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A beacon tone received in the late evening hours of Dec. 26 confirmed the spacecraft had made it through the encounter safely and is operating normally.This pass, the first of more to come at this distance, allows the spacecraft to conduct unrivaled scientific measurements with the potential to change our understanding of the Sun. || ", "hits": 522 }, { "id": 14735, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14735/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-12-16T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "DAVINCI: Venus' Alpha Regio", "description": "Vertical video for sharing on social media platforms.Music is \"Eternal Sapphire\" by Brice Davoli and \"Beyond our Imagination\" by Timothy James Cornick and Matthew Jacob Loveridge of Universal Production Music. || DAVINCI_REEL_THUMB.jpg (1080x1920) [328.4 KB] || DAVINCI_REEL_1.02082_searchweb.png (320x180) [64.8 KB] || DAVINCI_REEL_1.02082_thm.png (80x40) [4.3 KB] || DAVINCI_REEL_1.mp4 (1080x1920) [162.8 MB] || DAVINCI_REEL_1.en_US.srt [3.1 KB] || DAVINCI_REEL_1.en_US.vtt [2.9 KB] || ", "hits": 154 }, { "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. 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The artwork shown here was developed for the DAVINCI team by CI Labs and the SVS. Special data analysis by the PI and Project Science team led by Dr. Jim Garvin, Dr. Stephanie Getty, and Dr. Giada Areny with Dr. Natasha Johnson and Dr. Erika Kohler is included. NASA Langley (LaRC) partners include Dr. S. Dutta and his team who developed the probe aerodynamic drop test experiment for the DAVINCI project. Narration is by Dr. Jim Garvin, PI for the DAVINCI mission to Venus. The DAVINCI Project acknowledges the continuing support of NASA’s Discovery Program, with DAVINCI Program Executive Andrea Riley and Program scientist Nick Lang, and Mission Manager Kevin Sykes. 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But in two recent flybys of the planet, Parker used its Wide-Field Imager, or WISPR, to image the entire nightside in wavelengths of the visible spectrum – the type of light that the human eye can see – and extending into the near-infrared.The images, combined into a video, reveal a faint glow from the surface that shows distinctive features like continental regions, plains, and plateaus. A luminescent halo of oxygen in the atmosphere can also be seen surrounding the planet.Link to NASA.gov feature.Link to associated research paper. || ", "hits": 847 }, { "id": 20351, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20351/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2021-11-09T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "The DAVINCI Mission to Venus", "description": "DAVINCI the Movie || DaVinci1021cut422HQ.00130_print.jpg (1024x438) [75.7 KB] || DaVinci1021cut422HQ.00130_searchweb.png (180x320) [61.3 KB] || DaVinci1021cut422HQ.00130_thm.png (80x40) [5.3 KB] || DaVinci1021cut1080h264.mp4 (1920x820) [208.7 MB] || DaVinci1021cut720422HQ.mov (1682x720) [3.5 GB] || DaVinci1021cut720h264.mp4 (1280x548) [133.2 MB] || DaVinci1021cut720h264.webm (1280x548) [22.0 MB] || DaVinci1021cut422HQ.mov (5045x2160) [20.3 GB] || DaVinci1021cut1080422HQ.mov (2523x1080) [5.6 GB] || 20351_DAVINCIMissiontoVenus_CAPTIONS.en_US.srt [3.8 KB] || 20351_DAVINCIMissiontoVenus_CAPTIONS.en_US.vtt [3.6 KB] || ", "hits": 359 }, { "id": 13972, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13972/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-10-20T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Ten Mysteries of Venus", "description": "Ten mysteries of our sister planet, Venus.Music is \"Spring into Life\" by Oliver Worth of Univeral Production Music.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || 13972_mysteriesvenusthumb.jpg (1920x1080) [385.7 KB] || 13972_venusmysteries.01764_searchweb.png (320x180) [65.7 KB] || 13972_venusmysteries.01764_thm.png (80x40) [4.6 KB] || 13972_venusmysteries.mp4 (1920x1080) [299.0 MB] || 13972_venusmysteries_twitter_720.mp4 (1280x720) [53.1 MB] || 13972_venusmysteries_facebook_720.mp4 (1280x720) [317.0 MB] || 13972_venusmysteries_twitter_720.webm (1280x720) [32.1 MB] || 13972_venusmysteries_caption.en_US.srt [6.3 KB] || 13972_venusmysteries_caption.en_US.vtt [5.9 KB] || ", "hits": 330 }, { "id": 13887, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13887/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-07-27T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "DAVINCI Probe's Eye View", "description": "An overview of the DAVINCI mission through the eyes of the descent probe.Music is \"Mountains of Hokkaido\" by Natalie Holt and Yoann Le Dantec of Universal Production Music || 13887_DAVINCI_PEVAA.02257_print.jpg (1024x576) [101.1 KB] || 13887_thumbnail.jpg (1920x1080) [157.6 KB] || 13887_DAVINCI_PEVAA.02257_searchweb.png (320x180) [69.3 KB] || 13887_DAVINCI_PEVAA.02257_thm.png (80x40) [5.1 KB] || 13887_DAVINCI_PEVAA.mp4 (1920x1080) [177.3 MB] || 13887_DAVINCI_PEVAA_twitter_720.mp4 (1280x720) [32.7 MB] || 13887_DAVINCI_PEVAA_facebook_720.mp4 (1280x720) [190.4 MB] || 13887_DAVINCI_PEVAA.webm (960x540) [47.1 MB] || 13877_DAVINCI_PEVAA_caption.en_US.srt [2.9 KB] || 13877_DAVINCI_PEVAA_caption.en_US.vtt [2.8 KB] || ", "hits": 98 }, { "id": 13878, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13878/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-07-09T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Quickshot: Skywatchers Delight! 