantis crew embarked on the fifth and final shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. The work they do will extend Hubble's lifespan by at least five years.
Duration: 00:02:06
2009-5-11
Earth Observatory 10 Year Anniversary
April 29, 2009, marked the tenth anniversary of the launch of NASA's Earth Observatory. For the last decade, the Earth Observatory has been using the stunning images and data provided by NASA satellites to tell the story of our planet and the scientists who are working to help us understand it.
Duration: 00:05:57
2009-5-8
50 Years of Goddard
Pioneer rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard once said, 'It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.' Fifty years after its inception, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center continues to live by these words, advancing science and engineering to new limits once thought impossible as it explores of the Earth, the sun, the solar system, and the universe.
Duration: 00:01:35
2009-4-30
Earth Day with Kenji Williams
This Earth Day, NASA teamed with director and violinist Kenji Williams to present an out of this world experience known as BellaGaia (Beautiful Earth). This one-of-a-kind multimedia journey of Earth, as observed from space, combines Williams' music with NASA imagery. Bella Gaia was presented to students and teachers around the world during two webcasts from the Goddard studio. For more info, check out www.bellagaia.com.
Duration: 00:02:23
2009-4-28
Return to P.I.G.
Though NASA researcher Bob Bindschadler had hoped to return to Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf and continue his research during the 2009 season, this video explians how plans hit a snag. Sometimes science takes time, especially when it comes to dealing with the forbidding conditions of Antarctica.
Duration: 00:03:35
2009-4-23
The Puffin-Satellite Connection
In 2007, science video producer Maria Frostic took a leave of absence from her work at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to pursue a Fulbright Scholarship in Iceland. But when she got there and launched into a film about Icelandic puffins, she realized NASA science was an important part of the story...
Duration: 00:02:29
2009-4-20
LRO's CRaTER: Man, On The Moon
Harlan Spence, Principal Investigator for LRO's CRaTER instrument, explains how the mission will prepare the way for long-term human presence in space.
Duration: 00:02:32
2009-4-17
Anatomy of a Solar Explosion
For the first time, NASA's twin STEREO satellites have been able to observe the true size, shape, and three-dimensional structure of the massive solar explosions known in science as coronal mass ejections.
Duration: 00:01:48
2009-4-15
Viewing the Sun with SOHO and TRACE
On April 3, 2009, countries from around the world participated in the '100 Hours of Astronomy' webcast to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy. This movie was used to introduce the SOHO/TRACE segment. Alex Young and Dawn Meyers, NASA scientists, describe how both SOHO and TRACE view the sun in their own unique way.
Duration: 00:05:03
2009-4-9
Guided Tour of Antarctica Flyover
This guided tour of the area surrounding McMurdo Station in Antarctica uses the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA). As the highest resolution satellite map of Antarctica to date, it's the best way to experience the frozen continent without any risk of frostbite!
Duration: 00:04:50
2009-4-6
Greenland Ice Flights
Nearly every spring since 1991, researchers including William Krabill of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility have flown on a NASA aircraft over Greenland, collecting measurements of ice thickness from an altitude of about 2,000 feet. Their research is essential to understand the changes going on in Earth's ice sheets.
Duration: 00:04:25
2009-4-3
ACS Repair: The Challenge to Fix Hubble's Best Survey Camera
Shortly after former NASA Administrator Michael Griffin announced that NASA would add a servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble's most prominent camera and most used instrument, died. The incredible engineering challenge to understand the problem, develop a strategy to fix ACS that astronauts could perform, create the tools and new circuit board components in an incredibly short time, could not have been accomplished if the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) hadn't failed a few years earlier. Goddard engineers leveraged techniques they developed for the STIS repair to fix ACS.
Duration: 00:05:52
2009-3-25
The Top 5 Solar Discoveries: Unlocking the Secrets of Space Weather
Leading up to Sun-Earth Day on March 20th, NASA is releasing a series of videos on the top 5 solar discoveries of all time. The last and perhaps top solar disovery of all time is the importance of space weather and the research that strives to predict it more accurately.
Duration: 00:01:41
2009-3-19
The Top 5 Solar Discoveries: A 'Squashed' Heliosphere
Leading up to Sun-Earth Day on March 20th, NASA is releasing a series of videos on the top 5 solar discoveries of all time. When Voyager 1 and 2 crossed the bubble of solar wind at different distances from the sun, we had to change our understanding of the shape of our solar system.
