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    ID: 13420 Produced Video

    Watch Mercury Glide Across the Sun in Near Real Time

    Nov. 5th, 2019
    (updated Aug. 25th, 2023)

    Quick link for B-ROLL for Mercury transit interviews.Quick link for AUDIO interview with Dr. Padi Boyd.Quick link for canned interview with Dr. Padi Boyd.Quick link for canned interview with Dr. Alex Young looking off camera. Just in! Mercury begins it's TRANSIT here on Monday, Nov. 11!! Quick link to canned interview in Spanish with NASA Scientst Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla.Click here to watch the Solar Dynamics Observatory's view of the transit. || Watch Mercury Glide Across the Sun on Nov. 11Talk Live with a NASA Scientist During Rare Astronomical Event:   Want to catch a glimpse of Mercury? Don’t look too close, but on November 11, our solar system's smallest planet will appear as a small black dot gliding across the face of the Sun. During this rare astronomical event, called a transit, Mercury’s orbit passes directly between Earth and the Sun, similar to a solar eclipse. These events only occur about 13 times per century! In fact, the next transit won’t take place until 2032. Chat with a NASA scientist between 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. EST on Monday, Nov. 11 to learn more about the safest ways to view Mercury’s journey across the Sun, and how events like this help scientists search for planets orbiting around distant stars. It’s never safe to look directly at the Sun, whether with the naked eye or with a telescope, but NASA will offer stunning, high-definition views of the Mercury transit in near real time, courtesy of the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Mercury will begin crossing onto the Sun at around 7:36 a.m. EST before exiting the solar disk at around 1:04 p.m. EST. suggested questions1. An amazing phenomenon is happening today that won’t happen for another 13 years — Mercury is passing in front of the Sun! What exactly is going on? 2. NASA uses events like this one to find planets around other stars. How does that work?3. We’ve always been told not to look directly at the sun. So how can our viewers see today’s event? 4. What do transits and eclipses teach us about our own solar system? 5. Will humans ever get to see the Earth transit across the sun? 6. Where can we learn more about stars and planets? satellite coordinatesInterview Location: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD HD Satellite Coordinates for G17-K17/Upper:Galaxy 17 Ku-band Xp 17 Slot Upper | 91.0 ° W Longitude | DL 12049.0 MHz | Horizontal Polarity | QPSK/DVB-S | FEC 3/4 | SR 13.235 Mbps | DR 18.2954 MHz | HD 720p | Format MPEG2 | Chroma Level 4:2:0 | Audio Embedded ** Contact michelle.z.handleman@nasa.gov or 301-286-0918 if you have any questions. ||

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    ID: 13321 Produced Video

    Rare Black Hole Event Seen by Satellites and Ground-based Telescopes Live Shots

    Sept. 26th, 2019
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    B-roll package that corresponds to the following:SUGGESTED QUESTIONSWhat is a black hole and what did NASA and its partners discover?How does a black hole destroy a star?How did NASA and other observatories work together to capture this moment?What new things did we learn from this catastrophic event?How far away is this black hole? Could our Sun be eaten by a black hole?Black holes are black right? How do scientists study something that can’t be seen?Where can we learn more?QUESTIONS FOR LONGER INTERVIEWS:How does a planet-hunting mission help us learn about black holes?How did the scientists involved first learn about the event?What is #BlackHoleWeek?QUICK LINKS TO VIDEO AND AUDIOClick for downloadable AUDIO SOUNDBITE with NASA Scientist Knicole Colon.Click for downloadable soundbites with NASA Scientist Knicole ColonClick for downloadable soundbites with NASA Scientist Brad CenkoClick for downloadable soundbites with Carnegie astronomer Tom Holoien. ||

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    ID: 13248 Produced Video

    NASA’s Newest Planet Hunter To Reveal New Results From Its First Year In Orbit Live Shots

