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The graphics illustrate several features from the tech demo, such as Psyche’s orbital path, Palomar’s telescope dome, and technical information about the laser and its data bit rate. Tater’s heart rate, color, and breed are also on display. || ", "hits": 109 }, { "id": 13867, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13867/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-11-30T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Lasers in Space: NASA is launching a new era of communications in space Dec. 5 Live Shots", "description": "Quick link to associated B-ROLL for the live shots.Quick link to canned interview with LCRD Project Manager GLENN JACKSON. || LCRD.png (1512x502) [959.2 KB] || LCRD_print.jpg (1024x339) [75.8 KB] || LCRD_searchweb.png (320x180) [103.8 KB] || LCRD_thm.png (80x40) [11.1 KB] || ", "hits": 32 }, { "id": 13900, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13900/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-11-16T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "LCRD: Ready for Lauch", "description": "LCRD: Ready for Launch videoMusic Credit: Universal Production MusicTrack: Golden Rays || 13900_LCRD_Ready_for_Launch.mp4 (1920x1080) [89.0 MB] || 13900_LCRD_Ready_for_Launch.jpg (1678x942) [161.4 KB] || 13900_LCRD_Ready_for_Launch_searchweb.png (320x180) [50.2 KB] || 13900_LCRD_Ready_for_Launch_thm.png (80x40) [12.1 KB] || 13900_LCRD_Ready_for_Launch.mov (1920x1080) [1.1 GB] || 13900_LCRD_Ready_for_Launch.webm (1920x1080) [18.5 MB] || 13900_LCRD_Ready_for_Launch.en_US.srt [4.3 KB] || 13900_LCRD_Ready_for_Launch.en_US.vtt [4.3 KB] || ", "hits": 74 }, { "id": 20285, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20285/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2018-10-24T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) Overview Video and Resources", "description": "Laser Communications Relay Demonstration Overview VideoMusic Credit: Universal Production MusicTrack 1: Time Shift EqualibriumTrack 2: Frames of MotionTrack 3: Inducing Waves || 20285_LCRD_Logo_2021.png (1674x939) [1.2 MB] || 20285_LCRD_Overview_2021_lowres.mp4 (1280x720) [35.5 MB] || 20285_LCRD_Overview_2021.mp4 (1920x1080) [202.4 MB] || 20285_LCRD_Overview_2021.mov (1920x1080) [3.5 GB] || 20285_LCRD_Overview_2021.webm (1920x1080) [18.2 MB] || 20285_LCRD_Overview_2021.en_US.srt [3.1 KB] || 20285_LCRD_Overview_2021.en_US.vtt [3.0 KB] || ", "hits": 150 }, { "id": 13062, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13062/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-09-10T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "ICESat-2 Por Los Números (en Español)", "description": "ICESat-2 es un láser espacial de gran precisión que integra la tecnología más puntera de la NASA. Para poder medir la altura del hielo del planeta, los ingenieros deben llevar el instrumento ATLAS de ICESat-2 al extremo: a veces yendo a lo grande, otras a lo pequeño, pero siempre manteniéndolo preciso.ICESat-2 is an incredibly precise space laser that features the latest in NASA technology. To measure ice heights, engineers have to take ICESat-2’s instrument ATLAS to the extreme – sometimes going big, sometimes going small, but always keeping it precise.Click here for English-language versions. || ", "hits": 30 }, { "id": 13065, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13065/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-09-06T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Countdown to ICESat-2 Launch", "description": "\"Stars Align,\" Andrew Michael Britton, Atmosphere Music Ltd.; \"A New Hope,\" Al Lethbridge, Atmosphere Music Ltd.Complete transcript available. || countdown_Thumb_print.jpg (1024x577) [75.2 KB] || countdown_Thumb_searchweb.png (320x180) [76.0 KB] || countdown_Thumb_thm.png (80x40) [6.3 KB] || 13065_Countdown_prores.mov (1920x1080) [2.4 GB] || 13065_Countdown_facebook_720.mp4 (1280x720) [228.5 MB] || 13065_Countdown_twitter_720.mp4 (1280x720) [40.0 MB] || 13065_Countdown_youtube_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [314.1 MB] || 13065_Countdown.webm (960x540) [73.1 MB] || 13065_Countdown.en_US.srt [3.7 KB] || 13065_Countdown.en_US.vtt [3.7 KB] || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 12962, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12962/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-05-24T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Searching for Signs of Life on Mars", "description": "The European Space Agency's Rosalind Franklin rover will search for signs of life on Mars, using a NASA-built instrument called MOMA. 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Because each laser pulse lasts less than two billionths of a second, this process effectively ionizes more heat-resistant materials than those accessed by traditional oven-heating (pyrolysis) methods. 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During this test, each segment of the spacecraft’s solar panels was illuminated with lasers to check that they were still electrically connected after the vigorous vibration and acoustic testing completed earlier this fall. