{ "count": 80, "next": null, "previous": null, "results": [ { "id": 3458, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3458/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2017-10-01T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Destination Asteroid", "description": "Not far from Earth, dark bodies of rock circle the sun in lonely orbits. These near Earth objects, or NEOs, are asteroids found outside the traditional belt between Mars and Jupiter. Protected from the gravitational tugs and tumbles that affect objects found closer to the gas giant, these asteroids may contain clues about the origins of the solar system. That's why experts from NASA and The University of Arizona want to send a research vehicle to collect a sample. That's OSIRIS. Once approved, the OSIRIS vehicle would leave Earth on a multi-year mission to map and collect samples from a particular NEO called RQ-36.In DESTINATION: ASTEROID, we look behind the scenes as a team of government scientists demonstrates for a visiting group of reporters how the mission will work. This short film explores the basics of the mission, including scientific goals, technical design plans, and a timeline of planned events. Imagination and invention meet in this spirited paean to NASA's legacy for great feats of exploration and discovery. Join us as we set our navigation systems to DESTINATION: ASTEROID. || ", "hits": 47 }, { "id": 10530, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10530/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-11-23T23:00:00-05:00", "title": "Taking Earth's Temperature", "description": "The Earth is a complex system with a unique climate. Many scientists are concerned that Earth's climate is changing at an unprecedented rate. Each January, scientists at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies release temperature data for the previous year. How do scientists study how warm our home planet is, and how do they determine what factors affect its climate? This short video explores the tools NASA scientists use to take Earth's temperature.For complete transcript, click here. || Taking_Earths_Temperature_Updated_2009_640x480.00652_print.jpg (1024x768) [99.0 KB] || Taking_Earths_Temperature_Updated_2009_640x480_web.png (320x240) [281.6 KB] || Taking_Earths_Temperature_Updated_2009_640x480_thm.png (80x40) [16.1 KB] || Taking_Earths_Temperature_Updated_2009_640x480_searchweb.png (320x180) [85.4 KB] || Taking_Earths_Temperature_Updated_2009_1280x720_H264.webmhd.webm (960x540) [46.7 MB] || Taking_Earths_Temperature_Updated_2009_640x480.mpg (640x480) [126.9 MB] || Taking_Earths_Temperature_Updated_2009_1280x720_H264.mov (720x486) [158.2 MB] || Taking_Earths_Temperature_Updated_2009_640x480_ipod.m4v (640x480) [46.7 MB] || Taking_Earths_Temperature_Updated_2009320x240.mp4 (320x240) [18.7 MB] || Taking_Earths_Temperature_Updated_2009.wmv (346x260) [35.6 MB] || ", "hits": 31 }, { "id": 10521, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10521/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-11-05T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Road to Glory", "description": "Glory is a unique research satellite designed to orbit the Earth and achieve two major goals. Glory's first goal is to collect data on the properties of aerosols and black carbon in the Earth's atmosphere and climate system; its second goal is to collect data on solar irradiance for Earth's long-term climate record. This seven-minute video introduces Glory's science objectives, people, and instruments, and provides an overview of the Glory mission.For complete transcript, click here. || The_Road_to_Glory_512x288.01102_print.jpg (1024x576) [74.3 KB] || The_Road_to_Glory_512x288_web.png (180x320) [222.3 KB] || The_Road_to_Glory_512x288_thm.png (80x40) [14.2 KB] || The_Road_to_Glory_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [90.6 MB] || The_Road_to_Glory_1280x720_ProRes.mov (1280x720) [6.3 GB] || The_Road_to_Glory_1280x720_H264.mov (1280x720) [204.8 MB] || The_Road_to_Glory_AppleTV.m4v (960x540) [235.9 MB] || The_Road_to_Glory_640x480_ipod.m4v (640x360) [76.0 MB] || The_Road_to_Glory_512x288.mpg (512x288) [141.3 MB] || The_Road_to_Glory_320x240.mp4 (320x180) [33.4 MB] || The_Road_to_Glory.wmv (320x180) [37.8 MB] || ", "hits": 28 }, { "id": 10522, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10522/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-11-04T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Rough Road to Space", "description": "Space is a harsh environment, and building a space-bound satellite is no small feat! Here's a look at how NASA engineers get the Glory mission off the ground and safely into space!For complete transcript, click here. || The_Rough_Road_to_Space_512x288.01977_print.jpg (1024x576) [89.7 KB] || The_Rough_Road_to_Space_512x288_web.png (320x180) [264.1 KB] || The_Rough_Road_to_Space_512x288_thm.png (80x40) [17.2 KB] || The_Rough_Road_to_Space_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [29.2 MB] || Rough_Road_to_Space_1280x720_ProRes.mov (1280x720) [2.2 GB] || The_Rough_Road_to_Space_1280x720_H264.mov (1280x720) [67.9 MB] || The_Rough_Road_to_Space_AppleTV.m4v (960x540) [75.1 MB] || The_Rough_Road_to_Space_640x480_ipod.m4v (640x360) [27.2 MB] || The_Rough_Road_to_Space_512x288.mpg (512x288) [43.1 MB] || The_Rough_Road_to_Space_320x240.mp4 (320x180) [10.9 MB] || The_Rough_Road_to_Space.wmv (320x180) [14.6 MB] || ", "hits": 50 }, { "id": 10516, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10516/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-11-03T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Science for a Hungry World: Agriculture and Climate Change", "description": "How will climate change impact agriculture? This episode explores the need for accurate, continuous and accessible data and computer models to track and predict the challenges farmers face as they adjust to a changing climate.For complete transcript, click here. || Thumbnail_1280x720.jpg (1280x720) [776.8 KB] || Thumbnail_80x40.jpg (80x40) [2.6 KB] || Thumbnail_160x80.jpg (160x80) [7.9 KB] || Thumbnail_320x180.jpg (320x180) [91.4 KB] || Ag_Ep6_Climate_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [70.8 MB] || Ag_Ep6_Climate_AppleTV.m4v (960x540) [188.6 MB] || Ag_Ep6_Climate_1280x720.mp4 (1280x720) [285.4 MB] || Ag_Ep6_Climate_640x360.m4v (640x360) [54.7 MB] || Ag_Ep6_Climate_640x480.mp4 (640x480) [112.9 MB] || Ag_Ep6_Climate_320x180.mp4 (320x180) [23.4 MB] || Ag_Ep6_Climate.wmv (320x176) [34.9 MB] || Ag_Ep6_Climate_H264.mov (1280x720) [2.7 GB] || Ag_Ep6_Climate_FullRes.mov (1280x720) [5.1 GB] || bigmovie-agriculture_part6_video.hwshow || ", "hits": 107 }, { "id": 10510, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10510/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-10-28T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Einstein's Cosmic Speed Limit", "description": "In its first year of operations, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has mapped the entire sky with unprecedented resolution and sensitivity in gamma-rays, the highest-energy form of light. On May 10, 2009 a pair of gamma-ray photons reached Fermi only 900 milliseconds apart after traveling for 7 billion years. Fermi's measurement gives us rare experimental evidence that space-time is smooth as Einstein predicted, and has shut the door on several approaches to gravity where space-time is foamy enough to interfere strongly with light.Watch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here. || Einsteins_Cosmic_Speed_Limit_512x288_web.png (320x180) [223.5 KB] || Einsteins_Cosmic_Speed_Limit_512x288_thm.png (80x40) [16.5 KB] || Einsteins_Cosmic_Speed_Limit_Thumbnail.jpg (346x260) [107.4 KB] || Einsteins_Cosmic_Speed_Limit_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [82.4 MB] || Einsteins_Cosmic_Speed_Limit_AppleTV.m4v (960x540) [208.4 MB] || Einsteins_Cosmic_Speed_Limit_1280x720_H264.mov (1280x720) [433.5 MB] || Einsteins_Cosmic_Speed_Limit_1280x720_ProRes.mov (1280x720) [5.2 GB] || Einsteins_Cosmic_Speed_Limit_640x480_ipod.m4v (640x360) [68.6 MB] || Einsteins_Cosmic_Speed_Limit_512x288.mpg (512x288) [38.3 MB] || Einsteins_Cosmic_Speed_Limit_320x240.mp4 (320x180) [26.5 MB] || GSFC_20091029_EinsteinsCosmicSpeedLimit.wmv (346x236) [38.4 MB] || ", "hits": 198 }, { "id": 10512, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10512/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-10-27T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Science for a Hungry World: Growing Water Problems", "description": "One of the biggest changes to global agriculture is less about the food itself as it is about the water we use to grow it. In some areas, farmers are using freshwater resources - including groundwater - at an alarming rate. The GRACE satellites enable scientists to discover changes to underground aquifers by monitoring changes in the Earth's gravity. In northern India, farmers rely heavily on irrigation to grow crops, and the resulting massive aquifer depletion creates an uncertain future for the region. For complete transcript, click here. || Agriculture_Episode_5_Water_512x288.05177_print.jpg (1024x576) [180.7 KB] || Agriculture_Episode_5_Water_512x288_web.png (320x180) [321.0 KB] || Agriculture_Episode_5_Water_512x288_thm.png (80x40) [18.0 KB] || Agriculture_Episode_5_Water_960x540_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [72.9 MB] || Agriculture_Episode_5_Water_1280x720_Youtube.mov (1280x720) [76.1 MB] || Agriculture_Episode_5_Water_960x540_AppleTV.m4v (960x540) [176.9 MB] || Agriculture_Episode_5_Water_1280x720_H264.mov (1280x720) [135.9 MB] || Agriculture_Episode_5_Water_640x480_ipod.m4v (640x360) [52.9 MB] || Agriculture_Episode_5_Water_512x288.mpg (512x288) [159.1 MB] || Agriculture_Episode_5_Water_320x240.mp4 (320x180) [23.2 MB] || bigmovie-science_for_a_hungry_world_5-water_problems.hwshow || ", "hits": 62 }, { "id": 10500, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10500/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-10-14T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Science for a Hungry World: Food Security", "description": "Sponsored by USAID, the Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET) was designed to help governments and aid agencies assess the need for food aid before a famine develops. 