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"https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20130/", "page_type": "Animation", "title": "Voyager 2", "description": "This animation shows Voyager 2 on its journey to the Heliopause. || Voyager 2 animation || VgerII060000602_print.jpg (1024x576) [60.8 KB] || VgerII0600_web.png (320x180) [264.4 KB] || VgerII0600_thm.png (80x40) [16.3 KB] || 1280x720_16x9_60p (1280x720) [64.0 KB] || 20130_Voyager_2_Heliopause.mov (1280x720) [326.2 MB] || VgerII_720p.m2v (1280x720) [29.5 MB] || VgerII_720p.webmhd.webm (960x540) [5.0 MB] || a010179_VgerII_720p.mp4 (640x360) [3.4 MB] || VgerII_512x288.m1v (512x288) [6.4 MB] || ", "release_date": "2007-12-10T00:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:55:31.264691-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 506603, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a020000/a020100/a020130/VgerII060000602_print.jpg", "filename": "VgerII060000602_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Voyager 2 animation", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } } ], "extra_data": {} }, { "id": 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GEDI’s precise measurements of the height and vertical structure of forest canopy, along with the surface elevation, will greatly advance our ability to characterize important carbon and water cycling processes, biodiversity, and habitat. The mission is led by the University of Maryland, College Park, and the instrument was built and tested at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.GEDI observes nearly all tropical and temperate forests using a self-contained laser altimeter on the International Space Station. GEDI has the highest resolution and densest sampling of any lidar ever put in orbit. This has required a number of innovative technologies to be developed at NASA Goddard.GEDI has three lasers that produce 8 parallel tracks of observations. Each laser fires 242 times per second and illuminates a 25-meter footprint on the surface over which 3D structure is measured. Each footprint is separated by 60 meters along the track, with an across-track distance of about 600 m between each of the 8 tracks. GEDI is expected to produce about 10 billion cloud-free observations during its nominal 24-month mission length.With these observations, GEDI will provide answers to how deforestation has contributed to atmospheric CO2 concentrations, how much carbon forests will absorb in the future, and how habitat degradation will affect global biodiversity. This data is of immense value for forest and water resource management, carbon cycle science, and weather prediction.For more information about GEDI: https://gedi.umd.edu || ", "release_date": "2018-10-09T08:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-05-14T00:21:55.331276-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 399729, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a013000/a013090/GEDI_beauty_waveform_still_print.jpg", "filename": "GEDI_beauty_waveform_still_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Animation of the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) instrument, as installed on the ISS, showing the three lasers, which are split into 4 beams that alternate to give 8 footprints across a 4.2 km swath when they hit the ground. 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Spacecraft Animations
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The mission will provide moderate-resolution (15 meter to 100 meter, depending on spectral frequency) measurements of the Earth's terrestrial and polar regions in visible, near-infrared, short wave infrared, and thermal infrared wavelengths. There are two instruments on the spacecraft, the Thermal InfraRed Sensor 2 (TIRS-2) and the Operational Land Imager 2 (OLI-2).Landsat 9 will provide continuity with the nearly 50-year long Landsat land imaging data set. In addition to widespread routine use for land use planning and monitoring on regional to local scales, support of disaster response and evaluations, and water use monitoring, Landsat measurements directly serve NASA research in the focus areas of climate, carbon cycle, ecosystems, water cycle, biogeochemistry, and Earth surface/interior.The Landsat program is the only U.S. satellite system designed and operated to repeatedly observe the global land surface at a moderate scale that shows both natural and human-induced change. || ", "release_date": "2019-07-26T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2024-06-23T23:22:51.648131-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 394538, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a013200/a013259/Landsat9_still_SW2_print.jpg", "filename": "Landsat9_still_SW2_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "An artist's conception of the Landsat 9 spacecraft, the ninth satellite launched in the long-running Landsat program, high above the Western US.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 412319, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 20205, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20205/", "page_type": "Animation", "title": "LDCM Deploy and Beauty Pass", "description": "A shot of LDCM over Earth || baab130000077_print.jpg (1024x576) [97.8 KB] || baab1300_web.png (320x180) [79.3 KB] || baab1300_thm.png (80x40) [6.4 KB] || LDCM-Beauty (1280x720) [16.0 KB] || LDCM-Beauty1-final-END.mov (1280x720) [204.9 MB] || LDCM-Beauty1-final-END.webmhd.webm (960x540) [2.7 MB] || ", "release_date": "2014-02-07T15:21:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:51:14.953056-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 458407, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a020000/a020200/a020205/baab130000077_print.jpg", "filename": "baab130000077_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "A shot of LDCM over Earth", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } }, { "id": 412320, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 20178, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20178/", "page_type": "Animation", "title": "NOAA-N Prime Beauty Shot Animation", "description": "An artist concept of the spacecraft. 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