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is in the midst of intense environmental testing at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, in preparation for its journey to the Sun. These tests have simulated the noise and shaking the spacecraft will experience during its launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, scheduled for July 31, 2018.Parker Solar Probe’s integration and testing team must check over the spacecraft and systems to make sure everything is still in optimal working condition after experiencing these rigorous conditions – including a check of the solar arrays, which will provide electrical power to the spacecraft.Parker Solar Probe will explore the Sun's outer atmosphere and make critical observations that will answer decades-old questions about the physics of stars. The resulting data will also help improve how we forecast major eruptions on the Sun and subsequent space weather events that can impact life on Earth, as well as satellites and astronauts in space. The mission is named for Eugene N. Parker, whose profound insights into solar physics and processes have helped shape the field of heliophysics.Link to Parker Solar Probe blog post. || ", "hits": 161 }, { "id": 12768, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12768/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-11-03T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "ICESat-2 By the Numbers", "description": "ICESat-2 is an incredibly precise space laser that features the latest in NASA technology To measure ice heights, engineers have to take ICESat-2’s instrument ATLAS to the extreme – sometimes going big, sometimes going small, but always keeping it precise. || ", "hits": 60 }, { "id": 12525, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12525/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-03-03T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Photon Jump", "description": "Pho, a plucky bright green photon of light, must travel from a NASA spacecraft down to Earth and back again to help complete a crucial science mission in this educational short film. The animation was created and produced by media art students from the Savannah College of Art in Design (SCAD) in Georgia, in collaboration with NASA’s Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission. Their goal was to communicate the science and engineering of the mission, slated for launch in 2018. ICESat-2, managed by NASA Goddard in Greenbelt, Maryland, will measure the height of a changing Earth, one laser pulse at a time, 10,000 laser pulses a second. ICESat-2 will carry a photon-counting laser altimeter that will allow scientists to measure the elevation of ice sheets, glaciers, sea ice and more - all in unprecedented detail. The workings of this laser helped inspire students to create the character of Pho and plot his adventure. Our planet's frozen and icy areas, called the cryosphere, are a key focus of NASA's Earth science research. ICESat-2 will help scientists investigate why, and how much, our cryosphere is changing in a warming climate. The satellite will also measure heights across Earth's temperate and tropical regions, and take stock of the vegetation in forests worldwide. For more about the mission, visit https://icesat-2.gsfc.nasa.gov. || ", "hits": 46 }, { "id": 12418, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12418/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2016-11-21T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Pho Movie Trailer", "description": "Music: \"Lay Me Down,\" Sarah Westen Rasmussen, William Patrick Van Alstine, Killer Tracks BMI || 12418_Pho_Teaser_large.00507_print.jpg (1024x576) [60.8 KB] || 12418_Pho_Teaser_large.00507_searchweb.png (320x180) [59.7 KB] || 12418_Pho_Teaser_large.00507_thm.png (80x40) [5.2 KB] || 12418_Pho_Teaser_prores.webm (1920x1080) [4.6 MB] || 12418_Pho_Teaser_large.mp4 (1920x1080) [39.6 MB] || 12418_Pho_Teaser_youtube_hq.mov (1920x1080) [57.6 MB] || GSFC_20161121_ICESat2_m12418_PhoTeaser.en_US.vtt [42 bytes] || 12418_Pho_Teaser_prores.mov (1920x1080) [549.5 MB] || 12418_Pho_Teaser_large.hwshow [57 bytes] || ", "hits": 24 }, { "id": 12141, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12141/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-02-03T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "ICESat-2 Beam Pairs", "description": "Side view of the beam pairs. || ICESat-2_beams_side_print.jpg (1024x576) [121.7 KB] || ICESat-2_beams_side_searchweb.png (320x180) [92.0 KB] || ICESat-2_beams_side_thm.png (80x40) [6.9 KB] || ICESat-2_beams_side.mp4 (1920x1080) [19.9 MB] || ICESat-2_beams_side.webm (1920x1080) [1.6 MB] || sideview (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || ICESat-2_beams_side.mov (1920x1080) [221.5 MB] || ", "hits": 31 }, { "id": 12041, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12041/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-11-04T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "ICESat-2 Measures Slope", "description": "Animation with info key. || icesat_tracks_still.png (1919x1076) [2.8 MB] || icesat_tracks_still_print.jpg (1024x574) [146.6 KB] || icesat_tracks_still_searchweb.png (320x180) [102.8 KB] || icesat_tracks_still_web.png (320x179) [102.4 KB] || icesat_tracks_still_thm.png (80x40) [9.3 KB] || IceSatTracks.mp4 (1920x1080) [80.7 MB] || IceSatTracks.webm (1920x1080) [6.6 MB] || key (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || IceSatTracks.mov (1920x1080) [1.8 GB] || ", "hits": 44 }, { "id": 11726, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11726/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-01-07T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "ATLAS: Laser Focus", "description": "Laser Focus: TimingDeputy Systems Engineer Phil Luers explains how the ATLAS transmitter and receiver subsystems come together to calculate the timing of photons, which, in turn, measure the elevation of ice.Complete transcript available.Music: \"Electric Works\" by Philippe Lhommet, Koka Media; \"From Source to Sea\" by Christophe Lebled, Pierre Jacquot, Koka Media. || Timing_still_print.jpg (1024x575) [52.8 KB] || Timing_still_searchweb.png (180x320) [51.0 KB] || Timing_still_thm.png (80x40) [4.1 KB] || 11726_Timing_prores.webm (1920x1080) [26.0 MB] || 11726_Timing_prores_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [111.3 MB] || 11726_Timing_prores_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [111.4 MB] || 11726_Timing_h264.mp4 (1920x1080) [231.3 MB] || YOUTUBE_1080_11726_Timing_prores_youtube_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [369.1 MB] || 11726_Timing_prores_youtube_hq.mov (1920x1080) [870.9 MB] || Timing.en_US.srt [4.3 KB] || Timing.en_US.vtt [4.3 KB] || 11726_Timing_prores.mov (1920x1080) [5.9 GB] || 11726_Timing.hwshow [64 bytes] || ", "hits": 47 }, { "id": 11631, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11631/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-08-28T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "REEL Science Communication workshop videos", "description": "In July, 2014, the three winning groups of the REEL Science Communication contest participated in a remote video production workshop with NASA communication experts and scientists to create feature videos about NASA Earth science missions. The high school students worked with scientists from the Terra, Aqua, and ICESat-2 missions. These are their resulting videos. For more information about the REEl Science Communication contest and to see the videos that won these students the opportunity to participate in the workshop, visit reelscience.gsfc.nasa.gov. || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 11357, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11357/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Laser Communication Relay Demonstration", "description": "LCRD Resource Page:Since its inception in 1958, NASA has relied exclusively on radio frequency (RF)-based communications as the only viable medium for exchanging data between a mission and a spacecraft. Today, with missions demanding communication with higher data rates than ever before, NASA is taking steps to embark on a new era of communication technology. The Laser Communication Relay Demonstration (LCRD) project will help pave the way, pioneering technologies that will enable the exchange of data through beams of light. || ", "hits": 62 }, { "id": 11137, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11137/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-01-17T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA Beams Mona Lisa to Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at the Moon", "description": "As part of the first demonstration of laser communication with a satellite at the moon, scientists with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) beamed an image of the Mona Lisa to the spacecraft from Earth.The iconic image traveled nearly 240,000 miles in digital form from the Next Generation Satellite Laser Ranging (NGSLR) Station at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, to the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) instrument on the spacecraft. By transmitting the image piggyback on laser pulses that are routinely sent to track LOLA's position, the team achieved simultaneous laser communication and tracking.To learn more about how it happened, watch the video below! || ", "hits": 48 }, { "id": 11093, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11093/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-10-11T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Atomic Interferometry", "description": "Einstein predicted gravity waves in his general theory of relativity, but to date these ripples in the fabric of space-time have never been observed. Now a scientific research technique called Atomic Interferometry is trying to re-write the canon. In conjunction with researchers at Stanford University, scientists at NASA Goddard are developing a system to measure the faint gravitational vibrations generated by movement of massive objects in the universe. The scientific payoff could be important, helping better clarify key issues in our understanding of cosmology. But application payoff could be substantial, too, with the potential to develop profound advances in fields like geolocation and timekeeping. In this video we examine how the system would work, and the scientific underpinnings of the research effort. || ", "hits": 36 }, { "id": 11036, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11036/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-09-11T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Laser Comm: That's a Bright Idea", "description": "Laser light made records obsolete. NASA is on the verge of doing the same thing with space based communications. Before the end of the decade, the Laser Communication Relay Demonstration (LCRD) mission will revolutionize the way we move tons of data from orbit to ground and all around the solar