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These microscopic photosynthetic drifters form the basis of the marine food web, they regulate carbon in the atmosphere, and are responsible for half of the photosynthesis that takes place on this planet. Earth's climate is changing at an unprecedented rate, and as our home planet warms, so does the ocean. Warming waters have big consequences for phytoplankton and for the planet. For complete transcript, click here. || Oceans_Green_Machines_640x480_ESWpage.00427_print.jpg (1024x576) [65.8 KB] || Oceans_Green_Machines_640x480_ESWpage_web.png (320x180) [135.9 KB] || Oceans_Green_Machines_640x480_ESWpage_thm.png (80x40) [15.0 KB] || Oceans_Green_Machines_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [80.8 MB] || Oceans_Green_Machines_1280x720_ProRes.mov (1280x720) [4.9 GB] || Oceans_Green_Machines_1280x720_H264.mov (1280x720) [176.1 MB] || Oceans_Green_Machines_1280x720_ESWpage.mp4 (1280x720) [115.8 MB] || Oceans_Green_Machines_AppleTV.m4v (960x540) [195.1 MB] || Oceans_Green_Machines_640x360_ipod.m4v (640x360) [62.2 MB] || Oceans_Green_Machines_640x480_ESWpage.mp4 (640x360) [62.2 MB] || Oceans_Green_Machines_512x288.mpg (512x288) [113.3 MB] || Oceans_Green_Machines_320x180.mp4 (320x180) [27.7 MB] || Oceans_Green_Machines.wmv (320x176) [37.8 MB] || ", "hits": 130 }, { "id": 10498, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10498/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-10-12T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Keeping Up With Carbon", "description": "Carbon is all around us. This unique atom is the basic building block of life, and its compounds form solids, liquids, or gases. Carbon helps form the bodies of living organisms; it dissolves in the ocean; mixes in the atmosphere; and can be stored in the crust of the planet. A carbon atom could spend millions of years moving through this complex cycle. The ocean plays the most critical role in regulating Earth's carbon balance, and understanding how the carbon cycle is changing is key to understanding Earth's changing climate. For complete transcript, click here. || Keeping_Up_with_Carbon_640x360_ESWpage.00577_print.jpg (1024x576) [71.2 KB] || Keeping_Up_with_Carbon_640x360_ESWpage_web.png (320x180) [128.6 KB] || Keeping_Up_with_Carbon_640x360_ESWpage_thm.png (80x40) [13.9 KB] || Keeping_Up_with_Carbon_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [84.1 MB] || Keeping_Up_with_Carbon_1280x720_ProRes.mov (1280x720) [5.1 GB] || Keeping_Up_with_Carbon_1280x720_H264.mov (1280x720) [159.3 MB] || Keeping_Up_with_Carbon_1280x720_ESWpage.mp4 (1280x720) [133.5 MB] || Keeping_Up_with_Carbon_AppleTV.m4v (960x540) [201.6 MB] || Keeping_Up_with_Carbon_640x360_ipod.m4v (640x360) [63.2 MB] || Keeping_Up_with_Carbon_640x360_ESWpage.mp4 (640x360) [63.2 MB] || Keeping_Up_with_Carbon_512x288.mpg (512x288) [123.9 MB] || Keeping_Up_with_Carbon_320x180.mp4 (320x180) [26.0 MB] || Keeping_Up_with_Carbon.wmv (320x176) [39.0 MB] || ", "hits": 156 }, { "id": 10502, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10502/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-10-12T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Climate Change and the Global Ocean", "description": "We know climate change can affect us, but does climate change alter something as vast, deep and mysterious as our oceans? For years, scientists have studied the world's oceans by sending out ships and divers, deploying data-gathering buoys, and by taking aerial measurements from planes. But one of the better ways to understand oceans is to gain an even broader perspective - the view from space. NASA's Earth observing satellites do more than just take pictures of our planet. High-tech sensors gather data, including ocean surface temperature, surface winds, sea level, circulation, and even marine life. Information the satellites obtain help us understand the complex interactions driving the world's oceans today - and gain valuable insight into how the impacts of climate change on oceans might affect us on dry land.For complete transcript, click here. || Global_Ocean_ipod_320x240.01252_print.jpg (1024x576) [77.3 KB] || Global_Ocean_ipod_320x240_web.png (320x180) [84.7 KB] || Global_Ocean_ipod_320x240_thm.png (80x40) [16.1 KB] || Global_Ocean_appletv.webmhd.webm (960x540) [78.2 MB] || Global_Ocean_broll_prores.mov (1280x720) [5.3 GB] || Global_Ocean_1280x720.mp4 (1280x720) [159.8 MB] || Global_Ocean_appletv.m4v (960x540) [187.1 MB] || Global_Ocean_H264_1280x720_30fps.mov (1280x720) [167.6 MB] || Global_Ocean_youtube_1280x720.mov (1280x720) [79.2 MB] || Global_Ocean_ipod_640x480.m4v (640x360) [59.9 MB] || Global_Ocean_ipod_320x240.m4v (320x180) [25.9 MB] || Global_Ocean.wmv (346x260) [39.1 MB] || ", "hits": 65 }, { "id": 10503, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10503/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-10-12T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Melting Ice, Rising Seas", "description": "Sea level rise is an indicator that our planet is warming. Much of the world's population lives on or near the coast, and rising seas are something worth watching. Sea level can rise for two reasons, both linked to a warming planet. When ice on land, such as mountain glaciers or the ice sheets of Greenland or Antarctica, melt, that water contributes to sea level rise. And when our oceans get warmer - another indicator of climate change - the water expands, also making sea level higher. Using satellites, lasers, and radar in space, and dedicated researchers on the ground, NASA is studying the Earth's ice and water to better understand how sea level rise might affect us all.For complete transcript, click here. || Melting_Seas_ipod_640x480.03027_print.jpg (1024x576) [80.7 KB] || Melting_Seas_ipod_640x480_web.png (320x180) [156.6 KB] || Melting_Seas_ipod_640x480_thm.png (80x40) [16.6 KB] || Melting_Seas_appletv_1280x720.webmhd.webm (960x540) [67.9 MB] || Melting_Seas_H264_1280x720_30fps.mov (1280x720) [128.9 MB] || Melting_Seas_1280x720.mp4 (1280x720) [125.1 MB] || Melting_Seas_broll_prores.mov (1280x720) [4.4 GB] || Melting_Seas_youtube_1280x720.mov (1280x720) [69.1 MB] || Melting_Seas_appletv_1280x720.m4v (960x540) [160.0 MB] || Melting_Seas_ipod_640x480.m4v (640x360) [49.7 MB] || Melting_Seas_ipod_320x240.m4v (320x180) [21.1 MB] || Rising_Seas.wmv (346x260) [38.5 MB] || ", "hits": 91 }, { "id": 10504, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10504/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-10-12T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Salt of the Earth", "description": "Salinity plays a major role in how ocean waters circulate around the globe. Salinity changes can create ocean circulation changes that, in turn, may impact regional and global climates. The extent to which salinity impacts our global ocean circulation is still relatively unknown, but NASA's new Aquarius mission will help advance that understanding by painting a global picture of our planet's salty waters.For complete transcript, click here. || Salt_of_the_Earth_640x480.00519_print.jpg (1024x576) [66.1 KB] || Salt_of_the_Earth_640x480_web.png (320x180) [106.1 KB] || Salt_of_the_Earth_640x480_thm.png (80x40) [12.6 KB] || Salt_of_the_Earth_appletv_1280x720.webmhd.webm (960x540) [65.9 MB] || Salt_of_the_Earth_H264_1280x720_30fps.mov (1280x720) [150.0 MB] || Salt_of_the_Earth_appletv_1280x720.m4v (960x540) [166.5 MB] || Salt_of_the_Earth_1280x720.mp4 (1280x720) [99.9 MB] || Salt_of_the_Earth_broll_prores.mov (1280x720) [4.7 GB] || Salt_of_the_Earth_Youtube_1280x720.mov (1280x720) [72.2 MB] || Salt_of_the_Earth_640x480.m4v (640x360) [55.1 MB] || GSFC_20091012_Aquarius_m10504_Salt.en_US.srt [6.0 KB] || GSFC_20091012_Aquarius_m10504_Salt.en_US.vtt [6.1 KB] || Salt_of_the_Earth_ipod_320x240.m4v (320x180) [23.1 MB] || Salt_of_the_Earth.wmv (346x260) [35.0 MB] || ", "hits": 161 }, { "id": 10509, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10509/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-10-09T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Water, Water Everywhere!", "description": "Water is all around us, and its importance to nearly every natural process on earth cannot be underestimated. The water cycle is the movement of water around the Earth in all its forms, from the ocean to the atmosphere, to snow, soil, aquifers, lakes, and streams on land, and ultimately backs to the ocean. This video explains what the water cycle is and how important it is to life on earth.For complete transcript, click here. || Water_Water_Everywhere_640x480.01727_print.jpg (1024x576) [218.0 KB] || Water_Water_Everywhere_640x480_web.png (320x180) [275.8 KB] || Water_Water_Everywhere_640x480_thm.png (80x40) [18.1 KB] || Water_Water_Everywhere_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [95.5 MB] || Water_Water_Everywhere_640x480.mp4 (1280x720) [231.3 MB] || Water_Water_Everywhere_AppleTV.m4v (960x540) [229.2 MB] || Water_Water_Everywhere_H264.mov (1280x720) [2.0 GB] || Water_Water_Everywhere_friday_1280x720.mp4 (1280x720) [231.3 MB] || Water_Water_Everywhere_friday.mov (1280x720) [6.4 GB] || Water_Water_Everywhere_ipod_640x480m4v.m4v (640x360) [72.1 MB] || Water_Water_Everywhere_friday_640x480.mp4 (640x360) [72.1 MB] || Water_Water_Everywhere_1280x720.mp4 (640x480) [97.6 MB] || Water_Water_Everywhere_friday.mp4 (320x180) [30.1 MB] || Water_Water_Everywhere_friday.wmv (320x236) [26.9 MB] || ", "hits": 115 }, { "id": 3639, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3639/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-10-08T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Rotating Blue Marble", "description": "The Blue Marble Next Generation (BMNG) data set provides a monthly global cloud-free true-color picture of the Earth's landcover at a 500-meter spatial resolution. This data set, shown on a globe, is derived from monthly data collected in 2004. The ocean color is derived from applying a depth shading to the bathymetry data. The Antarctica coverage shown is the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica. || ", "hits": 273 }, { "id": 3640, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3640/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-10-08T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Rotating Cloudy Galileo Transitions to Blue Marble View", "description": "The MODIS instruments on the Terra and Aqua satellites take multi-spectral images of the Earth daily. This realistic, cloudy Earth is a composite of MODIS imagery from March 3, 2009. This animation reveals a transition from the MODIS view of Earth to the Blue Marble image, to allow a look at the planet without clouds. The Blue Marble Next Generation (BMNG) data set provides a monthly global cloud-free true-color picture of the Earth's landcover at a 500-meter spatial resolution. This data set, shown on a globe, is derived from monthly data collected in 2004. The ocean color is derived from applying a depth shading to the bathymetry data. The Antarctica coverage shown is the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica. || ", "hits": 64 }, { "id": 3641, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3641/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-10-08T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Rotating Phytoplankton 10-year Global Average", "description": "The SeaWiFS instrument aboard the SeaStar satellite has been collecting ocean data since 1997. By monitoring the color of reflected light via satellite, scientists can determine how successfully plant life is photosynthesizing. A measurement of photosynthesis is essentially a measurement of successful growth, and growth means successful use of ambient carbon. This animation displays the 10-year global average of nearly a decade's worth of data taken by the SeaWiFS instrument, showing the abundance of life in the sea. Dark blue represents warmer areas where there is little life due to lack of nutrients, and greens and reds represent cooler nutrient-rich areas. || ", "hits": 22 }, { "id": 3642, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3642/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-10-08T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Regions Exhibiting Decreased Phytoplankton Levels and Increased Sea Surface Temperatures", "description": "Throughout most of Earth's ocean, as the surface layer