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The mission will study so-called “black auroras,” dark patches and stripes that appear within an aurora. Previous research has hinted that they may be formed by electrons going upward escaping back out into space (rather than the absence of any electrons). The visible aurora is formed by an incoming downward stream of electrons. Scientists want to solve the puzzle as to why these patches and stripes form within the visible aurora. From Goddard, the instruments were delivered to Wallops Flight Facility, where they – along with the entire rocket payload – will be shipped to the Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, where the team aims to fly their rocket through black aurora. Onboard instruments will survey the electron populations as they fly through them to understand how and why these black patches and stripes form within the visible aurora. The mission is scheduled for launch no earlier than February 2026. || ", "hits": 52 }, { "id": 14925, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14925/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-11-14T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Intense Solar Storm Delays ESCAPADE Launch", "description": "NASA’s ESCAPADE mission launched on Nov. 13, 2025!But it wasn’t without any hiccups — or maybe a series of violent burps? — from the Sun!The launch of ESCAPADE, our next mission to Mars, was delayed by a day due to the most powerful geomagnetic storm of 2025. The storm was caused by multiple flares and eruptions known as coronal mass ejections heading toward Earth.With the help of NASA satellites and models, the team could monitor when the storm subsided and by the following day, it was safe to launch. || ", "hits": 375 }, { "id": 14886, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14886/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-08-22T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Artemis Science: Exploring the Moon’s South Pole", "description": "By sending astronauts to collect samples from the Moon’s South Pole, NASA’s Artemis missions may uncover clues to the formation of the solar system.Complete transcript available.Universal Production Music: “Transitions” by Harry Gregson Williams [BMI] and Ben Andrew [PRS]; “Love on the Moon” by Sebastian Barnaby Robertson [BMI] and Yaacov Kobi Hokima [BMI]Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || Artemis_Sci_Young_S_Pole_Preview.png (1920x1080) [1.5 MB] || Artemis_Sci_Young_S_Pole_Preview.jpg (1920x1080) [721.6 KB] || Artemis_Sci_Young_S_Pole_Preview_print.jpg (1024x576) [139.2 KB] || Artemis_Sci_Young_S_Pole_Preview_searchweb.png (320x180) [84.1 KB] || Artemis_Sci_Young_S_Pole_Preview_thm.png (80x40) [6.7 KB] || 14886_Artemis_Sci_Young_SPole_720.mp4 (1280x720) [37.3 MB] || 14886_Artemis_Sci_Young_SPole_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [208.1 MB] || ArtemisSciYoungSPoleCaptions.en_US.srt [4.0 KB] || ArtemisSciYoungSPoleCaptions.en_US.vtt [3.8 KB] || 14886_Artemis_Sci_Young_SPole_4K_Small.mp4 (3840x2160) [155.7 MB] || 14886_Artemis_Sci_Young_SPole_4K.mp4 (3840x2160) [1.3 GB] || 14886_Artemis_Sci_Young_SPole_ProRes.mov (3840x2160) [7.4 GB] || ", "hits": 435 }, { "id": 14832, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14832/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2025-04-28T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "Wallops Flight Facility B-roll", "description": "Collection of footage from Wallops Flight Facility || wallopsbroll_thumb_print.jpg (1024x576) [237.0 KB] || wallopsbroll_thumb.png (3376x1900) [9.0 MB] || wallopsbroll_thumb_searchweb.png (320x180) [123.2 KB] || wallopsbroll_thumb_thm.png [11.1 KB] || Wallops_Flight_Facility_B-Roll_2025.mp4 (1920x1080) [2.4 GB] || Collection of footage of the Wallops Flight Facility || ", "hits": 52 }, { "id": 14362, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14362/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-06-13T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "High Above Down Under Series", "description": "Around a different star, Earth may never have developed life at all. So what makes a star friendly to life? We joined two rocket teams as they traveled to the remote Northern Territory of Australia to capture light from our closest stellar neighbors to help reveal the answer. Follow their journey in the 6-part video series High Above Down Under. Episodes released weekly starting June 27, 2023. || ", "hits": 70 }, { "id": 14234, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14234/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-11-04T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Weather Forecasting for JPSS-2 Launch", "description": "Complete transcript available. || NASA_JPSS-2_WeatherForecasting_final.04076_print.jpg (1024x576) [88.8 KB] || NASA_JPSS-2_WeatherForecasting_final.04076_searchweb.png (320x180) [65.5 KB] || NASA_JPSS-2_WeatherForecasting_final.04076_thm.png (80x40) [5.7 KB] || NASA_JPSS-2_WeatherForecasting_final.mp4 (1920x1080) [505.3 MB] || NASA_JPSS-2_WeatherForecasting_final.webm (1920x1080) [34.4 MB] || NASA_JPSS-2_WeatherForecasting_final.en_US.srt [7.3 KB] || NASA_JPSS-2_WeatherForecasting_final.en_US.vtt [6.9 KB] || ", "hits": 34 }, { "id": 14192, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14192/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-08-02T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "What's Up at Wallops?", "description": "From sounding rockets to scientific balloons to research aircraft, NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore of Virginia is a unique national asset that has a lot to offer. || ", "hits": 44 }, { "id": 14079, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14079/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-01-31T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "James Webb Space Telescope Encapsulation", "description": "Encapsulation marks the final readiness for Webb's flight to space. 