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This short promo, featuring portraits of Goddard's scientists, engineers, and educators, celebrates 50 years of the center's achievements.   10400   50 Years of Goddard
Still observing the Earth after 25 years—22 beyond its three-year primary mission lifetime—Landsat 5 collects valuable scientific data daily. Some attribute the satellite's longevity to over-engineering. Others say it's a long run of good luck. Whatever the reason, no one who attended the satellite's March 1984 launch could have expected it would still be working today.   For complete transcript, click  here .   10401   Earth Observing Landsat 5 Turns 25 Years Old
The animation shows how, in the days leading up to March 14, 2008, pockets of rain fell between drought-ravaged areas that saw no rain, setting up boundaries of dry and moist air. These boundaries along with urban-rural land cover boundaries produce circulations and rising air similar to a sea breeze. They may also serve as localized regions of enhancement for existing storms or initiation of new storms. Modeling studies suggest that these boundaries may have been a factor in the storms that produced the Atlanta tornado.   10402   Rain, Drought, Urbanization Contributing Factors for Storms
Designed exclusively for playback on spherical projections surfaces, FROZEN introduces mainstream audiences to the cryosphere—places on Earth where the temperatures don't rise above water's freezing point. The following trailer showcases some of the visual themes contained in the movie and points to the film's main website.  This film has been prepared exclusively for playback on spherical projections systems. It will not appear in its proper format on a traditional computer or television screen. If you are interested in dowloading the complete final movie file for spherical playback, please visit :   ftp://public.sos.noaa.gov/extras/   10403   FROZEN: A Spherical Movie About the Cryosphere
Apollo Image Archive  (from Arizona State University)  http://apollo.sese.asu.edu  To allow full access to the original flight imagery for both researchers and the general public, Johnson Space Center and Arizona Stat University's Space Exploration Resources are scanning and creating an online digital archive of all the original Apollo flight films. Through this online interface, users may browse through the archive and download any of the images.   10405   The Moon - Resources for Finding High-Res Stills
X-Ray detector animation for proposed GEMS mission.   10406   GEMS X-Ray Detector Animation
This all-sky movie shows Fermi LAT counts of gamma rays with energies greater than 300 million electron volts from August 4 to October 30, 2008. Brighter colors indicate brighter gamma-ray sources. The circles show the northern (left) and southern galactic sky. Their edges lie along the plane of our galaxy, the Milky Way.   10407   Fermi All-sky Movie Shows Flaring, Fading Blazars
The LRO spacecraft sits horizontal and displays its entire instrument suite. One of the two medium-sized images contains labels pointing out the individual instruments and their location on the spacecraft.   10408   LRO - Assembly and Testing Stills (High Res)
Short promo for Sun-Earth Day 2009 featuring scientists and students talking about the most fascinating things they've learned about our sun.   10409   Sun-Earth Day 2009 Promos
On February 11, 2009, after months of assembly and testing by engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft was cased up and loaded on a truck bound for Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for launch.   10410   LRO Ships Out from Goddard Space Flight Center
An introduction plus Number 5 in the Top 5 Solar Discoveries, which include the discovery of sunspots by Galileo in 1609.   10411   The Top 5 Solar Discoveries
Return to P.I.G.: The Long Wait for Science   10412   Return to P.I.G.
