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A farmer stops their planting operations due to poor GPS signal for their autonomous tractor. A power grid manager changes the configuration of their network to ensure a blackout doesn’t occur due to voltage instability. A pilot switches to back-up communication equipment due to loss of high-frequency radio. A commercial internet company providing service to the military must change the orbit of their spacecraft to avoid a collision due to increased atmospheric drag.These are a few examples of the ways the Sun influences our everyday lives. This is what we define as space weather – the conditions of the space environment driven by the Sun and it’s impacts on objects in the solar system. 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From the steady glow of growing cities to the sudden darkness caused by natural disasters, nighttime imagery helps scientists track changes across the globe. From the quiet of rural towns to the bustle of urban streets, human activity shapes the planet’s nighttime presence. Wildfires, power outages, and recovery efforts, all visible through the shifting patterns of light. Commercial fishing fleets illuminate oceans, electricity use expands across regions, and cultural celebrations brighten the night sky. Not only does NASA’s Black Marble data help us understand life here on Earth, but it helps us understand space weather and its impacts to technology. It helps us understand auroras. It helps us understand our space environment. 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Magnetic reconnection is a mysterious process that happens when the solar wind, made of electrically charged particles and magnetic fields from the Sun, collides with Earth's magnetic shield, causing magnetic field lines to violently snap and explosively fling away particles at high speeds. This process has huge impacts on Earth, from causing breathtaking auroras to disrupting communications and power grids on Earth. TRACERS is launching no earlier than summer 2025 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.Find out more about the TRACERS mission and how it will help us better understand the ways space weather affects us on Earth: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/tracers/ || ", "hits": 224 }, { "id": 20404, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20404/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2025-06-02T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "TRACERS Science Animations", "description": "The TRACERS, or the Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, mission will help scientists understand an explosive process called magnetic reconnection and its effects in Earth’s atmosphere. Magnetic reconnection occurs when magnetic fields and particles from the Sun interact with Earth’s magnetic field. 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This version also includes logos and a list of participating organizations.", "hits": 165 }, { "id": 14660, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14660/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-12-05T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Earth Science Sizzle Reel", "description": "Music: “Hit Point,” “Sky Atlas,” Universal Production Music. Discover the groundbreaking work of NASA’s Earth Science team at Goddard Space Flight Center. From developing cutting-edge technologies to studying Earth’s complex systems, these world-class scientists are shaping the future to better understand our changing planet. With a unique perspective from space, they explore the atmosphere, oceans, and land, fostering innovation and global collaboration to protect our planet and its communities. This is Earth science at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. This video is formatted for hyperwall viewing (9600x3240px). Find out more about NASA’s Earth Sciences Division at https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/earth. This video can be freely shared and downloaded. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, some individual imagery provided by external sources (see list below) is obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.htmlThis video can be freely shared and downloaded. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, some individual imagery provided by external sources (see list below) is obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html || 24_08_ES_SIZZLE_REEL_FINAL_Hyperwall_5x3.00052_print.jpg (1024x345) [96.3 KB] || 24_08_ES_SIZZLE_REEL_FINAL_Hyperwall_5x3.00052_searchweb.png (320x180) [65.7 KB] || 24_08_ES_SIZZLE_REEL_FINAL_Hyperwall_5x3.00052_web.png (320x108) [45.9 KB] || 24_08_ES_SIZZLE_REEL_FINAL_Hyperwall_5x3.00052_thm.png [4.9 KB] || 24_08_ES_SIZZLE_REEL_FINAL_Hyperwall_5x3.webm (9600x3240) [131.9 MB] || 24_08_ES_SIZZLE_REEL_FINAL_Hyperwall_5x3.mp4 (9600x3240) [3.1 GB] || ", "hits": 86 }, { "id": 5429, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5429/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2024-12-05T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Lucy Earth Gravity Assist 2 Trajectory Visualizations", "description": "Ride-along view of Lucy’s second Earth gravity assist (EGA). The camera follows Lucy as the spacecraft approaches the sunlit side of Earth before crossing into Earth’s shadow as it slingshots around the planet. || lucy_ega2_pov-full.02400_print.jpg (1024x576) [73.5 KB] || lucy_ega2_pov-full.02400_searchweb.png (320x180) [55.6 KB] || lucy_ega2_pov-full.02400_thm.png (80x40) [3.5 KB] || lucy_ega2_pov-full_1080p60.mp4 (1920x1080) [8.5 MB] || lucy_ega2_pov-full [0 Item(s)] || lucy_ega2_pov-full_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [36.4 MB] || lucy_ega2_pov-full_2160p60.mp4 (3840x2160) [34.7 MB] || lucy_ega2_pov-full_2160p60_prores.mov (3840x2160) [3.2 GB] || lucy_ega2_pov-full_2160p60.mp4.hwshow || ", "hits": 109 }, { "id": 5432, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5432/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2024-12-01T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "PACE and SWOT", "description": "This visualization begins with a view of the PACE and SWOT satellites orbiting Earth. The camera then pushes into a region in the Atlantic Ocean, and a view of chlorophyll data from PACE. Swaths of SWOT sea surface height anomaly data are added, with blues representing lower surface height and reds representing higher surface height. The PACE data then cycles between three layers of phytoplankton species - Picoeukaryotes, Prochlorococcus, and Synechococcus.", "hits": 64 }, { "id": 14648, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14648/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-08-16T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "An Ocean in Bloom", "description": "Music: \"Maelstrom Dream,\" \"Skipping Stones On The Lake,\" \"Breaking Through The Clouds,\" \"Awaking Wonder,\" \"Floating Emotions,\" \"Fire in the Chill of Dawn,\" \"Closed Fractures,\" \"Battle For Our Future,\" \"Final Climb,\" \"In Nature,\" Universal Production Music.Complete transcript available.This video can be freely shared and downloaded. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, some individual imagery provided by external sources (see list below) is obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.htmlFootage Courtesy Of: FOX 13 News, New World of Communications of Tampa, INC. TM and Copyright 2021, 2022, 2023. All Rights Reserved, Pexels, Pond5, Ralph Arwood, Joseph Rohrs, Dale Danelle, NOAA Fisheries, NASA/SpaceX.You can also find \"An Ocean in Bloom\" on NASA+. || NHQ_2024_0801_AnOceanInBloom_FINALCUT.02846_print.jpg (1024x576) [214.4 KB] || NHQ_2024_0801_AnOceanInBloom_FINALCUT.02846_searchweb.png (320x180) [102.3 KB] || NHQ_2024_0801_AnOceanInBloom_FINALCUT.02846_web.png (320x180) [102.3 KB] || NHQ_2024_0801_AnOceanInBloom_FINALCUT.02846_thm.png (80x40) [6.5 KB] || NHQ_2024_0801_AnOceanInBloom_FINALCUT_EN_US.en_US.vtt [20.8 KB] || NHQ_2024_0801_AnOceanInBloom_FINALCUT_EN_US.en_US.srt [21.9 KB] || NHQ_2024_0801_AnOceanInBloom_FINALCUT.webm (3840x2160) [412.0 MB] || NHQ_2024_0801_AnOceanInBloom_FinalCut_HD.mp4 (1920x1080) [3.2 GB] || NHQ_2024_0801_AnOceanInBloom_FINALCUT.mp4 (3840x2160) [5.6 GB] || ", "hits": 85 }, { "id": 14591, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14591/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-05-16T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Quickshot: Twin NASA Spacecraft Headed To Ends Of The Earth Launching May 22", "description": "Scroll down page to see pre-recorded