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This visualization captures the spacecraft's journey as the Orion spacecraft leaves the safety of the magnetosphere (shown here in green) and travels into open space, where it will encounter the solar wind streaming from the Sun.", "hits": 2880 }, { "id": 5617, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5617/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2026-02-26T10:30:00-05:00", "title": "ESCAPADE Visits the Distant Magnetotail", "description": "Launched on Nov. 13, 2025, NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission will use two identical spacecraft to investigate how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape.", "hits": 351 }, { "id": 14957, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14957/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-01-27T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "IMAP Arrives at L1", "description": "NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) reached its destination at Lagrange point 1, or L1, approximately 1 million miles from Earth toward the Sun on Jan. 10, 2026.The mission’s operations team sent commands to the spacecraft on the morning of Jan. 9 to begin trajectory maneuvers to enter orbit at L1. Early on the morning of Jan. 10, the team confirmed the spacecraft had successfully entered its final L1 orbit, where it will stay for the duration of its mission.From L1, IMAP will explore and map the very boundaries of our heliosphere — the protective bubble created by the solar wind that encapsulates our entire solar system — and study how the heliosphere interacts with the local galactic neighborhood beyond.Learn more about the milestone: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/imap/2026/01/12/nasas-imap-mission-reaches-its-destination/ || ", "hits": 394 }, { "id": 14956, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14956/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-01-26T16:00:00-05:00", "title": "Space Weather Effects Animations", "description": "Solar flares, coronal mass ejections, solar particle events, and the solar wind form the recipe for space weather that affects life on Earth and astronauts in space. 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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This important work helps decision makers not only protect people and equipment but maintain the services our modern-day society relies on every day. NASA’s space weather monitoring is also critical for safeguarding astronauts as they journey to the Moon and onward to Mars. || ", "hits": 309 }, { "id": 14921, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14921/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-11-21T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "IMAP Testing and Integration at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center", "description": "NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) spacecraft arrived May 10, 2025, for processing at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will study how the Sun shapes the boundaries of the heliosphere, the bubble around our solar system. A semitrailer transported the spacecraft from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, after completing thermal vacuum testing, which simulates the harsh conditions of space, at the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility. Astrotech provides the facility and technicians to prepare the spacecraft for launch, including fueling and encapsulation. The IMAP spacecraft launched Sept. 24, 2025, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA Kennedy. || ", "hits": 157 }, { "id": 5577, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5577/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2025-11-20T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "SDO Sun This Week", "description": "This visualization shows SDO AIA-304 imagery from the past 7 days with a color table and image processing applied. Archive folders are provided in the Download menu.", "hits": 0 }, { "id": 5503, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5503/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-11-19T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "ESCAPADE Theoretical Flight Through Active Mars Magnetosphere", "description": "NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration Dynamics Explorers mission, or ESCAPADE, aims to study Mars' real-time response to the solar wind and how the Martian magnetosphere changes over time, helping us better understand Mars' climate history. 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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": 662 }, { "id": 14920, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14920/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-11-13T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Preparing for Martian Explorers: NASA's ESCAPADE Investigates Mars Space Weather", "description": "NASA’s new ESCAPADE mission is launching to Mars to help us better understand the Sun’s influence on Mars’ past and present. Its work could help protect future human explorers from potentially dangerous space weather when they set foot on the Red Planet.For the first time, the mission will use two identical spacecraft to investigate how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape. Its observations will reveal the planet’s real-time response to space weather and how the Martian magnetosphere changes over time.The ESCAPADE orbiters build on earlier Mars missions, such as NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) orbiter. The MAVEN mission has one spacecraft that has been studying Mars’ atmospheric loss since arriving at the Red Planet in 2014.ESCAPADE is scheduled to launch no earlier than fall 2025 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Launch Complex 36 in Florida.Find out more about the ESCAPADE mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/escapade/ || ", "hits": 155 }, { "id": 14907, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14907/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-30T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "What is space weather?", "description": "Though it is almost 100 million miles away from Earth, the Sun influences our daily lives in ways you may not realize.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 its impacts on objects in the solar system. || ", "hits": 247 }, { "id": 14904, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14904/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-24T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA, NOAA Launch Three Spacecraft to Map Sun’s Influence Across Space", "description": "NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) launched three new missions Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025, to investigate the Sun’s influence across the solar system.At 7:30 a.m. EDT, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying the agency’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and NOAA’s SWFO-L1 (Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1) spacecraft.Learn more about IMAP: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/imap/Learn more about Carruthers Geocorona Observatory: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/carruthers-geocorona-observatory/Learn more about SWFO-L1: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/swfo-l1/ || ", "hits": 187 }, { "id": 14895, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14895/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-17T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Mapping the Boundaries of Our Home in Space with NASA’s IMAP Mission", "description": "NASA’s new Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, will explore and map the very boundaries of our heliosphere — a huge bubble created by the Sun's wind that encapsulates our solar system — and study how that boundary interacts with the local galactic neighborhood beyond.As a modern-day celestial cartographer, IMAP will chart the vast range of particles in interplanetary space, helping to investigate two of the most important overarching issues in heliophysics — the energization of charged particles from the Sun, and the interaction of the solar wind with interstellar space. Additionally, IMAP will support near real-time observations of the solar wind and energetic particles, which can produce hazardous conditions in the space environment near Earth. IMAP is launching no earlier than Sept. 23, 2025, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Learn more about IMAP science: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/nasas-imap-mission-to-study-boundaries-of-our-home-in-space/Find out more about the IMAP mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/imap/ || ", "hits": 152 }, { "id": 14898, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14898/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-15T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Our Home In Space Series", "description": "The heliosphere, the massive bubble created by our Sun, is like our “house” in space. It shelters us from harsh weather outside and regulates the environment inside. Without our heliosphere, Earth may never have developed life at all. But there’s a lot we still don’t know about our cosmic home. How big is it, and what is it shaped like? How does it compare to the “houses” created by other