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This was the first direct measurement of the Venusian atmosphere in nearly 30 years — and it looks quite different from Venus past. A study published today in Geophysical Research Letters confirms that Venus’ upper atmosphere undergoes puzzling changes over a solar cycle, the Sun’s 11-year activity cycle. This marks the latest clue to untangling how and why Venus and Earth are so different. || ", "hits": 252 }, { "id": 13640, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13640/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-07-21T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Venus in a Minute", "description": "“Venus in a Minute” – a vision for exploration of our mysterious sister planet in response to National Academy of Sciences Decadal priorities that will provide a new window on the evolution of planets in our solar system and beyond. 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He believes that deciphering the story which Venus is waiting to tell us will not be easy, but in the words of a US President at the dawn of the space age, we will explore not because it is easy, but because it is “hard”. By exploring our neglected sister (Venus), we will never wait to wonder. 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This shows the enhancement of scattering by the dust ring near the greatest elongation of Venus' orbit relative to STEREO-A. || VenusDustRing.STEREOAview.HAE.AU.clockSlate_EarthTarget.HD1080i.00500_print.jpg (1024x576) [130.4 KB] || VenusDustRing.STEREOAview.HAE.AU.clockSlate_EarthTarget.HD1080i.00500_searchweb.png (320x180) [77.0 KB] || VenusDustRing.STEREOAview.HAE.AU.clockSlate_EarthTarget.HD1080i.00500_thm.png (80x40) [4.3 KB] || STEREOAview (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || VenusDustRing.STEREOAview.HD1080i_p30.webm (1920x1080) [9.4 MB] || VenusDustRing.STEREOAview.HD1080i_p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [740.4 MB] || STEREOAview (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || VenusDustRing.STEREOAview_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [2.6 GB] || VenusDustRing.STEREOAview.HD1080i_p30.mp4.hwshow [203 bytes] || ", "hits": 71 }, { "id": 13017, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13017/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-08-08T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "It's Surprisingly Hard to Go to the Sun", "description": "Why does the Parker Solar Probe have such a long and complex orbit to get close to the Sun? Why doesn't it just fall right toward it? Turns out it's a lot harder to approach the Sun than you might think. This video explains why.Music: Percs and Pizz from Killer Tracks.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || PSP_Orbit_Shot_1_still.jpg (1920x1080) [324.1 KB] || PSP_Orbit_Shot_1_still_print.jpg (1024x576) [131.5 KB] || PSP_Orbit_Shot_1_still_searchweb.png (320x180) [88.1 KB] || PSP_Orbit_Shot_1_still_thm.png (80x40) [6.8 KB] || 13017_ParkerSolarProbe_Orbit_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.2 GB] || 13017_ParkerSolarProbe_Orbit.mp4 (1920x1080) [177.5 MB] || 13017_ParkerSolarProbe_Orbit_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.webm (1920x1080) [18.4 MB] || 13017_ParkerSolarProbe_Orbit_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [3.4 KB] || 13017_ParkerSolarProbe_Orbit_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [3.3 KB] || ", "hits": 590 }, { "id": 12558, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12558/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-04-04T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Goddard Helicopter Simulation of Venus Descent Imaging for Science", "description": "Venus Descent Imaging Proposal || RoadToVenus_Final_1080p.00132_print.jpg (1024x576) [64.2 KB] || RoadToVenus_Final_1080p.00132_searchweb.png (320x180) [55.4 KB] || RoadToVenus_Final_1080p.00132_web.png (320x180) [55.4 KB] || RoadToVenus_Final_1080p.00132_thm.png (80x40) [4.5 KB] || RoadToVenus_Final_1080p.mov (1920x1080) [2.5 GB] || RoadToVenus_Final_720p.mov (1280x720) [1.3 GB] || RoadToVenus_Final_720p.mp4 (1280x720) [257.0 MB] || RoadToVenus_Final_1080p.mp4 (1920x1080) [287.2 MB] || RoadToVenus_Final_1080p.webmhd.webm (1080x606) [41.0 MB] || RoadToVenus_Final.mov (2704x1520) [4.8 GB] || RoadToVenus.en_US.srt [5.0 KB] || RoadToVenus.en_US.vtt [5.0 KB] || ", "hits": 51 }, { "id": 12286, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12286/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-06-20T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Instagram: The Electric Wind of Venus", "description": "In many ways, Venus is the most similar planet to Earth. Not only are its size and gravity comparable to Earth’s, but there’s evidence that Venus once had lots of water – oceans’ worth! – in the distant past. So what happened? New NASA-funded research using data from ESA’s Venus Express reveal that it may have been Venus’ electric field that stripped the planet of water. Venus’ electric field is about 5-10 times stronger than Earth’s. That electric force is enough to rip particles – including the building blocks of water – out of Venus’ atmosphere. Over time, this “electric wind” could leave a watery planet bone-dry, making it a key factor in whether or not a planet is hospitable to life. Understanding this process will help scientists pinpoint where potentially habitable planets could be lurking around other stars. || ", "hits": 96 }, { "id": 12208, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12208/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-06-20T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Electric Wind of Venus", "description": "Venus has an \"electric wind\" strong enough to remove the components of water from its upper atmosphere. This action may have played a significant role in stripping Earth's twin planet of its oceans, according to new research results from the European Space Agency's Venus Express mission led by NASA-funded researchers. Lead author of the research paper, Glyn Collinson, explains that \"electric wind\" can strip Earth-like planets of oceans and atmospheres. || ", "hits": 120 }, { "id": 30710, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30710/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2016-03-15T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Our Solar System", "description": "The 8 planets plus Pluto with planetary axis tilt || planets3x3_pluto_colorMercury_axis_tilt_1080p.