soundbites available for download + animations of the satellites.Check out 5 Things to Know About NASA’s Tiny Twin Polar Satellites ! || Screenshot_2024-05-14_at_4.19.48_PM.png (3360x844) [4.6 MB] || Screenshot_2024-05-14_at_4.19.48_PM_print.jpg (1024x257) [95.7 KB] || Screenshot_2024-05-14_at_4.19.48_PM_print_print.jpg (1024x257) [53.8 KB] || Screenshot_2024-05-14_at_4.19.48_PM_web.png (320x80) [53.4 KB] || Screenshot_2024-05-14_at_4.19.48_PM_thm.png (80x40) [10.8 KB] || Screenshot_2024-05-14_at_4.19.48_PM_print_searchweb.png (320x180) [94.5 KB] || Screenshot_2024-05-14_at_4.19.48_PM_print_thm.png (80x40) [10.3 KB] || ", "hits": 38 }, { "id": 14262, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14262/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-12-20T13:30:00-05:00", "title": "Landsat's Next Chapter", "description": "Complete transcript available. || NASA_L-Next_Teaser_Final_edit.02360_print.jpg (1024x576) [77.7 KB] || NASA_L-Next_Teaser_Final_edit.02360_searchweb.png (320x180) [49.7 KB] || NASA_L-Next_Teaser_Final_edit.02360_thm.png (80x40) [4.7 KB] || NASA_L-Next_Teaser_Final_edit.mp4 (1920x1080) [182.2 MB] || NASA_L-Next_Teaser_Final_edit.webm (1920x1080) [11.3 MB] || L-Next-Teaser_edit.en_US.srt [1.2 KB] || L-Next-Teaser_edit.en_US.vtt [1.2 KB] || ", "hits": 52 }, { "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": 32 }, { "id": 5044, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5044/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2022-10-13T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Lucy Earth Gravity Assist Trajectory Visualizations", "description": "Ride-along view of Lucy’s first Earth gravity assist (EGA). 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The satellite investigates gamma-ray bursts, the most energetic explosions in the universe. Swift observes the sky in visible, ultraviolet, X-ray, and gamma-ray light. Its name reflects its ability to rapidly follow up on interesting objects in the sky. Swift also studies supernova explosions, star-shredding black holes in other galaxies, comets, stellar remnants called neutron stars, and other cosmic phenomena. In 2018, NASA renamed Swift in honor of the late Neil Gehrels, who helped develop the mission and served as its principal investigator for 13 years.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (KBRwyle) || swift_spacecraft_update_still.jpg (1920x1080) [769.2 KB] || swift_spacecraft_update_still_print.jpg (1024x576) [328.5 KB] || swift_spacecraft_update_still_searchweb.png (320x180) [94.8 KB] || swift_spacecraft_update_still_web.png (320x180) [94.8 KB] || swift_spacecraft_update_still_thm.png (80x40) [6.5 KB] || swift_spacecraft_update_HQ.mp4 (1920x1080) [47.7 MB] || swift_spacecraft_update_LQ.mp4 (1920x1080) [24.7 MB] || swift_spacecraft_update_prores.mov (1920x1080) [255.2 MB] || swift_spacecraft_update_HQ.webm (1920x1080) [2.2 MB] || ", "hits": 68 }, { "id": 13608, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13608/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-05-22T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Names Upcoming Telescope to Honor the \"Mother of Hubble\"", "description": "Learn about Nancy Grace Roman, her contribution to NASA missions, and how NASA has honored her.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Rising Tides\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || NGR_Still_1.jpg (1920x1080) [1023.4 KB] || NGR_Still_1_searchweb.png (320x180) [100.8 KB] || NGR_Still_1_thm.png (80x40) [7.6 KB] || Roman_Biography_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.9 GB] || Roman_Biography_Best_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [956.8 MB] || Roman_Biography_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [330.8 MB] || Roman_Biography_1080.webm (1920x1080) [23.7 MB] || Roman_Biography_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [4.0 KB] || Roman_Biography_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [4.0 KB] || ", "hits": 73 }, { "id": 13624, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13624/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-05-21T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Launching America: Goddard's Role in Keeping Astronauts Connected to Earth", "description": "Music: \"Never Looking Back\" by Frederik Wiedman; Enigma; Killer Tracks [BMI]; Universal Production Music || 13624_DM2_KeepingAstronautsConnected.00067_print.jpg (1024x576) [102.6 KB] || 13624_DM2_KeepingAstronautsConnected.00067_searchweb.png (320x180) [91.2 KB] || 13624_DM2_KeepingAstronautsConnected.00067_thm.png (80x40) [7.2 KB] || 13624_DM2_KeepingAstronautsConnected.mov (1920x1080) [1.7 GB] || 13624_DM2_KeepingAstronautsConnected_lowres.mp4 (1280x720) [24.6 MB] || 3624_DM2_KeepingAstronautsConnected_youtube_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [138.4 MB] || 13624_DM2_KeepingAstronautsConnected_facebook_720.mp4 (1280x720) [100.5 MB] || 13624_DM2_KeepingAstronautsConnected_twitter_720.mp4 (1280x720) [17.7 MB] || 13624_DM2_KeepingAstronautsConnected.webm (960x540) [34.5 MB] || 13624_DM2_KeepingAstronautsConnected.en_US.srt [1.7 KB] || 13624_DM2_KeepingAstronautsConnected.en_US.vtt [1.7 KB] || ", "hits": 42 }, { "id": 4820, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4820/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2020-05-08T06:00:00-04:00", "title": "NOAA-20 satellite orbit with Suomi NPP and JPSS-2", "description": "This short visualization shows the orbit of NOAA-20 along with Suomi NPP. The camera rotates to a view perpendicular to the orbit plan, showing the half-orbit separation between the two satellites. || NOAA20_orbit_snpp.2500_print.jpg (1024x576) [65.1 KB] || NOAA20_orbit_snpp.2500_searchweb.png (320x180) [63.3 KB] || NOAA20_orbit_snpp.2500_thm.png (80x40) [4.0 KB] || NOAA20_orbit_with_SNPP_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [19.5 MB] || NOAA20_orbit_with_SNPP_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [6.2 MB] || noaa20_snpp (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || NOAA20_orbit_with_SNPP_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [58.7 MB] || NOAA20_orbit_with_SNPP_1080p30.mp4.hwshow [196 bytes] || ", "hits": 104 }, { "id": 4745, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4745/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2020-03-03T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Landsat with Sentinel - Global Coverage", "description": "This visualization depicts the orbits and data swaths of the Landsat 8, Landsat 9, Sentinel 2a, and Sentinel 2b satellites. The satellites appear one at a time with their respective data swaths. As time progresses throughout the visualization, the satellites ‘paint’ the globe with imagery to show how the four spacecraft work together to build a complete picture of the Earth. || landsat_w_sentinel_v2_ls8ls9sAsB_fade_08_60fps_4k_3240_print.jpg (1024x576) [55.5 KB] || landsat_w_sentinel_v2_ls8ls9sAsB_fade_08_60fps_4k_3240_searchweb.png (320x180) [62.5 KB] || landsat_w_sentinel_v2_ls8ls9sAsB_fade_08_60fps_4k_3240_thm.png (80x40) [4.5 KB] || landsat_w_sentinel_ls8ls9sAsB_fade_1080p60.mp4 (1920x1080) [29.1 MB] || landsat_w_sentinel_ls8ls9sAsB_fade_1080p60.webm (1920x1080) [8.1 MB] || landsat_w_sentinel_v2_ls8ls9sAsB_fade_08_60fps_4k (3840x2160) [512.0 KB] || landsat_w_sentinel_ls8ls9sAsB_fade_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [82.6 MB] || ", "hits": 284 }, { "id": 13493, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13493/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-12-10T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Terra Satellite 20-Year Anniversary Instruments and Applications", "description": "Music: “Blackbird” by Magnum Opus [ASCAP]; Atmosphere Music Ltd [PRS]; Volta Music; Universal Production Music || 13493_Terra_Applications_20Anniversary_FINAL.02146_print.jpg (1024x576) [230.0 KB] || 13493_Terra_Applications_20Anniversary_FINAL.02146_searchweb.png (320x180) [132.3 KB] || 13493_Terra_Applications_20Anniversary_FINAL.02146_thm.png (80x40) [8.0 KB] || 13493_Terra_Applications_20Anniversary_FINAL.mov (1920x1080) [4.1 GB] || 13493_Terra_Applications_20Anniversary_FINAL_VX-309499.webm (960x540) [73.2 MB] || 13493_Terra_Applications_20Anniversary_FINAL_VX-309499_lowres.mp4 (1280x720) [51.8 MB] || YOUTUBE_1080_13493_Terra_Applications_20Anniversary_FINAL_VX-309499_youtube_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [269.9 MB] || YOUTUBE_720_13493_Terra_Applications_20Anniversary_FINAL_VX-309499_youtube_720.mp4 (1280x720) [272.1 MB] || 13493_Terra_Applications_20Anniversary_FINAL.en_US.srt [2.4 KB] || 