GOES Animation - Beauty Shot   10413   GOES Spacecraft Animations and Print Still Images
Nearly every spring since 1991, researchers including William Krabill of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va., have flown on a NASA aircraft over Greenland, collecting measurements of ice thickness from an altitude of about 2,000 feet. Now, on March 30, Krabill and colleagures return to collect updated measurements. This time, however, the mission is set to be more extensive than ever before, and takes place with new urgency. Radars and lasers new to the Greenland flights will be tested and calibrated with meaturements currently made from the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat). Launched in January 2003, ICESat is already more than six years beyond its three-year design lifetime and should it come to an end, the NASA aircraft will be ready to bridge the gap until the launch of ICESat-II, planned for launch no earlier than 2014.   For complete transcript, click  here .   10414   Greenland Ice Flights
Harlan Spence, Principal Investigator for LRO's CRaTER instrument, explains how the mission will prepare the way for long-term human presence in space.   For complete transcript, click  here .   10415   LRO's CRaTER: Man, On The Moon
This guided tour of the area surrounding McMurdo Station in Antarctica uses the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA). It's a great way to experience the frozen continent without any risk of frostbite. This is a narrated version of entry  #3482: Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica Flyover of McMurdo Station and Dry Valleys .   For complete transcript, click  here .   10416   Guided Tour of LIMA Flyover
Though it was only one among 171 parties in 41 countries in celebrating Yuri's Night, Goddard's event couldn't be matched, it was a galactic event to remember.   For complete transcript, click  here .   10417   Yuri's Night 2009
In commemoration of the end of the International Polar Year, Tom Wagner, NASA Cryosphere Program Scientist, appeared on television stations around the country on April 6, 2009. This video highlights his answers to questions about the IPY, climate change, and new data on the extent and thickness of sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean.   For complete transcript, click  here .   10419   New Sea Ice Findings Cap Year of Focus on Poles
Animation   10420   HST SI C&DH EVA Animation
SOHO/TRACE Intro with bonus Sun Shots segment.    For complete transcript, click  here .   10421   SOHO/TRACE Intro
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.   For complete transcript, click  here .   10422   GOES-O Mission Overview Video
Engineers begin preparing and testing the spare SI C&DH unit in NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's cleanroom.   10423   SI C&DH Cleanroom B-roll
B-roll of engineers in the Hubble Space Telescope Operations Control Center at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as they send commands to Hubble's Science Instrument Command and Data Handling unit (SI C&DH) October 15, 2008.   10424   HST Space Telescope Operations Control Center B-roll
Spin Test  The spin test determines the spacecraft's center of gravity and measures characteristics of its rotation. It also provides a fine 360-degree display of LRO.   10425   Testing of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
This movie shows pulsed gamma rays from the Vela pulsar as constructed from photons detected by Fermi's Large Area Telescope. A single pulsar cycle is repeated four times.   10426   Vela Pulsar in Gamma Rays
Noctilucent Clouds Music Video   10427   Noctilucent Clouds A capella Music Video
A brief recap of the Earth Day DLN event, featuring Valerie Casasanto, Marci Delaney, and Kenji Williams.   For complete transcript, click  here .   10428   Earth Day 2009 with Kenji Williams
John Keller is the Deputy Project Scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission. The following soundbites from Keller give information about the LRO mission's objectives and importance.   10429   LRO Interview: John Keller, Deputy Project Scientist
Cathy Peddie is the Deputy Project Manager for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission. The following soundbites from Peddie give information about the LRO mission's objectives and importance.   10430   LRO Interview: Cathy Peddie, Deputy Project Manager
Dr. Robert H. Goddard is the undisputed father of modern rocketry and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. is named in his honor.  This illustrated film tells the story of Dr. Goddard's contributions to science and engineering.  Dug from the Goddard Multimedia archives, this short piece is almost as old as the center itself.   For complete transcript, click  here .   10431   Dr. Robert H. Goddard: Father of Modern Rocketry (1961)
This footage give a glimpse of what it's like to set foot on the surface of the moon.   10432   Apollo Mission Lunar Surface Footage
Craig Tooley is the Project Manager for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission. The following soundbites from Tooley give information about the LRO mission's objectives and importance.   10433   LRO Interview: Craig Tooley, Project Manager
Earth Observatory 10 Year Anniversary video   For complete transcript, click  here .   10434   Earth Observatory 10 Year Anniversary
Highlights from the Hubble SM4 launch on May 11, 2009.   10435   Hubble SM4 Launch Highlights
