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Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Music: “Meetings in Underwater Ruins,” Philippe Andre Vandenhende [SACEM], Olivier Louis Perrot [SACEM] and Idriss-El-Mehdi Bennani [SACEM], Universal Production Music
Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.
Complete transcript available.
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