stars? A new NASA mission will soon unlock answers to these questions and more. Launching as early as Sept. 23, NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe will help us construct the “blueprints” or our home in space. This three-part series explores how we learn about our heliosphere, how it protects us, and how it advances the search for life elsewhere in the Universe. || ", "hits": 178 }, { "id": 14885, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14885/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-12T06:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Interview Opportunity: Groundbreaking New NASA Mission Will Give Us The Most Detailed Look Yet At Our Solar System’s Shield", "description": "Scroll down page for associated cut b-roll and pre-recorded soundbites. || IMAP_banner.jpeg (1600x640) [185.0 KB] || IMAP_banner_print.jpg (1024x409) [110.6 KB] || IMAP_banner_searchweb.png (320x180) [73.1 KB] || IMAP_banner_thm.png (80x40) [6.7 KB] || ", "hits": 126 }, { "id": 14892, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14892/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-08-29T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "Solar Wind Animations", "description": "The Sun releases a constant stream of charged particles, called the solar wind. The solar wind originates in the outermost layer of the Sun’s atmosphere, the corona, when plasma is heated to a point that the Sun’s gravity can’t hold it down. When this plasma escapes – often reaching speeds of over one million miles per hour – it drags the Sun’s magnetic out across the solar system. When the solar wind encounters Earth, it is deflected by our planet's magnetic shield, causing most of the solar wind's energetic particles to flow around and beyond us. However, some of these high-energy particles can sneak past Earth’s natural magnetic defenses and produce hazardous conditions for satellites and astronauts, as well as power grids and infrastructure on Earth.Learn more about the solar wind: https://science.nasa.gov/sun/what-is-the-solar-wind/ || ", "hits": 933 }, { "id": 5375, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5375/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-08-07T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Carrington Class Coronal Mass Ejection - ENLIL Simulation of A Series of CMEs", "description": "A series of visualizations of the simulation of a series of CMEs between July 2012 and August 2012, including a carrington class coronal mass ejection that hit STEREO-A.", "hits": 359 }, { "id": 14876, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14876/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-25T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA’s TRACERS Mission Launches to Study Earth’s Magnetic Shield", "description": "NASA’s newest mission, TRACERS, soon will begin studying how Earth’s magnetic shield protects our planet from the effects of space weather. Short for Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, the twin TRACERS spacecraft lifted off at 11:13 a.m. PDT (2:13 p.m. EDT) Wednesday, July 23, 2025, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.Learn more about the mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/tracers/ || ", "hits": 133 }, { "id": 5567, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5567/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-07-21T18:59:59-04:00", "title": "New Missions to L1", "description": "Three missions, Carruthers, IMAP and SWFO-L1 will be launched to the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point, L1.", "hits": 152 }, { "id": 14863, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14863/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-17T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Quickshot: New NASA Mission Launching Soon To Study Earth’s Space Weather Shield", "description": "Scroll down page for advisory with suggested questions and anchor intro. 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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": 429 }, { "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. By understanding this process, scientists will be able to better understand and prepare for impacts of solar activity on Earth, such as auroras and disruptions to telecommunications.Learn more about the mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/tracers/ || ", "hits": 203 }, { "id": 14829, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14829/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-04-25T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "TRACERS Thermal Vacuum Testing at Millennium Space Systems", "description": "NASA’s Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, or TRACERS, is embarking on its integration and testing campaign, during which all of the instruments and components will be added to the spacecraft structure, tested to ensure they will survive the harsh environments of launch and space, and made ready to execute its mission. The TRACERS 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. By understanding this process, scientists will be able to better understand and prepare for impacts of solar activity on Earth, such as auroras and disruptions to telecommunications.Below are clips of Millennium Space Systems’ team members conducting Thermal Vacuum (TVAC) testing at the Boeing Space Systems Laboratory in El Segundo, California.Learn more about the mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/tracers/ || ", "hits": 131 }, { "id": 14827, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14827/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-04-24T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "TRACERS Instrument Development & Testing at the University of Iowa", "description": "NASA’s Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, or TRACERS, is embarking on its integration and testing campaign, during which all of the instruments and components will be added to the spacecraft structure, tested to ensure they will survive the harsh environments of launch and space, and made ready to execute its mission. The TRACERS 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. By understanding this process, scientists will be able to better understand and prepare for impacts of solar activity on Earth, such as auroras and disruptions to telecommunications.Below are clips of TRACERS’ instrument design, build, and testing at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.Learn more about the mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/tracers/ || ", "hits": 72 }, { "id": 14828, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14828/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-04-24T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "TRACERS Testing & Integration at Millennium Space Systems", "description": "NASA’s Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, or TRACERS, is embarking on its integration and testing campaign, during which all of the instruments and components will be added to the spacecraft structure, tested to ensure they will survive the harsh environments of launch and space, and made ready to execute its mission. The TRACERS 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. By understanding this process, scientists will be able to better understand and prepare for impacts of solar activity on Earth, such as auroras and disruptions to telecommunications.Below are clips of TRACERS’ testing and integration at the Millennium Space Systems Small Satellite Factory in El Segundo, California. Learn more about the mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/tracers/ || ", "hits": 99 }, { "id": 14830, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14830/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-04-23T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Carruthers Geocorona Observatory Images", "description": "The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory is a SmallSat mission at Lagrange Point 1 (L1) where it will use an advanced ultraviolet imager to monitor Earth’s exosphere — the outermost layer of the atmosphere — and the exosphere’s response to solar-driven space weather. Carruthers is poised to become the first SmallSat to operate at L1 and the first to deliver continuous exospheric observations from this vantage point.Led by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the mission is scheduled to launch no earlier than 2025 as a rideshare component of NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission, which will explore the boundaries of the heliosphere, the bubble that is inflated by the solar wind and surrounds the Sun and planets. The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory is a vital addition to NASA’s fleet of heliophysics satellites. NASA Heliophysics Division missions study a vast, interconnected system from the Sun to the space surrounding Earth and other planets to the farthest limits of the Sun’s constantly flowing streams of solar wind. || ", "hits": 113 }, { "id": 5514, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5514/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-04-07T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Solar Storm Excites Martian Magnetosphere for Fulldome", "description": "On September 13, 2017, a coronal mass ejection from the Sun arrived at Mars. This data visualization shows how solar-wind-induced currents and magnetic fields combine with Mars' relatively