of the ocean warms, the water becomes less dense and forms a cap, rather than mixing down to allow cooler, nutrient-rich water to well up. Over time, areas with less mixing show reduced productivity and less phytoplankton. This data visualization highlights regions where a strong correlation between high sea surface temperatures and decreased phytoplankton productivity occurred from 1997-2006. For nearly a decade, the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor (SeaWiFS) has been making global observations of phytoplankton productivity. On December 6, 2006, NASA-funded scientists announced that warming sea surface temperatures over the past decade have caused a global decline in phytoplankton productivity. || ", "hits": 19 }, { "id": 10496, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10496/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-10-07T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Science for a Hungry World: Land Cover Land Use Change", "description": "NASA remote sensing data is used to measure how much land is used for agriculture and where farms are in relation to population density. This episode explore the transition between native vegetation, farms, and cities. Satellites show where land use changes have been most significant.For complete transcript, click here. || 320x190.10127_print.jpg (1024x576) [132.1 KB] || 80x40_thumbnail.jpg (80x40) [5.6 KB] || 160x80_gallery_thumbnail.jpg (160x80) [16.8 KB] || 320x190_web_thumbnail.jpg (320x239) [73.7 KB] || 320x190_web_thumbnail_searchweb.jpg (320x180) [121.2 KB] || LCLUC_1280x720_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [59.0 MB] || LCLUC_1280x720_AppleTV.m4v (960x540) [157.9 MB] || LCLUC_1280x720_H264.mov (1280x720) [178.8 MB] || LCLUC_640x480_ipod.m4v (640x360) [50.4 MB] || LCLUC_320x240_ipod.mp4 (320x180) [18.5 MB] || Ag_LCLUC_Ep3_FullRes.mov (1280x720) [4.2 GB] || bigmovie-agriculture_part3_video.hwshow || ", "hits": 62 }, { "id": 10491, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10491/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-09-30T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Science For a Hungry World: NASA's Partners", "description": "Every day, NASA collects information vital to food production all over the world. This information is a valuable asset. NASA's mission: to give it away for free. With the data they collect, teams of NASA researchers and their partners at the USDA Foreign Agriculture Service, USAID Famine Early Warning Network (FEWS NET), NOAA, and several major universities including the University of Maryland, work to increase crop yields, ease famine, and keep the global agricultural system functioning.For complete transcript, click here. || ag_ep_2_H.264_iPod_320x240.01192_print.jpg (1024x576) [85.5 KB] || ag_ep_2_H.264_iPod_320x240_web.png (320x180) [108.6 KB] || ag_ep_2_H.264_iPod_320x240_thm.png (80x40) [12.4 KB] || Ag_Ep_2_full_res-H.264_for_Apple_TV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [65.1 MB] || ag_ep_2_draft_5-Ag_ep2_Partners_09-25-09_1804_copy-720_H.264_QT_for_16x9_Youtube.mov (1280x720) [69.5 MB] || Ag_Ep_2_full_res-H.264_for_Apple_TV.m4v (960x540) [166.6 MB] || ag_ep_2_draft_5-Ag_ep2_Partners_09-25-09_1804_copy-H.264_for_iPod_video_and_iPhone_640x480.m4v (640x360) [56.2 MB] || GSFC_20090930_ag_ep_2_m10491.en_US.srt [11.6 KB] || GSFC_20090930_ag_ep_2_m10491.en_US.vtt [11.2 KB] || ag_ep_2_H.264_iPod_320x240.m4v (320x180) [20.7 MB] || Ag_Ep_2_full_res.wmv (320x236) [43.4 MB] || bigmovie-agriculture_part2_video.hwshow || ", "hits": 37 }, { "id": 10490, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10490/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-09-22T23:00:00-04:00", "title": "Science For a Hungry World: Introduction", "description": "As the first of six episodes, Science for a Hungry World: Part 1 sets the groundwork for explaining why NASA data is critical to ensure a stable global food system. This video reveals how satellite remote sensing data provide the world with essential information like the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, or NDVI, which allows scientists and governments to see the health of crops on a global scale. This video reinforces the idea that a unique perspective from space is essential for continuous global agricultural monitoring and accurate forecasting.For complete transcript, click here. || Science_for_a_Hungry_World_Part_1_320x240.01627_print.jpg (1024x576) [111.9 KB] || Science_for_a_Hungry_World_Part_1_320x240_thm.png (80x40) [17.4 KB] || Science_for_a_Hungry_World_Part_1_320x240_web.png (180x320) [152.7 KB] || Science_for_a_Hungry_World_Part_1_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [68.9 MB] || Science_for_a_Hungry_World_Part_1_AppleTV.m4v (960x540) [174.3 MB] || Science_for_a_Hungry_World_Part_1_H264_1280x720.mov (1280x720) [194.6 MB] || Science_for_a_Hungry_World_Part_1_640x480_ipod.m4v (640x360) [57.4 MB] || Science_for_a_Hungry_World_Part_1_for_Rob.m4v (640x360) [39.4 MB] || Science_for_a_Hungry_World_Part_1_320x240.mp4 (320x180) [22.5 MB] || Science_for_a_Hungry_World_Part_1.wmv (320x236) [37.8 MB] || bigmovie-science_for_a_hungry_world_1-introduction.hwshow || ", "hits": 22 }, { "id": 10485, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10485/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-09-16T09:40:00-04:00", "title": "Swift's UV portrait of the Andromeda Galaxy", "description": "NASA's Swift satellite has acquired the highest-resolution view of the neighboring spiral galaxy M31. Also known as the Andromeda Galaxy, M31 is the largest and closest such galaxy to our own. It's more than 220,000 light-years across and lies 2.5 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. Between May 25 and July 26, 2008, Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) acquired 330 images of M31 at wavelengths of 192.8, 224.6, and 260 nanometers. The images represent a total exposure time of 24 hours. Some 20,000 ultraviolet sources are visible in the image, including M32, a small galaxy in orbit around M31. Dense clusters of hot, young, blue stars sparkle in the disk beyond the galaxy's smooth, redder central bulge. Star clusters are especially plentiful along a ring about 150,000 light-years across. || ", "hits": 512 }, { "id": 10484, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10484/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-09-14T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Landsat: A Space Age Water Gauge", "description": "Agriculture consumes a great deal of water. As demand for water increases, the pressure's on to make sure every drop counts. || ", "hits": 36 }, { "id": 10477, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10477/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-09-04T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "LARGEST: A Spherical Movie About Jupiter", "description": "NASA's home for spherical films on Magic Planet. Download the Magic Planet-ready movie file here.Three hundred and eighty million miles from Earth, the solar system's largest planet spins like a sizzling top in the night, massive and powerful beyond all comparison short of the sun itself. It's therefore only fitting—and certainly about time—that the fifth planet receive its proper cinematic due, set naturally on the most appropriate cinematic platform. With the movie LARGEST, Jupiter comes to Science On a Sphere.LARGEST examines the gas giant like a work of art, like a destination of celestial wonder. Starting with the basics, the movie examines the gross anatomy of the immense planet. From swirling winds to astounding rotational velocity to unimaginable size, Jupiter demands nothing less than a list of superlatives. But where general description sets the stage, LARGEST parts the curtains on humanity's experience with the fifth planet. The movie takes us on a journey to this immense sphere via dramatic fly-bys with some of the most astounding robotic probes ever designed. Then, with NASA instruments trained on the striped behemoth, the drama really begins.NASA released LARGEST on September 15, 2009. It is one in a series of spherical movies created entirely by staff at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. But while the process to create a fully spherical movie is something of an in-house Goddard creation, the Science On a Sphere projection system itself is an invention of the space agency's sibling NOAA.This film has been prepared exclusively for playback on spherical projections systems. It will not play properly on a traditional computer or television screen. If you are interested in downloading the complete final movie file for spherical playback, please visit ftp://public.sos.noaa.gov/extras/.For more information about the movie itself, visit the main website at www.nasa.gov/largest. || ", "hits": 70 }, { "id": 3619, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3619/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-09-01T18:00:00-04:00", "title": "A Tour of the Cryosphere 2009", "description": "The cryosphere consists of those parts of the Earth's surface where water is found in solid form, including areas of snow, sea ice, glaciers, permafrost, ice sheets, and icebergs. In these regions, surface temperatures remain below freezing for a portion of each year. Since ice and snow exist relatively close to their melting point, they frequently change from solid to liquid and back again due to fluctuations in surface temperature. Although direct measurements of the cryosphere can be difficult to obtain due to the remote locations of many of these areas, using satellite observations scientists monitor changes in the global and regional climate by observing how regions of the Earth's cryosphere shrink and expand.This animation portrays fluctuations in the cryosphere through observations collected from a variety of satellite-based sensors. The animation begins in Antarctica, showing some unique features of the Antarctic landscape found nowhere else on earth. Ice shelves, ice streams, glaciers, and the formation of massive icebergs can be seen clearly in the flyover of the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica. A time series shows the movement of iceberg B15A, an iceberg 295 kilometers in length which broke off of the Ross Ice Shelf in 2000. Moving farther along the coastline, a time series of the Larsen ice shelf shows the collapse of over 3,200 square kilometers ice since January 2002. As we depart from the Antarctic, we see the seasonal change of sea ice and how it nearly doubles the apparent area of the continent during the winter.From Antarctica, the animation travels over South America showing glacier locations on this mostly tropical continent. We then move further north to observe daily changes in snow cover over the North American continent. The clouds show winter storms moving across the United States and Canada, leaving trails of snow cover behind. In a close-up view of the western US, we compare the difference in land cover between two years: 2003 when the region received a normal amount of snow and 2002 when little snow was accumulated. The difference in the surrounding vegetation due to the lack of spring melt water from the mountain snow pack is evident.As the animation moves from the western US to the Arctic region, the areas affected by permafrost are visible. As