Duration: 00:01:31
2009-3-19
The Top 5 Solar Discoveries: Auroras & Magnetic Reconnection
Leading up to Sun-Earth Day on March 20th, NASA is releasing a series of videos on the top 5 solar discoveries of all time. This video explains the phenomenon of the Aurora and our growing understanding of what causes them.
Duration: 00:01:41
2009-3-18
Sun-Earth Day Promo #3: Galileo's Greatest Hits
On March 20, 2009, at 1:00 p.m. EDT, join a panel of scientists for a live Sun-Earth Day Webcast on www.nasa.gov and NASA TV. During the webcast, scientists will share discoveries about the sun, while students monitor the sun and prepare their own space weather forecasts. As Galileo would say, 'You're welcome science.'
Duration: 00:00:50
2009-3-18
The Top 5 Solar Discoveries: The 11-Year Solar Cycle
Leading up to Sun-Earth Day on March 20th, NASA is releasing a series of videos on the top 5 solar discoveries of all time. This video talks about the discovery and importance of the 11-year solar cycle.
Duration: 00:01:10
2009-3-18
Sun-Earth Day Promo #2
On March 20, 2009, at 1:00 p.m. EDT, join a panel of scientists for a live Sun-Earth Day Webcast on www.nasa.gov and NASA TV (available for free from most satellite TV providers). During the webcast, scientists will share discoveries about the sun, while students monitor the sun and prepare their own space weather forecasts. In this second promo video, more people talk about what makes the sun so interesting to study.
Duration: 00:00:55
2009-3-18
The Top 5 Solar Discoveries: Intro and Galileo's Sunspots
Leading up to Sun-Earth Day on March 20th, NASA is releasing a series of videos on the top 5 Solar Discoveries. This first video gives an introduction to the series and the first major discovery, Galileo's observations of sunspots in 1609.
Duration: 00:01:52
2009-3-17
Sun-Earth Day Promo #1
On March 20, 2009, at 1:00 p.m. EDT, join a panel of scientists for a live Sun-Earth Day Webcast on www.nasa.gov and NASA TV (available from most satellite TV providers). During the webcast, scientists will share discoveries about the sun, while students monitor the sun and prepare their own space weather forecasts.
Duration: 00:00:44
2009-3-17
LRO's Team Spirit with Joanne Baker
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is the first step to future manned missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond. But a lot has to happen before we go anywhere and as LRO's Integration and Testing Lead, Joanne Baker has a big role in putting it all together.
Duration: 00:02:21
2009-3-9
Landsat 5 Turns 25
No one who attended the 1984 launch of the Landsat 5 Earth observing satellite could have expected it would still be working today. Yet 22 years after its three-year primary mission lifetime, Landsat 5 is still collecting valuable scientific data daily.
Duration: 00:03:34
2009-3-1
Black History Month Profile: Jahi Wartts
Jahi Wartts is a business resources analyst and currently works on the James Webb Space Telescope program.
Duration: 00:01:40
2009-2-26
We are NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
A three-minute video giving a quick overview of Goddard Space Flight Center, 'Putting ideas into space, bringing knowledge home.'
Duration: 00:03:31
2009-2-19
Black History Month Profile: Danielle Wood
Danielle Wood is a research scientist at M.I.T. who has worked with NASA in finding ways that remote sensing techniques can aid in developing nations, particularly in Africa.
Duration: 00:03:05
2009-2-17
Black History Month Profile: Denna Lambert
Denna Lambert is the program manager for the disabilities program at Goddard. She is blind and works to help other Goddard employees with disabilities do their jobs comfortably and effectively.
Duration: 00:01:37
2009-2-10
Black History Month Profile: Noble Jones
Noble Jones is an aerospace engineer at Goddard who has worked on design for the LRO and SDO spacecraft. In his spare time, Noble also plays professional arena league football for Maryland.
Duration: 00:02:00
2009-2-6
NOAA-N Prime Mission Overview
The NOAA-N Prime satellite is slated for launch by NASA on February 4th, 2009. Operated by NOAA, N Prime will be the last in the Television Infrared Observation Satellite (TIROS) series that have been observing Earth's weather and environment for nearly 50 years. N Prime's main role will be to provide continuity of service until the launch of the next generation, highly advanced, National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS).
