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In front of him, inside the machinery, are what look like two black treads that loop in and out of frame. || 34340D_0388_PSE_NASA_Goddard_Gamma-Ray_Tracker_Assembly_Process_WEB_16x9.jpg (2000x1125) [1.1 MB] || 34340D_0388_PSE_NASA_Goddard_Gamma-Ray_Tracker_Assembly_Process_WEB_16x9_searchweb.png (320x180) [124.6 KB] || 34340D_0388_PSE_NASA_Goddard_Gamma-Ray_Tracker_Assembly_Process_WEB_16x9_thm.png (80x40) [27.3 KB] || ", "hits": 90 }, { "id": 14980, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14980/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-02-26T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Prototype ComPair-2 Gamma-Ray Detectors Complete Thermal Vacuum Testing", "description": "Prototype gamma-ray detectors for the ComPair-2 mission rests in a thermal vacuum chamber after testing in June 2025 at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The ComPair-2 team tested the detectors’ performance at hot and cold temperatures over the course of a week and the overall survivability of the layer itself. Credit: NASA/Sophia RobertsAlt text: A piece of equipment sits inside a chamber in a lab. Image description: A cylindrical metal chamber at the center of the image has its door swung all the way open. Inside are silver-wrapped ComPair-2 detectors attached to many copper-colored wires. The chamber is in a lab with white walls and has tubes, wires, and other pieces of equipment attached. || ComPair2_TVAC-1-small.jpg (4096x2732) [3.2 MB] || ComPair2_TVAC-1.jpg (8192x5464) [30.6 MB] || ", "hits": 107 }, { "id": 14831, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14831/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2025-04-29T18:59:59-04:00", "title": "Seeing Earth as Only NASA Can", "description": "NASA's first image of Earth was taken by Explorer 6 in 1959. It was a grainy, black-and-white photo captured from 17,000 miles above the planet's surface and depicted little more than a sliver of cloud cover over the Pacific Ocean. Nearly 70 years later, NASA's vantage point of Earth has advanced dramatically — forever changing the way we see our home planet. As we continue reaching for the stars, training a careful eye on Earth keeps things in perspective.", "hits": 500 }, { "id": 14794, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14794/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-03-11T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Developing NASA’s ComPair-2 Detectors", "description": "ComPair-2 will host a gamma-ray tracker with 10 layers, each with 380 silicon detectors, like the engineering test unit shown here. This trial version allows the mission team to test the electronics, measure how well the detectors work together, and develop assembly procedures for each layer. Credit: NASA/Sophia RobertsAlt text: Scientific hardware on a table Image description: A square piece of scientific hardware rests on a table on top of a silver cover. The hardware has a white board on the bottom with a silver peg at each corner. Inside the pegs is a black square with orange and green electronic components. The green runs along the bottom of the square and takes up the left corner of the black square. The orange electronic components run in 20 stripes along the black square. The orange is interspersed with black. || ComPair2-3_print.jpg (1024x683) [631.9 KB] || ComPair2-3.jpg (8192x5464) [29.1 MB] || ComPair2-3_searchweb.png (320x180) [124.5 KB] || ComPair2-3_web.png (320x213) [137.6 KB] || ComPair2-3_thm.png [28.0 KB] || ", "hits": 37 }, { "id": 14650, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14650/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-11-25T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "EXCITE 2024: Infrared Detector and Spectrometer", "description": "EXCITE (EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope) is designed to study atmospheres around exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, during long-duration scientific balloon trips over Antarctica.These images, taken in July 2024, show Peter Nagler and Nat DeNigris preparing EXCITE’s infrared detector and installing it into the mission’s spectrometer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. At the time, the EXCITE team was gearing up for a test flight in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. || ", "hits": 42 }, { "id": 14725, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14725/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-11-25T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "EXCITE 2024: Payload Prep", "description": "In August 2024, the EXCITE (EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope) team conducted a test flight of their telescope from NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico.EXCITE's goal is to study atmospheres around hot Jupiters, gas giant exoplanets that complete an orbit once every one to two days and have temperatures in the thousands of degrees.The telescope is designed fly to about 132,000 feet (40 kilometers) via a scientific balloon filled with helium. That takes it above 99.5% of Earth’s atmosphere. At that altitude, it can observe multiple infrared wavelengths with little interference. In the future, EXCITE could take observations over both Arctic and Antarctic, with the latter offering longer duration flights optimum for observing planets for their entire orbit. || ", "hits": 71 }, { "id": 14726, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14726/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-11-25T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "EXCITE 2024: Launch and Recovery", "description": "On August 31, 2024, the EXCITE (EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope) team conducted a test flight of their telescope from NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico.EXCITE's goal is to study atmospheres around hot Jupiters, gas giant exoplanets that complete an orbit once every one to two days and have temperatures in the thousands of degrees.The telescope is designed fly to about 132,000 feet (40 