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At its peak, the Sun’s magnetic poles flip.Understanding the Sun’s behavior is an important part of life in our solar system. The Sun’s outbursts, including eruptions known as solar flares and coronal mass ejections, can disturb satellites and communication signals traveling around Earth. Scientists study the solar cycle so we can better understand and predict solar activity.", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 423127, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40502, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/2024total-solar-eclipse-gallery/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "2024 Total Solar Eclipse", "description": "On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will cross North America, passing over Mexico, the United States, and Canada. A total solar eclipse happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, completely blocking the face of the Sun. 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Weather permitting, people along the path of totality will see the Sun’s corona, or outer atmosphere, which is usually obscured by the bright face of the Sun.Learn more about this total solar eclipse: solarsystem.nasa.gov/eclipses/2024\n", "release_date": "2023-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2024-09-18T00:00:00-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 1089155, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a005200/a005219/flyover.2101_searchweb.png", "filename": "flyover.2101_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This visualization closely follows the Moon's umbra shadow as it crosses North America during the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse. It covers the one hour and 50 minutes between 10:57 a.m. Pacific Standard Time and 4:47 p.m. Atlantic Daylight Time. Annotations include a running clock and the location of the center of the shadow. Everyone within the dark oval sees totality.", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 414134, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40500, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/annular-solar-eclipse2023/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "2023 Annular Solar Eclipse", "description": "On Oct. 14, 2023, an annular solar eclipse will cross North, Central, and South America. Visible in parts of the United States, Mexico, and many countries in South and Central America, millions of people in the Western Hemisphere can experience this eclipse.\n\nAn annular solar eclipse happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth while it is at or near its farthest point from Earth. Because the Moon is farther away from Earth than usual, it appears smaller than the Sun and does not completely cover the star. Because of this, the Sun will appear like a “ring of fire” in the sky for those in the path of annularity.\n\nDuring an annular eclipse, it is never safe to look directly at the Sun without specialized eye protection designed for solar viewing.\n\nLearn more about this annular solar eclipse: solarsystem.nasa.gov/eclipses/2023", "release_date": "2023-09-19T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 860662, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014400/a014450/14450_002_20231015-013148-jfs_print.jpg", "filename": "14450_002_20231015-013148-jfs_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "An annular solar eclipse photographed on October 14, 2023. Image Credit: NASA/Jim Spann", "width": 1024, "height": 682, "pixels": 698368 } } }, { "id": 402323, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40115, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/space-weather/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "Space Weather", "description": "The term \"space weather\" was coined not long ago to describe the dynamic conditions in the Earth's outer space environment, in the same way that \"weather\" and \"climate\" refer to conditions in Earth's lower atmosphere. Space weather includes any and all conditions and events on the sun, in the solar wind, in near-Earth space and in our upper atmosphere that can affect space-borne and ground-based technological systems and through these, human life and endeavor. Heliophysics is the science of space weather.\r\n\r\nThis gallery organizes satellite footage, animations, visualizations, and edited videos produced at the Goddard Space Flight Center. Visualizations are different from pure animations because they are data-driven. They present a way of \"seeing\" the data. In the case of orbit visualizations, they are based on actual orbit information. Most of the animations and visualizations are available as frames and all the recent ones are HD quality. All videos are available in several formats and qualities including Apple ProRes for broadcast quality. Unless specifically marked otherwise, all these materials are public domain and free to use. For more infomation about NASA's media use guidelines see this page.\r\n\r\nThe content is organized in two ways. Under \"Facets of Space Weather\" you will find our visuals grouped by the subject they address. Under \"NASA Spacecraft\" you will find our visuals grouped by the satellite they were collected by, or that they refer to. This group also contains animations of the spacecraft themselves.\r\nFor breaking news solar events, go to this gallery.For frequently-asked-question interviews with NASA scientists, go here.", "release_date": "2011-12-01T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2011-12-02T00:00:00-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 857397, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/gallery/SpaceWeather/Space_Weather_Banner_Wide_1.png", "filename": "Space_Weather_Banner_Wide_1.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "", "width": 100, "height": 679, "pixels": 67900 } } } ], "extra_data": {} }, { "id": 370414, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/the-galleries/#media_group_370414", "widget": "Card gallery", "title": "Planetary Science Galleries", "caption": "", "description": "", "items": [ { "id": 414264, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40343, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/moonphase/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "Moon Phase and Libration", "description": "Current Moonshow_moon_image(); show_moon_info();\nEvery year since 2011, the SVS produces its annual visualization of the Moon's phase and libration comprising 8760 hourly renderings of the precise size, orientation, and illumination of our nearest neighbor in space. The above displays the current state of the Moon. Click on the image to download a much larger version with labeled craters and additional graphics. Follow the links below to see the Moon at any hour of the year, play the animations, access the frames at multiple resolutions, and read detailed explanations.", "release_date": "2017-12-12T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2022-11-09T00:00:00-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 368330, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a005000/a005048/comp.0001_searchweb.png", "filename": "comp.0001_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "The phase and libration of the Moon for 2023, at hourly intervals. Includes supplemental graphics that display the Moon's orbit, subsolar and sub-Earth points, and the Moon's distance from Earth at true scale. Craters near the terminator are labeled, as are Apollo landing sites and maria and other albedo features in sunlight.", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 518807, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40539, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/artemis-iiscience/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "Moon Visualizations, Animations, Videos - Artemis II Lunar Science", "description": "While the Artemis II crew will be the first humans to test NASA’s Orion spacecraft in space, they will also conduct science investigations that will inform future deep space missions. During the 10-day past the Moon and back, the Orion capsule will fly by the far side of the Moon — the side that always faces away from Earth. During this three-hour period, astronauts will analyze and photograph geologic features, such as impact craters and ancient lava flows. They will rely on the extensive geology training they received in the classroom and in Moon-like places on Earth to describe nuances in shapes, textures, and colors — the type of information that reveals the geologic history of an area. These skills will be critical to exploring the Moon’s South Pole region through future missions.\n\nLearn more about Artemis II lunar science.\nLearn more about all Artemis II science experiments\nLearn more about the Moon at moon.nasa.gov.\n\n**Note: This page will be continually updated through the Artemis II launch, happening no later than April 2026. **\n\nMedia Contact: Lonnie Shekhtman NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.", "release_date": "2025-08-15T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2026-01-29T00:00:00-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 1195708, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014900/a014952/14952_thumbnail.jpg", "filename": "14952_thumbnail.