system. || ", "hits": 37 }, { "id": 11094, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11094/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-08-30T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Birth of a Space Laser Instrument", "description": "A new C02 laser, which will globally measure carbon dioxide from space, is due to be launched in 2023 on the ASCENDS mission. One of the exciting things about this project is that you can actually watch trees eat and breathe. Of course, trees are breathing all the time, but they are only eating, meaning, performing photosynthesis when the sun is out. The main science is to measure how much carbon dioxide there is in the atmosphere at this particular time on the Earth, how much is there total and where is it located. || ", "hits": 21 }, { "id": 10848, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10848/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-10-25T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Laser Comm: The Next Generation of Space Communications", "description": "NASA is looking for the next generation of space communications technology and Laser Comm may be the answer. Optical communications provide higher bandwidth, which allows for faster data flow and even opens the door to streaming high-def video from distant planets to ground stations on Earth. The Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) mission will be put to the test in 2017 on a Loral commercial satellite. There will be ground stations based at JPL in California and White Sands Complex in New Mexico and the demonstration is expected to run for two to three years.(Updated Information) || ", "hits": 29 }, { "id": 10757, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10757/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-04-14T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Intro to LIDAR 3D", "description": "Want to know the 3D shape of terrain on another planet? Want to study the height and density of Earth's forests? An amazing tool called LIDAR can help. Learn more in this video!This video is presented in stereoscopic 3D for those who can view it. We've included left and right eye clips, a side-by-side version, and an anaglyph (red/blue) version. Download any of them below! || ", "hits": 92 }, { "id": 3808, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3808/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-12-17T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "LOLA Stills for AGU 2010", "description": "These high resolution still images illustrate the global elevation map of the Moon being developed by the laser altimeter (LOLA) on Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. To date, LOLA has measured the elevation of over two billion points on the surface of the Moon. These measurements make it possible to render shaded relief maps of the Moon with unprecedented accuracy and detail. See also this comparison of LOLA with past maps.The waning gibbous Moon is rendered from three points of view. For each view, a natural color image is paired with a false color version in which low elevations are blue to green and high elevations are yellow to red. The terrain is in highest relief near the terminator, or shadow line, where the Sun is setting on a month-long lunar day. Amateur astronomers pay particular attention to features near the terminator, since the high relief brings out details that are normally washed out in the glare of reflected sunlight. || ", "hits": 153 }, { "id": 2741, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2741/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2003-05-23T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "ICESat First Light Release: Antarctica, from Coast to Coast", "description": "ICESat's first topographic profiles across the continent reveal the textured surfaces of Antarctic ice sheets in unprecedented detail. The following profile spans the entire Antarctic continent from coast to coast. The transect begins near Wrigley Gulf, crosses the Ross Ice Shelf and central Antarctica, finally tapering off at the Amery Ice Shelf. The high flat area in the center of the continent is called the East Antarctic plateau. || ", "hits": 76 }, { "id": 2742, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2742/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2003-05-23T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "ICESat First Light Release: From Sea Ice to Ice Streams", "description": "The following profile shows the dramatic change in elevation from coastal Antarctica, which is covered in sea ice for most of the year, to the center of the continent. It starts near the Amundsen Sea and travels inward, ending over the West Antarctic Ice Streams where we get a look at this dynamic portion of the polar landscape. (The green elevation profile in this animation is exaggerated vertically by a factor of 10x.) || ", "hits": 16 }, { "id": 2743, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2743/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2003-05-23T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "ICESat First Light Release: A Closer View of the Coast", "description": "Elevation data from ICESat's GLAS instrument is quite detailed, as can be seen in this close-up view of a profile that passes near the Banzare Coast in Antarctica. 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