weak and irregular native crustal magnetic fields to contribute to Mars’ \"hybrid\" magnetosphere.", "hits": 312 }, { "id": 5502, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5502/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-04-07T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Solar Storm Excites Martian Magnetosphere", "description": "On September 13, 2017, a coronal mass ejection from the Sun arrived at Mars. This data visualization shows how solar-wind-induced currents (green colors) and magnetic fields (pink lines) combine with Mars' relatively weak and irregular native crustal magnetic fields to contribute to Mars’ \"hybrid\" magnetosphere.", "hits": 341 }, { "id": 14805, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14805/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2025-03-24T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "TRACERS Spacecraft Beauty Passes", "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. By understanding this process, scientists will be able to better understand and prepare for impacts of solar activity on Earth, such as auroras and disruptions to telecommunications.Learn more about the mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/tracers/ || ", "hits": 118 }, { "id": 14803, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14803/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-03-17T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA’s SPHEREX and PUNCH Missions Launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base", "description": "Ignition, and liftoff! At 11:10 p.m. EDT (8:10 p.m. PDT) March 11, 2025, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base’s Space Launch Complex 4 East, carrying NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) and PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) missions.SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will orbit Earth for a two-year prime mission and create a three-dimensional map of the cosmos. This will help scientists answer major questions about what happened in the first second after the big bang, how galaxies form and evolve, and the origins and abundance of water and other key ingredients for life in our galaxy.Ride-sharing with SPHEREx was NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, which will study the outer portion of the Sun, the corona, to understand how solar wind forms.For more information on SPHEREx: nasa.gov/spherexFor more information on PUNCH: science.nasa.gov/mission/punch || ", "hits": 141 }, { "id": 14784, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14784/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-02-13T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "PUNCH Mission Media Teleconference", "description": "NASA held a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EST on Tuesday, February 4, to share information about the agency’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, which is targeted to launch no earlier than Thursday, February 27, 2025.The agency’s PUNCH mission is a constellation of four small satellites. When they arrive in low Earth orbit, the satellites will make global, 3D observations of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, and help NASA learn how the mass and energy there become solar wind. By imaging the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together, scientists hope to better understand the entire inner heliosphere – Sun, solar wind, and Earth – as a single connected system.The PUNCH mission will share a ride to space with NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) space telescope on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.The Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, leads the PUNCH mission. The mission is managed by the Explorers Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington.To learn more about PUNCH, please visit: nasa.gov/punch || ", "hits": 66 }, { "id": 14783, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14783/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-02-13T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA Interview Opportunity: Two Missions, One Rocket: One Shared Goal", "description": "Assocated cut b-roll will be posted by 5 p.m. EST on Monday, Feb 24. || SPHEREx_PUNCH_Live_Shots_Banner.jpg (1800x720) [495.3 KB] || SPHEREx_PUNCH_Live_Shots_Banner_print.jpg (1024x409) [260.6 KB] || SPHEREx_PUNCH_Live_Shots_Banner_searchweb.png (320x180) [111.2 KB] || SPHEREx_PUNCH_Live_Shots_Banner_thm.png [8.0 KB] || ", "hits": 58 }, { "id": 14773, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14773/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-02-04T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's PUNCH Mission", "description": "NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH mission, is a constellation of four small satellites in low Earth orbit that will make global, 3D observations of the Sun’s corona to better understand how the mass and energy there becomes the solar wind that fills the solar system.Watch the video to learn how imaging the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together will help scientists better understand the entire inner heliosphere — Sun, solar wind, and Earth — as a single connected system.The PUNCH mission is led by Southwest Research Institute’s office in Boulder, Colorado. The mission is managed by the Explorers Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.For more information visit science.nasa.gov/mission/punch || ", "hits": 91 }, { "id": 14776, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14776/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-30T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "PUNCH Satellites Integration and Testing", "description": "NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH mission, is a constellation of four small satellites in low Earth orbit that will make global, 3D observations of the Sun's corona to better understand how the mass and energy there becomes the solar wind that fills the solar system.By imaging the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together, scientists hope to better understand the entire inner heliosphere – Sun, solar wind, and Earth – as a single connected system.The PUNCH mission is led by Southwest Research Institute’s office in Boulder, Colorado. The mission is managed by the Explorers Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. || ", "hits": 49 }, { "id": 14771, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14771/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-24T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "PUNCH Instruments", "description": "NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH mission, is a constellation of four small satellites in low Earth orbit that will make global, 3D observations of the Sun's corona to better understand how the mass and energy there becomes the solar wind that fills the solar system. By imaging the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together, scientists hope to better understand the entire inner heliosphere – Sun, solar wind, and Earth – as a single connected system.Three of the PUNCH satellites will carry a Wide Field Imager (WFI), and the fourth will carry the Narrow Field Imager (NFI).The Narrow Field Imager (NFI)The Narrow Field Image (NFI) is a coronagraph, a type of device that blocks out the bright light from the Sun to better see details in the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona. The coronagraph will have a similar field of view as the SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) C3 field, from 6 to 32 solar radii on the sky, and it will view the corona in both polarized and unpolarized light.Wide Field Imager (WFI)The Wide Field Imager (WFI) is a heliospheric imager, a device that provides views from 18 to 180 solar radii (45 degrees) away from the Sun in the sky. Heliospheric imagers use an artificial “horizon” and deep baffles to view the very faint outermost portion of the solar corona and the solar wind itself. The instrument reduces direct sunlight by over 16 orders of magnitude, which is like the ratio between the mass of a human and the mass of a cold virus. The wide-field imaging optics are based on the design of the famous Nagler eyepieces, which are known among observational astronomers for their clarity, low distortion, wide field, and achromatic focus. Three of the PUNCH spacecraft will carry a WFI instrument. || ", "hits": 81 }, { "id": 14770, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14770/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-24T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "PUNCH Satellites Test Operations at Vandenberg Space Force Base", "description": "NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH mission, is a constellation of four small satellites in low Earth orbit that will make global, 3D observations of the Sun's corona to better understand how the mass and energy there becomes the solar wind that fills the solar system.By imaging the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together, scientists hope to better understand the entire inner heliosphere – Sun, solar wind, and Earth – as a single connected system.The PUNCH mission is led by Southwest Research Institute’s office in Boulder, Colorado. The mission is managed by the Explorers Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. || ", "hits": 25 }, { "id": 