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Music is \"Lunar Thistle\" by Lucie Rose of Universal Production Music. ", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 402324, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40371, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/apollo/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "Project Apollo", "description": "This is a collection of the media resources available on the Scientific Visualization Studio website relating to NASA's Apollo missions to the Moon. More information and media can be found at\n\nNASA.gov\nApollo Lunar Surface Journal\nApollo Flight Journal\nApollo Landing Sites photographed by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter\nApollo in Real TimeProject Apollo Archive on Flickr", "release_date": "2019-05-10T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2021-02-24T00:00:00-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 397748, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004500/a004593/earthrise_print_searchweb.png", "filename": "earthrise_print_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "On December 24, 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first humans to witness the Earth rising above the moon's barren surface. Now we can relive the astronauts' experience, thanks to data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. 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Highlights of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s animations, visualizations, videos, images and graphics relating to Mars science and missions can be found here.", "release_date": "2012-06-28T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2026-01-14T00:00:00-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 857401, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/gallery/MarsGallery/mars_banner_main_02.jpg", "filename": "mars_banner_main_02.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "", "width": 109, "height": 572, "pixels": 62348 } } } ], "extra_data": {} }, { "id": 370415, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/the-galleries/#media_group_370415", "widget": "Card gallery", "title": "Astrophysics Galleries", "caption": "", "description": "", "items": [ { "id": 510733, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40542, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/dark-energy/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "Dark Energy", "description": "Some 13.8 billion years ago, the universe began with a rapid expansion we call the big bang. After this initial expansion, which lasted a fraction of a second, gravity started to slow the universe down. But the cosmos wouldn’t stay this way. Nine billion years after the universe began, its expansion started to speed up, driven by an unknown force that scientists have named dark energy.\n\nBut what exactly is dark energy?\n\nThe short answer is: We don't know. But we do know that it exists, it’s making the universe expand at an accelerating rate, and approximately 68.3 to 70% of the universe is dark energy.", "release_date": "2026-01-28T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2026-01-28T00:00:00-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 422680, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a020000/a020200/a020246/WFirstExpansion_00599_print.jpg", "filename": "WFirstExpansion_00599_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Animation illustrating the accelerating expansion of the universe.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 420382, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40073, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/astro/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "Goddard's Astrophysics Gallery", "description": "This multimedia gallery assembles and organizes the astrophysics content on the Scientific Visualization Studio website. 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Although a black hole does not emit light, matter falling toward it collects in a hot, glowing accretion disk that astronomers can detect.", "release_date": "2019-04-10T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-11-10T00:00:00-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 1140714, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014700/a014753/1ES1927_PanSTARRS_1080_circ_searchweb.png", "filename": "1ES1927_PanSTARRS_1080_circ_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This gallery gathers together visualizations and narrated videos about black holes. A black hole is a celestial object whose gravity is so intense that even light cannot escape it. Astronomers observe two main types of black holes. Stellar-mass black holes contain three to dozens of times the mass of our Sun. They form when the cores of very massive stars run out of fuel and collapse under their own weight, compressing large amounts of matter into a tiny space. Supermassive black holes, with masses up to billions of times the Sun’s, can be found at the centers of most big galaxies. Although a black hole does not emit light, matter falling toward it collects in a hot, glowing accretion disk that astronomers can detect.", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 402330, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40466, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/the-traveler/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "The Traveler", "description": "Our Traveler can’t wait to explore the universe! It’s hard not to be caught up in their boundless enthusiasm for all the wondrous sights the cosmos has to offer. This gallery brings together resources related to the intrepid blue Traveler and their adventures. 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Webb will operate in an orbit about 1.5 million km (1 million miles) from the Earth.\n\nThe James Webb Space Telescope was named after the NASA Administrator who crafted Apollo program, and who was a staunch supporter of space science.", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 402333, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40262, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/hubble-space-telescope/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "Hubble Space Telescope", "description": "Since its launch in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has changed our fundamental understanding of the universe. Hubble’s unique design, allowing it to be repaired and upgraded with advanced technology by astronauts, has made it one of NASA’s longest-living and most valuable observatories. Today, Hubble continues to provide views of cosmic wonders never before seen and is still at the forefront of astronomy.\nThe Hubble Space Telescope is an international collaboration between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA).For more information visit us at https://nasa.gov/hubble or follow us on social media @NASAHubble.", "release_date": "2015-12-04T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2026-02-19T00:00:00-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 858872, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/gallery/HubbleSpaceTelescope/hst-sm4_th.png", "filename": "hst-sm4_th.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Since its launch in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has changed our fundamental understanding of the universe. Hubble’s unique design, allowing it to be repaired and upgraded with advanced technology by astronauts, has made it one of NASA’s longest-living and most valuable observatories. Today, Hubble continues to provide views of cosmic wonders never before seen and is still at the forefront of astronomy.\nThe Hubble Space Telescope is an international collaboration between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA).For more information visit us at https://nasa.gov/hubble or follow us on social media @NASAHubble.", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 402334, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40333, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/abo-ve/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "ABoVE", "description": "The Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment, or ABoVE, is a NASA-led, 10-year field experiment designed to better understand the ecological and social consequences of environmental change in one of the most rapidly changing regions on Earth. Satellite, airborne, and ground observations across Alaska and Canada will help us better understand the local and regional effects of changing forests, permafrost, and ecosystems – and how these changes could ultimately affect people and places beyond the Arctic.", "release_date": "2017-05-23T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-04-18T00:00:00-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 368951, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014200/a014222/Denali.jpg", "filename": "Denali.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "The Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment, or ABoVE, is a NASA-led, 10-year field experiment designed to better understand the ecological and social consequences of environmental change in one of the most rapidly changing regions on Earth. Satellite, airborne, and ground observations across Alaska and Canada will help us better understand the local and regional effects of changing forests, permafrost, and ecosystems – and how these changes could ultimately affect people and places beyond the Arctic.", "width": 2160, "height": 4096, "pixels": 8847360 } } }, { "id": 413559, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40513, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/awe/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE)", "description": "From its unique vantage point on the International Space Station, NASA’s Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) will look directly down into Earth’s atmosphere to study how gravity waves travel through the upper atmosphere. Data collected by AWE will enable scientists to determine the physics and characteristics of atmospheric gravity waves and how terrestrial weather influences the ionosphere, which can affect communication with satellites.