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If you haven’t yet watched the video, however, we highly recommend you click the image below. Don’t worry, we’ll wait.Now then, want to make black hole travel an even bigger part of your daily life? Wishing that black holes actually WERE portals to dimensions filled with unicorns and space potatoes? Download these phone and desktop wallpapers to fill your screens. || ", "hits": 64 }, { "id": 13252, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13252/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-07-25T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "RockOn! 2019", "description": "Students from across the United States witnessed the launching of their experiments aboard a NASA suborbital sounding rocket Thursday, June 20, 2019, from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The rocket carried 28 experiments (measuring acceleration, humidity, pressure, temperature and radiation counts) from the RockOn! Program.Participants in RockOn! receive instruction on the basics required to develop a scientific payload for flight on a suborbital rocket. After learning the basics in RockOn!, students may then participate in RockSat-C, where during the school year they design and build a more complicated experiment.Conducted with the Colorado and Virginia Space Grant Consortia, RockOn! is in its twelfth year and RockSat-C its eleventh year. || ", "hits": 22 }, { "id": 13171, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13171/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-04-09T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Grand Challenge Initiative - Cusp: Launch Photos & Videos", "description": "AZURE MissionColorful clouds formed by the release of vapors from the two AZURE rockets allow scientist to measure auroral winds.Credit: NASA/Lee Wingfield || Azure_ampule_release_print.jpg (1024x682) [97.8 KB] || Azure_ampule_release.jpg (2400x1600) [346.6 KB] || Azure_ampule_release_searchweb.png (320x180) [54.6 KB] || Azure_ampule_release_web.png (320x213) [67.1 KB] || Azure_ampule_release_thm.png (80x40) [4.6 KB] || ", "hits": 32 }, { "id": 12933, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12933/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-04-26T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "TESS Launch Footage", "description": "Full launch video.Complete transcript available. || TESS_Launch.png (1245x700) [498.9 KB] || TESS_Launch_print.jpg (1024x575) [33.6 KB] || TESS_Launch_searchweb.png (320x180) [39.0 KB] || TESS_Launch_thm.png (80x40) [3.0 KB] || KSC-20180418-VP-MMS01-0001-SpaceX_TESS_Live_Launch_Coverage-3188765~orig.mp4 (1280x720) [7.3 GB] || KSC-20180418-VP-MMS01-0001-SpaceX_TESS_Live_Launch_Coverage-3188765~large.mp4 (1280x720) [4.2 GB] || KSC-20180418-VP-MMS01-0001-SpaceX_TESS_Live_Launch_Coverage-3188765~orig.webm (1280x720) [910.7 MB] || KSC-20180418-VP-MMS01-0001-SpaceX_TESS_Live_Launch_Coverage-3188765~small.mp4 (640x360) [1.3 GB] || KSC-20180418-VP-MMS01-0001-SpaceX_TESS_Live_Launch_Coverage-3188765.en_US.srt [196.4 KB] || KSC-20180418-VP-MMS01-0001-SpaceX_TESS_Live_Launch_Coverage-3188765.en_US.vtt [185.1 KB] || ", "hits": 51 }, { "id": 12778, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12778/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-11-16T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Antares/Cygnus OA-8 Launch Footage", "description": "Orbital ATK's Cygnus Launch [Edited Launch Sequence] || 12778_Antares_Launch_edited_facebook_720.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [123.8 KB] || 12778_Antares_Launch_edited_facebook_720.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [83.9 KB] || 12778_Antares_Launch_edited_facebook_720.00001_thm.png (80x40) [5.6 KB] || 12778_Antares_Launch_edited_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [44.3 MB] || 12778_Antares_Launch_edited_facebook_720.mp4 (1280x720) [106.0 MB] || 12778_Antares_Launch_edited.mov (1280x720) [970.2 MB] || 12778_Antares_Launch_edited.webm (960x540) [25.5 MB] || 12778_Antares_Launch_edited_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [44.3 MB] || 12778_Antares_Launch_edited.en_US.srt [948 bytes] || 12778_Antares_Launch_edited.en_US.vtt [887 bytes] || ", "hits": 53 }, { "id": 12707, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12707/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-09-08T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "OSIRIS-REx Launch Anniversary", "description": "Highlights and interviews from the launch of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on September 8, 2016. 