kilometers) via a scientific balloon filled with helium. That takes it above 99.5% of Earth’s atmosphere. At that altitude, it can observe multiple infrared wavelengths with little interference. In the future, EXCITE could take observations over both the north and south poles, although flights over Antarctica allow for longer-duration flights at a latitude optimum for observing planets for their entire orbit. || ", "hits": 110 }, { "id": 31302, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31302/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2024-08-02T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's Balloon Program", "description": "Scientific Balloon Program Infographic || nasa-scientific-balloon-facts_print.jpg (1024x576) [171.2 KB] || nasa-scientific-balloon-facts.png (3840x2160) [3.0 MB] || nasa-scientific-balloon-facts_searchweb.png (320x180) [58.8 KB] || nasa-scientific-balloon-facts_thm.png (80x40) [6.3 KB] || nasas-balloon-program-infographic.hwshow [280 bytes] || ", "hits": 267 }, { "id": 14727, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14727/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-01-22T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Fort Sumner, New Mexico: 2024 Drone Views", "description": "This clip contains various shots of the NASA payload processing facility at Fort Sumner as well as general views of the surrounding area, acquired Aug. 23, 2024. Credit: NASA/Francis ReddyVideo playback is at half speed (30 fps). 0:00 A slow, early morning approach to the staging facility as its doors open, revealing the EXCITE (EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope) payload. 0:45 The camera descends, with the rising sun moving behind the staging facility. 0:58 A closer, lower approach to the EXCITE payload. 1:10 A higher, more distant arc that starts by showing the low sun and the NASA sign on the staging facility, moving north. 1:41 A slow ascent looking toward EXCITE and the morning sun. 1:28 Hovering as the doors close on EXCITE. 03:20 Overview flying back across the airport revealing various vehicles and structures. 4:41 Similar, but at higher altitude and flying in a different direction. || Drone_Shots_of_EXCITE_at_Balloon_Launch_Facility.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [139.0 KB] || Drone_Shots_of_EXCITE_at_Balloon_Launch_Facility.webm (3840x2160) [67.5 MB] || Drone_Shots_of_EXCITE_at_Balloon_Launch_Facility.mp4 (3840x2160) [2.9 GB] || Drone_Shots_of_EXCITE_at_Balloon_Launch_Facility_ProRes.mov (3840x2160) [22.1 GB] || ", "hits": 54 }, { "id": 14446, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14446/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-10-27T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Ring of Fire: 2023 Annular Solar Eclipse (NASA Recap)", "description": "On Oct. 14, 2023, an annular solar eclipse crossed 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 were able to experience this “ring of fire” eclipse. NASA’s official broadcast and outreach teams were located in Kerrville, TX, and Albuquerque, NM, to capture the event and celebrate with the communities in the path of annularity. For more information: • Official NASA Broadcast• Interactive Eclipse Map Explorer || ", "hits": 113 }, { "id": 14429, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14429/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-10-14T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's Scientific Balloon Program", "description": "Since its establishment more than 30 years ago, NASA’s Balloon Program has provided high-altitude scientific balloon platforms for scientific and technological investigations, including fundamental scientific discoveries that contribute to our understanding of the Earth, the solar system, and the universe. This short video highlights several key discoveries made with NASA's scientific balloons.Visit nasa.gov/scientificballoons to learn more! || ", "hits": 118 }, { "id": 14372, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14372/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2023-07-20T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "ComPair Thermal Vacuum Photos", "description": "Team members work on the ComPair balloon instrument before it begins testing in a thermal vacuum chamber at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. ComPair project manager Regina Caputo (front right), graduate student Nicholas Kirschner (George Washington University, left), and research scientist Nicholas Cannady (University of Maryland Baltimore County, rear) examine ComPair's various components to determine what needs to be “harnessed,” or connected via cable to power systems and the onboard computer.Credit: NASA/Scott Wiessinger || ComPair_TVac_IMG_2141.png (5319x3546) [30.9 MB] || ComPair_TVac_IMG_2141.jpg (5319x3546) [6.0 MB] || ComPair_TVac_IMG_2141_half.jpg (2659x1773) [1.4 MB] || ", "hits": 43 }, { "id": 14354, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14354/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2023-05-25T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "ComPair Gamma-Ray Balloon Mission", "description": "Carolyn Kierans, principal investigator for the ComPair balloon mission at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, works on the instrument in this video. First, she assembles a layer of the tracker, which is housed in an aluminum casing. Next, she shows one of the tracker’s silicon detectors. 