\n\nAWE is led by Michael Taylor at Utah State University in Logan, and it is managed by the Explorers Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory built the AWE instrument and will provide the mission operations center.", "release_date": "2023-10-25T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-10-25T00:00:00-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 859587, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a020000/a020300/a020385/ISS_AWE_ProRes.00420_print.jpg", "filename": "ISS_AWE_ProRes.00420_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "AWE aboard the ISS", "width": 576, "height": 1024, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 402335, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40083, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/aquarius/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "Aquarius Mission", "description": "During its nominal three-year mission, Aquarius will map the\rsalinity at the ocean surface to improve our understanding of\rEarth's water cycle and ocean circulation. Aquarius will help\rscientists see how freshwater moves between the ocean and\rthe atmosphere. It will monitor changes in the water cycle due\rto rainfall, evaporation, ice melting, and river runoff.", "release_date": "2010-11-30T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2011-02-04T00:00:00-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 504747, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a020000/a020100/a020144/able000100002_print.jpg", "filename": "able000100002_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Aquarius 2006 Beauty Shot 1", "width": 1024, "height": 768, "pixels": 786432 } } }, { "id": 402336, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40435, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/davinci/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "DAVINCI", "description": "Launching in 2029, NASA’s Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry and Imaging (DAVINCI) mission will bring a rich suite of instruments to Venus to address long standing questions about Earth’s sister planet. Some scientists think Venus may once have been more Earth-like in the past, with oceans and pleasant surface temperatures -- DAVINCI data will help us determine if this intriguing possibility is true. Clues to Venus’ mysterious past may be hidden in atmospheric gases or in surface rocks formed in association with ancient water in the planet’s mountainous highlands.", "release_date": "2021-12-07T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2021-12-07T00:00:00-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 375027, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a020000/a020300/a020351/DaVinci1021cut422HQ.00130_searchweb.png", "filename": "DaVinci1021cut422HQ.00130_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Launching in 2029, NASA’s Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry and Imaging (DAVINCI) mission will bring a rich suite of instruments to Venus to address long standing questions about Earth’s sister planet. Some scientists think Venus may once have been more Earth-like in the past, with oceans and pleasant surface temperatures -- DAVINCI data will help us determine if this intriguing possibility is true. Clues to Venus’ mysterious past may be hidden in atmospheric gases or in surface rocks formed in association with ancient water in the planet’s mountainous highlands.", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 435249, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40523, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/escapade/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "ESCAPADE", "description": "The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, will use two identical spacecraft to investigate how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape. The first coordinated multi-spacecraft orbital science mission to the Red Planet, ESCAPADE’s twin orbiters will take simultaneous observations from different locations around Mars to reveal the planet’s real-time response to space weather and how the Martian magnetosphere changes over time. The data returned from the ESCAPADE spacecraft will provide new insight into the evolution of Mars’ climate, contributing to the body of research investigating how Mars began losing its atmosphere and water system.The ESCAPADE mission is managed by the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, with key partners Rocket Lab, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Advanced Space LLC, and Blue Origin.Read the latest news about ESCAPADE - https://science.nasa.gov/mission/escapade/", "release_date": "2024-09-04T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2026-02-26T00:00:00-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 1096959, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014600/a014666/01NG_RL_HighOrbit_1080.00001_searchweb.png", "filename": "01NG_RL_HighOrbit_1080.00001_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, will use two identical spacecraft to investigate how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape. The first multi-spacecraft orbital science mission to the Red Planet, ESCAPADE’s twin orbiters will take simultaneous observations from different locations around Mars to reveal the planet’s real-time response to space weather and how the Martian magnetosphere changes over time. The data returned from the ESCAPADE spacecraft will provide new insight into the evolution of Mars’ climate, contributing to the body of research investigating how Mars began losing its atmosphere and water system.The ESCAPADE mission is managed by the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, with key partners Rocket Lab, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Advanced Space LLC, and Blue Origin.Read the latest news about ESCAPADE - https://science.nasa.gov/mission/escapade/", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 402337, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40134, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/fermi5/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope", "description": "NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has completed its primary mission, and it will continue to explore the high-energy cosmos in unprecedented detail.\nThese pages gather together media products associated with Fermi news releases starting before its 2008 launch, when it was known as GLAST. \n\n\n\nFermi detects gamma rays, the most powerful form of light, with energies thousands to billions of times greater than the visible spectrum.\n\nThe mission has discovered pulsars, proved that supernova remnants can accelerate particles to near the speed of light, monitored eruptions of black holes in distant galaxies, and found giant bubbles linked to the central black hole in our own galaxy. \nFor more information about the Fermi mission, visit its NASA webpage.", "release_date": "2013-08-05T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-08-18T00:00:00-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 507493, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a020000/a020100/a020120/glaZ0257_searchweb.png", "filename": "glaZ0257_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has completed its primary mission, and it will continue to explore the high-energy cosmos in unprecedented detail.\nThese pages gather together media products associated with Fermi news releases starting before its 2008 launch, when it was known as GLAST. \n\n\n\nFermi detects gamma rays, the most powerful form of light, with energies thousands to billions of times greater than the visible spectrum.\n\nThe mission has discovered pulsars, proved that supernova remnants can accelerate particles to near the speed of light, monitored eruptions of black holes in distant galaxies, and found giant bubbles linked to the central black hole in our own galaxy. \nFor more information about the Fermi mission, visit its NASA webpage.", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 402338, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40077, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/firefly/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "Firefly", "description": "The small satellite, with a big mission, is appropriately named \"Firefly\". Sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the pint-sized satellite will study the most powerful natural particle accelerator on Earth, lightning, when it launches from the Marshall Islands aboard an Air Force Falcon 1E rocket vehicle next year. In particular, Firefly will focus on Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs), a little understood phenomenon first discovered by NASA's Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory in the early 1990s.Although no one knows why, it appears these flashes of gamma rays that were once thought to occur only far out in space near black holes or other high-energy cosmic phenomena are somehow linked to lightning.Using measurements gathered by Firefly's instruments, Goddard scientist Doug Rowland and his collaborators, Universities Space Research Association in Columbia, Md., Siena College, located near Albany, N.Y., and the Hawk Institute for Space Studies in Pocomoke City, Md., hope to answer what causes these high-energy flashes. In particular, they want to find out if lightning triggers them or if they trigger lightning. Could they be responsible for some of the high-energy particles in the Van Allen radiation belts, which damage satellites? Firefly is expected to observe up to 50 lightning strokes per day, and about one large TGF every couple days.", "release_date": "2010-09-17T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2010-09-17T00:00:00-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 490278, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010600/a010645/G2010-090_Firefly_Teaser_appletv_web.png", "filename": "G2010-090_Firefly_Teaser_appletv_web.