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [75.1 KB] || planets3x3_pluto_colorMercury_axis_tilt_1080p.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [49.6 KB] || planets3x3_pluto_colorMercury_axis_tilt_1080p.00001_thm.png (80x40) [5.0 KB] || planets3x3_pluto_colorMercury_axis_tilt_720p.00001_web.png (320x180) [50.6 KB] || planets3x3_pluto_colorMercury_axis_tilt_720p.00001_thm.png (80x40) [5.0 KB] || planets3x3_pluto_colorMercury_axis_tilt_1080p.mp4 (1920x1080) [9.2 MB] || planets3x3_pluto_colorMercury_axis_tilt_720p.mp4 (1280x720) [4.7 MB] || planets3x3_pluto_colorMercury_axis_tilt_1080p.webm (1920x1080) [2.7 MB] || planets3x3_pluto_colorMercury_axis_tilt_2160p.mp4 (3840x2160) [28.7 MB] || 3x3_pluto_tilt (4104x2304) [0 Item(s)] || 100-science-overview-001.hwshow || ", "hits": 918 }, { "id": 12018, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12018/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-10-30T12:45:00-04:00", "title": "Looking for the Shadows of New Worlds", "description": "NASA Goddard astrophysicist Daniel Angerhausen discusses how astronomers may be able to maximize transit photometry to find planets like those in our solar system around other stars -- and possibly moons, rings, and asteroid groups as well. 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It appeared that there were holes on the nightside of Venus' ionosphere. Researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center investigated these mysterious holes, and found evidence that the sun's magnetic field lines may be penetrating through the planet. || ", "hits": 88 }, { "id": 30520, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30520/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2014-08-07T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Day the Earth Smiled", "description": "On July 19, 2013, in an event celebrated the world over, NASA's Cassini spacecraft slipped into Saturn's shadow and turned to image the planet, seven of its moons, its inner rings, and, in the background, our home planet, Earth. With the sun's powerful and potentially damaging rays eclipsed by Saturn itself, Cassini's onboard cameras were able to take advantage of this unique viewing geometry. They acquired a panoramic mosaic of the Saturn system that allows scientists to see details in the rings and throughout the system as they are backlit by the sun.With both Cassini's wide-angle and narrow-angle cameras aimed at Saturn, Cassini was able to capture 323 images in just over four hours. This final mosaic uses 141 of those wide-angle images. Images taken using the red, green and blue spectral filters of the wide-angle camera were combined and mosaicked together to create this natural-color view. This image spans about 404,880 miles (651,591 kilometers) across. || ", "hits": 202 }, { "id": 30357, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30357/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-12-22T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Computer-simulated Global View of Venus", "description": "This global view of the surface of Venus is centered at 180 degrees east longitude. Magellan synthetic aperture radar mosaics from the first cycle of Magellan mapping are mapped onto a computer-simulated globe to create this image. Data gaps are filled with Pioneer Venus Orbiter data, or a constant mid-range value. Simulated color is used to enhance small-scale structure. The simulated hues are based on color images recorded by the Soviet Venera 13 and 14 spacecraft. || ", "hits": 133 }, { "id": 30358, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30358/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-10-22T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hemispheric View of Venus", "description": "The hemispheric view of Venus, as revealed by more than a decade of radar investigations culminating in the 1990-1994 Magellan mission, is centered at 180 degrees east longitude. The Magellan spacecraft imaged more than 98 percent of Venus at a resolution of about 100 meters; the effective resolution of this image is about 3 km. A mosaic of the Magellan images (most with illumination from the west) forms the image base. Gaps in the Magellan coverage were filled with images from the Earth-based Arecibo radar in a region centered roughly on 0 degree latitude and longitude, and with a neutral tone elsewhere (primarily near the south pole). The composite image was processed to improve contrast and to emphasize small features, and was color-coded to represent elevation. Gaps in the elevation data from the Magellan radar altimeter were filled with altimetry from the Venera spacecraft and the U.S. Pioneer Venus missions. An orthographic projection was used, simulating a distant view of one