Duration: 00:06:51
2009-2-3
IBEX: A Global Imager of Our Solar System's Boundaries
NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) will create a global map of the boundaries of our solar system. The two Voyager spacecraft launched in the 1970s gave data for two points on the map, but by using energetic neutral atoms, IBEX images the entire global structure of these interstellar boundaries.
Duration: 00:04:03
2009-1-27
SLIC: The Unsung Hero of Servicing Mission 4
The composite Super Lightweight Interchangeable Carrier (SLIC) is a new breed of equipment carrier that will allow the Space Shuttle to transport a full complement of scientific instruments and other components. It is NASA's first all-composite carrier ever to fly on the shuttle and will carry the Wide Field Camera 3 and replacement batteries for the Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 4.
Duration: 00:04:24
2009-1-22
The Mystery of Martian Methane
Mike Mumma and his team of researchers at Goddard Space Flight Center have made the first definitive observations of methane in the atmosphere of Mars. The evidence of methane plumes only during certain seasons and the chemical processes that could lead to its possible sources both raise intriguing questions for future study.
Duration: 00:02:23
2009-1-15
Up to the Challenge
In October 2008, Goddard hosted The Discovery Channel's 'Young Scientist Challenge.' The challenge brought ten middle school student finalists from across the country to vie for the title of 'America's Top Young Scientist' and a chance to win a U.S. Savings Bond. Five teacher finalists contended for recognition as 'America's Top Science Teacher.' NASA scientists and educators helped design the activities, which both tested the communication skills of the students and celebrated 50 years of NASA space science.
Duration: 00:03:03
2009-1-14
Vision. Hope. Triumph.
'They had to have vision; they had to have hope. And ultimately there was the triumph of seeing it come to fruition.' Heidi Hammel, a Senior Research Scientist from the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, expresses her views on the past, present, and future of the Hubble Space Telescope and its upcoming repair mission.
Duration: 00:04:36
2009-1-6
GLASTcast Episode 6: 2008 Mission Update
The GLAST mission launched on June 11, 2008 and has been returning remarkable and revolutionary discoveries ever since.
Duration: 00:05:55
2008-12-19
THEMIS Discovers Biggest Breach of Earth's Magnetosphere
NASA's THEMIS mission has overturned a longstanding belief about the interaction between solar particles and Earth's protective magnetic field. This new discovery could help scientists predict when the solar storms that can disrupt power grids, satellites, and even GPS signals, could be especially severe.
Duration: 00:02:20
2008-12-17
Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM): Paul Mahaffy
Featuring an interview with Paul Mahaffy, SAM's Principal Investigator, this video gives a general overview of SAM's mission aboard the Mars Science Laboratory.
Duration: 00:01:51
2008-11-13
Exploring Ozone
This short video combines dynamic ozone visualizations with an interview with leading atmospheric NASA scientist, Dr. Paul Newman. Dr. Newman explains why ozone is important, he cites the ingredients that cause an ozone hole to form, and he remarks on the future of the ozone, pointing to exciting new areas of ozone research, including the role climate change will play in future years.
Duration: 00:02:20
2008-11-3
2003's Spooky Halloween Solar Storms
In the weeks surrounding Halloween in 2003, the sun unleashed a series of spooky storms towards the Earth, storms that ignited lots of ghostly looking auroras, but that also wreaked havoc with power grids, satellites and other electrical equipment. On the fifth anniversary of these unprecedented storms, NASA takes a look back at the Sun during these haunting days.
Duration: 00:02:49
2008-10-30
Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) Trailer
Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) is a suite of instruments developed for use on the Mars Science Laboratory. By looking for evidence of water, carbon, and other important building blocks of life in the Mars soil and atmosphere, this suite will help answer one of humankind's biggest questions about the planet: did it ever support life? SAM was designed and built in an international collaboration between Goddard Space Flight Center, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the University of Paris, and Honeybee Robotics.
Duration: 00:01:15
2008-10-28
In The Zone
Earth's oceans are wide reaching and teeming with life. One microscopic aquatic organism plays a major role in making life on Earth possible: phytoplankton. Under certain conditions, excessive phytoplankton growth can result in an area known as a dead zone. Dead zones form when big blooms of phytoplankton at the surface trigger large quantities of organic matter, which then sink to the bottom. Bacteria break down the organic material, releasing carbon dioxide but absorbing oxygen as they work. Most marine organisms need oxygen for survival and dead zones prove fatal for many aquatic species. This short web video features dynamic animations, science data visualizations, and interview excerpts with a NASA oceanographer to explore this fascinating marine phenomenon.