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This short teaser video introduces us to the mission of Firefly, a CubeSat built by undergraduate students with the partnership of Goddard Space Flight Center and the National Science Foundation.For complete transcript, click here.", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 402339, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40247, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/goes/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "GOES", "description": "GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites) is a joint mission between NOAA and NASA. GOES-1 was launched in October of 1975 providing weather forecasters with a one-of-a-kind view of Earth. Since then, each generation of GOES satellites improved allowing for a near real-time view of the Western Hemisphere. \n\n GOES satellites orbit 22,236 miles above Earth’s equator, at speeds equal to the Earth's rotation. This allows them to maintain their positions over specific geographic regions so they can provide continuous coverage of that area over time.\n\nThe GOES-R series of satellites, designated with a letter during development and renamed with a number after reaching geostationary orbit, have transformed NOAA’s geostationary weather monitoring capabilities. \n\nGOES-R (now GOES-16) launched in 2016 and operates as NOAA’s GOES East satellite. GOES-S (now GOES-17), launched in 2018 and serves as an on-orbit backup. GOES-T (now GOES-18) launched in 2022 and is NOAA’s operational GOES West satellite. The final satellite in the series, GOES-U (GOES-19), was launched on June 25, 2024, and is slated to replace GOES-16 in the GOES East position by spring 2025.\n\nTogether, GOES East and GOES West watch over more than half the globe — from the west coast of Africa to New Zealand and from near the Arctic Circle to the Antarctic Circle. \n\nThe GOES-R Program is a collaborative effort between NOAA and NASA. 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Capturing never-before-seen images of Earth’s upper atmosphere, GOLD explores in unprecedented detail our space environment — which is home to astronauts, radio signals used to guide airplanes and ships, as well as satellites that provide communications and GPS systems. The more we know about the fundamental physics of this region of space, the more we can protect our assets there.\n\nGathering observations from geostationary orbit above the Western Hemisphere, GOLD measures the temperature and composition of neutral gases in Earth’s thermosphere. This part of the atmosphere co-mingles with the ionosphere, which is made up of charged particles. Both the Sun from above and terrestrial weather from below can change the types, numbers, and characteristics of the particles found here — and GOLD helps track those changes.\n\nActivity in this region is responsible for a variety of key space weather events. GOLD scientists are particularly interested in the cause of dense, unpredictable bubbles of charged gas that appear over the equator and tropics, sometimes causing communication problems. As we discover the very nature of the Sun-Earth interaction in this region, the mission could ultimately lead to ways to improve forecasts of such space weather and mitigate its effects.\nDownload the GOLD beauty pass: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20275\nDownload other GOLD resources: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/GOLDresources", "release_date": "2018-01-17T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2018-01-24T00:00:00-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 407990, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012800/a012817/GOLDOverview_YouTube.00001_searchweb.png", "filename": "GOLDOverview_YouTube.00001_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Complete transcript available.Music credits: 'Faint Glimmer' by Andrew John Skeet [PRS], Andrew Michael Britton [PRS], David Stephen Goldsmith [PRS], 'Ocean Spirals' by Andrew John Skeet [PRS], Andrew Michael Britton [PRS], David Stephen Goldsmith [PRS] from Killer Tracks.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 490026, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40118, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/gpm/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "Global Precipitation Measurement", "description": "The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission is an international network of satellites that provide the next-generation global observations of rain and snow. Building upon the success of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), the GPM concept centers on the deployment of a \"Core\" satellite carrying an advanced radar / radiometer system to measure precipitation from space and serve as a reference standard to unify precipitation measurements from a constellation of research and operational satellites. Through improved measurements of precipitation globally, the GPM mission helps to advance our understanding of Earth's water and energy cycle, improve forecasting of extreme events that cause natural hazards and disasters, and extend current capabilities in using accurate and timely information of precipitation to directly benefit society. GPM, initiated by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as a global successor to TRMM, comprises a consortium of international space agencies, including the Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES), the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), and others. The GPM Core Observatory launched from Tanegashima Space Center, Japan, at 1:37 PM EST on February 27, 2014.For more information and resources please visit the Precipitation Measurement Missions web site.", "release_date": "2000-01-01T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-08-20T00:00:00-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 466490, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011200/a011253/GPM_Instrument_Animations_youtube_hq_web.png", "filename": "GPM_Instrument_Animations_youtube_hq_web.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Animations showing the GMI then DPR instruments on board the GPM Core Observatory.", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 443421, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40525, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/habitable-worlds-observatory/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "Habitable Worlds Observatory", "description": "The Habitable Worlds Observatory is a large infrared/optical/ultraviolet space telescope recommended by the National Academies' Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s.\n\nHabitable Worlds will be the first space telescope designed specifically to search for signs of life and determine how common life is beyond Earth.\n\nThis future space observatory will study the universe with unprecedented sensitivity and resolution, giving us new insights into the solar system, stars, galaxies, black holes, dark matter and the evolution of cosmic structure.\n\nThe Habitable Worlds Observatory will build on the technological foundations of the Hubble, Webb and Roman Space Telescopes, uniting government, industry, academia, and international partners.", "release_date": "2024-10-01T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-08-18T00:00:00-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 1139042, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a020000/a020300/a020394/HWO_Glamour_searchweb.png", "filename": "HWO_Glamour_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 402342, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40179, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/icesat2/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "ICESat-2", "description": "The Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 will measure the height of Earth from space, creating a record of the planet’s elevation in unprecedented detail and precision. With high-resolution data from ICESat-2’s laser altimeter, scientists will track changes to Earth’s polar ice caps – regions that are a harbinger of warming temperatures worldwide. The mission will also take stock of forests, map ocean surfaces, track the rise of cities and measure everything in between. ICESat-2 continues key elevation observations begun by ICESat-1 (2003 to 2009) and Operation IceBridge (2009 through present), to provide a portrait of change in the beginning of the 21st century.\n\nFor more information, please visit the ICESat-2 website.", "release_date": "2014-10-15T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2026-02-21T00:00:00-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 858859, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/gallery/ICESat-2/icesat2_160x80.png", "filename": "icesat2_160x80.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "The Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 will measure the height of Earth from space, creating a record of the planet’s elevation in unprecedented detail and precision. With high-resolution data from ICESat-2’s laser altimeter, scientists will track changes to Earth’s polar ice caps – regions that are a harbinger of warming temperatures worldwide. The mission will also take stock of forests, map ocean surfaces, track the rise of cities and measure everything in between. ICESat-2 continues key elevation observations begun by ICESat-1 (2003 to 2009) and Operation IceBridge (2009 through present), to provide a portrait of change in the beginning of the 21st century.