14768, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14768/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-23T17:00:00-05:00", "title": "PUNCH Satellites Solar Array Deployment Test", "description": "NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH mission, is a constellation of four small satellites in low Earth orbit that will make global, 3D observations of the Sun's corona to better understand how the mass and energy there becomes the solar wind that fills the solar system.By imaging the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together, scientists hope to better understand the entire inner heliosphere – Sun, solar wind, and Earth – as a single connected system.The PUNCH mission is led by Southwest Research Institute’s office in Boulder, Colorado. The mission is managed by the Explorers Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. || ", "hits": 80 }, { "id": 14767, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14767/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-23T16:00:00-05:00", "title": "PUNCH Satellites Arrival at Vandenberg Space Force Base", "description": "NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH mission, is a constellation of four small satellites in low Earth orbit that will make global, 3D observations of the Sun's corona to better understand how the mass and energy there becomes the solar wind that fills the solar system.By imaging the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together, scientists hope to better understand the entire inner heliosphere – Sun, solar wind, and Earth – as a single connected system.The PUNCH mission is led by Southwest Research Institute’s office in Boulder, Colorado. The mission is managed by the Explorers Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. || ", "hits": 45 }, { "id": 14765, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14765/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-23T15:00:00-05:00", "title": "PUNCH Assembly and Testing", "description": "NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH mission, is a constellation of four small satellites in low Earth orbit that will make global, 3D observations of the Sun's corona to better understand how the mass and energy there becomes the solar wind that fills the solar system.By imaging the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together, scientists hope to better understand the entire inner heliosphere – Sun, solar wind, and Earth – as a single connected system.The PUNCH mission is led by Southwest Research Institute’s office in Boulder, Colorado. The mission is managed by the Explorers Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. || ", "hits": 62 }, { "id": 14739, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14739/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-03T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "From the Moon, NASA’s LEXI Will Reveal Earth’s Magnetic Shield", "description": "NASA’s next mission to the Moon will carry an instrument called LEXI (the Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager), which will provide the first-ever global view of the magnetic environment that shields Earth from solar radiation.From the surface of the Moon, LEXI will capture wide-field images of Earth's magnetic environment, or magnetosphere, in low-energy (or \"soft\") X-rays. LEXI will study changes in the magnetosphere and help us learn more about how it interacts with a stream of particles from the Sun called the solar wind, which can pose hazards for Artemis astronauts traveling to the Moon.Learn more about LEXI and its CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) flight to the Moon from Hyunju Connor, LEXI co-investigator at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.More on LEXI: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-lexi-will-provide-x-ray-vision-of-earths-magnetosphere/ || ", "hits": 171 }, { "id": 14744, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14744/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-03T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "GDC and DYNAMIC to Explore Earth’s Upper Atmosphere", "description": "Two upcoming missions, the Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) and Dynamical Neutral Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling (DYNAMIC) will revolutionize our understanding of Earth’s upper atmosphere. This region includes Earth’s ionosphere, thermosphere, and mesosphere, and stretches from roughly 50 to 400 miles above Earth’s surface. Space weather disturbances can impact communications, navigation signals, and satellite orbits, and induce currents can trigger power outages on Earth — making the region a crucial area of study.GDC is a team of satellites that will study Earth’s upper atmosphere and provide the first direct global measurements of our planet’s dynamic and complex interface with the space environment. Working in tandem with the DYNAMIC spacecraft, scientists will be able paint a fuller picture of how energy transforms and travels throughout the upper atmosphere. GDC will fly at an altitude of 350-400 km.DYNAMIC is a pair of satellites that will work in tandem with GDC to study how changes in Earth’s lower atmosphere influence our planet’s upper atmosphere. Between the multiple spacecraft of GDC and DYNAMIC, simultaneous observations from different locations can give scientists a more complete picture of how atmospheric waves propagate up through this unique part of the atmosphere. DYNAMIC will fly at an altitude of 550-800 km. || ", "hits": 184 }, { "id": 5435, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5435/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2024-12-12T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Geomagnetic and Atmospheric Response to May 2024 Solar Storm", "description": "This visualization shows the Earth's magnetosphere being hit by a geomagnetic storm. The MAGE model simulates real events that happened throughout May 10-11, 2024.White orbit trails: All satellites orbiting Earth during the stormOrange orbits: Proposed orbits for six GDC spacecraftOrange-to-purple lines: Magnetic field lines around EarthBlue trails: Solar wind velocity tracersGreen clouds: Electric field current intensityCredit:NASA Scientific Visualization Studio and NASA DRIVE Science Center for Geospace Storms || multiField_11-25-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_4k.00450_print.jpg (1024x576) [191.2 KB] || multiField_11-25-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_4k.00450_searchweb.png (320x180) [102.0 KB] || multiField_11-25-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_4k.00450_web.png (320x180) [102.0 KB] || multiField_11-25-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_4k.00450_thm.png (80x40) [6.4 KB] || multiField_12-30-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [253.6 MB] || multiField_12-30-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_3x3Hyperwall (5760x3240) [2880 Item(s)] || multiField_12-30-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_3x3Hyperwall_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [773.4 MB] || multiField_12-30-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_3x3Hyperwall_3240p30_h265.mp4 (5760x3240) [779.4 MB] || ", "hits": 326 }, { "id": 14722, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14722/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-12-06T15:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA Interview Opportunity: NASA Spacecraft Days Away From Historic Close Approach to the Sun", "description": "Scroll down the page for associated cut b-roll for the live shots and pre-recorded soundbites.Find out more about NASA's Parker Solar Probe here! nasa.gov/parker || Screenshot_2024-12-06_at_2.24.02 PM.png (1546x606) [1.9 MB] || Screenshot_2024-12-06_at_2.24.02 PM_print.jpg (1024x401) [195.3 KB] || Screenshot_2024-12-06_at_2.24.02 PM_searchweb.png (320x180) [128.7 KB] || Screenshot_2024-12-06_at_2.24.02 PM_thm.png (80x40) [12.2 KB] || ", "hits": 137 }, { "id": 5428, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5428/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2024-11-25T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe Towards its Ultimate Perihelion", "description": "Parker Solar Probe is making its final planned orbits around the Sun.On Wednesday, November 6, 2024, NASA's Parker Solar Probe completed it's final Venus gravity assist maneuver, passing within 233 miles (376 kilometers) of Venus' surface. The flyby adjusted Parker's trajectory into its final orbital configuration, bringing the spacecraft to within an unprecedented 3.86 million miles from the solar surface on December 24, 2024. It will be the closest any human-made object has been to the Sun. || ", "hits": 552 }, { "id": 20392, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20392/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2024-11-12T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "Space Weather and NOAA's Space Weather Follow On at Lagrange point 1 (SWFO-L1)", "description": "NOAA and Impacts of Space Weather || SWFO_0924_2MinVer_HD_v02.01800_print.jpg (1024x576) [187.1 KB] || SWFO_0924_2MinVer_HD_v02.01800_searchweb.png (180x320) [89.8 KB] || SWFO_0924_2MinVer_HD_v02.01800_thm.png (80x40) [6.3 KB] || SWFO_0924_2MinVer_FHD_v02.mp4 (1920x1080) [159.2 MB] || SWFO_0924_2MinVer_HD_v02.mp4 (1280x720) [157.5 MB] || SWFO_0924_2MinVer_SD_v02.mp4 (852x480) [156.8 MB] || SWFO_0924_2MinVer_4k_v02.mp4 (3840x2160) [231.9 