13493_Terra_Applications_20Anniversary_FINAL.en_US.vtt [2.4 KB] || ", "hits": 51 }, { "id": 31049, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31049/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2019-08-07T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The A-Train & C-Train", "description": "A-Train_C-Train_TimeSeps2018_HW || A-Train_C-Train_TimeSeps2018_HW_print.jpg (1024x576) [932.9 KB] || A-Train_C-Train_TimeSeps2018_HW.jpg (5760x3240) [13.3 MB] || A-Train_C-Train_TimeSeps2018_HW_searchweb.png (320x180) [89.3 KB] || A-Train_C-Train_TimeSeps2018_HW_thm.png (80x40) [6.8 KB] || the-a-train-c-train-time-seps.hwshow [315 bytes] || ", "hits": 204 }, { "id": 31047, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31047/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2019-07-16T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's SmallSat & Cubesat Fleet", "description": "NASA's current SmallSat and CubeSat fleet || NASA_SmallSat_Fleet.png (1280x720) [1.9 MB] || NASA_SmallSat_Fleet_print.jpg (1024x576) [246.2 KB] || NASA_SmallSat_Fleet_searchweb.png (320x180) [104.9 KB] || NASA_SmallSat_Fleet_thm.png (80x40) [7.1 KB] || nasas-smallsat-cubesat-fleet.hwshow || ", "hits": 50 }, { "id": 4702, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4702/", "result_type": "Infographic", "release_date": "2019-02-11T06:00:00-05:00", "title": "MAVEN Aerobraking to Achieve Science and Relay Orbit", "description": "Aerobraking plan for MAVEN. (left) Current MAVEN orbit around Mars — 6200-km highest altitude, and an orbit period of ~4.5 hours. (center) Aerobraking process — MAVEN performs a series of “deep dip” orbits approaching to within ~125 km of Mars at lowest altitude, causing drag from the atmosphere slow down the spacecraft. Over roughly three-hundred and sixty orbits spanning about two months, this slowing reduces the spacecraft’s highest altitude to ~4500 km and its orbit period to ~3.5 hours. 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It takes 16 days for the swaths to overlap enough to image the whole Earth.Previous Landsat sensors swept back and forth across the swath like a whisk broom to collect data. The sensor looked at a calibration source at the end of every row, which means that measurements were consistent from orbit to orbit. But this sensor design requires fast-moving parts, which are more likely to break.—and which did on Landsat 7.In contrast, the instruments on Landsat 8 view across the entire swath at once, building strips of data like a pushbroom. This approach requires no moving parts and gives the sensor detectors greater dwell time. The pushbroom instrument is smaller and lighter than previous whisk broom instruments, but its calibration is much more complex given the large number of detectors.“It was a natural step to evolve to a pushbroom sensor. The technology was proven on other satellites, and we knew we could get better accuracy. The pushbroom has no moving parts. 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The Terra spacecraft can see fires in both daylight and at night, helping aid firefighters in tracking and stopping the blazes. 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the Fast Plasma Investigation suite of instruments. These instruments will study a little-understood physics phenomenon known as magnetic reconnection, which is common throughout the universe and affects space weather in Earth's magnetosphere. Watch the video on NASA Explorer. 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So crank up your speakers and let the music be your guide! || ", "hits": 61 }, { "id": 10936, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10936/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-05-29T09:55:00-04:00", "title": "GOES-R Series Resource Reel", "description": "The new generation GOES-R satellites will carry significant improvements and technology innovation on board. GOES-R will be able to deliver a full globe scan in only 5 minutes, compared to the 25 minutes needed for the same task with the current GOES satellites. GOES-R's lightning mapper instrument is expected to improve warning lead time for severe storms and tornadoes by 50%. This without a doubt will help predict severe weather in advance and save more lives. This reel is a compilation of finished productions about the GOES-R mission as well as supporting materials such as animations, visualizations, and still images. || ", "hits": 109 }, { "id": 11169, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11169/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-04-08T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "NIRCam Gets Integrated into Webb's ISIM", "description": "Engineers install the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) into the Webb Telescope's Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) in NASA Goddard Space Flight Center cleanroom. The delicate procedure took place on March 20, 2014 in preparation for the cryogenic test of a fully integrated ISIM structure that will occur this summer. The Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) is Webb's primary imager that will cover the infrared wavelength range 0.6 to 5 microns. NIRCam will detect light from: the earliest stars and galaxies in the process of formation; the population of stars in nearby galaxies; as well as young stars in the Milky Way and Kuiper Belt objects. NIRCam is equipped with coronagraphs, instruments that allow astronomers to take pictures of very faint objects around a central bright object, like stellar systems. NIRCam's coronagraphs work by blocking a brighter object's light, making it possible to view the dimmer object nearby - just like shielding the sun from your eyes with an upraised hand can allow you to focus on the view in front of you. With the coronagraphs, astronomers hope to determine the characteristics of planets orbiting nearby stars. The NIRCam instrument was built and designed by the University of Arizona and Lockheed Martin. || ", "hits": 51 }, { "id": 11462, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11462/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-01-30T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "GPM L-30 Mission and Science Briefings", "description": "NASA held a series of media events Monday, Jan. 27, in advance of the February launch of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory from Japan. The events were held at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.GPM is an international satellite mission led by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) that will provide next-generation observations of rain and snow worldwide. GPM data also will contribute to climate research and the forecasting of extreme weather events such as floods and hurricanes.The GPM Core Observatory is scheduled to lift off Feb. 27, between 1:07 and 3:07 p.m. EST, from JAXA's Tanegashima Space Center in Japan.Media events include briefings on the GPM mission and science. Briefing panelists are: Steven Neeck, deputy associate director, flight program, Earth Science, NASA Headquarters, Washington Kinji Furukawa, GPM Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar deputy project manager, JAXA, Tsukuba Art Azarbarzin, GPM project manager, Goddard Ramesh Kakar, GPM program scientist, Headquarters Gail Skofronick-Jackson, GPM deputy project scientist, Goddard Riko Oki, GPM/DPR program scientist, JAXATo view on YouTube, click here for the Mission Briefing and the Science Briefing. || ", "hits": 29 }, { "id": 11037, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11037/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-11-05T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "MAVEN: Mars Atmospheric Loss", "description": "When you take a look at Mars, you probably wouldn't think that it looks like a nice place to live. It's dry, it's dusty, and there's practically no atmosphere. But some scientists think that Mars may have once looked like a much nicer place to live, with a thicker atmosphere, cloudy skies, and possibly even liquid water flowing over the surface. So how did Mars transform from a warm, wet world to a cold, barren desert? NASA's MAVEN spacecraft will give us a clearer idea of how Mars lost its atmosphere (and thus its water), and scientists think that several processes have had an impact.Learn more about these processes in the videos below! || ", "hits": 263 }, { "id": 30065, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30065/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-07-22T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Earth Science