\n\nFor more information, please visit the ICESat-2 website.", "width": 80, "height": 160, "pixels": 12800 } } }, { "id": 402343, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40346, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/icon/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "ICON", "description": "The Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, is a low-Earth orbiting satellite that will give us new information about how Earth’s atmosphere interacts with near-Earth space — a give-and-take that plays a major role in the safety of our satellites and reliability of communications signals. \n\nSpecifically, ICON investigates the connections between the neutral atmosphere — which extends from near Earth’s surface to far above us, at the edge of space— and the electrically charged part of the atmosphere, called the ionosphere. The particles of the ionosphere carry electrical charge that can disrupt communications signals, cause satellites in low-Earth orbit to become electrically charged, and, in extreme cases, cause power outages on the ground.", "release_date": "2018-03-27T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2018-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 415358, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a020000/a020200/a020265/AirGlow_final_ProRes.00001_searchweb.png", "filename": "AirGlow_final_ProRes.00001_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Beauty pass showing ICON observing the ionosphere. 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IMAP plans to provide near real-time information about the solar wind to provide advanced space weather warnings from its location at Lagrange point 1, one million miles from Earth toward the Sun.\n\nThe mission is slated to launch no earlier than September 2025 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.\n\nLearn more about IMAP.", "release_date": "2025-08-20T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2026-01-27T00:00:00-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 1157765, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a020000/a020400/a020410/20410_IMAP_Spinning_H264.00001_searchweb.png", "filename": "20410_IMAP_Spinning_H264.00001_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, will map the boundaries of the heliosphere — the protective bubble surrounding the Sun and planets that is inflated by the constant stream of particles from the Sun called the solar wind.\n\nAs a modern-day celestial cartographer, IMAP will also explore and chart the vast range of particles in interplanetary space, helping to investigate two of the most important overarching issues in heliophysics: the energization of charged particles from the Sun and the interaction of the solar wind with interstellar space. IMAP plans to provide near real-time information about the solar wind to provide advanced space weather warnings from its location at Lagrange point 1, one million miles from Earth toward the Sun.\n\nThe mission is slated to launch no earlier than September 2025 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.\n\nLearn more about IMAP.", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 490827, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40098, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/landsat/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "Landsat", "description": "Since 1972, Landsat satellites have consistently gathered data about our planet for the benefit of the U.S. and the world. The Landsat data archive is the longest continuous remotely sensed global record of Earth’s surface, with all the data free and available to the public. The Landsat satellite missions, jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, are a central pillar of our national remote sensing capability and established the U.S. as a leader in land imaging.\n\nLandsat 9 is the next satellite in the program, and will add more than 700 scenes a day to this invaluable archive. As Earth’s population approaches 8 billion, Landsat 9 will extend our ability to detect and characterize land surface changes, and will do so at a scale where researchers can differentiate between natural and human-induced change. \r\n \r\nLand cover and land use are changing globally at rates unprecedented in human history. These changes bring profound consequences for weather, ecosystems, resource management, the economy, carbon storage and emissions, human health, and other aspects of society. Landsat datasets are a critical tool in monitoring and managing essential resources in a changing world.\r\n\nBelow are highlights of Landsat videos and graphics. 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The instruments on board will collect data on surface geology, surface color and composition, the asteroids' interior and bulk properties, as well as any satellites and rings.\n\nLucy is named for the famous Australopithecus afarensis hominid fossil that shed light on our early human ancestors. By making the first exploration of the Trojan asteroids, the Lucy mission will improve our understanding of the early solar system, and be the first to uncover these fossils of planet formation.", "release_date": "2020-11-02T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-04-15T00:00:00-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 368906, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014200/a014225/Lucy_EGA1_Preview_2_searchweb.png", "filename": "Lucy_EGA1_Preview_2_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Launching in 2021, NASA's Lucy spacecraft will be the first space mission to study the outer Solar System asteroids known as the Trojans, which are orbiting the same distance from the Sun as Jupiter. These fly-by encounters are planned to take place over a 12-year period. The instruments on board will collect data on surface geology, surface color and composition, the asteroids' interior and bulk properties, as well as any satellites and rings.\n\nLucy is named for the famous Australopithecus afarensis hominid fossil that shed light on our early human ancestors. 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Since launch, LRO has measured the coldest temperatures in the solar system inside the Moon’s permanently shadowed craters, detected evidence of water ice at the Moon’s south pole, seen hints of recent geologic activity on the Moon, found newly-formed craters from present-day meteorite impacts, tested spaceborne laser communication technology, and much more.", "release_date": "2010-03-04T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-12-18T00:00:00-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 857270, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/gallery/lro/LRO_gallery.png", "filename": "LRO_gallery.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "", "width": 80, "height": 160, "pixels": 12800 } } }, { "id": 402347, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40152, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/maven/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "MAVEN", "description": "NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) is the first mission devoted to understanding the Martian upper atmosphere. Today Mars is cold and dry, but ancient Mars was warm, wet, and possibly hospitable to life. Scientists think that the loss of Mars' early atmosphere caused the planet to dry up, and MAVEN is testing this hypothesis by observing present-day interactions of the Martian atmosphere with the solar wind. Learn more about MAVEN from\n NASA and CU Boulder.", "release_date": "2013-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2026-01-14T00:00:00-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 446814, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a020000/a020200/a020223/MAVEN_StellarOccultation_Thumbnail_searchweb.png", "filename": "MAVEN_StellarOccultation_Thumbnail_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) is the first mission devoted to understanding the Martian upper atmosphere. Today Mars is cold and dry, but ancient Mars was warm, wet, and possibly hospitable to life. Scientists think that the loss of Mars' early atmosphere caused the planet to dry up, and MAVEN is testing this hypothesis by observing present-day interactions of the Martian atmosphere with the solar wind. Learn more about MAVEN from\n NASA and the\nUniversity of Colorado Boulder.", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 490829, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40217, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/swift/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory", "description": "NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory provides astronomers with a unique tool for exploring many different classes of astronomical phenomena, from gamma-ray bursts and supernovae to spinning neutron stars, outbursts from black holes, and even exoplanets, comets and asteroids. 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NICER will also test, for the first time in space, technology that uses pulsars as navigation beacons.\n\n For more information visit the NICER website.", "release_date": "2017-03-03T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-05-18T00:00:00-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 401299, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a013000/a013031/NICER_Still_1.jpg", "filename": "NICER_Still_1.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "The Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer\n\nInstalled aboard the International Space Station in June 2017, NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer provides high-precision measurements of neutron stars, objects containing ultra-dense matter at the threshold of collapse into black holes. 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Dozens of flights every year provided regular, multi-instrument insights into the behavior of Earth’s rapidly changing cryosphere.\n\nData collected by IceBridge helped scientists bridge the gap in polar observations of ice height between NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat), which launched in 2003, and ICESat-2, which launched on September 15, 2018. ICESat stopped collecting science data in 2009, making IceBridge critical for ensuring a continuous series of observations. IceBridge surveyed the Arctic and Antarctic areas once a year, typically in the springtime before summer melting began. The first Operation IceBridge flights were conducted in March/May 2009 over Greenland and in October/November 2009 over Antarctica. Other smaller airborne surveys around the world, in particular Alaska, were also part of the IceBridge mission.