Duration: 00:02:47
2008-10-23
Wall*E Learns About Proportions
Through a partnership of intergalactic proportions, NASA and Disney/PIxar have teamed up to bring Wall*E into the classroom! In this video, students learn about how to find the size of the moon using everyday objects with a little help from Wall*E and Eve.
Duration: 00:02:26
2008-10-20
Earth Science Week: The Future of the Earth System
Goddard's Dr. Sushel Unninayar discusses the future of earth systems and in particular the potential human health implications associated with global warming.
Duration: 00:01:14
2008-10-16
Earth Science Week: What are the Consequences of Change in the Earth System for Human Civilization?
Earth's climate system has been remarkably stable over the last 20,000 years or so. Human civilization developed in that time span, and our world's average temperature warmed by about 5 degrees C to the temperature it is today. This fact points to one of climate scientists' main concerns about global warming: the temperature is rising faster than at any other time in the history of human civilization and such rapid climate change is likely to seriously stress some populations who cannot adapt quickly enough to the changes. In this video, Goddard's Dr. Dave Adamec discusses how hurricanes can factor in.
Duration: 00:01:25
2008-10-16
Earth Science Week: How Does the Earth System Respond to Natural and Human-Induced Changes?
Climate scientists have been monitoring Earth's energy budget since the 1978 launch of NASA's Nimbus-7 satellite. That mission carried a new instrument into space called the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (or ERBE), designed to measure all of the energy leaving through the top of Earth's atmosphere. All of the incoming sunlight minus all of the reflected sunlight and emitted heat is our world's energy budget. The second law of thermodynamics compels Earth's climate system to seek equilibrium so that, over the course of a year the amount of energy received equals the amount of energy lost to space. So typically the global energy budget is in balance. Goddard's Dr. Marc Imhoff discusses similar climate-monitoring functions of NASA's Terra satellite in this video.
Duration: 00:01:16
2008-10-16
Earth Science Week: What are the Primary Forces of the Earth System?
The sun is the primary force in Earth's climate system. Sunlight warms our world. Sunlight drives atmospheric and oceanic circulation patterns. Sunlight powers the process of photosynthesis that plants need to grow. Sunlight causes convection which carries warmth and water vapor up into the sky where clouds form and bring rain. In short, the sun drives almost every aspect of our world's climate system and makes possible life as we know it.
Duration: 00:01:04
2008-10-16
Earth Science Week: How is the Global Earth System Changing?
Earth is currently in a period of warming. Over the last century, Earth's average temperature rose about 1.1 F (0.6C). In the last two decades, the rate of our world's warming accelerated. Scientists predict that the globe will continue to warm over the course of the 21st century. Is this warming trend a reason for concern? After all, our world has witnessed extreme warm periods before, such as during the time of the dinosaurs. Earth has also seen numerous ice ages on roughly 11,000-year cycles for at least the last million years. So, change is perhaps the only constant in Earth's 4.5-billion-year history.
Duration: 00:01:30
2008-10-16
Earth Science Week: Introduction
Goddard's Dr. Blanche Meeson introduces questions that will be answered in short videos released throughout Earth Science Week. The videos feature other Goddard scientists talking about Earth System subjects. The videos are all part of Earth Science Week: 2008, themed 'No Child Left Inside.'
Duration: 00:01:26
2008-10-16
HST STIS Repair: The Quest for Renewed Exploration
Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS), the most versatile spectrograph ever to fly on Hubble, ceased operations in August 2004 due to the failure of its power supply. In order to restore STIS to operational status, astronauts will perform a never-before-attempted on-orbit replacement of an electronics board inside STIS's main electronics box. On Earth this operation is relatively simple, but in space many challenges confront the astronauts as they work to replace the failed board including working to remove 111 tiny, non-captive screws with astronaut gloves.
The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) that will be added during Servicing Mission 4, and STIS are highly complementary and are very complimentary to each other providing scientists with a full set of spectroscopic tools for astrophysical research. The STIS instrument's accomplishments include determining the atmospheric composition of an exoplanet as well as spectra and images at ultraviolet and visible wavelengths of the Universe from our solar system out to cosmological distances.