Division Missions", "description": "In order to study the Earth as a whole system and understand how it is changing, NASA develops and supports a large number of Earth observing missions. These missions provide Earth science researchers the necessary data to address key questions about global climate change.", "hits": 403 }, { "id": 10793, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10793/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-05-16T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "OSIRIS-REx Mission Overview", "description": "OSIRIS-REx will visit a Near Earth asteroid called Bennu and return with samples that may hold clues to the origins of the solar system and perhaps life itself. It will also investigate the asteroid's chance of impacting Earth in 2182. For the mission, NASA has selected the team led by Principal Investigator Dr. Dante Lauretta from the University of Arizona. NASA GSFC will manage the mission and Lockheed Martin Space Systems will build the spacecraft. Arizona State University will supply the OTES instrument; NASA GSFC will supply the OVIRS instrument; the Canadian Space Agency will supply the OLA instrument; the University of Arizona will supply the OCAMS camera suite; Harvard/MIT will supply the REXIS instrument; and Flight Dynamics will supply the KinetX instrument. || ", "hits": 94 }, { "id": 11228, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11228/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-04-30T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fermi Collision Avoidance Animations", "description": "Animations of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the Cosmos 1805 Tselina-D Soviet satellite from the Fermi Collision Avoidance video. || ", "hits": 83 }, { "id": 11229, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11229/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-04-30T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "When Fermi Dodged a 1.5-ton Bullet", "description": "NASA scientists don't often learn that their spacecraft is at risk of crashing into another satellite. But when Julie McEnery, the project scientist for NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, checked her email on March 29, 2012, she found herself facing this precise situation. While Fermi is in fine shape today, continuing its mission to map the highest-energy light in the universe, the story of how it sidestepped a potential disaster offers a glimpse at an underappreciated aspect of managing a space mission: orbital traffic control. As McEnery worked through her inbox, an automatically generated report arrived from NASA's Robotic Conjunction Assessment Risk Analysis (CARA) team based at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. On scanning the document, she discovered that Fermi was just one week away from an unusually close encounter with Cosmos 1805, a dead Cold-War era spy satellite. The two objects, speeding around Earth at thousands of miles an hour in nearly perpendicular orbits, were expected to miss each other by a mere 700 feet.Although the forecast indicated a close call, satellite operators have learned the hard way that they can't be too careful. The uncertainties in predicting spacecraft positions a week into the future can be much larger than the distances forecast for their closest approach. With a speed relative to Fermi of 27,000 mph, a direct hit by the 3,100-pound Cosmos 1805 would release as much energy as two and a half tons of high explosives, destroying both spacecraft. The update on Friday, March 30, indicated that the satellites would occupy the same point in space within 30 milliseconds of each other. Fermi would have to move out of the way if the threat failed to recede. Because Fermi's thrusters were designed to de-orbit the satellite at the end of its mission, they had never before been used or tested, adding a new source of anxiety for the team.By Tuesday, April 3, the close approach was certain, and all plans were in place for firing Fermi's thrusters. The maneuver was performed by the spacecraft based on previously developed procedures. Fermi fired all thrusters for one second and was back doing science within the hour.Watch this video on YouTube. || ", "hits": 76 }, { "id": 10874, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10874/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-04-17T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "Science in the Media Press Conference", "description": "This video supports the Science in the Media curriculum module, which culminates with students playing the role of reporters viewing this simulated press conference and writing a story about it. The findings discussed in the video are actual results from the Suzaku satellite.Science in the Media curriculum module here. || ", "hits": 52 }, { "id": 11243, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11243/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-04-02T23:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth from Orbit 2012", "description": "NASA's fleet of Earth-observing satellites constantly circle the globe, completing their orbits every 90 minutes. They give us invaluable information about everything from our weather and climate, to the way we use our land, to the air we breathe. This video highlights some of the newest satellites in the fleet, including the versatile Suomi National Polar-orbiting (NPP) satellite, a partnership between NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Aquarius, which measures sea surface salinity and is a joint project between NASA and the Space Agency of Argentina. While many of the images are \"true color\" or photorealistic in nature, this video also includes data visualizations, which help scientists see data in useful new ways, and computer models, which help us understand interconnected Earth systems and make projections into the future.Curious about what images we used in this video? A full list can be found at www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/earthmonth/earth-from-orbit-2012.html || ", "hits": 64 }, { "id": 4016, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4016/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-12-03T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Global Precipitiation Measurement Core Satellite Instruments", "description": "The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission is co-led by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). NASA and JAXA will provide a GPM Core satellite to serve as a reference for precipitation measurements made by a constellation of satellites. The GPM Core satellite carries two instruments: a state-of-the-art radiometer called the GPM Microwave Imager (GMI) and the first space-borne Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR), which sees the 3D structure of falling rain and snow. The DPR and GMI work in concert to provide a unique database that will be used to improve the accuracy and consistency of measurements from all partner satellites, which will then be combined into the uniform global precipitation dataset. This animation shows the scanning capabilities of the GMI and DPR onboard the GPM Core satellite. Heavy rainfall is shown in red and light rainfall in blue. The DPR shows 3D precipitation in a midlatitude storm from two overlapping swaths. The Ka-band frequency scans across a region of 78 miles (125 kilometers) and is nested within the wider scan of the Ku-band frequency of 147 miles (245 kilometers). JAXA and Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) built the DPR. The GMI, shown as the flat precipitation values, constantly scans a region 550 miles (885 kilometers) across. The Ball Aerospace and Technology Corporation built the GMI under contract with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The GPM Core observatory is currently being built and tested at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. It is scheduled to launch from Tanegashima space center in Japan in early 2014. || ", "hits": 55 }, { "id": 4005, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4005/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-10-29T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Weather Satellites in Orbit (updated 2012)", "description": "This visualization showcases the five weather satellites that create NOAA's Climate Prediction Center (CPC) products. The five geosynchronous satellites are: GOES-13, GOES-15, Meteosat-7, Meteosat-9 and MTSAT-2.This is updated version of entry: #3781: Weather Satellites in Orbit (completed in 2010) || ", "hits": 27 }, { "id": 