MB] || SWFO_0924_2MinVer_4k_v02.mov (3840x2160) [15.8 GB] || ", "hits": 100 }, { "id": 14714, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14714/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2024-11-06T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "CODEX Heads to the Space Station for Install", "description": "On Nov. 4, 2024, the Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX) launched to space aboard NASA’s SpaceX CRS-31 – a commercial resupply mission of an uncrewed Dragon spacecraft headed for the International Space Station. Liftoff occurred at 9:29 p.m. EST.CODEX is a solar coronagraph that will be installed on the Space Station to gather important information about the solar wind and how it forms. A coronagraph blocks out the bright light from the Sun to better see details in the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona. CODEX is a collaboration between NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) with additional contributions from Italy’s National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF).To learn more about the experiment, visit: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/codex/ || ", "hits": 84 }, { "id": 14709, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14709/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-10-28T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Sun Releases Strong Solar Flare on October 23, 2024", "description": "NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of an X3.3 solar flare – as seen in the bright flash and loop on the left – on Oct. 23, 2024. The image shows a blend of 171 Angstrom, 304 Angstrom and 131 Angstrom light, subsets of extreme ultraviolet light. Credit: NASA/SDO || SDO_X3pt3_10-23-2024_0340_131-304-171.jpg (4096x4096) [4.7 MB] || SDO_X3pt3_10-23-2024_0340_131-304-171_searchweb.png (320x180) [104.1 KB] || SDO_X3pt3_10-23-2024_0340_131-304-171_thm.png (80x40) [7.2 KB] || ", "hits": 62 }, { "id": 14690, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14690/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-09-23T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Ten Years at Mars with NASA’s MAVEN Mission", "description": "During its first decade at Mars, MAVEN has helped to explain how the Red Planet evolved from warm and wet into the cold, dry world we see today. Complete transcript available.Universal Production Music: “Executive Deceit” by Samuel Karl Bohn [PRS], Chalk Music [PRS]; “Quasar” by Ross Stephen Gilmartin [PRS], Chappell Recorded Music Library Ltd [PRS]; “Modular Odyssey” and “Synthology” by Laetitia Frenod [SACEM], Koka Media [SACEM]Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || MAVEN-10th-Anniversary-Preview_print.jpg (1024x576) [160.7 KB] || MAVEN-10th-Anniversary-Preview.jpg (1280x720) [622.5 KB] || MAVEN-10th-Anniversary-Preview.png (1280x720) [1.2 MB] || MAVEN-10th-Anniversary-Preview_searchweb.png (320x180) [80.6 KB] || MAVEN-10th-Anniversary-Preview_thm.png (80x40) [6.3 KB] || 14690_MAVEN_10th_Anniversary_720.mp4 (1280x720) [92.2 MB] || 14690_MAVEN_10th_Anniversary_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [516.6 MB] || Maven10thAnniversaryCaptionsV3.en_US.srt [8.9 KB] || Maven10thAnniversaryCaptionsV3.en_US.vtt [8.5 KB] || 14690_MAVEN_10th_Anniversary_4K.mp4 (3840x2160) [6.3 GB] || 14690_MAVEN_10th_Anniversary_ProRes.mov (3840x2160) [36.5 GB] || ", "hits": 136 }, { "id": 14628, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14628/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-08-28T11:30:00-04:00", "title": "Discovering Earth’s Third Global Energy Field", "description": "High above the Earth’s North and South Poles, a steady stream of particles escapes from our atmosphere into space. Scientists call this mysterious outflow the “polar wind,” and for almost 60 years, spacecraft have been flying through it as scientists have theorized about its cause. The leading theory was that a planet-wide electric field was drawing those particles up into space. But this so-called ambipolar electric field, if it exists, is so weak that all attempts to measure it have failed – until now.In 2022, scientists traveled to Svalbard, a small archipelago in Norway, to launch a rocket in an attempt to measure Earth’s ambipolar electric field for the first time. This was NASA’s Endurance rocketship mission, and this is its story.To learn more, visit: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasa-discovers-long-sought-global-electric-field-on-earth/ || ", "hits": 368 }, { "id": 14647, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14647/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2024-08-12T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "CODEX – Coronal Diagnostic Experiment", "description": "The Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX) is a solar coronagraph that will be installed on the International Space Station to gather important information about the solar wind and how it forms. A coronagraph blocks out the bright light from the Sun to better see details in the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona. CODEX is a collaboration between NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) with additional contribution from Italy's National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF).Learn more: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/codex/ || ", "hits": 83 }, { "id": 14542, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14542/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-03-05T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "EZIE – Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer", "description": "Slated to launch in 2025, NASA’s Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) will be the first mission to image the magnetic fingerprint of the auroral electrojets — intense electric currents flowing high above Earth’s poles that are central to the electrical circuit coupling the planet’s magnetosphere to its atmosphere.Led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), EZIE will use a trio of small satellites to characterize and record the electrojets’ structure over space and time. It will fill gaps in our understanding of this space weather phenomenon and provide findings that scientists can apply to other magnetized planets, both within and outside our solar system.Learn more:https://science.nasa.gov/mission/ezie/ || ", "hits": 102 }, { "id": 5210, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5210/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2024-02-16T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Active Christmas Eve 2023 Ultraviolet Sun", "description": "Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) operates in a geosynchronous orbit around Earth to obtain a continuous view of the Sun. The particular instrument in this visualization records imagery in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum at wavelengths normally absorbed by Earth's atmosphere - so we need to observe them from space.Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) observes a very active hemisphere of the Sun on Christmas Eve 2023. No significant flares - just fifteen hours of small eruptions, bright coronal loops, dark filaments hovering above photosphere, and other small-scale phenomena in the life of a star evolving towards the peak of it's activity cycle.The point-spread function correction (PSF) has been applied to all this imagery. || ", "hits": 45 }, { "id": 5214, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5214/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2024-02-08T08:00:00-05:00", "title": "Geomagnetic Storm Causes Satellite Loss for Fulldome", "description": "In February 2022, a Coronal Mass Ejection led to 38 commercial satellites being lost. Solar plasma from a geomagnetic storm heated the atmosphere, causing denser gases to expand into the satellites’ orbit, which increased atmospheric drag on the satellites and caused them to de-orbit. Johns Hopkins APL-led Center for Geospace Storms (CGS) is building a Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment (MAGE) supercomputer model to predict space weather. The physics-based MAGE simulation reproduced the storm-time atmospheric density enhancement much better than empirical or standalone ionosphere-thermosphere models, emphasizing the need for fully-coupled whole-of-geospace models for predicting space weather events.This is 4k fulldome imagery intended for projection in a planetarium or other hemispherical dome theater. || ", "hits": 109 }, { "id": 5200, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5200/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2023-12-11T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Mars Disappearing Solar Wind: MAVEN Visualizations", "description": "This data visualization depicts a period of decreased solar wind at Mars that occurred on December 25, 2022, causing the planet’s magnetosphere to expand outward. Ion velocity and density data collected by the MAVEN spacecraft is presented using a color-mapped satellite orbit tail and vectors along MAVEN’s orbit. || maven_solar_wind_comp.02715_print.jpg (1024x576) [84.4 KB] || maven_solar_wind_comp.02715_searchweb.png (320x180) [47.3 KB] || maven_solar_wind_comp.02715_thm.png (80x40) [4.3 KB] || maven_solar_wind_comp (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || maven_solar_wind_comp_2160p60.mp4 (3840x2160) [187.6 MB] || maven_solar_wind_comp_prores.mov (3840x2160) [10.1 GB] || ", "hits": 321 }, { "id": 14477, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14477/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-12-11T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Day the Solar Wind Disappeared from Mars", "description": "Learn about the “disappearance” of the solar wind at Mars that was witnessed by MAVEN – an event last seen nearly a quarter-century ago at Earth.Complete transcript available.Universal Production Music: “Space Museum” by Harry Gregson Williams [BMI], Atmosphere Music Ltd. [PRS]; “Currents and Crime Scenes” by Dylan Matthew Love and Harry Gregson Williams [BMI], Atmosphere Music Ltd. 