Description of improvements being made on the Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 4.   For complete transcript, click  here .   10436   Making Hubble More Powerful
Keith Walyus describes his role in the Hubble SM4 spacewalks.   For complete transcript, click  here .   10437   Inside Hubble's Control Room During a Spacewalk
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.   For complete transcript, click  here .   10438   LRO: Mapping Our Future
Video of the Goddard STOCC on May 19, 2009 at the release of Hubble from the STS-125 mission shuttle.   10439   Senator Mikulski Celebrates Hubble Success
Celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2009, Goddard Space Flight Center has seen a lot of changes over its first five decades.  Yet at the same time, 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 similar they are to today.    For complete transcript, click  here .   10440   Goddard Space Flight Center (1976)
The Heliospheric 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.     For complete transcript, click  here .   10441   SDO's Science
Wall*E comes to your classroom!   10442   Wall*E meets the Digital Learning Network
LRO/LCROSS Atlas V Launch!  NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite successfully launched at 5:32 p.m. EDT on June 18, 2009.   10443   Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Launch Videos
This video is a live program that aired during the crucial thruster burns which put the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter officially into lunar orbit.  Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., confirmed the spacecraft's lunar orbit insertion at 6:27 a.m. EDT on June 23, 2009.   10444   LRO Enters Lunar Orbit (full live event)
Back to the Moon. It's Official.   For complete transcript, click  here .   10445   LRO Enters Lunar Orbit (Highlights)
Harvey Walden Goddard employee for 46 years Computer Engineer Software Engineering Division   10446   Employees with 40+ Years at Goddard
Time: Tue Jun 30 15:28:04 UTC 2009 Orbit: 72 Center Longitude: -6deg Center Latitude: -34.4deg Resolution: 73 cm/pixel Mode: Summed   10447   Flyover of the First Images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera
In this video, two days prior to the GOES-O launch, NASA Goddard Producer Silvia Stoyanova visits Cape Canaveral's Air Force Station, launch pad 37, to talk to GOES N-P Program Manager Charlie Maloney and Boeing Systems Engineer Pat Jasanis about the importance of the GOES-O mission as well as the launch vehicle, and some behind the scenes activities prior to launch.   For complete transcript, click  here .   10448   GOES-O: Days Before Launch
In this video, two days prior to the GOES-O launch, NASA Goddard Producer Silvia Stoyanova visits Cape Canaveral's Air Force Station, launch pad 37, to talk to United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Chief Engineer Russel Taub, about the launch vehicle on which NASA is sending GOES-O into space. Russel Taub explains the reasons behind choosing this particular rocket and also the way it gets tested to make sure that the spacecraft reaches its orbit.    For complete transcript, click  here .   10449   GOES-O: Behind The Scenes With a Rocket Scientist
In this video, two days prior to the GOES-O launch, NASA Goddard Producer Silvia Stoyanova visits Cape Canaveral's Air Force Station, launch pad 37, to talk to NASA GOES N-P Deputy Project Manager  Andre' Dress, about the factors that could cause a launch delay, what's special about GOES geosynchronous orbit, and how valuable the mission is to the public by helping predict severe weather, thus saving lives and properties. This video also includes footage from the GOES-O launch.   For complete transcript, click  here .   10450   GOES-O: Countdown To Launch
Apollo 11 Highlights   10451   NASA Releases Preview Partially Restored Apollo 11 Video
This animation shows the Moon passing in between the Sun and the Earth on July 22, 2009.   10452   July 22, 2009 Total Solar Eclipse
A side by side comparison of the original broadcast video and partially restored video of Neil Armstrong making his way to the lunar surface, by climbing down the lunar module ladder.   10453   Apollo 11 40th Anniversary: Partially Restored Video of Neil Armstrong Making His Way to the Lunar Surface
A side by side comparison of the original broadcast video and partially restored video of Buzz Aldrin follows Neil Armstrong down the lunar module ladder.   10454   Apollo 11 40th Anniversary: Partially Restored Video of Buzz Aldrin Following Neil Armstrong Down the Lunar Module Ladder
A side by sidy comparison of the original broadcast video and partially restored video of Astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong unveil the commemorative plaque.   10455   Apollo 11 40th Anniversary: Partially Restored Video of Astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong Unveil the Commemorative Plaque
A side by side comparison of the original broadcast video and partially restored video of Neil Armstrong's television panorama.   10456   Apollo 11 40th Anniversary: Partially Restored Video of Neil Armstrong's Television Panorama
A side by side comparison of the original broadcast video and partially restored video of Neil Armstrong photographing Buzz Aldrin setting up a Solar Wind Collector.   10457   Apollo 11 40th Anniversary: Partially Restored Video of Neil Armstrong Photographs Buzz Aldrin Setting Up a Solar Wind Collector