11053, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11053/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2012-07-30T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "MAVEN Broadcast-Quality Spacecraft and Instrument Footage", "description": "This page contains broadcast-quality footage of the MAVEN spacecraft and science instruments. The MAVEN bus was built at Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Littleton, Colorado. MAVEN's science instruments were built at the Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) at the University of California, Berkeley; at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado, Boulder; and at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Launch operations were conducted at the Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral, Florida. MAVEN was launched on November 18, 2013 and arrived at Mars on September 21, 2014 EDT. || ", "hits": 60 }, { "id": 11025, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11025/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-07-15T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Mars Climate Transition Animations: \"Dry\" Mars to and from \"Wet\" Mars", "description": "These animations show various conceptual animations depicting a transition from a \"Wet\" Mars that may have existed long ago to the \"Dry\" Mars we see today. || ", "hits": 68 }, { "id": 11024, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11024/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-07-09T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "MAVEN Orbit Animations and Beauty Passes", "description": "This collection contains animations showing the MAVEN spacecraft in orbit around Mars, as well as MAVEN's overall orbit trajectory. || ", "hits": 64 }, { "id": 10942, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10942/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-05-31T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "X-ray 'Echoes' Probe Habitat
of Monster Black Hole", "description": "Astronomers using data from the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton satellite have found a long-sought X-ray signal from NGC 4151, a galaxy that contains a supermassive black hole. The discovery promises a new way to unravel what's happening in the neighborhood of these powerful objects. || ", "hits": 124 }, { "id": 10943, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10943/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-04-02T12:30:00-04:00", "title": "Fermi Observations of Dwarf Galaxies Provide New Insights on Dark Matter", "description": "There's more to the cosmos than meets the eye. About 80 percent of the matter in the universe is invisible to telescopes, yet its gravitational influence is manifest in the orbital speeds of stars around galaxies and in the motions of clusters of galaxies. Yet, despite decades of effort, no one knows what this \"dark matter\" really is. Many scientists think it's likely that the mystery will be solved with the discovery of new kinds of subatomic particles, types necessarily different from those composing atoms of the ordinary matter all around us. The search to detect and identify these particles is underway in experiments both around the globe and above it. Scientists working with data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have looked for signals from some of these hypothetical particles by zeroing in on 10 small, faint galaxies that orbit our own. Although no signals have been detected, a novel analysis technique applied to two years of data from the observatory's Large Area Telescope (LAT) has essentially eliminated these particle candidates for the first time.WIMPs, or Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, represent a favored class of dark matter candidates. Some WIMPs may mutually annihilate when pairs of them interact, a process expected to produce gamma rays — the most energetic form of light — that the LAT is designed to detect. The team examined two years of LAT-detected gamma rays with energies in the range from 200 million to 100 billion electron volts (GeV) from 10 of the roughly two dozen dwarf galaxies known to orbit the Milky Way. Instead of analyzing the results for each galaxy separately, the scientists developed a statistical technique — they call it a \"joint likelihood analysis\" — that evaluates all of the galaxies at once without merging the data together. No gamma-ray signal consistent with the annihilations expected from four different types of commonly considered WIMP particles was found.For the first time, the results show that WIMP candidates within a specific range of masses and interaction rates cannot be dark matter. A paper detailing these results appeared in the Dec. 9, 2011, issue of Physical Review Letters. || ", "hits": 208 }, { "id": 20122, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20122/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2012-02-25T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Fermi's LAT Instrument", "description": "Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT) detects particles produced in a physical process known as pair production that epitomizes Einstein's famous equation, E=mc2. When a gamma ray, which is pure energy (E), slams into a layer of tungsten in one of the tracking towers that compose the LAT, it creates mass (m) in the form of a pair of subatomic particles, an electron and its antimatter counterpart, a positron. Several layers of high-precision silicon detectors track the particles as they move through the instrument. The direction of the incoming gamma ray is determined by projecting the particle paths backward. The particles travel through the trackers until they reach a separate detector called a calorimeter, which absorbs and measures their energies. The LAT produces gamma-ray images of astronomical objects, while also determining the energy of each detected gamma ray. || ", "hits": 112 }, { "id": 10910, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10910/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-02-23T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "Looking Down a Well: A Brief History of Geodesy", "description": "Geodesy is a field of study that deals with the measurement and representation of the Earth, and it all started when a clever human named Eratosthenes discovered that you could measure the circumference of the Earth by looking down a well. Over time, the field of geodesy has expanded and evolved dramatically, and NASA uses technology like radio telescopes, ground surveys, and satellites to contribute! Learn more about geodesy in this video! || ", "hits": 90 }, { "id": 10869, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10869/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-01-10T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's RXTE Helps Pinpoint Launch of 'Bullets' in a Black Hole's Jet", "description": "Using observations from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite and the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio telescope, an international team of astronomers has identified the moment when a black hole in our galaxy launched superfast knots of gas into space. Racing outward at about one-quarter the speed of light, these \"bullets\" of ionized gas are thought to arise from a region located just outside the black hole's event horizon, the point beyond which nothing can escape.The research centered on the mid-2009 outburst of a binary system known as H1743-322, located about 28,000 light-years away toward the constellation Scorpius. Discovered by NASA's HEAO-1 satellite in 1977, the system is composed of a normal star and a black hole of modest but unknown masses. Their orbit around each other is measured in days, which puts them so close together that the black hole pulls a continuous stream of matter from its stellar companion. The flowing gas forms a flattened accretion disk millions of miles across, several times wider than our sun, centered on the black hole. As matter swirls inward, it is compressed and heated to tens of millions of degrees, so hot that it emits X-rays.Some of the infalling matter becomes re-directed out of the accretion disk as dual, oppositely directed jets. Most of the time, the jets consist of a steady flow of particles. Occasionally, though, they morph into more powerful outflows that hurl massive gas blobs at significant fractions of the speed of light. || ", "hits": 70 }, { "id": 10887, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10887/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-01-10T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's Fermi Space Telescope Explores New Energy Extremes", "description": "After more than three years in space, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is extending its view of the high-energy sky into a range that to date has been largely unexplored territory. Now, the Fermi team has presented its first \"head count\" of sources in this new realm.Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT) scans the entire sky every three hours, continually deepening its portrait of the sky in gamma rays, the most extreme form of light. While the energy of visible light falls between about 2 and 3 electron volts, the LAT detects gamma rays with energies ranging from 20 million electron volts (MeV) to more than 300 billion (GeV).But at higher energies, gamma rays are few and far between. Above 10 GeV, even Fermi's LAT detects only one gamma ray every four months from some sources. The LAT's predecessor, the EGRET instrument on NASA's Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, detected only 1,500 individual gamma rays in this range during its nine-year lifetime, while the LAT detected more than 150,000 in just three years.Any object producing gamma rays at these energies is undergoing extraordinary astrophysical processes. More than half of the 496 sources in the new census are active galaxies, where matter falling into a supermassive black hole powers jets that spray out particles at nearly the speed of light. || ", "hits": 79 }, { "id": 10875, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10875/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-12-15T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "RXTE Detects 'Heartbeat' Of Smallest Black Hole Candidate", "description": "Data from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite has identified a candidate for the smallest-known black hole. The evidence comes from a specific type of X-ray pattern — nicknamed a \"heartbeat\" because of its resemblance to an electrocardiogram — that until now has been recorded in only one other black hole system. Named IGR J17091-3624 after the astronomical coordinates of its sky position, the binary system pairs a normal star with a black hole that may weigh less than three times the sun's mass, near the theoretical boundary where black-hole status first becomes possible. Flare-ups occur when gas from the normal star streams toward the black hole and forms a disk around it. Friction within the disk heats the gas to millions of degrees, which is hot enough to radiate X-rays.The record-holder for ubiquitous X-ray variability is another black hole binary named GRS 1915+105. This system is unique in displaying more than a dozen highly structured patterns — typically lasting between seconds and hours — that scientists distinguish by Greek-letter names. Seven of these patterns are now seen in IGR J17091, including the so-called rho-class oscillations that astronomers describe them as the \"heartbeat\" of black hole systems.It's thought that strong magnetic fields near the black hole's event horizon eject some of the gas into dual, oppositely directed jets that blast outward at nearly the speed of light. The peak of its heartbeat emission corresponds to the emergence of the jet. Changes in the X-ray spectrum observed by RXTE during each beat in GRS 1915 reveal that the innermost region of the disk emits enough radiation to push back the gas, creating a strong outward wind that staunches the inward flow, briefly starving the black hole and shutting down the jet. This corresponds to the faintest emission. Eventually the inner disk gets so bright and so hot that it essentially disintegrates and plunges toward the black hole, re-establishing the jet and beginning the cycle anew. In GRS 1915+105, which at 14 solar masses is by for the more massive of the two, this cycle can take as little as 40 seconds. In IGR J17091, the emission can be 20 times fainter than GRS 1915, and the heartbeat cycle can occur up to eight times faster.Download the animations here. || ", "hits": 67 }, { "id": 10876, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10876/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-12-15T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Black Hole Pulse Animation", "description": "Animations associated with the RXTE Black Hole 'Heartbeat' release.View the short video using these animations here. || ", "hits": 128 }, { "id": 10808, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10808/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-11-30T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Dual Personality of the 'Christmas Burst'", "description": "The Christmas burst, also known as GRB 101225A, was discovered in the constellation Andromeda by Swift's Burst Alert Telescope at 1:38 p.m. EST on Dec. 25, 2010. Two very different scenarios successfully reproduce features of this peculiar cosmic explosion. It was either caused by novel type of supernova located billions of light-years away or an unusual collision much closer to home, within our own galaxy. Common to both scenarios is the presence of a neutron star, the crushed core that forms when a star many times the sun's mass explodes. According to one science team, the burst occurred in an exotic binary system where a neutron star orbited a normal star that had just entered its red giant phase. The outer atmosphere of the giant expanded so much that it engulfed the neutron star, which resulted in both the ejection of the giant's atmosphere and rapid tightening of the neutron star's orbit. Once the two stars became wrapped in a common envelope of gas, the neutron star may have merged with the giant's core after just five orbits, or about 18 months. The end result of the merger was the birth of a black hole and the production of oppositely directed jets of particles moving at nearly the speed of light, which made the gamma rays, followed by a weak supernova. Based on this interpretation, the event took place about 5.5 billion light-years away, and the team has detected what may be a faint galaxy at the right location.Another team supports an alternative model that involves the tidal disruption of a large comet-like object and the ensuing crash of debris onto a neutron star located only about 10,000 light-years away. Gamma-ray emission occurred when debris fell onto the neutron star. Clumps of cometary material likely made a few orbits, with different clumps following different paths before settling into a disk around the neutron star. X-ray variations detected by Swift's X-Ray Telescope that lasted several hours may have resulted from late-arriving clumps that struck the neutron star as the disk formed. The NASA release is here. || ", "hits": 70 }, { "id": 10878, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10878/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-11-28T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "Gamma rays in the Heart of Cygnus", "description": "Located in the vicinity of the second-magnitude star Gamma Cygni, the Cygnus X star-forming region was discovered as a diffuse radio source by surveys in the 1950s. Now, a study using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope finds that the tumult of star birth and death in Cygnus X has managed to corral fast-moving particles called cosmic rays.Cosmic rays are subatomic particles — mainly protons — that move through space at nearly the speed of light. In their journey across the galaxy, the particles are deflected by magnetic fields, which scramble their paths and make it impossible to backtrack the particles to their sources. Yet when cosmic rays collide with interstellar gas, they produce gamma rays — the most energetic and penetrating form of light — that travel to us straight from the source.The Cygnus X star factory is located about 4,500 light-years away and is believed to contain enough raw material to make two million stars like our sun. Within it are many young star clusters and several sprawling groups of related O- and B-type stars, called OB associations. One, called Cygnus OB2, contains 65 O stars — the most massive, luminous and hottest type — and nearly 500 B stars. These massive stars possess intense outflows that clear out cavities in the region's gas clouds. A tangled web of shockwaves associated with this process impedes the movement of cosmic rays throughout the region. Cosmic rays striking gas nuclei or photons from starlight produce the gamma rays Fermi detects.The release on NASA.gov is here. || ", "hits": 80 }, { "id": 