Duration: 00:03:57
2008-10-15
Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) Profile: Dan Carrigan
This video profiles Dan Carrigan, the engineer primarily responsible for building SAM's Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer (QMS). The spectrometer's purpose is to break down the Mars atmosphere and vaporized soil into their components and help scientists identify what those components are.
Duration: 00:01:27
2008-9-29
Sea Ice 2008
Arctic sea ice declined this summer to its second smallest extent in the satellite era, suggesting that the record set in 2007 may not have been an anomaly. If recent trends in the melt rate continue, we could see a virtually ice-free Arctic each summer much sooner than previously thought.
Duration: 00:03:17
2008-9-26
Cosmic Origins Spectrograph - Exploring Physics Across the Universe
Once installed on the Hubble Space Telescope during the upcoming servicing mission this year, COS will dramatically advance physics and astrophysics research on the origin of the Universe, astronomical objects, evolution of galaxies, and planetary system formations.
Duration: 00:04:25
2008-9-24
Rain Rain Go Away, Come Again on a Work Day?
During the scorching summer months an afternoon rainstorm can be a common and refreshing sight. But for residents in the southeastern United States, a recent NASA study has found, these storms are more intense during the work week than on the weekends. This trend, scientists believe, is driven by pollution that also increases during the work week, from sources like businesses, traffic and factories. This video shows how we may be having a greater impact on weather than we ever knew.
Duration: 00:01:04
2008-9-18
Star Trackers Light the Way
Ever wonder how satellites know which direction is which? NASA's Noble Jones explains how many spacecraft, including the new LRO and SDO missions, use 'Star Trackers' to map the sky and keep them pointed the right way.
Duration: 00:02:42
2008-9-15
Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) Profile: Synthia Tonn
This video profiles Synthia Tonn, a junior engineer responsible for SAM's ground support equipment as well as its 'plumbing,' or the series of tiny, winding gas lines that connect SAM's various instruments.
Duration: 00:02:06
2008-9-11
The Last Mission to Hubble
Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4 is the last time humans will visit Hubble. NASA's scientists, engineers and astronauts are working together to make Hubble better than it has been before. See what NASA has planned for this last mission to Hubble; from new science instruments, to two challenging and never-done-before instrument repairs, and numerous upgrades.
Duration: 00:04:48
2008-9-8
Scouting the Moon for Safe Landing Sites
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is NASA's scouting mission to prepare for a return to the moon. One of its primary objectives will be to assess the lunar terrain for areas that would provide safe landing sites for future missions, both manned and unmanned, that plan to touch down on the moon's surface. This video helps explain how LRO will accomplish its objective.
Duration: 00:02:59
2008-9-4
Towers in the Tempest
Recent hurricane research from NASA gives new insight into how tropical storms intensify. This intensification can be caused by a phenomenon called a 'hot tower'. For the first time, meterologists at Goddard Space Flight Center have run complex simulations using a very fine temporal resolution, which, when combined with satellite observations, enables detailed studies of 'hot towers'.
Duration: 00:04:20
2008-9-2
GLAST Prelude, for Brass Quintet, Op. 12
NASA's newest observatory, the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), has begun its mission of exploring the universe in high-energy gamma rays. The spacecraft and its revolutionary instruments passed their orbital checkout with flying colors. This music video gives an overview of GLAST and uses a score composed specifically for the mission by Nolan Glasser (copyright 2008) and was performed by the American Brass Quintet.
Duration: 00:10:00
2008-8-26
GLASTcast Episode 5: Meet the U.S. Team
Meet the major U.S. players behind the GLAST mission. This video introduces only a small fraction of the hundreds of U.S. and international GLAST team members. To meet more of the team go to: www.nasa.gov/glast.
Duration: 00:02:57
2008-8-25
Wide Field Camera 3: Extending Hubble's Vision, Packed with Power
Once placed on the Hubble Space Telescope, Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) will study a diverse range of objects and phenomena, from early and distant galaxy formation to nearby planetary nebulae, and finally our own backyard -- the planets and other bodies in our Solar System. WFC3 extends Hubble's capability not only by seeing deeper into the universe but also by seeing simultaneously into the infrared and ultraviolet. WFC3 can, for example, simultaneously observe young, hot stars and older, cooler stars in the same galaxy.
Duration: 00:04:11
2008-8-21
IBEX: What are our Solar System's Boundaries?