hemisphere of the planet. || ", "hits": 299 }, { "id": 11113, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11113/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-10-17T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Planetary Scientist Profile: Lynn Carter", "description": "NASA scientist Lynn Carter talks about her work in the Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory. || ", "hits": 52 }, { "id": 3867, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3867/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-09-01T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "A Coronal Mass Ejection strikes Venus!", "description": "Energetic events on the Sun have impacts throughout the Solar System. This visualization, developed for the \"Dynamic Earth\" dome show, opens with a closeup view of the Sun. The solar imagery was collected from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) using an ultraviolet filter (wavelength 304 Ångstroms or 30.4 nanometers). We can observe jets of ionized gases, called prominences, erupting from the solar surface, and often constrained to loop-shaped trajectories due to the solar magnetic field.We pull out from the Sun to reveal the solar wind, which continuously streams outward from the Sun.We eventually reach the orbit of the planet Venus, the solar wind still streaming around us.But a massive eruption, called a coronal mass ejection, or CME, takes place on the Sun, sending a much higher density of particles (ions and electrons) outward into the solar wind.The wave of particles eventually strikes the planet Venus. But Venus has no significant magnetic field, and the particles make it directly to the atmosphere of the planet. These energetic solar events slowly blow away the atmosphere of the planet.The next part of this sequence is \"The Coronal Mass Ejection strikes the Earth!\".Technical DetailsThis is the dome show component moving from the Sun to Venus being hit by the CME.The domemaster format was created by rendering 7 separate camera tiles. The tiles were then stitched together to form final domemaster layers at 4096x4096 resolution and 16 bits per channel with premultiplied alpha and no gamma correction. There are 3 domemaster layers that should be composited as follows:- Earth and orbits- Sun- star field (no alpha channel)In addition to the final domemaster frames and movies, the individual camera tiles are included as well. Each domemaster layer has a set of camera tiles. There are 7 cameras numbered 00 through 06 that represent the itiles. Camera 00 is in the center of the domemaster, camera 01 is looking below camera 00, cameras 01 through 06 look around the outside of the dome master in counter-clockwise order. These frames are probably only useful if a better re-stitching algorithm is ever required to be run on the tiles. || ", "hits": 74 }, { "id": 3941, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3941/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-06-11T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Venus Transit 2012 Composited Visuals", "description": "These visualizations were generated by compositing the small field-of-view, high-cadence closeups of Venus with the full-disk, low-cadence imagery from Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Two different instruments are used: the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) which sees light in the visible range, and the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) which sees light in several wavelengths in the ultraviolet range. To find out more information about these instruments, check out The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly Tutorial.Some artifacts may be visible from the compositing, but you have to look pretty closely to see them.The color table threshold was raised for these images, reducing the amount of noise visible in the images. Note: There is an interesting artifact worthy of mention and clarification, and that is as Venus crosses the solar limb, the limb appears to be visible through the planet in some of the imagers (most notably the ultraviolet channels). Discussion with the scientists who built the imagers suggest this might be 'crosstalk' between the readouts of the four CCD panels that make up a complete image. It is an artifact of the imaging system. || ", "hits": 79 }, { "id": 10996, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10996/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-06-05T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "SDO's Ultra-high Definition View of 2012 Venus Transit", "description": "Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the sun. During its five-year mission, it will examine the sun's atmosphere, magnetic field and also provide a better understanding of the role the sun plays in Earth's atmospheric chemistry and climate. SDO provides images with resolution 8 times better than high-definition television and returns more than a terabyte of data each day.On June 5 2012, SDO collected images of the rarest predictable solar event—the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. This event lasted approximately 6 hours and happens in pairs eight years apart, which are separated from each other by 105 or 121 years. The last transit was in 2004 and the next will not happen until 2117.The videos and images displayed here are constructed from several wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light and a portion of the visible spectrum. The red colored sun is the 304 angstrom ultraviolet, the golden colored sun is 171 angstrom, the magenta sun is 1700 angstrom, and the orange sun is filtered visible light. 