time marches forward from March to September, the daily snow and sea ice recede and reveal the vast areas of permafrost surrounding the Arctic Ocean.The animation shows a one-year cycle of Arctic sea ice followed by the mean September minimum sea ice for each year from 1979 through 2008. The superimposed graph of the area of Arctic sea ice at this minimum clearly shows the dramatic decrease in Artic sea ice over the last few years.While moving from the Arctic to Greenland, the animation shows the constant motion of the Arctic polar ice using daily measures of sea ice activity. Sea ice flows from the Arctic into Baffin Bay as the seasonal ice expands southward. As we draw close to the Greenland coast, the animation shows the recent changes in the Jakobshavn glacier. Although Jakobshavn receded only slightly from 1964 to 2001, the animation shows significant recession from 2001 through 2009. As the animation pulls out from Jakobshavn, the effect of the increased flow rate of Greenland costal glaciers is shown by the thinning ice shelf regions near the Greenland coast.This animation shows a wealth of data collected from satellite observations of the cryosphere and the impact that recent cryospheric changes are making on our planet.For more information on the data sets used in this visualization, visit NASA's EOS DAAC website.Note: This animation is an update of the animation 'A Short Tour of the Cryosphere', which is itself an abridged version of the animation 'A Tour of the Cryosphere'. The popularity of the earlier animations and their continuing relevance prompted us to update the datasets in parts of the animation and to remake it in high definition. In certain cases, our experiences in using the earlier work have led us to tweak the presentation of some of the material to make it clearer. Our thanks to Dr. Robert Bindschadler for suggesting and supporting this remake. || ", "hits": 51 }, { "id": 10481, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10481/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-08-25T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Feeling the Sting of Climate Change", "description": "NASA research scientist Wayne Esaias uses honey bees as tiny data collectors to understand how climate change is affecting pollination. His citizen-scientist project, HoneyBeeNet, compares bee data from across North America to satellite imagery in order to gain a big-picture perspective of how our warming climate is affecting both plants and pollinators. || ", "hits": 41 }, { "id": 10472, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10472/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-07-28T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA/NOAA GOES-14: First Full Disk Image", "description": "Exactly a month ago on June 27 NASA launched a new and improved weather satellite called GOES-O. Now that GOES-O is safely into its orbit, it has been renamed to GOES-14. On July 27, 2009 NOAA and NASA released the first full disk image from GOES-14 showing that the satellite is operating correctly. NASA Goddard Producer Silvia Stoyanova, visits the NOAA Satellite Operations Facility in Suitland, Md. for the release of the first image and talks to NOAA Meteorologist Tom Renkevens about it.For complete transcript, click here. || GOES14FirstImageiPod.03452_print.jpg (1024x576) [82.8 KB] || GOES14FirstImageiPod_web.png (320x180) [100.6 KB] || GOES14FirstImageiPod_thm.png (80x40) [9.5 KB] || G2009-073_GOES-14_First_Image.webmhd.webm (960x540) [50.3 MB] || G2009-073_GOES-14_First_Image.mov (960x720) [1.4 GB] || GOES14FirstImageYouTube.mov (1280x720) [69.0 MB] || GOES14FirstImageAppleTV.m4v (960x540) [118.4 MB] || GOES14FirstImageiPod.m4v (640x360) [35.3 MB] || GOES14FirstImageNASAPodcast.mp4 (320x240) [10.8 MB] || GOES14FirstImageNASAPortal.wmv (346x260) [27.7 MB] || GOES14FirstImageSVS.mpg (512x288) [31.8 MB] || ", "hits": 53 }, { "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": 10448, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10448/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-07-09T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "GOES-O: Days Before Launch", "description": "In this video, two days prior to the GOES-O launch, NASA Goddard Producer Silvia Stoyanova visits Cape Canaveral's Air Force Station, launch pad 37, to talk to GOES N-P Program Manager Charlie Maloney and Boeing Systems Engineer Pat Jasanis about the importance of the GOES-O mission as well as the launch vehicle, and some behind the scenes activities prior to launch.For complete transcript, click here. || GOES-O_DaysBeforeLaunch_svs.00952_print.jpg (1024x576) [106.2 KB] || GOES-O_DaysBeforeLaunch_svs_web.png (320x180) [271.6 KB] || GOES-O_DaysBeforeLaunch_svs_thm.png (80x40) [17.8 KB] || GOES-O_DaysBeforeLaunch_appletv.webmhd.webm (960x540) [49.7 MB] || GOES-O_DaysBeforeLaunch_fullres.mov (1280x720) [125.1 MB] || GOES-O_DaysBeforeLaunch_appletv.m4v (960x540) [83.9 MB] || GOES-O_DaysBeforeLaunch_ipod.m4v (640x360) [38.6 MB] || GOES-O_DaysBeforeLaunch_podcast.mp4 (320x240) [13.3 MB] || GOES-O_DaysBeforeLaunch_svs.mpg (512x288) [31.8 MB] || GOES-O_DaysBeforeLaunch_portal.wmv (346x260) [38.8 MB] || ", "hits": 18 }, { "id": 10449, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10449/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-07-09T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "GOES-O: Behind The Scenes With a Rocket Scientist", "description": "In this video, two days prior to the GOES-O launch, NASA Goddard Producer Silvia Stoyanova visits Cape Canaveral's Air Force Station, launch pad 37, to talk to United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Chief Engineer Russel Taub, about the launch vehicle on which NASA is sending GOES-O into space. Russel Taub explains the reasons behind choosing this particular rocket and also the way it gets tested to make sure that the spacecraft reaches its orbit. For complete transcript, click here. || GOES-O_RocketScientist_ipod.00027_print.jpg (1024x576) [120.0 KB] || GOES-O_RocketScientist_ipod_web.png (320x180) [225.7 KB] || GOES-O_RocketScientist_ipod_thm.png (80x40) [17.6 KB] || GOES-O_RocketScientist_appletv.webmhd.webm (960x540) [48.4 MB] || GOES-O_RocketScientist_fullres.mov (1280x720) [122.8 MB] || GOES-O_RocketScientist_appletv.m4v (960x540) [119.1 MB] || GOES-O_RocketScientist_youtube.mov (1280x720) [56.9 MB] || GOES-O_RocketScientist_ipod.m4v (640x360) [41.3 MB] || GOES-O_RocketScientist_svs.mpg (512x288) [31.4 MB] || GOES-O_RocketScientist_portal.wmv (346x260) [30.8 MB] || GOES-O_RocketScientist_podcast.mp4 (320x240) [10.0 MB] || ", "hits": 26 }, { "id": 10450, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10450/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-07-09T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "GOES-O: Countdown To Launch", "description": "In this video, two days prior to the GOES-O launch, NASA Goddard Producer Silvia Stoyanova visits Cape Canaveral's Air Force Station, launch pad 37, to talk to NASA GOES N-P Deputy Project Manager Andre' Dress, about the factors that could cause a launch delay, what's special about GOES geosynchronous orbit, and how valuable the mission is to the public by helping predict severe weather, thus saving lives and properties. This video also includes footage from the GOES-O launch. For complete transcript, click here. || GOES-O_Countdown_ipod.00027_print.jpg (1024x576) [121.3 KB] || GOES-O_Countdown_ipod_web.png (320x180) [230.7 KB] || GOES-O_Countdown_ipod_thm.png (80x40) [17.9 KB] || GOES-O_Countdown_appletv.webmhd.webm (960x540) [42.2 MB] || GOES-O_Countdown_fullres.mov (1280x720) [132.3 MB] || GOES-O_Countdown_youtube.mov (1280x720) [81.1 MB] || GOES-O_Countdown_appletv.m4v (960x540) [91.3 MB] || GOES-O_Countdown_ipod.m4v (640x360) [41.7 MB] || GOES-O_Countdown_svs.mpg (512x288) [34.8 MB] || GOES-O_Countdown_podcast.mp4 (320x240) [8.8 MB] || GOES-O_Countdown_portal.wmv (346x260) [26.6 MB] || ", "hits": 22 }, { "id": 10419, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10419/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-04-13T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "New Sea Ice Findings Cap Year of Focus on Poles", "description": "In commemoration of the end of the International Polar Year, Tom Wagner, NASA Cryosphere Program Scientist, appeared on television stations around the country on April 6, 2009. This video highlights his answers to questions about the IPY, climate change, and new data on the extent and thickness of sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean.For complete transcript, click here. || Tom_Wagner_Live_EditedH264.00177_print.jpg (1024x576) [83.8 KB] || Tom_Wagner_Live_EditedH264_web.png (320x180) [241.0 KB] || Tom_Wagner_Live_EditedH264_thm.png (80x40) [17.0 KB] || Tom_Wagner_Live_Edited.webmhd.webm (960x540) [57.5 MB] || Tom_Wagner_Live_Edited.m4v (960x540) [178.9 MB] || Tom_Wagner_Live_EditedH264.mov (1280x720) [175.8 MB] || Tom_Wagner_Live_Edited.mov (1280x720) [175.8 MB] || Tom_Wagner_Live_Edited.mp4 (320x240) [11.7 MB] || Tom_Wagner_Live_Edited.wmv (320x236) [25.4 MB] || Tom_Wagner_Live_Edited.mpg (512x288) [46.1 MB] || ", "hits": 40 }, { "id": 10416, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10416/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-04-07T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Guided Tour of LIMA Flyover", "description": "In 2007, more than 1,100 Landsat 7 images were used to create the first ever, high-resolution, true color map of Antarctica. The Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA) is a virtually cloud-free, 3-D view of Antarctica's frozen landscape produced by NASA, working with the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Geological Survey and the British Antarctic Survey.Visualizers stitched together Landsat 7 satellite imagery acquired in 1999 and 2001 with a digital elevation model and field data measurements. || ", "hits": 138 }, { "id": 3587, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3587/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-03-24T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "LRO Scouts for Safe Landing Sites - Stereoscopic Version", "description": "The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is NASA's scouting mission to prepare for a return to the moon. One of its primary objectives will be to assess the lunar terrain for areas that would provide safe landing sites for future missions, both manned and unmanned, that plan to touch down on the moon's surface. This video helps explain how LRO will accomplish its objective.This visualization is a modified 3D stereo version of animation entry:#10349: LRO Scouts for Safe Landing Sites.The raw stereoscopic visualization sequence used to create this narrated animation can be viewed and downloaded from entry: #3567: How LRO Will Find Safe Landing Sites on the Moon - Stereoscopic Version. || ", "hits": 65 }, { "id": 10411, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10411/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-03-18T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Top 5 Solar Discoveries", "description": "A countdown of the top 5 solar discoveries from the Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum. These include the discoveries of sunspots, the solar cycle, the heliosphere, aurora