10871, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10871/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-11-11T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "Swift Captures Flyby of Asteroid 2005 YU55", "description": "As asteroid 2005 YU55 swept past Earth in the early morning hours of Wednesday, Nov. 9, telescopes aboard NASA's Swift satellite joined professional and amateur astronomers around the globe in monitoring the fast-moving space rock. The unique ultraviolet data will aid scientists in understanding the asteroid's surface composition.The challenge with 2005 YU55 was its rapid motion across the sky, which was much too fast for Swift to track. Instead, the team trained the spacecraft's optics at two locations along the asteroid's predicted path and let it streak through the field. The first exposure began a few hours after the asteroid's closest approach and fastest sky motion — near 9 p.m. EST on Nov. 8 — but failed to detect it.Six hours later, around 3 a.m. EST on Nov. 9, Swift began an exposure that captured the asteroid sweeping through the Great Square of the constellation Pegasus. The 11th- magnitude rock was then 333,000 miles away and moving at 24,300 mph, about an hour from its closest approach to the Moon. That exposure gave the Swift team more than a streak through the stars. \"A novel feature of Swift is the ability to go into a mode tracking the arrival of every photon captured by the instrument. With that information, we can reconstruct the asteroid as a point source moving through the Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope's field of view,\" said Neil Gehrels, lead scientist for Swift at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.The 27-minute-long image was effectively sliced into short 10-second-long exposures, which then were combined into a movie. This allows scientists to study short-term brightness variations caused by the object's rotation.The result is a movie of 2005 YU55 at ultraviolet wavelengths unobtainable from ground-based telescopes. For planetary scientists, this movie is a treasure trove of data that will help them better understand how this asteroid is put together, information that may help make predictions of its motion more secure for centuries to come. The press release on NASA.gov is here. || ", "hits": 60 }, { "id": 10867, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10867/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-11-09T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Swift HD Beauty Shot", "description": "Animation of the Swift spacecraft. || ", "hits": 50 }, { "id": 10858, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10858/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-11-03T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fermi Discovers Youngest Millisecond Pulsar", "description": "An international team of scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a surprisingly powerful millisecond pulsar that challenges existing theories about how these objects form. At the same time, another team has exploited improved analytical techniques to locate nine new gamma-ray pulsars in Fermi data.A pulsar, also called a neutron star, is the closest thing to a black hole astronomers can observe directly, crushing half a million times more mass than Earth into a sphere no larger than a city. This matter is so compressed that even a teaspoonful weighs as much as Mount Everest.Typically, millisecond pulsars are a billion years or more old, ages commensurate with a stellar lifetime. But in the Nov. 3 issue of Science, the Fermi team reveals a bright, energetic millisecond pulsar only 25 million years old.The object, named PSR J1823—3021A, lies within NGC 6624, a spherical assemblage of ancient stars called a globular cluster, one of about 160 similar objects that orbit our galaxy. The cluster is about 10 billion years old and lies about 27,000 light-years away toward the constellation Sagittarius.\"With this new batch of pulsars, Fermi now has detected more than 100, which is an exciting milestone when you consider that before Fermi's launch only seven of them were known to emit gamma rays,\" said Pablo Saz Parkinson, an astrophysicist at the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California Santa Cruz. || ", "hits": 117 }, { "id": 10861, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10861/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-11-03T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fermi Pulsar Interactive Videos", "description": "These videos originally accompanied a Fermi Pulsar Interactive. That interactive is now available here. || ", "hits": 210 }, { "id": 10859, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10859/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "TIRS TVAC1 Opening The Vacuum Chamber", "description": "The Thermal InfraRed Sensor (TIRS) is part of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) to continue thermal imaging and to support emerging applications such as evapotranspiration rate measurements for water management. TIRS is being built by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and has a three-year design life.TIRS completed its first round of thermal vacuum testing on Tuesday, October 4, marking the first time engineers evaluated the fully-assembled instrument at its normal operating temperature. When operational, TIRS is only 43 Kelvin (-382 °F). Such a cold temperature is necessary so the instrument itself does not overwhelm the heat radiated by Earth.The Landsat Program is a series of Earth observing satellite missions jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. Landsat satellites have been consistently gathering data about our planet since 1972. They continue to improve and expand this unparalleled record of Earth's changing landscapes for the benefit of all. || ", "hits": 44 }, { "id": 10843, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10843/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-10-12T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Science On a Sphere: Evolution of the Moon", "description": "NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter present to you a short, narrated Science On a Sphere show depicting the evolution of our moon—all the way from when it was just a ball of magma orbiting the Earth. See the large impacts that formed the basins of the moon, watch as lava seeps out and cools to form the dark-colored maria, and observe how thousands of crater impacts made the moon look like it does today! || ", "hits": 100 }, { "id": 10812, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10812/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-10-05T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Landsat 8 (aka LDCM) Spacecraft Animations and Still Images", "description": "Landsat 8 (formerly known as LDCM, the Landsat Data Continuity Mission), a collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, will provide moderate-resolution (15 meter - 100 meter, depending on spectral frequency) measurements of the Earth's terrestrial and polar regions in the visible, near-infrared, short wave infrared, and thermal infrared. There are two instruments on the spacecraft, the Thermal InfraRed Sensor (TIRS) and the Operational Land Imager (OLI). Landsat 8 continues 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 8 measurements directly serve NASA research in the focus areas of climate, carbon cycle, ecosystems, water cycle, biogeochemistry, and Earth surface/interior. || ", "hits": 204 }, { "id": 10819, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10819/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-09-09T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fermi's Latest Gamma-ray Census Highlights Cosmic Mysteries", "description": "Every three hours, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope scans the entire sky and deepens its portrait of the high-energy universe. Every year, the satellite's scientists reanalyze all of the data it has collected, exploiting updated analysis methods to tease out new sources. These relatively steady sources are in addition to the numerous transient events Fermi detects, such as gamma-ray bursts in the distant universe and flares from the sun.Earlier this year, the Fermi team released its second catalog of sources detected by the satellite's Large Area Telescope (LAT), producing an inventory of 1,873 objects shining with the highest-energy form of light. More than half of these sources are active galaxies whose supermassive black hole centers are causing the gamma-ray emissions. || ", "hits": 