304 and 171 show the atmosphere of the sun, which does not appear in the visible part of the spectrum. || ", "hits": 536 }, { "id": 10998, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10998/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-06-04T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "SOHO LASCO View of Approaching Venus Transit", "description": "The LASCO C2 and C3 coronographs on board the SOHO spacecraft have been watching the approach of Venus for its last solar transit until 2117.With coronagraphs, the Sun is being blocked by an occulting disk, seen here in blue, so that SOHO can observe the much fainter features in the Sun's corona. The actual size of the Sun is represented by the white disk. The transit of Venus begins tomorrow, June 5, at about 6pm Eastern Daylight Time, or about 10pm Universal Time. It will last approximately 6 hours. || ", "hits": 67 }, { "id": 3943, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3943/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-05-29T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Venus Transit - 2012", "description": "It was your last chance for the next 105 years.A transit is when a planet passes directly between the Sun and the Earth and we see the planet as a small dot moving slowly across the face of the Sun. A Venus transit occurred in 2004 (see Venus Transit from GOES/SXI). Prior to that it was 1882. The last Venus transit occurred on June 5-6, 2012 and the next one won't occur until 2117 (See the NASA Eclipse Web Site).To understand the significance of these events, it helps to know the history of how the Venus transits provided one of the first estimates of the size of the Solar System, and eventually the Universe (see A Brief History of the Transit of Venus).In this visualization, there are a few things which should be noted. 1) The camera view is NOT from anywhere on the surface of the Earth, but corresponds to an observer positioned along the Earth-Sun line, but over the north pole of the Earth. This causes the path of Venus to cross the solar disk lower (closer to the solar equator) than it would appear to an observer on the surface of the Earth.2) The ephemeris used for computing the planetary positions was not the high-precision JPL ephemeris (DE-421), but a lower-precision approximation. Yet, when tracked in detail, the transit takes place only about five hours later. It was decided that since the view of the transit in this visual does not correspond to any actual location ON the Earth, it might be misleading to present high-precision timing of the event.This visualization was developed for conceptual illustration and not meant for precision scientific use. || ", "hits": 102 }, { "id": 20190, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20190/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2012-04-05T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "2012 Venus Transit", "description": "Movie showing an artist's conception of the 2012 Venus transit. Starting on the surface of Venus, the camera pulls up through the planets clouds and flies back towards Earth to watch Venus's transit accross the Sun. || ", "hits": 83 }, { "id": 10679, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10679/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-11-02T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Using Color to Search for Alien Earths", "description": "NASA astronomer Lucy McFadden and UCLA graduate Carolyn Crow recently made a discovery that will help identify characteristics of extrasolar planets, such as the compositions of their surfaces and atmospheres. By comparing the reflected red, blue, and green light from planets in our solar system, a team led by Crow and McFadden was able to group the planets according to their similarities. As it turns out, the planets fall into very distinct regions on this plot, where the vertical direction indicates the relative amount of blue light, and the horizontal direction the relative amount of red light. This technique works even when the source of the reflected light is visible only as a point, like exoplanets appear when observed through a telescope. Therefore, scientists can use it to identify earthlike planets more easily. || ", "hits": 139 }, { "id": 10618, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10618/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-08-16T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Inner Solar System: Discovering Earth's Neighborhood w/ Dr. James Garvin", "description": "Chief Scientist of Goddard Space Flight Center, Dr. James Garvin, takes us on a journey of Earth, the moon, and our neighboring planets. Why does space matter? Why is exploring our closest neighbors significant? Where will human venture to next? In this studio lecture, Dr. Garvin answers these questions and discusses what NASA has learned about our inner solar system. || ", "hits": 56 }, { "id": 3728, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3728/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-06-17T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Magellan: Venus False-Color Terrain", "description": "This animation is a brief tour of the global terrain of the planet Venus as revealed by radar onboard the Magellan spacecraft. The height of the terrain is color-coded, with blues and greens representing low altitudes and reds representing high altitudes. Highlighted are two large \"continents,\" or highlands, Aphrodite Terra and Ishtar Terra; the Maxwell Montes mountain range; and