formation, and space weather. || ", "hits": 54 }, { "id": 10401, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10401/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-03-01T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Earth Observing Landsat 5 Turns 25 Years Old", "description": "Still observing the Earth after 25 years—22 beyond its three-year primary mission lifetime—Landsat 5 collects valuable scientific data daily. Some attribute the satellite's longevity to over-engineering. Others say it's a long run of good luck. Whatever the reason, no one who attended the satellite's March 1984 launch could have expected it would still be working today.For complete transcript, click here. || Landsat5_turns_25_ipodLG.00202_print.jpg (1024x576) [73.2 KB] || Landsat5_turns_25_ipodLG_web.png (320x180) [149.4 KB] || Landsat5_turns_25_ipodLG_thm.png (80x40) [13.9 KB] || Landsat5_turns_25_appletv.webmhd.webm (960x540) [51.8 MB] || Landsat5_turns_25_appletv.m4v (960x540) [87.6 MB] || Landsat5_turns_25_YouTube.mov (1280x720) [56.6 MB] || Landsat5_turns_25_fullresH264.mov (1280x720) [119.3 MB] || Landsat5_turns_25_ipodLG.m4v (640x360) [42.3 MB] || Landsat5_turns_25_svsSM.mpg (512x288) [32.8 MB] || Landsat5_turns_25_ipodSM.m4v (320x180) [16.4 MB] || Landsat5_turns_25_NASAcast.mp4 (320x236) [30.9 MB] || GSFC_20090227_Landsat5turns25.wmv (346x260) [30.5 MB] || ", "hits": 83 }, { "id": 10376, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10376/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-17T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "LRO's Team Spirit with Joanne Baker", "description": "The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is the first step to future missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. But a lot has to happen before we get there and one woman on the LRO team played a key role in 'putting it together.' || Joanne_Baker_Profile.01252_print.jpg (1024x576) [56.3 KB] || Joanne_Baker_Profile_web.png (320x180) [240.1 KB] || Joanne_Baker_Profile_thm.png (80x40) [16.3 KB] || Joanne_Baker_Profile_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [30.2 MB] || Joanne_Baker_Profile_AppleTV.m4v (960x540) [57.0 MB] || Joanne_Baker_Profile.mov (1280x720) [82.9 MB] || Joanne_Baker_Profile.mpg (640x360) [31.5 MB] || Joanne_Baker_Profile_ipod.m4v (640x360) [26.2 MB] || Joanne_Baker_Profile.m4v (320x180) [11.8 MB] || Joanne_Baker_Profile.mp4 (320x240) [6.2 MB] || Joanne_Baker_Profile_SVSsmall.mpg (512x288) [21.1 MB] || Joanne_Baker_Profile.wmv (346x260) [19.4 MB] || ", "hits": 25 }, { "id": 10371, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10371/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-01-17T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Climate Change and Polar Ice: Are We Waking Sleeping Giants w/ Dr. Waleed Abdalati", "description": "Water covers more than 70% of our planet's surface and largely governs so many things from climate change to the sustenance of life on earth. What you may not realize is the vital importance played by the solid part of our planet's water inventory. || ", "hits": 15 }, { "id": 10356, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10356/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-12-15T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "THEMIS Discovers Biggest Breach of Earth's Magnetosphere", "description": "NASA's THEMIS mission has overturned a longstanding belief about the interaction between solar particles and Earth's protective magnetic field. This new discovery could help scientists predict when the solar storms that can disrupt power grids, satellites and even GPS signals, could be especially severe.For more information: www.nasa.gov/themisFor complete transcript, click here. || THEMIS_ipodLG.00702_print.jpg (1024x576) [97.3 KB] || THEMIS_ipodLG_web.png (180x320) [228.6 KB] || THEMIS_ipodLG_thm.png (80x40) [16.4 KB] || THEMIS_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [32.1 MB] || THEMIS_1280.mov (1280x720) [83.9 MB] || THEMIS_AppleTV.m4v (960x540) [81.1 MB] || THEMIS_ipodLG.m4v (640x360) [26.4 MB] || THEMIS_svsLG.mpg (640x360) [31.9 MB] || THEMIS_YouTube.mov (640x480) [30.0 MB] || THEMIS320.mp4 (320x240) [6.2 MB] || THEMIS_ipodSM.m4v (320x180) [12.0 MB] || THEMIS_svsSM.mpg (512x288) [21.4 MB] || THEMIS.wmv (346x260) [20.1 MB] || ", "hits": 184 }, { "id": 10338, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10338/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Looking Back at 2003s Spooky Halloween Solar Storms", "description": "In the weeks surrounding Halloween in 2003, the sun unleashed a series of spooky storms towards the Earth, storms that ignited lots of ghostly looking auroras, but that also wreaked havoc with power grids, satellites and other electrical equipment. On the fifth anniversary of these unprecedented storms, NASA takes a look back at the Sun during these haunting days. || ", "hits": 157 }, { "id": 10331, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10331/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-10-15T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "In The Zone", "description": "Earth's oceans are wide reaching and teeming with life. One microscopic aquatic organism plays a major role in making life on Earth possible: phytoplankton. Under certain conditions, excessive phytoplankton growth can result in an area known as a dead zone. Dead zones form when big blooms of phytoplankton at the surface trigger large quantities of organic matter, which then sink to the bottom. Bacteria break down the organic material, releasing carbon dioxide but absorbing oxygen as they work. Most marine organisms need oxygen for survival and dead zones prove fatal for many aquatic species. This short web video features dynamic animations, science data visualizations, and interview excerpts with a NASA oceanographer to explore this fascinating marine phenomenon. || ", "hits": 26 }, { "id": 10259, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10259/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-09-29T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Vision. Hope. Triumph.", "description": "'They had to have vision; they had to have hope. And ultimately there was the triumph of seeing it come to fruition.' Heidi Hammel, a Senior Research Scientist from the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, expresses her views on the past, present, and future of the Hubble Space Telescope and its upcoming repair mission.For more information go to http://www.nasa.gov/hubble. || ", "hits": 33 }, { "id": 10353, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10353/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-09-25T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Sea Ice 2008", "description": "Arctic sea ice declined this summer to its second smallest extent in the satellite era, suggesting that the record set in 2007 may not have been an anomaly. If recent trends in the melt rate continue, we could see a virtually ice-free Arctic each summer much sooner than previously thought.For complete transcript, click here. || SeaIce2008_320iPod.03621_print.jpg (1024x576) [95.6 KB] || SeaIce2008_320iPod_web.png (320x180) [129.4 KB] || SeaIce2008_320iPod_thm.png (80x40) [17.3 KB] || SeaIce2008_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [46.7 MB] || SeaIce2008_AppleTV.m4v (960x540) [115.0 MB] || SeaIce2008_fullH264.mov (1280x720) [112.5 MB] || SeaIce2008_640iPod.m4v (640x360) [37.0 MB] || Sea_Ice_2008_640x360_Youtube.mov (640x480) [40.7 MB] || GSFC_20080925_SeaIce_m10353_2008.en_US.srt [6.0 KB] || GSFC_20080925_SeaIce_m10353_2008.en_US.vtt [5.7 KB] || SeaIce2008_320iPod.m4v (320x180) [16.6 MB] || SeaIce2008_podcast.mp4 (320x236) [14.7 MB] || SeaIce2008_512x288.mpg (512x288) [50.7 MB] || ", "hits": 44 }, { "id": 10349, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10349/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-09-03T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "LRO Scouts for Safe Landing Sites (Narrated)", "description": "The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is NASA's scouting mission to prepare for a return to the moon. One of its primary objectives will be to assess the lunar terrain for areas that would provide safe landing sites for future missions, both manned and unmanned, that plan to touch down on the moon's surface. This video helps explain how LRO will accomplish its objective.The raw animation sequences used to create this video feature as well as high resolution stills from the video can be viewed and downloaded from How LRO Will Find Safe Landing Sites on the Moon (#3533). || ", "hits": 18 }, { "id": 10333, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10333/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-08-13T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Cloud Makers", "description": "This segment provides an introduction to aerosols- their varied sources, brief lifetimes, and erratic behavior. Glory's APS will help researchers determine the global distribution of aerosol particles. This unique instrument will unravel the microphysical properties of aerosols, and will shed light on the chemical composition of natural and anthropogenic aerosols and clouds. For complete transcript, click here. || The_Cloud_Makers_512x28800502_print.jpg (1024x576) [80.6 KB] || The_Cloud_Makers_512x288_web.png (320x180) [235.4 KB] || The_Cloud_Makers_512x288_thm.png (80x40) [16.9 KB] || The_Cloud_Makers_960x540_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [45.0 MB] || The_Cloud_Makers_1280x720_ProRes.mov (1280x720) [3.0 GB] || The_Cloud_Makers_1280x720_H264.mov (1280x720) [90.7 MB] || The_Cloud_Makers_960x540_AppleTV.m4v (960x540) [109.4 MB] || The_Cloud_Makers_640x480.m4v (640x360) [35.4 MB] || The_Cloud_Makers_512x288.mpg (512x288) [35.7 MB] || The_Cloud_Makers_320x240.mp4 (320x180) [14.7 MB] || The_Cloud_Makers.wmv (320x180) [21.0 MB] || ", "hits": 31 }, { "id": 10289, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10289/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-07-18T02:00:00-04:00", "title": "Rain Rain Go Away Come Again on a Work Day?", "description": "During the scorching summer months an afternoon rainstorm can be a common and refreshing sight. But for residents in the southeastern United States, a recent NASA study has found, these storms are more intense during the work week than on the weekends. This trend, scientists belive, is driven by pollution that also increases during the work week, from sources like businesses, traffic and factories. || ", "hits": 19 }, { "id": 10238, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10238/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-06-17T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "HST SM4 Countdown Status 1", "description": "An update on instrument, tool and carrier preparations for STS-125: HST Servicing Mission 4 at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Update as of January 2, 2008.For complete transcript, click here. || G08-001HD-Countdown_to_SM4_Status-fullres-HD_iPod01027_print.jpg (1024x576) [62.2 KB] || G08-001HD-Countdown_to_SM4_Status-fullres-HD_iPod_web.png (320x180) [87.2 KB] || G08-001HD-Countdown_to_SM4_Status-fullres-HD_iPod_thm.png (80x40) [17.3 KB] || G08-001HD-Countdown_to_SM4_Status-fullres-MPEG4-h264.webmhd.webm (960x540) [37.5 