\n\nLearn More", "release_date": "2019-08-20T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2019-12-12T00:00:00-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 858881, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/gallery/OperationIceBridge/OIB320180.jpg", "filename": "OIB320180.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 490830, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40161, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/osirisrex/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "OSIRIS-REx", "description": "NASA’s OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid, will return to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, with material from asteroid Bennu. When it arrives, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will release the sample capsule for a safe landing in the Utah desert. Generations of scientists will study the material from Bennu in laboratories on Earth to better understand how the solar system evolved and where the chemical ingredients for life may have originated.\r\rKeep up with sample-landing news and updates on the OSIRIS-REx blog.Watch OSIRIS-REx videos on this YouTube channel.Learn more about OSIRIS-REx from NASA.", "release_date": "2020-09-29T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-12-18T00:00:00-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 372818, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a020000/a020300/a020360/20360_Orex_tag_h264_1080.00111_print.jpg", "filename": "20360_Orex_tag_h264_1080.00111_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Data-driven animation showing how the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft impacted asteroid Bennu's surface when it touched down and collected a sample.", "width": 576, "height": 1024, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 402352, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40446, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/pace/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "PACE", "description": "PACE is NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem mission, currently in the design phase of mission development. Launched on February 8, 2024, PACE extends and improves NASA's over 20-year record of satellite observations of global ocean biology, aerosols (tiny particles suspended in the atmosphere), and clouds.\n\nPACE will advance the assessment of ocean health by measuring the distribution of phytoplankton, tiny plants and algae that sustain the marine food web. It will also continue systematic records of key atmospheric variables associated with air quality and Earth's climate.", "release_date": "2022-11-03T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-06-05T00:00:00-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 368282, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014200/a014236/pace-dolly-1-thumb_searchweb.png", "filename": "pace-dolly-1-thumb_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "PACE is NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem mission, currently in the design phase of mission development. 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In 2024, the spacecraft flew approximately 3.8 million miles from the solar surface — the closest solar approach in history — while traveling about 430,000 miles per hour — the fastest any human-made object ever has traveled.\n\nLaunched in 2018, the spacecraft used seven flybys of Venus to gravitationally direct it ever closer to the Sun. By flying through the solar corona, Parker Solar Probe can take measurements that help scientists better understand solar activity and space weather events that can impact life on Earth.\n\nLearn more about Parker Solar Probe: PUT LINK TEXT HEREhttps://science.nasa.gov/mission/parker-solar-probe/", "release_date": "2017-09-22T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-07-18T00:00:00-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 410824, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012700/a012729/ParkerSolarProbe-AnimatedSequence.00001_searchweb.png", "filename": "ParkerSolarProbe-AnimatedSequence.00001_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Parker Solar Probe will swoop to within four million miles of the Sun's surface, facing heat and radiation like no spacecraft before it. 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The spacecraft will observe the Sun's atmosphere up close with high spatial resolution telescopes and compare these observations to measurements taken in the environment directly surrounding the spacecraft – together creating a one-of-a-kind picture of how the Sun can affect the space environment throughout the solar system.", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 402360, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40354, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/stereo/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "STEREO", "description": "STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) is the third mission in NASA's Solar Terrestrial Probes program (STP). The mission, launched in October 2006, has provided a unique and revolutionary view of the Sun-Earth System. The two nearly identical observatories - one ahead of Earth in its orbit, the other trailing behind - have traced the flow of energy and matter from the Sun to Earth. STEREO has revealed the 3D structure of coronal mass ejections; violent eruptions of matter from the sun that can disrupt satellites and power grids, and help us understand why they happen. 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Conceived by executive producer Wade Sisler, six NASA producers and visualizers shared their creative visions of NASA's many areas of research. Henry Dehlinger took these silent videos and composed new music to accompany them. This fusion of visual and auditory creative works generates an experience that exceeds either one alone.\n\n\nPresented here are is the complete symphony of seven movements, progressing from the Sun, to Earth, past the Moon, through the solar system and into the farthest reaches of the universe. The videos are paired with computer-generated versions of the full orchestration and are available for download in multiple formats, including master quality.\n\nThis gallery also contains links to collections of the visuals that make up each video, allowing anyone access to the same resources that the original artists used.\n\nClick here for a Flickr gallery of images from the world premiere performance by the National Philharmonic.", "release_date": "2023-03-15T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-04-28T00:00:00-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 854985, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014300/a014343/Cosmic_Cycles_Teaser_Still_searchweb.png", "filename": "Cosmic_Cycles_Teaser_Still_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Same as top video but with National Philharmonic listed in opening titles.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic credit: “Earth, Our Home\" from Cosmic Cycles: A Space Symphony by Henry Dehlinger. Courtesy of the composer.Complete transcript available.", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 402376, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40439, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-eclipse/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "Lunar Eclipse", "description": "This gallery contains videos and visualizations related to Lunar Eclipses", "release_date": "2022-04-14T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2022-09-30T00:00:00-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 372554, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004900/a004979/moon.1150_searchweb.png", "filename": "moon.1150_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "The appearance of the Moon during the May 2022 total lunar eclipse. Includes annotations of the contact times and various eclipse statistics.", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 402377, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40436, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/black-hole-week/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "Black Hole Week", "description": "This gallery brings together resources related to NASA’s Black Hole Week — videos, social media products, news stories, still images, and assets. This week is a celebration of celestial objects with gravity so intense that even light cannot escape them. Our goal is that no matter where people turn that week they will run into a black hole. (Figuratively, of course — we don’t want anyone falling in!)", "release_date": "2022-02-12T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-11-28T00:00:00-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 392522, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a013300/a013322/black_hole_week_promo_thumb_searchweb.png", "filename": "black_hole_week_promo_thumb_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This gallery brings together resources related to NASA’s Black Hole Week — videos, social media products, news stories, still images, and assets. This week is a celebration of celestial objects with gravity so intense that even light cannot escape them. Our goal is that no matter where people turn that week they will run into a black hole. (Figuratively, of course — we don’t want anyone falling in!)", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 402380, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40204, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/sandy/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "Superstorm Sandy", "description": "Turbulent, swirling winds traveled from the Caribbean Sea and along the Atlantic Ocean in late October of 2012 to produce one of the most impactful hurricanes on the U.S. East Coast— Hurricane Sandy. \r\rIn total, Hurricane Sandy caused 159 deaths and $70 billion in damages. Thousands of people slept at Red Cross operated-shelters and millions were without power during the aftermath. Fires erupted from ruptured natural gas lines meanwhile the torrential rains flooded subway systems. The New York Stock exchange was closed for a consecutive two days—an event that hadn’t occurred since 1888.