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The physics-based MAGE simulation reproduced the storm-time atmospheric density enhancement much better than empirical or standalone ionosphere-thermosphere models, emphasizing the need for fully-coupled whole-of-geospace models for predicting space weather events. || ", "hits": 533 }, { "id": 31248, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31248/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2023-09-29T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "How Do Space Weather Effects & Solar Storms Affect Earth?", "description": "Technological and infrastructure affected by space weather events. || space-weather-effects_print.jpg (1024x953) [307.6 KB] || space-weather-effects.png (3480x3240) [8.3 MB] || space-weather-effects_searchweb.png (320x180) [77.3 KB] || space-weather-effects_thm.png (80x40) [6.2 KB] || how-do-space-weather-effects-solar-storms-affect-earth.hwshow [320 bytes] || ", "hits": 440 }, { "id": 14392, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14392/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-08-08T08:00:00-04:00", "title": "Introducing the Heliophysics Big Year", "description": "In October 2023, NASA is launching the Heliophysics Big Year – a global celebration of solar science and the Sun’s influence on Earth, our solar system, and beyond. 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This video discusses what plasma is, where it lives, and how NASA studies it. || ", "hits": 1792 }, { "id": 14290, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14290/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-02-17T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Heliosphere Has Ripples!", "description": "NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX mission, has helped researchers learn something new about the heliosphere – the magnetic bubble created by the Sun that we live in. It turns out, the heliosphere has ripples! 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The particular instrument in this visualization records imagery in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum at wavelengths normally absorbed by Earth's atmosphere - so we need to observe them from space.An X2.2 class solar flare erupts on the southern limb of the Sun in the early hours of April 20, 2022. This flare is very close to the lower right of the solar limb and most visible in the 131 Angstrom filter (teal color table). Solar flares are classified by the amount of energy released (Solar Flares: What Does It Take to Be X-Class?) || ", "hits": 61 }, { "id": 14204, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14204/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-08-31T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Mars Patchy Proton Aurora", "description": "NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission and the United Arab Emirates’ Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) have released joint observations of dynamic proton aurora events at Mars. Remote auroral observations by EMM paired with in-situ plasma observations made by MAVEN open new avenues for understanding the Martian atmosphere. This collaboration was made possible by recent data-sharing between the two missions and highlights the value of multi-point observations in space.Learn more about this discovery by MAVEN and EMM. || ", "hits": 73 }, { "id": 4966, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4966/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2022-08-19T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "AR 12938 - Slow Building Active Region on Left Limb", "description": "The slow build-up of a solar active region, as seen in AIA 171 Angstrom filter. 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The particular instrument in this visualization records imagery in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum at wavelengths normally absorbed by Earth's atmosphere - so we need to observe them from space.A large eruption occurs off the limb of the Sun (lower right) in this image sequence from May 2022. || ", "hits": 78 }, { "id": 14123, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14123/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-03-24T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "What Mercury’s Unusual Orbit Reveals About the Sun", "description": "Mercury is special. As the closest planet to the Sun, it occupies a region where the Sun’s influence is changing dramatically. The Sun’s magnetic field, which dominates space close to the Sun, is rapidly waning. And Mercury’s orbit – more elliptical or “oval-shaped” than any other planet – allows it to experience a wider range of solar magnetic field conditions than any other planet. As a result, Mercury provides a unique opportunity to study how the Sun’s influence on a planet varies with distance.In a new study published in Nature Communications, Goddard scientists Norberto Romanelli and Gina DiBraccio used data from NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft to study the Sun’s changing interaction with Mercury. As Mercury moves through the solar wind, the steady stream of particles escaping the Sun, some of them strike Mercury’s magnetosphere and bounce back towards the Sun. These rebounding solar wind particles generate low-frequency waves that reverberate through space, traveling “upstream” in the solar wind towards the Sun. Romanelli and DiBraccio observed these waves emanating from Mercury and discovered that the rate of wave production varied throughout Mercury’s orbit. As Mercury moved farther from the Sun it generated more waves; as it got closer, the rate of wave production dropped. The results provide key evidence for a theory that these waves are affected, in part, by the strength of the Sun’s magnetic field, which grows weaker with distance. || ", "hits": 211 }, { "id": 14120, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14120/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-03-16T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Tribute to Eugene Parker, Namesake of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe", "description": "Dr. Eugene N. Parker, visionary of heliophysics and namesake of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, passed away on March 15, 2022. He was 94. As a young professor at the University of Chicago in the mid-1950s, Parker developed a mathematical theory that predicted the solar wind, the constant outflow of solar material from the Sun. Throughout his career, Parker revolutionized the field time and again, advancing ideas that addressed the fundamental questions about the workings of our Sun and stars throughout the universe.More information:• NASA Press Release• University of Chicago Press Release || ", "hits": 45 }, { "id": 4970, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4970/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2022-02-25T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Many Eyes on the Parker Solar Probe Perihelion (February 2022)", "description": "This visualization opens with a top-down view, then transtions to an oblique view of the inner solar system with the various solar-observing missions conducting coordinated observations of the plasma environment. This version displays the imaging instrument camera frustums and solar magnetic field alignments - the 'glyph' version. 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A switchback occurs when the field changes direction almost 180 degrees for a short period of time. FIELDS instrument magnetic vector data are projected from the spacecraft position as arrows. The arrows are colored deep blue for sunward vectors, deep red for anti-sunward, and in between for directions off from this line. 