MB] || G08-001HD-Countdown_to_SM4_Status-fullres-MPEG4-h264.mov (1280x720) [152.3 MB] || GSFC_20080617_HST_m10238_Countdown.mp4 (1280x720) [278.9 MB] || G08-001HD-Countdown_to_SM4_Status-fullres-iTunes.m4v (640x360) [21.8 MB] || GSFC_20080617_HST_m10238_Countdown.en_US.srt [3.1 KB] || GSFC_20080617_HST_m10238_Countdown.en_US.vtt [3.0 KB] || G08-001HD-Countdown_to_SM4_Status-fullres-HD_iPod.m4v (320x180) [13.1 MB] || G08-001HD-Countdown_to_SM4_Status-fullres-MPEG4.mp4 (512x288) [259.7 MB] || G08-001HD-Countdown_to_SM4_Status-fullres-QuickTime.mov (512x288) [118.3 MB] || G08-001HD-Countdown_to_SM4_Status-fullres-Sorenson3_MPEG1.mpg (320x240) [39.5 MB] || G08-001HD-Countdown_to_SM4_Status-fullres-WindowsMedia.mp4 (512x288) [38.8 MB] || G08-001HD-Countdown_to_SM4_Status-fullres-YouTube.mov (320x240) [71.0 MB] || ", "hits": 12 }, { "id": 10239, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10239/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-06-17T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Enter NASA's Spacecraft Chamber of Horrors", "description": "To prepare for Servicing Mission 4, Hubble components must endure harsh tests at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. This feature explores test facilities at Goddard like: launch phase simulator centrifuge, the acoustic test chamber, electromagnetic interference testing, vibration tables, static load test facility, and the space environment simulator.For complete transcript, click here. || G08-022HD-NASAsChamber-of-horrors-H-iPod02052_print.jpg (1024x576) [84.7 KB] || G08-022HD-NASAsChamber-of-horrors-H-iPod_web.png (320x180) [109.0 KB] || G08-022HD-NASAsChamber-of-horrors-H-iPod_thm.png (80x40) [17.6 KB] || Chamber_of_Horrors_AppleTv.webmhd.webm (960x540) [56.4 MB] || G08-022HD-NASAsChamber-of-horrors-MPEG4-h264.mov (1280x720) [254.1 MB] || Chamber_of_Horrors_AppleTv.m4v (960x540) [140.5 MB] || GSFC_20080617_HST_m10239_Chamber_of_Horrors.mp4 (1280x720) [422.6 MB] || G08-022HD-NASAsChamber-of-horrors-iTunes.m4v (640x360) [34.0 MB] || GSFC_20080617_HST_m10239_Chamber_of_Horrors.en_US.srt [4.5 KB] || GSFC_20080617_HST_m10239_Chamber_of_Horrors.en_US.vtt [4.3 KB] || G08-022HD-NASAsChamber-of-horrors-H-iPod.m4v (320x180) [19.0 MB] || G08-022HD-NASAsChamber-of-horrors-MPEG4.mp4 (512x288) [315.5 MB] || G08-022HD-NASAsChamber-of-horrors-QuickTime.mov (512x288) [151.0 MB] || G08-022HD-NASAsChamber-of-horrors-Sorenson3-MPEG1.mpg (320x240) [61.7 MB] || G08-022HD-NASAsChamber-of-horrors-WindowsMedia.mp4 (512x288) [59.6 MB] || ", "hits": 10 }, { "id": 10198, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10198/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-05-07T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Striking a Solar Balance", "description": "This short film explores the vital connection between the Earth and the Sun. NASA's Glory mission and the Total Irradiance Monitor will continue nearly three decades of solar irradiance measurments. This crucial data will contribute to the long-term climate record.For complete transcript, click here. || Striking_a_Solar_Balance_640x48001227_print.jpg (1024x768) [110.2 KB] || Striking_a_Solar_Balance_640x480_web.png (320x240) [213.2 KB] || Striking_a_Solar_Balance_640x480_thm.png (80x40) [13.1 KB] || Striking_a_Solar_Balance_640x480_searchweb.png (320x180) [84.5 KB] || Striking_a_Solar_Balance_720x486_ProRes.webmhd.webm (960x540) [44.9 MB] || Striking_a_Solar_Balance_640x480.mpg (640x480) [118.9 MB] || Striking_a_Solar_Balance_720x486_ProRes.mov (720x486) [972.5 MB] || Striking_a_Solar_Balance_640x480_H264.mov (720x486) [171.0 MB] || Striking_a_Solar_Balance_640x480.m4v (640x480) [39.9 MB] || Striking_a_Solar_Balance_320x240.mp4 (320x240) [17.5 MB] || Striking_a_Solar_Balance.wmv (346x260) [30.4 MB] || ", "hits": 319 }, { "id": 10207, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10207/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-04-20T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Satellites Aid in Chesapeake Bay Recovery", "description": "From the distant reaches of the Universe, to black holes, and the Martian surface, NASA explores some of the most far out parts of space. But NASA also does research much closer to home. In fact, NASA Earth Science satellites are taking part in the management and recovery of an ecosystem right in our backyard, the Chesapeake Bay. || ", "hits": 17 }, { "id": 10188, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10188/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-03-02T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's SDO Mission", "description": "A new NASA spacecraft called the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) will deliver startling images of the sun with ten times more detail than HDTV. The goal of the mission is to help scientists zoom in on solar activity such as sunspots, solar flares and coronal mass ejections, thus improving forcasts of solar storms. The complete script is available. For more information on the Solar Dynamics Observatory, check out their web site at http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov. || ", "hits": 45 }, { "id": 3413, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3413/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2007-05-10T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Towers in the Tempest", "description": "This visualization won Honorable Mention in the National Science Foundation's Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge in September 2007. It was also shown during the SIGGRAPH 2008 Computer Animation Festival in Los Angeles, CA. 'Towers in the Tempest' is a 4.5 minute narrated animation that explains recent scientific insights into how hurricanes intensify. This intensification can be caused by a phenomenon called a 'hot tower'. For the first time, research meteorologists have run complex simulations using a very fine temporal resolution of 3 minutes. Combining this simulation data with satellite observations enables detailed study of 'hot towers'. The science of 'hot towers' is described using: observed hurricane data from a satellite, descriptive illustrations, and volumetric visualizations of simulation data. The first section of the animation shows actual data from Hurricane Bonnie observed by NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) spacecraft. Three dimensional precipitation radar data reveal a strong 'hot tower' in Hurricane Bonnie's internal structure. The second section uses illustrations to show the dynamics of a hurricane and the formation of 'hot towers'. 'Hot towers' are formed as air spirals inward towards the eye and is forced rapidly upwards, accelerating the movement of energy into high altitude clouds. The third section shows these processes using volumetric cloud, wind, and vorticity data from a supercomputer simulation of Hurricane Bonnie. Vertical wind speed data highlights a 'hot tower'. Arrows representing the wind field move rapidly up into the 'hot tower, boosting the energy and intensifying the hurricane. Combining satellite observations with super-computer simulations provides a powerful tool for studying Earth's complex systems. The complete script is available here . The storyboard is available here . There is also a movie of storyboard drawings with narration below. || ", "hits": 63 }, { "id": 3354, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3354/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2006-05-31T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "27 Storms: Arlene to Zeta", "description": "Many records were broken during the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season including the most hurricanes ever, the most category 5 hurricanes, and the most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic as measured by atmospheric pressure. This visualization shows all 27 named storms that formed in the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season and examines some of the conditions that made hurricane formation so favorable.The animation begins by showing the regions of warm water that are favorable for storm development advancing northward through the peak of hurricane season and then receding as the waters cool. The thermal energy in these warm waters powers the hurricanes. Strong shearing winds in the troposphere can disrupt developing young storms, but measurements indicate that there was very little shearing wind activity in 2005 to impede storm formation.Sea surface temperatures, clouds, storm tracks, and hurricane category labels are shown as the hurricane season progresses.This visualization shows some of the actual data that NASA and NOAA satellites measured in 2005 — data used to predict the paths and intensities of hurricanes. Satellite data play a vital role in helping us understand the land, ocean, and atmosphere systems that have such dramatic effects on our lives.NOTE: This animation shows the named storms from the 2005 hurricane season. During a re-analysis of 2005, NOAA's Tropical Prediction Center/National Hurricane Center determined that a short-lived subtropcial storm developed near the Azores Islands in late September, increasing the 2005 tropical storm count from 27 to 28. This storm was not named and is not shown in this animation.'27 Storms: Arlene to Zeta' played in the SIGGRAPH 2007 Computer Animation Festival in August 2007. It was also a finalist in the 2006 NSF Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. || ", "hits": 64 }, { "id": 3355, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3355/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2006-05-20T23:55:00-04:00", "title": "A Short Tour of the Cryosphere", "description": "A newer version of this animation is available here.This narrated, 5-minute animation shows a wealth of data collected from satellite observations of the cryosphere and the impact that recent cryospheric changes are making on our planet. This is a shorter version of a narrated, 7 1/2 minute animation entitled 'A Tour of the Cryosphere'.See the above link for a detailed description of the full animation.Two sections have been removed from the original animation: one showing a flyby of the South Pole station and glaciers feeding the Ross Ice Shelf and one showing solar data related to the Earth's energy balance.For more information on the data sets used in this visualization, visit NASA's EOS DAAC website. || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 3181, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3181/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-12-04T23:55:00-05:00", "title": "A Tour of the Cryosphere", "description": "A new HD version of this animation is available here.Click here to go to the media download section.The cryosphere consists of those parts of the Earth's surface where water is found in solid form, including areas of snow, sea ice, glaciers, permafrost, ice sheets, and icebergs. In these regions, surface temperatures remain below freezing for a portion of each year. Since ice and snow exist relatively close to their melting point, they frequently change from solid to liquid and back again due to fluctuations in surface temperature. Although direct measurements of the cryosphere can be difficult to obtain due to the remote locations of many of these areas, using satellite observations scientists monitor changes in the