\r\rFor the hurricane’s almost two weeks of activity, NASA satellites documented the storm’s movements and helped researchers anticipate and follow the hurricane’s path. The satellite data provided detailed information such as the size and direction of the winds, observations of the cloud structures near the storm and the amount and location of storm’s rainfall.\r\rThe accompanying image gallery shows past satellite imagery and simulations of Hurricane Sandy and the superstorm’s impact on the U.S. East Coast.\r\nFor more NASA coverage on Hurricane Sandy during 2012, go here.", "release_date": "2014-10-17T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2014-10-17T00:00:00-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 857410, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/gallery/SuperstormSandy/Sandy_Gallery.png", "filename": "Sandy_Gallery.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "", "width": 110, "height": 572, "pixels": 62920 } } }, { "id": 402382, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40158, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/comet-ison/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "Comet ISON", "description": "Catalogued as C/2012 S1, Comet ISON was first spotted 585 million miles away in September 2012. This is ISON's very first trip into the inner solar system. That means it is still made of pristine matter from the earliest days of the solar system’s formation, its top layers never having been lost by a trip near the sun. Along Comet ISON's journey, NASA has used a vast fleet of spacecraft and Earth-based telescopes to learn more about this time capsule from when the solar system first formed.During the last week of its inbound trip, ISON will enter the fields of view of NASA’s space-based solar observatories. Comet ISON will be viewed first by NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO. Next the comet will be seen in what’s called coronagraphs by both STEREO and the joint European Space Agency/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO. Then, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory will view the comet for a few hours during its closest approach to the sun, known as perihelion.", "release_date": "2013-11-20T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2013-12-11T00:00:00-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 467494, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011200/a011222/Instruction_still_searchweb.png", "filename": "Instruction_still_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This paper model illustrates the comet's path during its six-month trek in the vicinity of Earth, Venus and Mercury. Track how the relationship between Earth and the comet constantly changes by referring to the dates along both orbits.Download the pdf with instructions here.", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 402383, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40374, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/solar-eclipse2019/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "Solar Eclipse 2019", "description": "On Tuesday, July 2, 2019, the Moon will pass in front of the Sun, casting its shadow across South America and the southern Pacific Ocean.", "release_date": "2019-06-12T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2019-06-26T00:00:00-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 396484, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004700/a004711/path_suns.1300_searchweb.png", "filename": "path_suns.1300_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "A view of the Moon's shadow during the July 2, 2019 total solar eclipse showing the umbra (black oval), penumbra (concentric shaded ovals), and path of totality (red). Images of the Sun show its appearance in a number of locations, each oriented to the local horizon.", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 402384, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40367, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/hurricane-maria-one-year-later/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "Hurricane Maria One Year Later", "description": "In September 2017, Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico head-on as a Category 4 storm with winds topping 155 miles per hour. The storm damaged homes, flooded towns, devastated the island's forests and caused the longest electricity black-out in U.S. history. \n\nTwo new NASA research efforts delve into Hurricane Maria's far-reaching effects on the island's forests as seen in aerial surveys with high-resolution lidar and on its residents' energy and electricity access as seen in Night Lights satellite data from space. The findings, presented Monday at the American Geophysical Union meeting in Washington, D.C., illustrate the staggering scope of Hurricane Maria's damage to both the natural environment and communities and expose vulnerabilities in infrastructure.", "release_date": "2018-12-09T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2018-12-10T00:00:00-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 398082, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004600/a004658/bmhd_11_0940_searchweb.png", "filename": "bmhd_11_0940_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This visualization starts with a global view of hurricane Maria hitting Puerto Rico. We then zoom in to Puerto Rico to compare the standard night lights dataset to a new, high definition version of nights lights. After the hurricane passes over the island, we see a massive drop in night light intensity due to loss of power. After showing night light levels over several stages of hurricane recovery, we transition to a 'Days Without Power' dataset. The camera then zooms in to several locations around the island to examine each stage of recovery in more detail. 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The path of the umbra, where the eclipse is total, stretches from Salem, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina. This will be the first total solar eclipse visible in the contiguous United States in 38 years.\nDuring those brief moments when the moon completely blocks the sun’s bright face for 2 + minutes, day will turn into night, making visible the otherwise hidden solar corona, the sun’s outer atmosphere. Bright stars and planets will become visible as well. This is truly one of nature’s most awesome sights.\rThe eclipse provides a unique opportunity to study the sun, Earth, moon and their interaction because of the eclipse’s long path over land coast to coast. Scientists will be able to take ground-based and airborne observations over a period of an hour and a half to complement the wealth of data provided by NASA assets.\nVisit https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov for more information.", "release_date": "2015-06-11T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2017-09-29T00:00:00-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 857412, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/gallery/SolarEclipse2017/banner3.jpg", "filename": "banner3.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "", "width": 76, "height": 1140, "pixels": 86640 } } }, { "id": 402388, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40316, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/snow-ex/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "SnowEx Field Campaigns", "description": "NASA uses the vantage point of space to study all aspects of the Earth as an interconnected system. But there remain significant obstacles to measuring accurately how much water is stored across the planet's snow-covered regions. The amount of water in snow plays a major role in water availability for drinking water, agriculture and hydropower.\n\rEnter SnowEx, a NASA led multi-year research campaign to improve remote-sensing measurements of how much snow is on the ground at any given time and how much water that will turn into when that snow melts. SnowEx is sponsored by the Terrestrial Hydrology Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., and managed by Goddard Space Flight Center.\nFor more information: nasa.gov/earthexpeditions", "release_date": "2017-02-02T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-03-08T00:00:00-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 858878, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012400/a012490/32421255600_f0f982d8f3_o_SMALL.jpg", "filename": "32421255600_f0f982d8f3_o_SMALL.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 402389, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40301, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/gpmoutreach/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "GPM Outreach Event 2016", "description": "A presentation to the Museum Alliance and Solar System Ambassador Program. This event will feature a NASA scientist, two visualization specialists, and an education/communications specialist to bring you the latest on the science behind hurricanes and monsoons, as well as to share how NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement mission is studying global precipitation.", "release_date": "2016-05-03T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2016-05-18T00:00:00-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 424300, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012100/a012126/PRORES_B-ROLL-12126_2DSOS_prores.00001_searchweb.png", "filename": "PRORES_B-ROLL-12126_2DSOS_prores.00001_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Precipitation (falling rain and snow) is our fresh water reservoir in the sky and is fundamental to life on Earth. A Global Tour of Precipitation from NASA shows how rain and snowfall moves around the world from the vantage of space using measurements from the Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory, or GPM. This is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and offers the most detailed and worldwide view of rain and snowfall ever created.