NASA Goddard Shorts HD
These HD videos share the work of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Goddard is home to the Nation's largest organization of combined scientists and engineers dedicated to learning and sharing their knowledge of the Earth, solar system, and Universe.
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: 00:00:00
2009-9-22
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: 00:00:00
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 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 research scientist Wayne Esaias uses honey bees as tiny data collectors to understand how climate change is affecting pollination. His citizen-scientist project, HoneyBeeNet, compares bee data from across North America to satellite imagery in order to gain a big-picture perspective of how our warming climate is affecting both plants and pollinators.
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 | HD Lunar Flyover of the First Images from the LRO Camera
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: 00:02:51
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: 00:01:43
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. Some of the lunar visualization in this video uses elevation data from JAXA/SELENE.
Duration: 00:05:53
2009-5-21
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: 00:00:00
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
Hubble's STIS: 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.
Duration: 00:03:57
2009-5-15
Hubble's 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: 00:04:24
2009-5-14
ACS Repair: The Challenge to Fix Hubble's Best Survey Camera
Shortly after 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 it the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) hadn't failed a few years ealier. Goddard Engineers leveraged techniques they developed for STIS repair to fix ACS.
Duration: 00:05:52
2009-5-13
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
Wide Field Camera 3: Extending Hubble's Vision, Packed with Power
When placed on the Hubble Space Telescope, WFC3 will provide unprecedented capabilities for imaging the cosmos at near-ultraviolet and at near-infrared wavelengths. The 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 of 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 (glowing predominantly in the ultraviolet) and older, cooler stars (glowing predominantly in the infrared) in the same galaxy.
Duration: 00:04:13
2009-5-12
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
SLIC: The Unsung Hero of Hubble SM4
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 to Hubble. Made of carbon fiber with a cyanate ester resin and a titanium metal matrix composite, SLIC is the first all-composite carrier to fly on the shuttle. This flat, reusable pallet looks very different from the carriers flown on previous Hubble servicing missions because of its efficient design. This design, plus SLIC's composite construction, makes it much lighter and stronger than traditional aluminum carriers. About half the weight of its predecessors, SLIC shows a dramatic increase in performance over other Hubble equipment carriers, with nearly double the carrying capability.
Duration: 00:04:24
2009-5-11
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: 00:04:47
2009-5-11
Hubble SM4 Trailer
Final preparations are underway for the exciting and challenging final mission to repair Hubble. Liftoff is scheduled for May 11 at 2:01 p.m. EDT, and the countdown clock will start at 4 p.m. Friday.
Duration: 00:01:05
2009-5-8
Spacecraft Chamber of Horrors
To prepare for Servicing Mission 4, Hubble components must endure harsh tests at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. This feature explores test facilities at Goddard like: launch phase simulator centrifuge, the acoustic test chamber, electromagnetic interference testing, vibration tables, static load test facility, and the space environment simulator.
Duration: 00:03:38
2009-5-8
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
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
2009-4-22
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
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, and create the tools and new circuit board compenents in an incredibly short time, could not have been accomplished if the Space Telescope Imaging Spectograph (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 discovery 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. This video explains how 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. 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 Friday, March 20th, NASA is releasing a series of videos on the top 5 solar discoveries of all time. This first video gives and 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 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 short promo video, scientists and students talk about the most fascinating things they've learned about our sun.
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
Earth Observing Landsat 5 Turns 25 Years Old
On March 1, 2009, the Earth-observing Landsat 5 satellite celebrated 25 years in orbit. Twenty-two years beyond its three-year primary mission lifetime, Landsat 5 is still going strong, making it a keystone of the 37-year Landsat Program. Among Landsat 5's many scientific uses, it has charted urban growth in Las Vegas, monitored fire scars in Yellowstone National Park, and tracked the retreat of a Greenland glacier. No one who attended the sallite's 1984 launch, could have expected it would still be working today.
Duration: 00:03:34
2009-3-3
NOAA-N Prime Mission Overview
The NOAA-N Prime satellite is slated for a launch by NASA on February 4th, 2009. Operated by NOAA, N Prime will be the last in the Television Infrared Observation Satellite Series (TIROS) 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 advance National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS).
Duration: 00:06:51
2009-2-2
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 new 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: 00:02:25
2009-1-15
Vision. Hope. Triumph.
'The 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: Fermi Space Telescope 2008 Mission Update
The GLAST/Fermi mission launched on June 11, 2008 and has been returning remarkable and revolutionary discoveries ever since.
Duration: 00:05:55
2009-1-6
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 solar storms could be especially severe, protecting from damage to power grids, satellites, and navigation systems.
Duration: 00:02:20
2009-1-6
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
2009-1-6
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.' This short video features dynamic animations, science data visualizations, and interview excerpts with a NASA oceanographer to explore this fascinating marine phenomenon.
Duration: 00:02:47
2009-1-6
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 of course).
Duration: 00:02:26
2009-1-6
Sea Ice 2008
Arctic sea ice declined this past 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
2009-1-6
LRO Scouts 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
2009-1-6
IBEX: What are our Solar System's Boundaries?
There are several boundaries at the edge of our solar system. The IBEX mission is studying 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. Successfully launched on October 19, 2008, IBEX is currently mapping these boundaries and will announce their results within the coming months!
Duration: 00:03:11
2009-1-6
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