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Quick link to EDITED BROLL for the live shotsQuick link to pre-recorded interview with DR. JIM GARVIN / DAVINCI Principal InvestigatorAdditional still images of Venus from NASA's Magellan and Mariner missions. Credit: NASA/JPLLearn more about VENUS here!!Quick link to pre-recorded interview with MATT GARRISONQuick link to pre-recorded interview with DR LINDSAY HAYS || VENUS.jpeg (1800x720) [220.3 KB] || VENUS_print.jpg (1024x409) [85.9 KB] || VENUS_searchweb.png (320x180) [64.2 KB] || VENUS_thm.png (80x40) [7.4 KB] ||

The DAVINCI Project is led by NASA GSFC with primary partners at Lockheed Martin as well as from NASA’s JPL, JHU’s APL, Malin Space Science Systems, NASA’s LaRC, NASA ARC, University of Michigan, and Kinetx.The PI, Deputy PI’s and Program management team are at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The artwork shown here was developed for the DAVINCI team by CI Labs and the SVS. Special data analysis by the PI and Project Science team led by Dr. Jim Garvin, Dr. Stephanie Getty, and Dr. Giada Areny with Dr. Natasha Johnson and Dr. Erika Kohler is included. NASA Langley (LaRC) partners include Dr. S. Dutta and his team who developed the probe aerodynamic drop test experiment for the DAVINCI project. Narration is by Dr. Jim Garvin, PI for the DAVINCI mission to Venus. The DAVINCI Project acknowledges the continuing support of NASA’s Discovery Program, with DAVINCI Program Executive Andrea Riley and Program scientist Nick Lang, and Mission Manager Kevin Sykes. Music is "Great Secrets" by Thomas Alexander Farnon of Universal Production Music. || DAVINCI_REEL_THUMB.jpg (1080x1920) [584.4 KB] || DAVINCI_UTTR.01191_searchweb.png (320x180) [71.8 KB] || DAVINCI_UTTR.01191_thm.png (80x40) [6.4 KB] || DAVINCI_UTTR.en_US.srt [2.5 KB] || DAVINCI_UTTR.en_US.vtt [2.3 KB] || DAVINCI_UTTR.mp4 [30.7 MB] ||

The planet Venus is seen passing between the Earth and the Sun in this sequence of images taken by GOES/SXI. The last Venus Transit was in 1882, the next will be in 2012. ||

This is an animation flying over the surface of the moon then approaching the earth. It was created in support of a presentation at the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) in October 2004. Scales are not accurate in this visualization. The Earth is about 3 times larger than it would actually appear. The source of the moon texture is unknown; it is thought to be a composite from several missions. The Earth texture was captured as the Galileo spacecraft swung by the Earth in 1990 for a gravity assist on its way to Jupiter. ||

This animation is a brief tour of the global terrain of the planet Venus as revealed by radar onboard the Magellan spacecraft. The height of the terrain is color-coded, with blues and greens representing low altitudes and reds representing high altitudes. Highlighted are two large "continents," or highlands, Aphrodite Terra and Ishtar Terra; the Maxwell Montes mountain range; and Maat Mons, a large, currently dormant volcano.Magellan arrived at Venus in August of 1990 and spent four years there collecting data. The elevation map used here was created with data collected during the first mapping cycle. Many of the coverage gaps, represented here by black pixels, were filled in during later mapping cycles. ||

Energetic events on the Sun have impacts throughout the Solar System. This visualization, developed for the "Dynamic Earth" dome show, opens with a closeup view of the Sun. The solar imagery was collected from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) using an ultraviolet filter (wavelength 304 Ångstroms or 30.4 nanometers). We can observe jets of ionized gases, called prominences, erupting from the solar surface, and often constrained to loop-shaped trajectories due to the solar magnetic field.We pull out from the Sun to reveal the solar wind, which continuously streams outward from the Sun.We eventually reach the orbit of the planet Venus, the solar wind still streaming around us.But a massive eruption, called a coronal mass ejection, or CME, takes place on the Sun, sending a much higher density of particles (ions and electrons) outward into the solar wind.The wave of particles eventually strikes the planet Venus. But Venus has no significant magnetic field, and the particles make it directly to the atmosphere of the planet. These energetic solar events slowly blow away the atmosphere of the planet.The next part of this sequence is "The Coronal Mass Ejection strikes the Earth!".Technical DetailsThis is the dome show component moving from the Sun to Venus being hit by the CME.The domemaster format was created by rendering 7 separate camera tiles. The tiles were then stitched together to form final domemaster layers at 4096x4096 resolution and 16 bits per channel with premultiplied alpha and no gamma correction. There are 3 domemaster layers that should be composited as follows:- Earth and orbits- Sun- star field (no alpha channel)In addition to the final domemaster frames and movies, the individual camera tiles are included as well. Each domemaster layer has a set of camera tiles. There are 7 cameras numbered 00 through 06 that represent the itiles. Camera 00 is in the center of the domemaster, camera 01 is looking below camera 00, cameras 01 through 06 look around the outside of the dome master in counter-clockwise order. These frames are probably only useful if a better re-stitching algorithm is ever required to be run on the tiles. ||

These visualizations were generated by compositing the small field-of-view, high-cadence closeups of Venus with the full-disk, low-cadence imagery from Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Two different instruments are used: the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) which sees light in the visible range, and the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) which sees light in several wavelengths in the ultraviolet range. To find out more information about these instruments, check out The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly Tutorial.Some artifacts may be visible from the compositing, but you have to look pretty closely to see them.The color table threshold was raised for these images, reducing the amount of noise visible in the images. Note: There is an interesting artifact worthy of mention and clarification, and that is as Venus crosses the solar limb, the limb appears to be visible through the planet in some of the imagers (most notably the ultraviolet channels). Discussion with the scientists who built the imagers suggest this might be 'crosstalk' between the readouts of the four CCD panels that make up a complete image. It is an artifact of the imaging system. ||

In this visualization we open with a wide view of the inner solar system with the dust ring located at the orbit of Venus. The camera zooms in to a location just beyond the position of STEREO-A to look back at the orbit of Venus. This shows the enhancement of scattering by the dust ring near the greatest elongation of Venus' orbit relative to STEREO-A. || VenusDustRing.STEREOAview.HAE.AU.clockSlate_EarthTarget.HD1080i.00500_print.jpg (1024x576) [130.4 KB] || VenusDustRing.STEREOAview.HAE.AU.clockSlate_EarthTarget.HD1080i.00500_searchweb.png (320x180) [77.0 KB] || VenusDustRing.STEREOAview.HAE.AU.clockSlate_EarthTarget.HD1080i.00500_thm.png (80x40) [4.3 KB] || STEREOAview (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || VenusDustRing.STEREOAview.HD1080i_p30.webm (1920x1080) [9.4 MB] || VenusDustRing.STEREOAview.HD1080i_p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [740.4 MB] || STEREOAview (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || VenusDustRing.STEREOAview_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [2.6 GB] || VenusDustRing.STEREOAview.HD1080i_p30.mp4.hwshow [203 bytes] ||

The last U.S. spacecraft mission to Venus was in 1989 with the launch of Magellan. Even though Magellan spent the next five years radar mapping the surface and gathering high resolution gravity data, much remains a mystery about our so-called sister planet. Did Venus experience a run-a-way greenhouse effect at some point in its history? Why is the surface pressure 90 times greater on Venus then on Earth? Why is the planet so hot? These are only a few of the question that must be answered if we are to learn more about Venus's past and possibly Earth's future. ||