\rThis narrated movie is created for Science On a Sphere, a platform designed by NOAA that displays movies on a spherical screen. Audiences can view the movie from any side of the sphere and can see any part of Earth. During this show viewers will be guided through a variety of precipitation patterns and display features such as the persistent band of the heaviest rainfall around the equator and tight swirls of tropical storms in the Northern Hemisphere. At subtropical latitudes in both hemispheres there are persistent dry areas and this is where most of the major deserts reside. Sea surface temperature and winds are also shown to highlight the interconnectedness of the Earth system. The movie concludes with near real-time global precipitation data from GPM, which is provided to Science On a Sphere roughly six hours after the observation.\n\nTo download this movie formatted for a spherical screen, visit NOAA's official Science On a Sphere website below:\n\n‌• A Global Tour of Precipitation from NASA\n\n‌• Near Real-Time Global Precipitation Data", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 402390, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40239, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/siggraph-2015/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "Visualizations Presented at SIGGRAPH 2015", "description": "The SIGGRAPH conference is widely recognized as the most prestigious forum for the publication of computer graphics research. The conference provides an interdisciplinary educational experience highlighting outstanding achievements in time-based art, scientific visualization, visual effects, real-time graphics, and narrative shorts. Below are contributions to the conference made by members of NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio.", "release_date": "2015-08-08T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2015-08-08T00:00:00-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 447486, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004200/a004253/opposite.1170_print.jpg", "filename": "opposite.1170_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "The SIGGRAPH conference is widely recognized as the most prestigious forum for the publication of computer graphics research. The conference provides an interdisciplinary educational experience highlighting outstanding achievements in time-based art, scientific visualization, visual effects, real-time graphics, and narrative shorts. Below are contributions to the conference made by members of NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio.", "width": 576, "height": 1024, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 402391, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40281, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/2015global-temperature-data/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "2015 Global Temperature Data", "description": "Earth's 2015 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern record keeping began in 1880, continuing a long-term warming trend, according to analyses by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York (GISTEMP). \n \nGlobally-averaged temperatures in 2015 shattered the previous mark set in 2014 by 0.23 degrees Fahrenheit (0.13 Celsius). Only once before, in 1998, has the new record been greater than the old record by this much. \n\nThe planet's average surface temperature has risen about 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (1.0 degree Celsius) since the late-19th century, a change largely driven by increased carbon dioxide and other human-made emissions into the atmosphere. Most of the warming occurred in the past 35 years, with 15 of the 16 warmest years on record occurring since 2001.", "release_date": "2016-01-20T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2016-01-20T00:00:00-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 436043, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012100/a012133/2015-temperature-graph-animation-v3_youtube_hq_print_searchweb.png", "filename": "2015-temperature-graph-animation-v3_youtube_hq_print_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Graph of annual global temperatures, with respect to a baseline from the 19th century (the average of global annual temperatures from 1880-1899). In Fahrenheit.", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 402392, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40273, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/icesheets/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "NASA Measures the Ice Sheets", "description": "This is a collection of some of NASA’s most recent data visualizations relating to the mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, as well as a collection ultra-high definition footage of researchers in Greenland from July of 2015. For a collection of still photos, go here.", "release_date": "2015-12-15T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2015-12-15T00:00:00-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 440631, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011900/a011987/GreenlandReel_Icebergs_720H264_web.png", "filename": "GreenlandReel_Icebergs_720H264_web.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 402393, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40260, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/skorea-visit/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "South Korean President Park Park Geun-hye Visits NASA Goddard", "description": "The visit offers an opportunity to celebrate past collaborative efforts between the American and South Korean space programs along with presentations on current projects and programs underway at Goddard.", "release_date": "2015-10-13T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2015-10-14T00:00:00-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 438677, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012000/a012024/SoKorean_President_Visit_searchweb.png", "filename": "SoKorean_President_Visit_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "As part of her visit to the United States, President Park Geun-hye of South Korea visited NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015. She was welcomed by Goddard Center Director Christopher Scolese and the First Lady of Maryland, Yumi Hogan. She was also greeted by astronauts Scott Altman and Cady Coleman. President Park watched a personalized, pre-recorded message from astronaut Scott Kelly aboard the International Space Station. She also was briefed by Goddard’s Chief Scientist Dr. Jim Garvin about what NASA is learning about Mars and also NASA’s upcoming mission to explore Venus. In addition President Park learned about some of the things NASA is learning about the moon from Dr. Noah Petro, the deputy project scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. President Park listened to several other presentations about NASA projects including: Laser Communication; GLOBE Program and Cosmic Ray Energies and Mass Investigation (CREAM) project. ", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 } } }, { "id": 402394, "type": "gallery_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 40228, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/supermoon-lunar-eclipse-september2015/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "Supermoon Lunar Eclipse September 27-28, 2015", "description": "Starting on the night of September 27th, 2015, a supermoon lunar eclipse will occur. This gallery page contains visualizations about this specific event as well as other multimedia items about supermoons, eclipses, and NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). This page will update weekly - so continue to check here for new items.", "release_date": "2015-08-21T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2015-09-25T00:00:00-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 440523, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004300/a004349/moon.0600_searchweb.png", "filename": "moon.0600_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Starting on the night of September 27th, 2015, a supermoon lunar eclipse will occur. This gallery page contains visualizations about this specific event as well as other multimedia items about supermoons, eclipses, and NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Oribter (LRO). 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NASA scientists track global temperatures as one way to measure how Earth’s climate is changing over time. Since 1880, the average global temperature has risen about 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit with most of that trend occurring in the last 30 years. 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Since the agency's creation more than 50 years ago, NASA has\nbeen a world leader in space-based studies of our home planet. Our mission\nhas always been to explore, to discover, and to understand the world in\nwhich we live from the unique vantage point of space, and to share our newly\ngained perspectives with the public. That spirit of sharing remains true\ntoday as NASA operates 18 of the most advanced Earth-observing satellites\never built, helping scientists make some of the most detailed observations\never made of our world.\n\nWhat is your vision of what makes NASA Earth Science inspiring? NASA's Earth\nDay Video Contest is your chance to create that vision. Dig around these\npages below as a place to start. 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