global and regional climate by observing how regions of the Earth's cryosphere shrink and expand.This animation portrays fluctuations in the cryosphere through observations collected from a variety of satellite-based sensors. The animation begins in Antarctica, showing ice thickness ranging from 2.7 to 4.8 kilometers thick along with swaths of polar stratospheric clouds. In a tour of this frozen continent, the animation shows some unique features of the Antarctic landscape found nowhere else on earth. Ice shelves, ice streams, glaciers, and the formation of massive icebergs can be seen. A time series shows the movement of iceberg B15A, an iceberg 295 kilometers in length which broke off of the Ross Ice Shelf in 2000. Moving farther along the coastline, a time series of the Larsen ice shelf shows the collapse of over 3,200 square kilometers ice since January 2002. As we depart from the Antarctic, we see the seasonal change of sea ice and how it nearly doubles the size of the continent during the winter.From Antarctica, the animation travels over South America showing areas of permafrost over this mostly tropical continent. We then move further north to observe daily changes in snow cover over the North American continent. The clouds show winter storms moving across the United States and Canada, leaving trails of snow cover behind. In a close-up view of the western US, we compare the difference in land cover between two years: 2003 when the region received a normal amount of snow and 2002 when little snow was accumulated. The difference in the surrounding vegetation due to the lack of spring melt water from the mountain snow pack is evident.As the animation moves from the western US to the Arctic region, the areas effected by permafrost are visible. In December, we see how the incoming solar radiation primarily heats the Southern Hemisphere. As time marches forward from December to June, the daily snow and sea ice recede as the incoming solar radiation moves northward to warm the Northern Hemisphere.Using satellite swaths that wrap the globe, the animation shows three types of instantaneous measurements of solar radiation observed on June 20, 2003: shortwave (reflected) radiation, longwave (thermal) radiation and net flux (showing areas of heating and cooling). Correlation between reflected radiation and clouds are evident. When the animation fades to show the monthly global average net flux, we see that the polar regions serve to cool the global climate by radiating solar energy back into space throughout the year.The animation shows a one-year cycle of the monthly average Arctic sea ice concentration followed by the mean September minimum sea ice for each year from 1979 through 2004. A red outline indicates the mean sea ice extent for September over 22 years, from 1979 to 2002. The minimum Arctic sea ice animation clearly shows how over the last 5 years the quantity of polar ice has decreased by 10 - 14% from the 22 year average.While moving from the Arctic to Greenland, the animation shows the constant motion of the Arctic polar ice using daily measures of sea ice activity. Sea ice flows from the Arctic into Baffin Bay as the seasonal ice expands southward. As we draw close to the Greenland coast, the animation shows the recent changes in the Jakobshavn glacier. Although Jakobshavn receded only slightly from 1042 to 2001, the animation shows significant recession over the past three years, from 2002 through 2004.This animation shows a wealth of data collected from satellite observations of the cryosphere and the impact that recent cryospheric changes are making on our planet.For more information on the data sets used in this visualization, visit NASA's EOS DAAC website. || ", "hits": 83 }, { "id": 3228, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3228/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-09-01T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hurricanes", "description": "Hurricanes are the most powerful accumulations of energy on Earth. Nothing else even comes close. They are fearsome tropical storms that spring to life roughly the same time every year, churning up oceans and shredding the nerves of residents who live along coastal zones.But hurricanes are really just manifestations of natural processes interacting. As such, they provide unusual opportunities for scientific research, and if recent history is any guide, the beginning of the twenty-first century augurs a new era in hurricane understanding.Using NASA's extraordinary fleet of Earth observing instruments, scientists have recently made discoveries about the behavior and nature of these gigantic storms. It turns out that they often begin in unexpected, distant places around the globe; they can alter the course of other storms trailing behind; they can stretch their arms hundreds of miles in all directions. Observations from space have enabled NASA and other research institutions to develop sophisticated computer models, too. These models allow scientists to simulate and test hypothesizes about hurricanes, which in turn facilitate development of new, more accurate predictive tools. || ", "hits": 19 }, { "id": 3220, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3220/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-08-31T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Behold, A Whirlwind Came: The Science of Tracking Hurricanes", "description": "This documentary-style video shows how NASA computer modeling research is contributing to an improved understanding and forecasts of hurricanes. It weaves interviews of three Goddard Space Flight Center scientists with scientific visualizations and live-action footage of hurricanes and the scientists studying them. The video focuses on application of the NASA finite-volume General Circulation Model (fvGCM) to the 2004 Atlantic Ocean hurricane season. Over the last 20 years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Hurricane Center and National Weather Service have produced enormous improvements in hurricane forecasting. However, by running at ~25-kilometer resolution (twice that of current operational forecasts), the NASA fvGCM has shown in some cases an accuracy of landfall prediction on the order of 100 kilometers up to 5 days in advance. Initial evaluation suggests that the potential exists for dramatic improvements in warning time and intensity forecasts for tropical cyclones around the globe. NASA has begun collaborating with the National Weather Service and other agencies worldwide to improve forecasts so that, among other advantages, local authorities can narrow areas for evacuation. The video was produced for the TerraLink exhibit at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore.Winner of the 2005 Video Competition Crystal Award of Excellence. || ", "hits": 49 }, { "id": 3180, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3180/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-07-31T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "MODIS Daily Global Snow Cover and Sea Ice Surface Temperature as seen in the SIGGRAPH 2005 Electronic Theater", "description": "This animation showing snow cover and sea ice surface temperature in the Northern Hemisphere portrays data collected from daily MODIS satellite images acquired during the winter of 2002-2003. Darkness increases with the onset of autumn, reaching a maximum at the Winter Solstice on December 21st. Thereafter, the circle of darkness shrinks as the period of daylight increases. Daily changes in sea ice are shown as ice surface temperature, which is related to the air temperature and the concentration of the sea ice. Sea ice surface temperatures range from about -40 to -2 degrees Celsius. Here, ice surface temperatures are depicted by colors, described by a color bar shown below. The snow tracks of several winter storms across the United States can be clearly seen. With an albedo of up to 80 percent or more, snow-covered terrain reflects most of the incoming solar radiation back into space, cooling the lower atmosphere. When snow cover melts, the albedo drops suddenly to less than about 30 percent, allowing the ground to absorb more solar radiation, heating the Earth's surface and lower atmosphere. Rapid changes in albedo, resultingfrom snowfall and snow melt, cause significant changes in the regional energy balance. This animation was accepted into the prestigious 2005 SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater, where it was shown during the annual conference from July 31 through August 4, 2005 in Los Angeles, CA. For more information on the data sets used in this visualization, visit NASA's EOS DAAC website. || ", "hits": 52 }, { "id": 2853, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2853/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-01-31T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Multisensor Fire Observations with Labels (HD Version)", "description": "From space, we can understand fires in ways that are impossible from the ground. New Earth-observing satellites capture the significant impact of fires on our planet. In this animation of fires around the globe in 2002, each red dot marks a new fire. Dots change color to yellow after a few days and to black when fires burn out. From brush fires in Africa to forest fires in North America, satellites are locating every significant fire on Earth to within one kilometer. In the summer and fall burning seasons, particularly destructive fires occurred in Colorado, Arizona, and Oregon. This version of the visualization displays descriptive text labels and color bars. There is a standard definition version available as well. || ", "hits": 53 }, { "id": 2854, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2854/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-01-31T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Multisensor Fire Observations without Labels (HD Version)", "description": "From space, we can understand fires in ways that are impossible from the ground. New Earth-observing satellites capture the significant impact of fires on our planet. In this animation of fires around the globe in 2002, each red dot marks a new fire. Dots change color to yellow after a few days and to black when fires burn out. From brush fires in Africa to forest fires in North America, satellites are locating every significant fire on Earth to within one kilometer. In the summer and fall burning seasons, particularly destructive fires occurred in Colorado, Arizona, and Oregon. This version of the animation displays a minimal set of labels. For a closed captioned version of this animation, see the standard definition version at animation ID 2806. || ", "hits": 27 }, { "id": 2707, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2707/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2003-11-03T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Multisensor Fire Observations", "description": "From space, we can understand fires in ways that are impossible from the ground. New Earth-observing satellites capture the significant impact of fires on our planet. In this animation of fires around the globe in 2002, each red dot marks a new fire. Dots change color to yellow after a few days and to black when fires burn out. From brush fires in Africa to forest fires in North America, satellites are locating every