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Launched in 2018 to study the Sun’s biggest mysteries, the spacecraft has now grazed the edge of the solar atmosphere and gathered new close-up observations of our star. This is allowing us to see the Sun as never before—including the findings in two new papers, which were presented at AGU, that are helping scientists answer fundamental questions about the Sun.PANELISTSDr. Nicola Fox• Heliophysics Division Director of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA HeadquartersDr. Nour Raouafi• Project Scientist for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe• The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Dr. Justin Kasper• Principal Investigator for Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) Investigation on Parker Solar Probe • BWX Technologies, Inc., University of MichiganProf. Stuart D. Bale• Principal Investigator for Fields Experiment (FIELDS) on Parker Solar Probe • University of California, Berkeley Dr. Kelly Korreck• Program Scientist at NASA Headquarters• Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory || ", "hits": 116 }, { "id": 14045, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14045/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-12-14T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's Parker Solar Probe Touches The Sun For The First Time", "description": "For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. The new milestone marks one major step for Parker Solar Probe and one giant leap for solar science. Just as landing on the Moon allowed scientists to understand how it was formed, touching the very stuff the Sun is made of will help scientists uncover critical information about our closest star and its influence on the solar system. More information here. || ", "hits": 272 }, { "id": 4954, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4954/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2021-11-11T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Mercury Makes Waves Cruising through the Solar Wind", "description": "Mercury orbits the Sun in a unique regime. The solar wind is still fresh from the Sun, and the Sun’s magnetic field strength (which drops with the square of distance) is rapidly waning. Furthermore, Mercury’s highly elliptical orbit means the planet passes through a wider range of distances from the Sun than any other planet. As a result, Mercury provides a unique opportunity to study how the Sun’s influence on a planet varies with distance.These animations provide a conceptual schematic of the results of one such investigation as described in “Occurrence rate of ultra-low frequency waves in the foreshock of Mercury increases with heliocentric distance.” Using data from NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft, the authors has detected Ultra Low Frequency (ULF) waves rebounding from Mercury’s foreshock, the turbulent area where solar wind particles collide with Mercury’s magnetosphere. These waves are caused by solar wind protons – the steady stream of particles escaping the Sun –collide with and reflect off of this foreshock against the stream of the solar wind. The authors discovered that the ULF wave production rate varied throughout Mercury’s orbit. MESSENGER detected more ULF waves as Mercury moved farther from the Sun in its orbit, and fewer as it approached the Sun. The results support an existing theory that claimed that ULF waves are affected in part by the strength of the solar magnetic field, which is at its weakest when Mercury is farthest from the Sun. || ", "hits": 152 }, { "id": 13954, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13954/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-10-06T04:00:00-04:00", "title": "With NASA Data, Researchers Find Standing Waves at Edge of Earth’s Magnetic Bubble", "description": "Earth sails the solar system in a ship of its own making: the magnetosphere, the magnetic field that envelops and protects our planet. The celestial sea we find ourselves in is filled with charged particles flowing from the Sun, known as the solar wind. Just as ocean waves follow the wind, scientists expected that waves traveling along the magnetosphere should ripple in the direction of the solar wind. But a new study reveals some waves do just the opposite.Studying these magnetospheric waves, which transport energy, helps scientists understand the complicated ways that solar activity plays out in the space around Earth. Changing conditions in space driven by the Sun are known as space weather. That weather can impact our technology from communications satellites in orbit to power lines on the ground. “Understanding the boundaries of any system is a key problem,” said Martin Archer, a space physicist at Imperial College London who led the new study, published today in Nature Communications. “That’s how stuff gets in: energy, momentum, matter.” || ", "hits": 199 }, { "id": 20347, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20347/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2021-09-28T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fast and Slow Solar Wind", "description": "These animations show how Earth’s magnetosphere responds as it encounters the slow and fast solar wind.The solar wind is a plasma made of ions and electrons that have escaped the Sun. The solar wind streams outwards in all directions, filling the spaces between the planets and carrying with it the Sun’s magnetic field. When the solar wind reaches Earth’s magnetosphere, the region of space surrounding our planet where Earth’s magnetic field is dominant, the magnetosphere can respond differently depending on the speed of the solar wind, as demonstrated here. || ", "hits": 348 }, { "id": 13928, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13928/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-09-16T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Goddard Space Flight Center Virtual Tour", "description": "NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is one of the few space organizations that can manage a mission from beginning to end: imagine it, build it, test it, launch it and reap the scientific benefits. 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With two imaging instruments – the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly and the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager, which were designed in concert to provide complementary views of the Sun – SDO sees the Sun in more than 10 distinct wavelengths of light, showing solar material at different temperatures. SDO also measures the Sun’s magnetic field and the motion of solar material at its surface, and, using a technique called helioseismology, allows scientists to probe deep into the Sun's interior, where the Sun’s complex magnetic fields sprout from. And with more than a decade of observation under its belt, SDO has provided scientists with hundreds of millions of images of our star. || ", "hits": 287 }, { "id": 4909, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4909/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2021-06-18T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Monster Solar Filament Launch and CME", "description": "Launch of the filament at low cadence (36 seconds) as visible in the 304 Angstrom filter on SDO/AIA. || FilamentLaunch2012-Slow_304A_stand.HD1080i.00876_print.jpg (1024x576) [134.4 KB] || FilamentLaunch2012-Slow_304A_stand.HD1080i.00876_searchweb.png (320x180) [48.3 KB] || FilamentLaunch2012-Slow_304A_stand.HD1080i.00876_thm.png (80x40) [4.1 KB] || FilamentLaunch2012-Slow_304A (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || FilamentLaunch2012-Slow_304A_stand.HD1080i_p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [85.3 MB] || FilamentLaunch2012-Slow_304A_stand.HD1080i_p30.webm (1920x1080) [7.0 MB] || FilamentLaunch2012-Slow_304A.UHD (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || FilamentLaunch2012-Slow_304A_stand.UHD2160_p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [477.3 MB] || FilamentLaunch2012-Slow_304A_stand.HD1080i_p30.mp4.hwshow [212 bytes] || ", "hits": 70 }, { "id": 13860, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13860/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-06-17T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "Animation of USPS Stamps Featuring NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory", "description": "The U.S. Postal Service illuminates the light and warmth of our nearest star by highlighting these stunning images of the Sun on stamps. These images come from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, a spacecraft launched in February 2010 to keep a constant watch on the Sun.The Sun is the only star that humans are able to observe in great detail, making it a vital source of information about the universe. The Solar Dynamics Observatory lets us see the Sun in wavelengths of ultraviolet light that would otherwise be invisible to our eyes. Each black-and-white image is colorized to the bright hues seen here.The stamps highlight different features on the Sun that help scientists learn about how our star works and how its constantly churning magnetic fields create the solar activity we see. Sunspots, coronal holes and coronal loops, for example, can reveal how those magnetic fields dance through the Sun and its atmosphere. Observing plasma blasts and solar flares can help us better understand and mitigate the impact of such eruptions on technology in space.The Sun Science stamps are being issued as Forever stamps, which will always be equal in value to the current First-Class Mail 1-ounce price. || ", "hits": 53 }, { "id": 13870, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13870/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-06-10T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "See the Sun like never before! Science of the Sun Shines Bright With New Stamps Showcasing Stunning Images From NASA’s Spacecraft Live Shots", "description": "Find out more about the Sun on social media @NASASun and online at www.nasa.gov/sunearrthQuick link to associated B-R0LLQuick link to canned interview with DR. 