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A pearlescent balloon — large enough to hug a football field — is scheduled to take flight no earlier than Aug. 26, 2019, carrying beneath it a solar scope called BITSE. BITSE is a coronagraph, a kind of telescope that blocks the Sun’s bright face in order to reveal its dimmer atmosphere, called the corona. Short for Balloon-borne Investigation of Temperature and Speed of Electrons in the corona, BITSE seeks to explain how the Sun spits out the solar wind. || ", "hits": 37 }, { "id": 13073, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13073/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-09-20T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Rare Electric Blue Clouds Observed By NASA Balloon", "description": "On the cusp of our atmosphere live a thin group of seasonal electric blue clouds. Forming fifty miles above the poles in summer, these clouds are known as noctilucent clouds or polar mesospheric clouds — PMCs. A recent NASA long-duration balloon mission observed these clouds over the course of five days at their home in the mesosphere. The resulting photos, which scientists have just begun to analyze, will help us better understand turbulence in the atmosphere, as well as in oceans, lakes, and other planetary atmospheres, and may even improve weather forecasting.For more information: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-balloon-mission-captures-electric-blue-clouds || ", "hits": 72 }, { "id": 12703, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12703/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-08-29T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "Eclipse Imagery Along Path of Totality", "description": "Carbondale, IL - The Eclipse Ballooning Project inflating high altitude balloons in Saluki Stadium during the Aug. 21, 2017, total solar eclipse. Credit: NASA/Joy Ng || Balloons2_JoyNg_print.jpg (1024x682) [877.1 KB] || Balloons2_JoyNg.jpg (5760x3840) [9.8 MB] || Balloons_JoyNg.jpg (5760x3840) [13.4 MB] || Balloons2_JoyNg_searchweb.png (320x180) [122.4 KB] || Balloons2_JoyNg_web.png (320x213) [144.1 KB] || Balloons2_JoyNg_thm.png (80x40) [8.2 KB] || ", "hits": 36 }, { "id": 12522, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12522/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-02-23T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA-funded Balloon Recovered From Antarctica", "description": "For 12 days in January 2016, a football-field-sized balloon with a telescope hanging beneath it floated 24 miles above the Antarctic continent, riding the spiraling polar vortex. On Jan. 31, 2016, scientists sent the pre-planned command to cut the balloon – and the telescope parachuted to the ground in the Queen Maud region of Antarctica. The telescope sat on the ice for an entire year. The scientists did quickly recover the data vaults from the NASA-funded mission, called GRIPS, which is short for Gamma-Ray Imager/Polarimeter for Solar flares. But due to incoming winter weather – summer only runs October through February in Antarctica – they had to leave the remaining instruments on the ice and schedule a recovery effort for the following year. Finally, in January 2017, it was warm and safe enough to recover the instruments.For more information visit the NASA.gov feature. || ", "hits": 45 }, { "id": 12262, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12262/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-05-19T19:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Launches Super-Pressure Balloon", "description": "NASA successfully launched a super pressure balloon (SPB) from Wanaka Airport, New Zealand, at 11:35 a.m. Tuesday, May 17, (7:35 p.m. EDT Monday, May 16) on a potentially record-breaking, around-the-world test flight.The balloon flies at an altitude of about 110,000 feet, in a layer of Earth's atmosphere known as the stratosphere.The purpose of the flight is to test and validate the SPB technology with the goal of long-duration flight (100+ days) at mid-latitudes. In addition, the gondola is carrying the Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) gamma-ray telescope as a mission of opportunity.Another mission of opportunity is the Carolina Infrasound instrument, a small, 3-kilogram payload with infrasound microphones designed to record acoustic wave field activity in the stratosphere. Developed by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, previous balloon flights of the instrument have recorded low-frequency sounds in the stratosphere, some of which are believed to be new to science.As the balloon travels around the Earth, it may be visible from the ground, particularly at sunrise and sunset, to those who live in the southern hemisphere’s mid-latitudes, such as Argentina and South Africa.NASA’s scientific balloons offer low-cost, near-space access for conducting scientific investigations in fields such as astrophysics, heliophysics and atmospheric research.NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia manages the agency’s scientific balloon flight program with 10 to 15 flights each year from launch sites worldwide. Orbital ATK, which operates NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas, provides mission planning, engineering services and field operations for NASA’s scientific balloon program. The CSBF team has launched more than 1,700 scientific balloons in the over 35 years of operation.Track the flight's progress in real-time here. || ", "hits": 95 }, { "id": 20235, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20235/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2016-03-09T15:00:00-05:00", "title": "BETII Balloon animation", "description": "Balloon ascent animation 1 || BETTIIRisingFinal_print.jpg (576x1024) [62.9 KB] || BETTIIRisingFinal_searchweb.png (320x180) [67.7 KB] || BETTIIRisingFinal_thm.png (80x40) [5.3 KB] || BETTIIRisingFinal.mov (1920x1080) [1.6 GB] || BETTIIRisingFinal_h264.mov (1920x1080) [177.8 MB] || BETTIIRisingFinal.webm (1920x1080) [753.2 KB] || These animations show the BETII payload ascending via balloon. || ", "hits": 38 }, { "id": 10995, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10995/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-05-30T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Goddard Spring Interns 2012", "description": "Ever wonder what it's like to be part of a NASA team? Well, three student interns have been given the opportunity of a lifetime. They were asked to create a major component for the Balloon Experimental Twin Telescope for Infrared Interferometry (BETTII) mission. Principal Investigator Stephen Rinehart mentored the students and gave them the freedom to be creative in making a star camera, which will study star birth in deep space. || ", "hits": 28 } ] }