significant fire on Earth to within one kilometer. In the summer and fall burning seasons, particularly destructive fires occurred in Colorado, Arizona, and Oregon. || ", "hits": 17 }, { "id": 2806, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2806/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2003-11-03T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Multisensor Fire Observations without Labels", "description": "From space, we can understand fires in ways that are impossible from the ground. New Earth-observing satellites capture the significant impact of fires on our planet. In this animation of fires around the globe in 2002, each red dot marks a new fire. Dots change color to yellow after a few days and to black when fires burn out. From brush fires in Africa to forest fires in North America, satellites are locating every significant fire on Earth to within one kilometer. In the summer and fall burning seasons, particularly destructive fires occurred in Colorado, Arizona, and Oregon. This animation of remote sensing observations of fires and other related data was chosen as part of the SIGGRAPH 2003 Computer Animation Theater. (The only difference was that the SIGGRAPH version had shorter credits.) || ", "hits": 36 }, { "id": 2796, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2796/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2003-09-08T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hubble Space Telescope: Image Deblurring with a Parallel Comptuer", "description": "This is the star system is known as R-Aquarii, this system is comprised of a hot star orbiting a mass losing giant star. || ", "hits": 70 }, { "id": 2674, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2674/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2003-01-14T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Remote Sensing: Observing the Earth", "description": "With the help of global and local remote sensing we can have a much better understanding of global scale phenomenon. We can also quickly notice any changes to our environment. With this information we can make better informed decisions, and help us maintain nature's fragile balance. || ", "hits": 146 }, { "id": 2133, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2133/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2001-05-08T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Capitol Zoom - SIGGRAPH 2001 Final Submission", "description": "Capital Zoom is a seamless, cloudless zoom-in from a global view down to the nation's Capitol building that is composed entirely of satellite data. This data includes IKONOS 1 meter data, Landsat-7 15/30 meter data, Terra/MODIS 250 meter data, and Terra/MODIS 8 kilometer data. The visualization first zoomsin seamlessly, then zooms out/in showing where the different data set layers reside.This visualization has been accepted to SIGGRAPH 2001. It includes narration. This visualization was created using Maya for motion control, Renderman forrendering, IDL for pre-processing of the data, Imagine for image registration, and Photoshop for color matching. || ", "hits": 15 }, { "id": 737, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/737/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1999-10-15T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Images of Earth and Space: SC99 Edition", "description": "From our home planet to distant neutron stars, this narrated video tape presents recent scientific visualizations of observation and simulation data. We begin with a dramatic journey over SC99 host city Portland and its surroundings. Later explorations accompany the X-33 aerospace plane on its first test flight, witness Mississippi River flooding, and follow global life over 22 months. New views of Mars reveal a basin that could swallow Mount Everest, while a simulation tests how rovers would navigate the red planet's terrain. We conclude with the first-ever supercomputer model producing a black hole from two merging neutron stars. || ", "hits": 77 }, { "id": 663, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/663/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1999-05-04T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Digital Earth", "description": "The Digital Earth is a virtual representation of our planet that enables a person to explore and interact with the vast amounts of natural, cultural, and historical information being gathered about the Earth. This video describes the need for such a system, possible uses of a Digital Earth system, and the technologies and organizations that must come together in order for it to become a reality. || ", "hits": 76 }, { "id": 579, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/579/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1999-04-09T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "UARS: The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite", "description": "This video summarizes science and data obtained by the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) mission. UARS was launched in 1991 to study ozone depletion and the processes that control the stratospheric ozone layer. Although the mission was intended to last only 18 months, UARS continued to operate 7.5 years after launch with 8 of the 10 instruments at the time this video was made. UARS has been one of the most successful NASA satellite programs. The spacecraft was developed and is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. || ", "hits": 57 }, { "id": 842, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/842/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1999-04-09T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "UARS Voice Over", "description": "This entry represents the narration track for the UARS video (SVS animation 579). This item is not available separately. || a000842_pre.jpg (320x238) [13.8 KB] || a000842_thm.png (80x40) [6.9 KB] || a000842_pre_searchweb.jpg (320x180) [88.0 KB] || Video slate image reads, \"The Upper Atmosphere Research SatelliteUARS Voice Over01:54:26:22 to 02:07:58:13\". || a000842_slate.jpg (720x528) [120.7 KB] || a000842_slate_web.png (320x234) [106.1 KB] || ", "hits": 10 }, { "id": 562, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/562/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1999-02-02T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "EOS NPOESS the Bridge Mission", "description": "A Dynamic proposal between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite System Integrated Program Office. A project to bridge or link between the operations of the Earth Observing System AM-1 and the PM-1 Spacecraft and the National Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite System Spacecraft (NPOESS) || ", "hits": 46 }, { "id": 329, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/329/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1998-10-23T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Images of Earth and Space II", "description": "This videotape tours the Solar System and outer space using scientific visualizations from Goddard Space Flight Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the HPCC Earth and Space Sciences Project. At the Sun, simulations investigate processes that create magnetic field and release energetic particles. Earth science begins with the Pacific Ocean, studying the 1997-98 El Niño and Cyclone Susan. Crossing the globe, visualizations trace North America's East Coast and ocean currents in the North Atlantic Ocean. The lights of the world's cities then show human impact. Next, two models probe nearby-space phenomena, fluid behavior in microgravity conditions and an asteroid collision. A jaunt to Mars explores the mountains and trenches of its dry, rocky exterior. The video concludes at a binary neutron star system, where two city-sized objects with the Sun's mass merge in a titanic explosion. || ", "hits": 67 }, { "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": 60 }, { "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": 58 }, { "id": 287, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/287/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1998-04-01T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Visualizing El Niño", "description": "A narrated tape on the 1997 El Niño, showing the effects of El Niño through animations. || ", "hits": 129 }, { "id": 288, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/288/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1998-04-01T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Visualizing El Niño Narration and Music", "description": "There are no multimedia files available here. Please go to SVS ID#287 to watch the \"Visualizing El Niño\" movie. || ", "hits": 37 }, { "id": 251, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/251/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1997-11-01T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Images of Earth and Space: SC97 Edition", "description": "The entire narrated Images video made for Supercomputing 97 || a000251_pre.jpg (320x238) [8.0 KB] || a000251_thm.png (80x40) [3.8 KB] || a000251_pre_searchweb.jpg (320x180) [45.9 KB] || preview_made_from_dv.00450_print.png (352x240) [104.0 KB] || a000251.webmhd.webm (960x540) [63.8 MB] || a000251.mpg (352x240) [156.0 MB] || ", "hits": 55 }, { "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": 61 }, { "id": 155, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/155/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1996-08-01T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "The HoloGlobe Project (Version 3)", "description": "These animations were produced for the Smithsonian Institution's HoloGlobe Exhibit which opened to the public on August 10, 1996 at the Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. The various data sets show progressive global change mapped onto a rotating globe and projected into space to create a holographic image of the Earth. The exhibit shows that Earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere are dynamic, changing on timescales of days, minutes, or even seconds. The exhibit has since been relocated to the west coast. This is a revised version from Animation #116 [The HoloGlobe Project (version 2)]. || ", "hits": 107 }, { "id": 97, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/97/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1996-02-08T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Images of Earth and Space: The Role of Visualization in NASA Science", "description": "This compilation video contains visualizations of Earth and Space Sciences resulting from supercomputer models. The excerpted visualizations include: Ocean Planet, El Niño, Ozone 1991, Clouds, Changes in Glacier Bay, Alaska, Biosphere, Lunar Topography from the Clementine Mission, Musculoskeletal Modeling Dynamic Simulations, Simulations of the Breakup and Dynamical Evolution of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, Convective Penetration in Stellar Interiors, Topological Features of a Compressible Plasma Vortex Sheet: A Model for the Outer Heliospheric Solar Wind, R-Aquarii Jet, The Evolution of Distorted Black Holes, Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in a Supernova, Galaxy Harassment, N-Body Simulation of the Cold Dark Matter Cosmology. || ", "hits": 93 } ] }