    July 25th, 2019
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    B-roll and canned interviews to be added by 7:00 p.m. EDT July 24 || NASA’s Planet Hunter Reveals Exciting Discoveries in the Search for Strange New Worlds Look Up! Planets Orbit All The Stars You Can See In The Night Sky In its first year in orbit, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, scanned the skies in the southern hemisphere, where it discovered a variety of strange worlds. Next week, TESS will be unveiling some of its newest and most exciting discoveries about the planets orbiting the stars closest to us.Join NASA scientists on Thursday, August 1 from 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. EDT to find out what TESS has discovered so far and how it is contributing to NASA’s search for life. Learn more about what scientists hope to find next, and how your viewers can join scientists and help NASA spot these distant worlds.It wasn’t that long ago that scientists weren’t sure if there were planets orbiting other stars, just as Earth orbits the Sun. With help from telescopes both in space and on the ground, we now know that our galaxy is teeming with exoplanets, or planets that lie beyond our solar system. In fact, when you look up at the night sky, consider that just about every star you see might have at least one planet orbiting it...maybe many more.NASA is diving deeper into the search for planets orbiting nearby stars with TESS and now as it enters year two, it will turn its gaze to the northern hemisphere, hunting for planets that orbit some of the stars we see each night with the naked eye.*** To schedule an interview, fill out this form: https://forms.gle/Ln2PY6mCQ4sVmGxv9 ***The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be hosting the first science conference for TESS results the week of July 29th. Scientists will be available for in-person interviews Wednesday, July 31st from 2:00-4:00 and 4:30-6:30 p.m. ET. For more information click here: https://tsc.mit.edu/outreach.html. To RSVP email: Natalia Guerrero at nmg @mit.edu.suggested questions1)TESS has spent its first year scanning the skies for strange new worlds. What fascinating things did it discover? 2)How does TESS look for planets around other stars? 3)What are you excited for TESS to find as it turns to our local skies? 4)Traveling to even the closest stars would still take hundreds of thousands of years with our current technology. How are these distant planets relevant to us? 5)NASA is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing, with future plans to take astronauts to the Moon and then to Mars. What will studying the Moon and Mars up close tell us about planets around other stars? 6)How can our viewers learn more about this mission and get involved in looking for exoplanets?satellite coordinates HD Satellite Coordinates for G17-K18/Lower: Galaxy 17 Ku-band Xp 18 Slot Lower| 91.0 ° W Longitude | DL 12051.0 MHz | Vertical Polarity | QPSK/DVB-S | FEC 3/4 | SR 13.235 Mbps | DR 18.2954 MHz | HD 720p | Format MPEG2 | Chroma Level 4:2:0 | Audio Embedded*** Questions? Contact Courtney.a.lee@nasa.gov or 301-286-3131.***Keep up to date on the latest with TESS on Twitter @NASA_TESS! ||

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    ID: 12850 Produced Video

    NASA's New Planet Hunter: TESS

    March 28th, 2018
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    Watch an overview of the TESS mission.Music: "Drive to Succeed" from Killer TracksWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will find undiscovered worlds around bright nearby stars, providing targets where future studies will assess their capacity to harbor life. TESS is a NASA Astrophysics Explorer mission led and operated by MIT and managed by Goddard. With the help of a gravitational assist from the Moon, the spacecraft will settle into a 13.7-day orbit around Earth. Four wide-field cameras will give TESS a field-of-view that covers 85 percent of the entire sky. Within this vast visual perspective, the sky has been divided into 26 sectors that TESS will observe one by one. The first year of observations will map the 13 sectors encompassing the southern sky, and the second year will map the 13 sectors of the northern sky. The spacecraft will be looking for a phenomenon known as a transit, where a planet passes in front of its star, causing a periodic and regular dip in the star’s brightness. NASA’s Kepler spacecraft used the same method to spot more than 2,600 confirmed exoplanets, most of them orbiting faint stars 300 to 3,000 light-years away TESS will concentrate on stars less than 300 light-years away and 30 to 100 times brighter than Kepler’s targets. The brightness of these target stars will allow researchers to use spectroscopy, the study of the absorption and emission of light, to determine a planet’s mass, density and atmospheric composition. Water and other key molecules in its atmosphere can give us hints about a planets’ capacity to harbor life. ||

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    TESS AAS Hyperwall Presentation January 2018

    Jan. 7th, 2018
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    Venus transits the Sun on June 5, 2012 as observed by the Solar Dynamics Observatory in 171 Angstrom light.Credit: NASA/SDO || Imagery and spectra of the stars in the Pleiades as captured by K2.Credit: NASA/K2/Aarhus University/T.White || Proposed TESS Guest Investigator topics.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center || Proposed TESS Guest Investigator topics.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center || Proposed TESS Guest Investigator topics. With number of proposals in each category.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ||

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