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Just as the sun began to set over Cape Canaveral, OSIRIS-REx made a picture-perfect liftoff at 7:05 pm EDT. It departed Space Launch Complex 41 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 411 rocket, cheered on by crowds of mission personnel and space enthusiasts. The launch sent OSIRIS-REx on a seven-year journey to asteroid Bennu and back.An excerpt of the launch broadcast appears at the top of this page. Raw camera feeds from Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center appear below. These clips are intended as a video editor's resource, and are available for download in their original DVCPRO HD format. Launch commentary is provided by KSC host Mike Curie.Learn more about OSIRIS-REx from NASA and the University of Arizona. || ", "hits": 179 }, { "id": 12360, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12360/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2016-09-06T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "To Bennu and Back", "description": "NASA's latest New Frontiers mission, OSIRIS-REx, will venture to a near-Earth asteroid to discover clues about the unique resources asteroids hold, processes that affect asteroids' orbital paths and their potential for impacting Earth, and the origins of life in the solar system. In addition, OSIRIS-REx will collect a sample from the surface of the asteroid and return it to Earth for generations of scientists to study and analyze, making this the first American asteroid sample return mission and the largest sample returned from an extraterrestrial body since Apollo. OSIRIS-REx's launch window opens September 8, 2016. This is the journey #ToBennuAndBack. || ", "hits": 35 }, { "id": 12339, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12339/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2016-08-17T02:00:00-04:00", "title": "OSIRIS-REx L-14 Press Briefing Graphics", "description": "OSIRIS-REx is on a mission to study asteroid Bennu and return a sample to Earth. The graphics on this page were created to support the OSIRIS-REx L-14 press briefing at NASA headquarters on August 17, 2016. All videos are available for download in broadcast quality. The majority of the videos do not contain audio. 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When MAVEN arrives, it will be the first spacecraft to study Mars's upper atmosphere in detail, helping scientists understand how Mars changed from a wet planet early in its history to the cold, dry world we see today. || ", "hits": 77 }, { "id": 11496, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11496/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-02-26T17:00:00-05:00", "title": "GPM Launch Multimedia Package", "description": "A Japanese H-IIA rocket with the NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory onboard, is seen launching from th Tanegashima Space Center, 1:37 PM (EST) on Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, Tanegashima Space Center. 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Lower than a typical satellite's orbit, higher than where most planes fly, this upper atmosphere jet stream makes a perfect target for a particular kind of scientific experiment: the sounding rocket. Some 35 to 40 feet long, sounding rockets shoot up into the sky for short journeys of eight to ten minutes, allowing scientists to probe difficult-to-reach layers of the atmosphere.In March, NASA will launch five such rockets in approximately five minutes to study these high-altitude winds and their intimate connection to the complicated electrical current patterns that surround Earth. First noticed in the 1960s, the winds in this jet stream shouldn't be confused with the lower jet stream located around 30,000 feet, through which passenger jets fly and which is reported in weather forecasts. This rocket experiment is designed to gain a better understanding of the high-altitude winds and help scientists better model the electromagnetic regions of space that can damage man-made satellites and disrupt communications systems. The experiment will also help explain how the effects of atmospheric disturbances in one part of the globe can be transported to other parts of the globe in a mere day or two.The five sounding rockets, known as the Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment (ATREX), will launch from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia releasing a chemical tracer into the air. The chemical — a substance called trimethyl aluminum — forms milky, white clouds that allow those on the ground to \"see\" the winds in space and track them with cameras. In addition, two of the rockets will have instrumented payloads to measure pressure and temperature in the atmosphere. || ", "hits": 94 }, { "id": 10924, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10924/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-03-07T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Terrier-improved Malemute Animations", "description": "Animations of the Terrier-improved malemute type sounding rocket. || ", "hits": 22 }, { "id": 10797, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10797/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-07-05T08:00:00-04:00", "title": "Riding on a Sounding Rocket", "description": "On March 23, 2011, two on-board cameras followed a sounding rocket on its journey from Earth to space and back again. The rocket was launched to measure solar energy output and calibrate the EVE instrument on the Solar Dynamics Observatory. || ", "hits": 58 } ] }