Astrophysics Missions Vertical Video

0:00 Zooming into a small rectangular black and gold chip alongside metal plates, screws, and other hardware. 0:06 The view switches to an illustration of the chip showing a grid of 36 tiny squares on the surface. 0:11 A supernova remnant appears as a wispy turquoise ball marbled with veins of gold. 0:13 This image gradually becomes pixelated until it is only a few dozen large squares. 0:17 Small thermometers appear in these squares, showing different temperatures. 0:22 Returning to the illustration of the chip, different squares light up in shades of red, orange, and yellow as they are hit by X-rays. 0:29 An animation of XRISM flying in space. It is roughly cylindrical and wrapped in crinkled gold material, with shiny black solar panels extending like wings. 0:34 A graph with “Photon count” on the left axis and “Energy” on the bottom axis, showing a blue line with small bumps labeled “Previous X-ray spectrum.” This is overwritten with a much more detailed white line and the text “Resolve spectrum.” 0:40 An image of a glowing elliptical galaxy with faint pink and purple marbling. 0:42 Dozens of additional galaxies and other cosmic objects appear around the galaxy. 0:47 A dark sky is speckled with countless objects, overlaid with blue and pink clouds. 0:50 The illustration of the chip is overlaid on this image. 0:53 The illustration remains, but the background switches to the turquoise supernova remnant.

A split screen where the top has text that reads “4k Drone Footage” and shows an aerial view of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, including white buildings, roads, and trees with orange-brown leaves. The picture zooms away showing more of the Center. The image shifts to show a brown brick building and pans up and to the right to show the blue sky and autumn colored trees behind the building. The image shifts again to move away from two white buildings. The bottom of the screen has the text “36 Pixel equivalent” and shows a grid of a few dozen colored squares. The squares represent a very pixelated version of the image above with the colors changing to reflect the changing view.

Watch to learn more about NASA's Pandora mission, which will revolutionize the study of exoplanet atmospheres. Vertical version of the video.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: “Mesmeric Thoughts,” Andrew Michael Hewitt [PRS], Universal Production MusicComplete transcript available.

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