A side by side comparison of the original broadcast video and partially restored video of Raising the American Flag.   10458   Apollo 11 40th Anniversary: Partially Restored Video of Raising the American Flag
A side by side comparison of the original broadcast video and partially restored video of Buzz Aldrin walking and running.   10459   Apollo 11 40th Anniversary: Partially Restored Video of Buzz Aldrin Walking and Running
A side by side comparison of the original broadcast video and partially restored video of the astronauts talking with President Nixon.   10460   Apollo 11 40th Anniversary: Partially Restored Video of the Astronauts Talking with President Nixon
A side by side comparison of the original broadcast video and partially restored video of Buzz Aldrin kicking moon dust.   10461   Apollo 11 40th Anniversary: Partially Restored Video of Buzz Aldrin Kicking Moon Dust
A side by side comparison of the original broadcast video and partially restored video of Buzz Aldrin carrying experiment packages.   10462   Apollo 11 40th Anniversary: Partially Restored Video of Buzz Aldrin Carrying Experiment Packages
A side by side comparison of the original broadcast video and partially restored video of Buzz Aldrin hammering a core sample tube into the moon's surface.   10463   Apollo 11 40th Anniversary: Partially Restored Video of Buzz Aldrin Hammering a Core Sample Tube into the Moon's Surface
A side by side comparison of the original broadcast video and partially restored video of  Buzz Aldrin entering the LM after an EVA.   10464   Apollo 11 40th Anniversary: Partially Restored Video of Buzz Aldrin Entering the LM after an EVA
A side by side comparison of the original broadcast video and partially restored video of astronauts storing rock samples into the LM.   10465   Apollo 11 40th Anniversary: Partially Restored Video of Astronauts Storing Rock Samples into the LM
A side by side comparison of the original broadcast video and partially restored video of Neil Armstrong climbing the ladder after the three hour EVA.   10466   Apollo 11 40th Anniversary: Partially Restored Video of Neil Armstrong Climbing the Ladder After the Three Hour EVA
Never before seen video of astronauts jettisoning backpacks. The broadcasting companies of the day stopped recording, due to the fact that the astronauts were inside the LM getting ready for take off.  A NASA employee filmed this by aiming his 8mm camera at a monitor.   This version is framed to be compared with the footage previously in the NASA archive, however there was no footage in the archive for this segment.  For the full frame version, see below.   10467   Apollo 11 40th Anniversary: Never Before Seen Video of Astronauts Jettisoning Backpacks
Dr. Feldman reflects on his unique perspective on this fascinating region and looks ahead to his journey to Galapagos.   10468   Journey to Galapagos
GSFC Control Rooms  Though the actual Atlas rocket carrying NASA's LRO mission was launched from a site at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Mission Operations Control Center (or MOCC) is located at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.  It is from the MOCC and Flight Conrol room (also at Goddard) that engineers will actually   10469   LRO Launch - More Views
A new model of oddly shaped debris disks around stars incorporates the drag effect from interstellar gas on the disk's outermost small particles. The force only affects the smallest particles — those about one micrometer across, or about the size of particles in smoke.   10470   Interstellar "Wind" Sculpts Dusty Disks Around Stars
Meet engineers who assembled built, integrated and tested the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).     For complete transcript, click  here .   10471   SDO Engineers Create What Never Was
Exactly a month ago on June 27 NASA launched a new and improved weather satellite called GOES-O. Now that GOES-O is safely into its orbit, it has been renamed to GOES-14. On July 27, 2009 NOAA and NASA released the first full disk image from GOES-14 showing that the satellite is operating correctly. NASA Goddard Producer Silvia Stoyanova, visits the NOAA Satellite Operations Facility in Suitland, Md. for the release of the first image and talks to NOAA Meteorologist Tom Renkevens about it.   For complete transcript, click  here .   10472   NASA/NOAA GOES-14: First Full Disk Image
Astronaut Kathryn Thornton and NASA engineer Russ Werneth look back at the challenges and triumphs of the Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions.  With footage from Servicing Mission 1 and the recent Servicing Mission 4, Thornton and Werneth look back at the problems, solutions, and legacy of Hubble.   For complete transcript, click  here .   10473   The Hubble Legacy: A Collegiate Case Study
Reed is a materials assurance engineer who has a background in chemistry and has most recently worked on improving Hubble's outer blanket layer.      For complete transcript, click  here .   10474   Hubble Career Profiles
On August 1, 2009, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) team invited the public to celebrate the mission's successful trip to the Moon with a free event at the GSFC Visitors Center.  The   10475   LRO Moon Party
SDO is Moving On Out   10476   G2009-080 SDO Moves Out
LARGEST introduces mainstream audiences to the planet Jupiter. The following trailer showcases some of the visual themes contained in the movie and points to the film's main website.  This film has been prepared exclusively for playback on spherical projections systems. It will not appear in its proper format on a traditional computer or television screen. If you are interested in dowloading the complete final movie file for spherical playback, please visit :  ftp://public.sos.noaa.gov/extras/      10477   LARGEST: A Spherical Movie About Jupiter