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Find the latest NASA heliophysics research at nasa.gov/sunearth. || ", "hits": 136 }, { "id": 13776, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13776/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-12-15T21:00:00-05:00", "title": "2020 AGU Roundtable: What will we learn from Solar Cycle 25?", "description": "Solar Cycle 25 is here, ushering in the next season of space weather from the Sun. As our star’s activity ramps up—a natural part of its roughly 11-year cycle—scientists are eager to test their predictions. In this AGU 2020 media roundtable, scientists will discuss outstanding questions in solar cycle science, what opportunities this new cycle provides researchers, and how we track progress in predictions. || ", "hits": 119 }, { "id": 13714, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13714/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-09-15T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Solar Cycle 25 Is Here. NASA, NOAA Scientists Explain What This Means", "description": "Solar Cycle 25 has begun. The Solar Cycle 25 Prediction Panel announced solar minimum occurred in December 2019, marking the transition into a new solar cycle. In a press event, experts from the panel, NASA, and NOAA discussed the analysis and Solar Cycle 25 prediction, and how the rise to the next solar maximum and subsequent upswing in space weather will impact our lives and technology on Earth.A new solar cycle comes roughly every 11 years. Over the course of each cycle, the star transitions from relatively calm to active and stormy, and then quiet again; at its peak, the Sun’s magnetic poles flip. Now that the star has passed solar minimum, scientists expect the Sun will grow increasingly active in the months and years to come.Understanding the Sun’s behavior is an important part of life in our solar system. The Sun’s outbursts—including eruptions known as solar flares and coronal mass ejections—can disturb the satellites and communications signals traveling around Earth, or one day, Artemis astronauts exploring distant worlds. Scientists study the solar cycle so we can better predict solar activity.Click here for the NOAA press kit.Listen to the media telecon.Participants:• Lisa Upton, Co-chair, Solar Cycle 25 Prediction Panel; Solar Physicist, Space Systems Research Corporation• Doug Biesecker, Solar Physicist, NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center; Co-chair, Solar Cycle 25 Prediction Panel• Elsayed Talaat, Director, Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis; NOAA’s Satellite and Information Service • Lika Guhathakurta, Heliophysicist, Heliophysics Division, NASA Headquarters • Jake Bleacher, Chief Exploration Scientist, NASA Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate || ", "hits": 259 }, { "id": 13628, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13628/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-06-12T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe Teams Up with Observatories Around the Solar System for Fourth Solar Encounter", "description": "At the heart of understanding our space environment is the knowledge that conditions throughout space — from the Sun to the atmospheres of planets to the radiation environment in deep space — are connected.Studying this connection – a field of science called heliophysics — is a complex task: Researchers track sudden eruptions of material, radiation, and particles against the background of the ubiquitous outflow of solar material.A confluence of events in early 2020 created a nearly ideal space-based laboratory, combining the alignment of some of humanity’s best observatories — including Parker Solar Probe, during its fourth solar flyby — with a quiet period in the Sun’s activity, when it’s easiest to study those background conditions. These conditions provided a unique opportunity for scientists to study how the Sun influences conditions at points throughout space, with multiple angles of observation and at different distances from the Sun. || ", "hits": 63 }, { "id": 13642, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13642/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-06-11T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "11 Years Charting The Edge of The Solar System", "description": "Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Music credits: “End of Days - Joe Mason Remix” by Connor Shambrook [BMI], Cyrus Reynolds [BMI], Flynn Hase Spence [ASCAP], Joseph Scott Mason [APRA]; “Brainstorming” by Laurent Dury [SACEM]; “Flight of the Leaf Remix” by Julie Gruss [GEMA], Laurent Dury [SAXEM]; “Ticks and Thoughts” by Laurent Dury [SACEM]; “Intimate Journey” by Laurent Vernerey [SACEM], Nicolas de Ferran [SACEM] from Universal Production MusicComplete transcript available. || 13642_IBEX11years_YouTube.00214_print.jpg (1024x576) [239.3 KB] || 13642_IBEX11years_YouTube.00214_searchweb.png (320x180) [98.0 KB] || 13642_IBEX11years_YouTube.00214_thm.png (80x40) [6.7 KB] || 13642_IBEX11years_Prores-2.mov (1920x1080) [4.2 GB] || 13642_IBEX11years_YouTube.mp4 (1920x1080) [489.0 MB] || 13642_IBEX11years_Facebook.mp4 (1920x1080) [366.4 MB] || 13642_IBEX11years_Twitter.mp4 (1920x1080) [66.4 MB] || 13642_IBEX11years_YouTube.webm (1920x1080) [33.9 MB] || IBEX11years.en_US.srt [5.8 KB] || IBEX11years.en_US.vtt [5.8 KB] || ", "hits": 75 }, { "id": 13625, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13625/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-05-25T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "First Map of Mars Electric Currents", "description": "MAVEN data have enabled the first map of the electric current systems (blue and red arrows) that shape the induced magnetic field surrounding Mars.Credit: NASA/Goddard/MAVEN/CU Boulder/SVSUniversal Production Music: “A Lucid Dream” and “Shimmer Oscillations” by James Joshua OttoWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || MarsElectricCurrentsPreview6_print.jpg (1024x576) [305.8 KB] || MarsElectricCurrentsPreview6.jpg (1920x1080) [853.6 KB] || MarsElectricCurrentsPreview6_searchweb.png (320x180) [50.6 KB] || MarsElectricCurrentsPreview6_thm.png (80x40) [5.3 KB] || 13625_Mars_Electric_Currents_Twitter.mp4 (1280x720) [63.8 MB] || 13625_Mars_Electric_Currents_Facebook.mp4 (1920x1080) [359.1 MB] || 13625_Mars_Electric_Currents_YouTube.webm (3840x2160) [91.7 MB] || 13625_Mars_Electric_Currents_Captions.en_US.srt [7.2 KB] || 13625_Mars_Electric_Currents_Captions.en_US.vtt [6.8 KB] || 13625_Mars_Electric_Currents_YouTube.mp4 (3840x2160) [2.8 GB] || 13625_Mars_Electric_Currents_MASTER.mov (3840x2160) [14.2 GB] || 13625_Mars_Electric_Currents_Facebook.mp4.hwshow [134 bytes] || ", "hits": 126 }, { "id": 4824, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4824/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2020-05-25T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "MAVEN Observes Solar Particle Velocities and the Induced Magnetic Field", "description": "MAVEN orbits Mars and measures solar particle velocities and variations in the solar wind’s magnetic field. || maven_vels_magField.03000_print.jpg (1024x576) [92.5 KB] || maven_vels_magField.03000_searchweb.png (320x180) [63.5 KB] || maven_vels_magField.03000_thm.png (80x40) [4.2 KB] || maven_vels_magField_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [83.1 MB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || maven_vels_magField_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [19.0 MB] || 4824_MAVEN_Solar_Wind_Data_1080_30p.mov (1920x1080) [2.6 GB] || maven_vels_magField_1080p30.mp4.hwshow [193 bytes] || ", "hits": 103 }, { "id": 4825, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4825/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2020-05-25T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "MAVEN – Mars and Solar Wind Simulation", "description": "This simulation depicts the solar wind interacting with the Mars upper atmosphere, with MAVEN's orbit embedded. || maven_cme44.03600_print.jpg (1024x512) [253.9 KB] || maven_cme44.03600_searchweb.png (320x180) [92.7 KB] || maven_cme44.03600_thm.png (80x40) [5.2 KB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (2048x1024) [0 Item(s)] || maven_cme44_1024p30.webm (2048x1024) [5.9 MB] || maven_cme44_1024p30.mp4 (2048x1024) [195.1 MB] || maven_cme44_1024p30.mp4.hwshow [58 bytes] || ", "hits": 64 }, { "id": 20306, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20306/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2020-01-27T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "Solar Orbiter - NASA Animations", "description": "Solar Orbiter is an international cooperative mission between the European Space Agency and NASA that addresses a central question of heliophysics: How does the Sun create and control the constantly changing space environment throughout the solar system? The Sun creates what’s known as the heliosphere — a giant bubble of charged particles and magnetic fields blown outward by the Sun that stretches more than twice the distance to Pluto at its nearest edge, enveloping every planet in our solar system and shaping the space around us. To understand it, Solar Orbiter will travel as close as 26 million miles from the Sun, inside the orbit of Mercury. There, it will measure the magnetic fields, waves, energetic particles and plasma escaping the Sun while they are in their pristine state, before being modified and mixed in their long journey from the Sun. || ", "hits": 101 }, { "id": 13527, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13527/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-01-27T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "New Mission Will Take First Peek at Sun’s Poles", "description": "A new spacecraft is journeying to the Sun to snap the first pictures of the Sun’s north and south poles. 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