Maat Mons, a large, currently dormant volcano.Magellan arrived at Venus in August of 1990 and spent four years there collecting data. The elevation map used here was created with data collected during the first mapping cycle. Many of the coverage gaps, represented here by black pixels, were filled in during later mapping cycles. || ", "hits": 320 }, { "id": 3595, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3595/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-07-27T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Sentinels of the Heliosphere", "description": "Heliophysics is a term to describe the study of the Sun, its atmosphere or the heliosphere, and the planets within it as a system. As a result, it encompasses the study of planetary atmospheres and their magnetic environment, or magnetospheres. These environments are important in the study of space weather.As a society dependent on technology, both in everyday life, and as part of our economic growth, space weather becomes increasingly important. Changes in space weather, either by solar events or geomagnetic events, can disrupt and even damage power grids and satellite communications. Space weather events can also generate x-rays and gamma-rays, as well as particle radiations, that can jeopardize the lives of astronauts living and working in space.This visualization tours the regions of near-Earth orbit; the Earth's magnetosphere, sometimes called geospace; the region between the Earth and the Sun; and finally out beyond Pluto, where Voyager 1 and 2 are exploring the boundary between the Sun and the rest of our Milky Way galaxy. Along the way, we see these regions patrolled by a fleet of satellites that make up NASA's Heliophysics Observatory Telescopes. Many of these spacecraft do not take images in the conventional sense but record fields, particle energies and fluxes in situ. Many of these missions are operated in conjunction with international partners, such as the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA).The Earth and distances are to scale. Larger objects are used to represent the satellites and other planets for clarity.Here are the spacecraft featured in this movie:Near-Earth Fleet:Hinode: Observes the Sun in multiple wavelengths up to x-rays. SVS pageRHESSI : Observes the Sun in x-rays and gamma-rays. SVS pageTRACE: Observes the Sun in visible and ultraviolet wavelengths. SVS pageTIMED: Studies the upper layers (40-110 miles up) of the Earth's atmosphere.FAST: Measures particles and fields in regions where aurora form.CINDI: Measures interactions of neutral and charged particles in the ionosphere. AIM: Images and measures noctilucent clouds. SVS pageGeospace Fleet:Geotail: Conducts measurements of electrons and ions in the Earth's magnetotail. Cluster: This is a group of four satellites which fly in formation to measure how particles and fields in the magnetosphere vary in space and time. SVS pageTHEMIS: This is a fleet of five satellites to study how magnetospheric instabilities produce substorms. SVS pageL1 Fleet: The L1 point is a Lagrange Point, a point between the Earth and the Sun where the gravitational pull is approximately equal. Spacecraft can orbit this location for continuous coverage of the Sun.SOHO: Studies the Sun with cameras and a multitude of other instruments. SVS pageACE: Measures the composition and characteristics of the solar wind. Wind: Measures particle flows and fields in the solar wind. Heliospheric FleetSTEREO-A and B: These two satellites observe the Sun, with imagers and particle detectors, off the Earth-Sun line, providing a 3-D view of solar activity. SVS pageHeliopause FleetVoyager 1 and 2: These spacecraft conducted the original 'Planetary Grand Tour' of the solar system in the 1970s and 1980s. They have now travelled further than any human-built spacecraft and are still returning measurements of the interplanetary medium. SVS pageThis enhanced, narrated visualization was shown at the SIGGRAPH 2009 Computer Animation Festival in New Orleans, LA in August 2009; an eariler version created for AGU was called NASA's Heliophysics Observatories Study the Sun and Geospace. || ", "hits": 97 }, { "id": 3591, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3591/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-04-09T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "STEREO Visits the Lagrange Points - L4 and L5", "description": "The two STEREO spacecraft orbit the Sun in orbits slightly different from the Earth. STEREO A orbits between the Earth and the Sun, while STEREO-B orbits beyond the Earth and the Sun. As a result, relative to the Earth, STEREO-A appears to move ahead of the Earth, while STEREO-B falls behind the Earth, in their motion around the Sun.In this configuration, the two spacecraft are now passing near the two stable Lagrange Points, L4 and L5, of the Earth-Sun system. The STEREO spacecraft are imaging these regions in the hopes of finding material that might have been left over from the original formation of the Solar System.Revision Note: April 15, 2009:It was pointed out that L4 and L5 were reversed in the initial release of this visualization. These animations and stills were revised to reflect the corrections. We apologize for any inconvenience. || ", "hits": 174 }, { "id": 3570, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3570/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2008-12-15T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's Heliophysics Observatories Study the Sun and Geospace", "description": "Heliophysics is a term to describe the study of the Sun, its