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Project Scientist Rich Vondrak explains the LRO suite of instruments and how each will greatly benefit our understanding of the Moon.   For complete transcript, click  here .   10479   A Tour of the LRO Instrument Suite
The primary goal of the GRACE mission is to accurately map variations in the Earth's gravity field over its 5-year lifetime.   10480   GRACE Beauty Pass Animations
NASA's Wayne Esaias sees honeybees as important data collectors to help us understand our changing climate.    For complete transcript, click  here .   10481   Feeling the Sting of Climate Change
This short animation illustrates two scenarios. The first depicts plants blooming at the same time bees emerge to forage for nectar and pollen. The second depicts an earlier bloom, where flowers bloom before bees are ready to forage. The flowers miss out on getting pollinated, and the bees miss their chance to gather nectar and pollen.   10482   Honey Bees and Climate Change Animations
Smith #2  LOLA First DEM Flyover  (full resolution frames of this visualization can be found on  entry #3634 .)   10483   LRO Early Results Press Conference Visuals
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. Landsat is a joint program of NASA and the US Geological Survey.  For complete transcript, click  here .   10484   Landsat: A Space Age Water Gauge
High resolution layered Photoshop TIFF containing both UV and Optical image layers.   10485   Swift's UV portrait of the Andromeda Galaxy
The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) instrument on board NASA's LRO spacecraft will be responsible for building the highest detail topography currently available of the lunar terrain.  In this video David Smith, LOLA's Principal Investigator, explains how this technology works.   For complete transcript, click  here .   10486   LOLA: Defining the Lunar Terrain
This short video explains the purposes and capabilities of Spacebook.   For complete transcript, click  here .   10487   NASA's Spacebook
MAVEN slate   10488   MAVEN
Animation showing how the photons may have acted if the structure of space-time was foamy.  However, Fermi data has shown that that effect does not exist.   10489   Gamma-ray Burst Photon Delay as Expected by Quantum Gravity
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.   For complete transcript, click  here .   10490   Science For a Hungry World: Introduction
Every day, NASA collects information vital to food production all over the world. This information is a valuable asset.  NASA's mission: to give it away for free. With the data they collect, teams of NASA researchers and their partners at the USDA Foreign Agriculture Service, USAID Famine Early Warning Network (FEWS NET), NOAA, and several major universities including the University of Maryland, work to increase crop yields, ease famine, and keep the global agricultural system functioning.   For complete transcript, click  here .   10491   Science For a Hungry World: NASA's Partners
Sea ice is frozen seawater floating on the surface of the ocean. Some sea ice is permanent, persisting from year to year, and some is seasonal, melting and refreezing from season to season.  Each winter existing sea ice thickens and new, thinner ice is formed.  This conceptual animation shows a cut-away view of the seasonal advance and retreat of Arctic sea ice, demonstrating the current trend toward a thinning ice pack, with less of the thicker multi-year ice surviving each summer's melt.   10492   Arctic Sea Ice Conceptual Animation
A fast-paced interview with NASA climate scientist Tom Wagner, where he provides a look at the state of Arctic sea ice in 2009 and discusses NASA's role in monitoring the cryosphere.   For complete transcript, click  here .   10493   Arctic Sea Ice 101
Carbon is the basic building block of life, and these unique atoms are found everywhere on Earth.  Carbon makes up Earth's plants and animals, and is also stored in the ocean, the atmosphere, and the crust of the planet.  A carbon atom could spend millions of years moving through Earth in a complex cycle.  This conceptual animation provides an illustration of the various parts of the Carbon cycle.  Purple arrows indicate the uptake of Carbon; yellow arrows indicate the release of Carbon.   10494   The Carbon Cycle
This conceptual animation illustrates some of the ecological pathways between species within the marine ecosystem. Single-celled microscopic plants called phytoplankton float in the upper ocean. These photosynthetic plants form the foundation of the marine food web, and nearly all life in the ocean depend upon them for survival, including microscopic zooplankton and whales.    10495   Marine Food Web
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.   For complete transcript, click  here .   10496   Science for a Hungry World: Land Cover Land Use Change
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.      For complete transcript, click  here .   10497   The Ocean's Green Machines
Carbon is all around us.  This 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.    For complete transcript, click  here .   10498   Keeping Up With Carbon
Milky Way Galaxy Zoom   10499   Zoom from the Milky Way Galaxy to our Heliosphere
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