There are several boundaries at the edge of our solar system. The IBEX mission will study these boundaries to help us understand how they protect life on Earth and astronauts in space from the galactic cosmic rays coming from interstellar space. This video describes what these important boundaries are.
Duration: 00:03:11
2008-8-19
The Cloud Makers
Much is still to be learned about how aersols affect climate. This video gives a general overview of cloud-aerosol interactions and how the upcoming Glory mission will enable better understanding in the future.
Duration: 00:02:50
2008-8-15
HST Goddard Space Flight Center Divers
In planning for Servicing Mission 4 to Hubble, crew members divide their time between working underwater on a Hubble mock-up to simulate the effects of weightlessness (at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston) and inside a large clean room facility where they practice scheduled mission tasks on another Hubble mock-up (at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland). Many Goddard engineers are trained divers and work along side the astronauts while in the Neutral Bouyancy Lab to aid in their training.
Duration: 00:01:54
2008-8-13
GLASTcast Episode 3: Swift and GLAST
NASA's Swift and GLAST satellites will work together to better understand the high energy universe.
Duration: 00:02:15
2008-8-7
HST Operations at GSFC - STOCC2
The Hubble would not be able to do what it does without the help of a small group of dedicated engineers and technicians at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. During HST Servicing Missions the Space Telescope Operations Control Room at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center becomes a very busy place.
Duration: 00:02:40
2008-8-5
NASA's SDO Mission
A new NASA spacecraft called the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) will deliver startling images of the sun with ten times more detail than HDTV. The goal of the mission is to help scientists zoom in on solar activity such as sunspots, solar flares and coronal mass ejections, thus improving forcasts of solar storms. This short video gives an overview of NASA's SDO spacecraft mission to observe the Sun and improve predictions of solar weather.
Duration: 00:01:36
2008-8-1
Aug 1st Solar Eclipse Web Short
Learn about the August 2008 total solar eclipse and hear from some of NASA's eclipse experts as they answer some frequently asked eclipse questions.
Duration: 00:02:28
2008-7-31
Aug 1st Solar Eclipse Promo
This is a short promo video for the August 1, 2008 total solar eclipse.
Duration: 00:00:33
2008-7-28
Venus: Long Time, No See
The last U.S. spacecraft mission to Venus was in 1989 with the launch of Magellan. Even though Magellan spent the next five years radar mapping the surface and gathering high resolution gravity data, much remains a mystery about our so-called sister planet.
Did Venus experience a run-a-way greenhouse effect at some point in its history? Why is the surface pressure 90 times greater on Venus then on Earth? Why is the planet so hot? These are only a few of the question that must be answered if we are to learn more about Venus's past and possibly Earth's future.
Duration: 00:01:11
2008-7-25
4D Ionosphere
NASA-funded researchers have unveiled a new '4D' live model of Earth's ionosphere at the Space Weather Workshop, Boulder, CO. Without leaving home, anyone can fly through the dynamic layer of ionized gases that encircles Earth at edge of space itself. All that's required is a connection to the Internet. Airline flight controllers can use this tool to plan long-distance flights over the poles, saving money and time for flyers.
Duration: 00:02:46
2008-7-23
GLASTcast Episode 2: What are Gamma Rays?
A brief overview of gamma ray science.
Duration: 00:02:45
2008-7-20
CATS: Crew Aids and Tools
A team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center designs and builds the special tools and aids astronauts need when they service the Hubble Space Telescope. Engineers describe working with the astronaut crew and developing tools to meet specific challenges as well as inventing new tools that will help NASA astronauts well into the future.
Duration: 00:03:01
2008-7-18
IBEX: Exploring The Edge Of Our Solar System
IBEX is a new NASA mission that will study the interaction between the solar wind and the material beyond our Solar System called the interstellar medium. The solar wind flowing out of the sun inflates a bubble that we call the heliosphere. IBEX's job is to study those boundaries and understand how they really work and tell us how the heliosphere is able to do the important job of protecting us here on Earth as well as astronauts in space from the dangerous galactic cosmic rays.
Duration: 00:02:31
2008-7-14
Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) Profiles: Jess Lewis
Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) is a suite of instruments developed for use on the Mars Science Laboratory. This video profiles Jess Lewis, designer of SAM's Solid Sample Inlet Tube (SSIT). The SSIT is essentially a high-tech funnel that helps direct the Mars soil into the SAM suite for analysis. By looking for evidence of water, carbon, and other important building blocks of life in the Mars soil and atmosphere, this suite will help answer one of humankind's biggest questions about the planet: did it ever support life?