atmosphere or the heliosphere, and the planets within it as a system. As a result, it encompasses the study of planetary atmospheres and their magnetic environment, or magnetospheres. These environments are important in the study of space weather.As a society dependent on technology, both in everyday life, and as part of our economic growth, space weather becomes increasingly important. Changes in space weather, either by solar events or geomagnetic events, can disrupt and even damage power grids and satellite communications. Space weather events can also generate x-rays and gamma-rays, as well as particle radiations, that can jeopardize the lives of astronauts living and working in space.This visualization tours the regions of near-Earth orbit; the Earth's magnetosphere, sometimes called geospace; the region between the Earth and the Sun; and finally out beyond Pluto, where Voyager 1 and 2 are exploring the boundary between the Sun and the rest of our Milky Way galaxy. Along the way, we see these regions patrolled by a fleet of satellites that make up NASA's Heliophysics Observatory Telescopes. Many of these spacecraft do not take images in the conventional sense but record fields, particle energies and fluxes in situ. Many of these missions are operated in conjunction with international partners, such as the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA).The Earth and distances are to scale. Larger objects are used to represent the satellites and other planets for clarity.Here are the spacecraft featured in this movie:Near-Earth Fleet:Hinode: Observes the Sun in multiple wavelengths up to x-rays. SVS pageRHESSI : Observes the Sun in x-rays and gamma-rays. SVS pageTRACE: Observes the Sun in visible and ultraviolet wavelengths. SVS pageTIMED: Studies the upper layers (40-110 miles up) of the Earth's atmosphere.FAST: Measures particles and fields in regions where aurora form.CINDI: Measures interactions of neutral and charged particles in the ionosphere. AIM: Images and measures noctilucent clouds. SVS pageGeospace Fleet:Geotail: Conducts measurements of electrons and ions in the Earth's magnetotail. Cluster: This is a group of four satellites which fly in formation to measure how particles and fields in the magnetosphere vary in space and time. SVS pageTHEMIS: This is a fleet of five satellites to study how magnetospheric instabilities produce substorms. SVS pageL1 Fleet: The L1 point is a Lagrange Point between the Sun and the Earth. Spacecraft can orbit this location for continuous coverage of the Sun.SOHO: Studies the Sun with cameras and a multitude of other instruments. SVS pageACE: Measures the composition and characteristics of the solar wind. Wind: Measures particle flows and fields in the solar wind. Heliospheric FleetSTEREO-A and B: These two satellites observe the Sun, with imagers and particle detectors, off the Earth-Sun line, providing a 3-D view of solar activity. SVS pageHeliopause FleetVoyager 1 and 2: These spacecraft conducted the original 'Planetary Grand Tour' of the solar system in the 1970s and 1980s. They have now travelled further than any human-built spacecraft and are still returning measurements of the interplanetary medium. SVS pageA refined and narrated version of this visualization, Sentinels of the Heliosphere, is now available. || ", "hits": 86 }, { "id": 10197, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10197/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-04-09T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Return to Venus", "description": "From Galileo and the heliocentric model of the solar system to James Hansen's research on the greenhouse effect, observations of the planet Venus throughout history have given us the perspective we need to understand our own place in the universe. Yet with nearly two decades since the last U.S. mission there, our sister planet has received little attention in recent years. 'Return to Venus' provides a look back at the history of Venus exploration, how human perceptions of the planet have changed through time, and inspires us to think about what secrets we have yet to reveal from our inhospitable and enigmatic neighbor. || ", "hits": 48 }, { "id": 10192, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10192/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-03-31T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Venus: Long Time, No See", "description": "The last U.S. spacecraft mission to Venus was in 1989 with the launch of Magellan. Even though Magellan spent the next five years radar mapping the surface and gathering high resolution gravity data, much remains a mystery about our so-called sister planet. Did Venus experience a run-a-way greenhouse effect at some point in its history? Why is the surface pressure 90 times greater on Venus then on Earth? Why is the planet so hot? These are only a few of the question that must be answered if we are to learn more about Venus's past and possibly Earth's future. || ", "hits": 55 }, { "id": 20040, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20040/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2004-12-03T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "From Venus to Venus Transit", "description": "An artist conception of the surface of Venus to Venus transit || ", "hits": 52 }, { "id": 20041, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20041/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2004-12-03T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Conceptual Venus Transit", "description": "A close-up animation of the Venus transit. || A close-up