124 }, { "id": 10807, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10807/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-08-24T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's Swift Satellite Spots Black Hole Devouring A Star", "description": "In late March 2011, NASA's Swift satellite alerted astronomers to intense and unusual high-energy flares from a new source in the constellation Draco. They soon realized that the source, which is now known as Swift J1644+57, was the result of a truly extraordinary event — the awakening of a distant galaxy's dormant black hole as it shredded and consumed a star. The galaxy is so far away that the radiation from the blast has traveled 3.9 billion years before reaching Earth. Most galaxies, including our own, possess a central supersized black hole weighing millions of times the sun's mass. According to the new studies, the black hole in the galaxy hosting Swift J1644+57 may be twice the mass of the four-million-solar-mass black hole lurking at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. As a star falls toward a black hole, it is ripped apart by intense tides. The gas is corralled into a disk that swirls around the black hole and becomes rapidly heated to temperatures of millions of degrees. The innermost gas in the disk spirals toward the black hole, where rapid motion and magnetism creates dual, oppositely directed \"funnels\" through which some particles may escape. Particle jets driving matter at velocities greater than 80-90 percent the speed of light form along the black hole's spin axis. In the case of Swift J1644+57, one of these jets happened to point straight at Earth.Theoretical studies of tidally disrupted stars suggested that they would appear as flares at optical and ultraviolet energies. The brightness and energy of a black hole's jet is greatly enhanced when viewed head-on. The phenomenon, called relativistic beaming, explains why Swift J1644+57 was seen at X-ray energies and appeared so strikingly luminous. When first detected on March 28, the flares were initially assumed to signal a gamma-ray burst, one of the nearly daily short blasts of high-energy radiation often associated with the death of a massive star and the birth of a black hole in the distant universe. But as the emission continued to brighten and flare, astronomers realized that the most plausible explanation was the tidal disruption of a sun-like star seen as beamed emission. || ", "hits": 250 }, { "id": 10782, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10782/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-07-22T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "The How-To Guide to Satellites: Putting it Together", "description": "Building satellites isn't easy. They're complex, expensive, and not to mention hard to make! This is why whenever NASA makes a new satellite—like the MAVEN mission to Mars—its scientists and engineers do everything they can to make sure it's done right.Now, putting a satellite together is nothing like putting together, say, an office chair. A single bolt can take hours to install, and you can't even imagine how complex the electronics are! Find out more about the whole process in this video! || ", "hits": 40 }, { "id": 10806, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10806/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-07-22T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Beyond Einstein", "description": "Albert Einstein's theories rank among humanity's greatest achievements. They sparked the scientific revolution of the 20th Century. In their attempts to understand how space, time and matter are connected, Einstein and his successors made three predictions:First, that space is expanding from a Big Bang. Second, that black holes exist — these extremely dense places in the universe where space and time are tied into contorted knots and where time itself — stops. And third, that there is some kind of energy pulling the universe apart. These three predictions seemed so far-fetched, that everyone, including Einstein himself, thought they were unlikely. Incredibly, all three have turned out to be true. This is where NASA's Beyond Einstein program begins. Using advanced space-based technology to explore these three questions, NASA and its partners begin the next revolution in our understanding of the universe. NASA's Beyond Einstein program is poised to complete Einstein's legacy — and ultimately unravel the mysteries of the Universe. || ", "hits": 65 }, { "id": 10767, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10767/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-05-11T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's Fermi Spots 'Superflares' in the Crab Nebula", "description": "The famous Crab Nebula supernova remnant has erupted in an enormous flare five times more powerful than any previously seen from the object. The outburst was first detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope on April 12 and lasted six days.The nebula, which is the wreckage of an exploded star whose light reached Earth in 1054, is one of the most studied objects in the sky. At the heart of an expanding gas cloud lies what's left of the original star's core, a superdense neutron star that spins 30 times a second. With each rotation, the star swings intense beams of radiation toward Earth, creating the pulsed emission characteristic of spinning neutron stars (also known as pulsars). Apart from these pulses, astrophysicists regarded the Crab Nebula to be a virtually constant source of high-energy radiation. But in January, scientists associated with several orbiting observatories — including NASA's Fermi, Swift and Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer — reported long-term brightness changes at X-ray energies.Scientists think that the flares occur as the intense magnetic field near the pulsar undergoes sudden restructuring. Such changes can accelerate particles like electrons to velocities near the speed of light. As these high-speed electrons interact with the magnetic field, they emit gamma rays in a process known as synchrotron emission.To account for the observed emission, scientists say that the electrons must have energies 100 times greater than can be achieved in any particle accelerator on Earth. This makes them the highest-energy electrons known to be associated with any cosmic source.Based on the rise and fall of gamma rays during the April outbursts, scientists estimate that the size of the emitting region must be comparable in size to the solar system. If circular, the region must be smaller than roughly twice Pluto's average distance from the sun.For more Crab Nebula media go to #10708. || ", "hits": 111 }, { "id": 10749, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10749/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-05-01T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Goddard Virtual Tour", "description": "Goddard Chief Scientist Jim Garvin takes us on a tour of the life of a spacecraft, from the idea to the collection of data in orbit. Each segment looks at a different phase of the spacecraft and its place in Goddard Space Flight Center: Idea, Design, Construction, Testing, Launch, Operations, and Scientific Analysis. These videos were produced in support of the Goddard Virtual Tour web interactive feature. || ", "hits": 28 }, { "id": 3815, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3815/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2011-03-15T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Stereoscopic Earth Observing Fleet", "description": "NASA's Earth Observing fleet of vehicles constitutes a major milestone in the history of Earth science, facilitating the kinds of wide scale and synergistic research endeavors that until the last decades have been impossible to even consider. Many of the techniques being employed around Earth are a direct offshoot of technological and scientific techniques developed on missions to other worlds. NASA's continued commitment to primary research about our home remains a top priority not only to the agency, but to the nation, and the world as a whole. This visualization shows the spacecraft in NASA's Earth Observing fleet. The relative altitudes, speeds, sun position, and clouds are correct for 05 February 2010 from about 19:31UT to about 20:04UTThis stereoscopic version was created based on previous animations and is intended for viewing with a steroscopic projector or television. A stereo anaglyph version is also included which can be watched using red/cyan glasses. || ", "hits": 44 } ] }