Duration: 00:01:47
2008-7-9
GLASTcast Special Edition: Launching a Spacecraft
The hopes and anticipations of the GLAST team as they prepare for launch.
Duration: 00:02:21
2008-7-7
HST SM4 Crew Training at NASA Goddard
Astronauts travel to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to prepare for Servicing Mission 4 to the Hubble Space Telescope. HST Servicing Mission Commander Scott Altman describes coming to Goddard and working with the flight hardware.
Duration: 00:01:33
2008-7-1
HST SM4 Countdown Status 1
An update on instrument, tool and carrier preparations for STS-125: HST Servicing Mission 4 at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Update as of January 2, 2008.
Duration: 00:02:28
2008-6-29
Chesapeake Bay: NASA Satellites Aid in Recovery Efforts
By studying the landscape around the Chesapeake Bay, NASA spacecraft are helping land managers figure out how to battle the harmful pollutants that have added to the destruction of the bay's once legendary productivity.
Duration: 00:03:07
2008-6-26
Striking a Solar Balance
Planet Earth is an oasis of life, but without the Sun, our home planet would be a drastically different, inhospitable place. The Sun's electromagnetic energy makes life on Earth possible; solar power also generates clouds, cleans our water, and drives ocean currents, thunderstorms, and hurricanes. For three decades, NASA scientists have studied the unique relationship between the Sun and the Earth, and they are particularly interested in the role of the Sun in Earth's energy balance.
Duration: 00:03:25
2008-6-24
GSFC: 'Critical Space Item, Handle with Extreme Care'
The mission of the Goddard Space Flight Center is to expand knowledge of the Earth and its environment, the solar system and the universe through observations from space.
Duration: 00:00:46
2008-6-19
NASA's Spacecraft Chamber of Horrors
Welcome to NASA's spacecraft chamber of horrors. Here spacecraft and components suffer through a grueling battery of tests in an effort to see if they are tough enough to survive the rigors of spaceflight.
Duration: 00:03:52
2008-6-19
GLASTcast Episode 1: What is GLAST?
A brief overview of the GLAST satellite mission.
Duration: 00:02:35
2008-6-19
PIG Ice Shelf: First Contact
This past January NASA scientist Robert Bindschadler led an expedition to a previously untouched part of Antarctica that may be one of the best places to gauge how global warming is affecting the continent. Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf (PIG for short) is believed to be among the most vulnerable spots of melting on Earth, but it's also among the most remote. While satellite observations provide a wide-angle view of the action on the glacier, boots on the ground with high tech drills and sensors are needed to provide the close up shots to fill in the blanks. Antarctica footage provided by Polar-Palooza/Passport to Knowledge
Duration: 00:02:28
2008-6-19
Introducing Little SDO
The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) will be NASA's new eye on the sun. This short promo introduces SDO's comically animated alter-ego, 'Little SDO'.
Duration: 00:00:31
2008-6-19
The Future Arrives
Over 200 college students come to Goddard each summer to work with scientists on cutting-edge science and technology. The students profiled here represent part of NASA's investment in our future.
Duration: 00:02:56
2008-6-19
Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4 Trailer
The excitement builds as astronauts, engineers and scientists prepare for the last servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Coming soon to a telescope near you.
Duration: 00:01:07
2008-6-19
Destination Earth
NASA may be famous for exploring the far reaches of the universe and strange new worlds, but perhaps the most important planet that NASA studies is our own. This short film provides a quick take on the awe-inspiring research and imagery coming out of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. See the Earth, as only NASA can.
Duration: 00:02:35
2008-6-19
Return with LRO
The Deputy Project Manager for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) program, Cathy Peddie, expresses her personal and professional thoughts on the upcoming LRO mission.
Duration: 00:03:24
2008-6-19
GSFC Day: From Greenbelt to Galaxies
The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), located in Greenbelt, Maryland, was named after the father of rocketry, Dr. Robert H. Goddard. His zest for innovation and discovery still lives, from the engineers that design and build new technology, to the scientists who study the earth, the solar system, and the universe. To learn more about our missions and all of the new activities taking place at GSFC visit us on the web at http://www.nasa.gov/goddard.
Duration: 00:01:06
2008-6-19
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