view of the Venus transit. || Closeup_pre.00002_print.jpg (1024x768) [42.6 KB] || Closeup_thm.png (80x40) [20.0 KB] || Closeup_pre.jpg (320x240) [51.2 KB] || Closeupsml_pre.jpg (320x240) [51.2 KB] || Closeupsml_pre_searchweb.jpg (320x180) [53.9 KB] || Closeup.webmhd.webm (960x540) [929.9 KB] || Closeup.mpg (720x486) [4.6 MB] || Closeupsml.mpg (360x240) [1.7 MB] || ", "hits": 64 }, { "id": 3041, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3041/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-11-01T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Lunar Fly By and Earth Approach", "description": "This is an animation flying over the surface of the moon then approaching the earth. It was created in support of a presentation at the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) in October 2004. Scales are not accurate in this visualization. The Earth is about 3 times larger than it would actually appear. The source of the moon texture is unknown; it is thought to be a composite from several missions. The Earth texture was captured as the Galileo spacecraft swung by the Earth in 1990 for a gravity assist on its way to Jupiter. || ", "hits": 30 }, { "id": 2966, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2966/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-07-21T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Venus Transit from GOES/SXI", "description": "The planet Venus is seen passing between the Earth and the Sun in this sequence of images taken by GOES/SXI. The last Venus Transit was in 1882, the next will be in 2012. || ", "hits": 104 }, { "id": 20027, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20027/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2004-05-25T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Venus Transit 2004", "description": "Movie showing an artist's conception of the view of the Sun from under the clouds of Venus. || transit_pre.00002_print.jpg (1024x698) [116.6 KB] || transit_thm.png (80x40) [16.4 KB] || transit_pre.jpg (320x238) [13.4 KB] || transit_pre_searchweb.jpg (320x180) [90.3 KB] || VenusTransit_NTSC.webmhd.webm (960x540) [4.3 MB] || VenusTransit_640x480.m1v (640x480) [15.4 MB] || 720x480_4x3_30p (720x480) [128.0 KB] || VenusTransit_NTSC.m2v (720x480) [31.7 MB] || a010029_VenusTransit_NTSC.mp4 (640x480) [7.6 MB] || transit.mpg (352x240) [7.2 MB] || VenusTransit_320x240.m1v (320x240) [4.2 MB] || ", "hits": 45 }, { "id": 328, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/328/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1998-10-20T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth Today 1998 Countdown", "description": "The ability to see Earth from space has forever changed our view of the planet. We are now able to look at the Earth as a whole, and observe how its atmosphere, oceans, land masses, and life interact as global systems. Earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere are dynamic, changing on timescales of days, minutes, or even seconds. Monitoring the Earth in near real time allows us to get an up to date picture of conditions on our planet. More SVS visualizations for the Earth Today exhibit are in animation ids 1401 and 1402. || ", "hits": 49 }, { "id": 1401, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/1401/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1998-10-20T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth Today 1998 Introduction", "description": "The ability to see Earth from space has forever changed our view of the planet. We are now able to look at the Earth as a whole, and observe how its atmosphere, oceans, land masses, and life interact as global systems. Earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere are dynamic, changing on timescales of days, minutes, or even seconds. Monitoring the Earth in near real time allows us to get an up to date picture of conditions on our planet. More SVS visualizations for the Earth Today exhibit can be found in animation ids 328 and 1402. || ", "hits": 38 }, { "id": 1402, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/1402/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1998-10-20T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth Today 1998", "description": "The ability to see Earth from space has forever changed our view of the planet. We are now able to look at the Earth as a whole, and observe how its atmosphere, oceans, land masses, and life interact as global systems. Earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere are dynamic, changing on timescales of days, minutes, or even seconds. Monitoring the Earth in near real time allows us to get an up to date picture of conditions on our planet. More SVS visualizations for the Earth Today exhibit can be found in animation ids 328 and 1401. || ", "hits": 40 }, { "id": 116, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/116/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1996-10-25T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "The HoloGlobe Project (Version 2)", "description": "This animation was produced for the Smithsonian Institution's HoloGlobe Exhibit which opened to the public on August 10, 1996. The various orthographic data sets showing progressive global change were mapped onto a rotating globe and projected into space to create a holographic image of the Earth. Showing Earthandapos;s atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere are dynamic, changing on timescales of days, minutes, or even seconds. This animation is a revised version of Animation #96 [The HoloGlobe Project (Version 1)]. || ", "hits": 73 } ] }