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Sounding rocket missions like this one are suborbital rockets that fly scientific instruments into near-Earth space for short, approximately 15-minute flights. The mission will study so-called “black auroras,” dark patches and stripes that appear within an aurora. Previous research has hinted that they may be formed by electrons going upward escaping back out into space (rather than the absence of any electrons). The visible aurora is formed by an incoming downward stream of electrons. Scientists want to solve the puzzle as to why these patches and stripes form within the visible aurora. From Goddard, the instruments were delivered to Wallops Flight Facility, where they – along with the entire rocket payload – will be shipped to the Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, where the team aims to fly their rocket through black aurora. Onboard instruments will survey the electron populations as they fly through them to understand how and why these black patches and stripes form within the visible aurora. The mission is scheduled for launch no earlier than February 2026. || ", "hits": 84 }, { "id": 14907, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14907/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-30T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "What is space weather?", "description": "Though it is almost 100 million miles away from Earth, the Sun influences our daily lives in ways you may not realize.A farmer stops their planting operations due to poor GPS signal for their autonomous tractor. A power grid manager changes the configuration of their network to ensure a blackout doesn’t occur due to voltage instability. A pilot switches to back-up communication equipment due to loss of high-frequency radio. A commercial internet company providing service to the military must change the orbit of their spacecraft to avoid a collision due to increased atmospheric drag.These are a few examples of the ways the Sun influences our everyday lives. This is what we define as space weather – the conditions of the space environment driven by the Sun and its impacts on objects in the solar system. || ", "hits": 226 }, { "id": 14872, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14872/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-08-01T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's Black Marble: Stories from the Night Sky", "description": "What can we learn from Earth’s nightlights? How does satellite data reveal powerful insights into our world after dark? From the steady glow of growing cities to the sudden darkness caused by natural disasters, nighttime imagery helps scientists track changes across the globe. From the quiet of rural towns to the bustle of urban streets, human activity shapes the planet’s nighttime presence. Wildfires, power outages, and recovery efforts, all visible through the shifting patterns of light. Commercial fishing fleets illuminate oceans, electricity use expands across regions, and cultural celebrations brighten the night sky. Not only does NASA’s Black Marble data help us understand life here on Earth, but it helps us understand space weather and its impacts to technology. It helps us understand auroras. It helps us understand our space environment. Nighttime satellite imagery and data is more than beautiful, it is a powerful tool for monitoring change, guiding aid, and uncovering unseen rhythms of life on our planet. || ", "hits": 216 }, { "id": 14690, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14690/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-09-23T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Ten Years at Mars with NASA’s MAVEN Mission", "description": "During its first decade at Mars, MAVEN has helped to explain how the Red Planet evolved from warm and wet into the cold, dry world we see today. 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This image sequence begins over the the Southern Ocean halfway between Africa and Antarctica. Green and Red Aurora Australis is visible throughout the time series. Towards the end, Australia comes into view and the yellow night lights of Perth and smaller cities are visible. || ", "hits": 677 }, { "id": 14542, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14542/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-03-05T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "EZIE – Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer", "description": "Slated to launch in 2025, NASA’s Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) will be the first mission to image the magnetic fingerprint of the auroral electrojets — intense electric currents flowing high above Earth’s poles that are central to the electrical circuit coupling the planet’s magnetosphere to its atmosphere.Led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), EZIE will use a trio of small satellites to characterize and record the electrojets’ structure over space and time. It will fill gaps in our understanding of this space weather phenomenon and provide findings that scientists can apply to other magnetized planets, both within and outside our solar system.Learn more:https://science.nasa.gov/mission/ezie/ || ", "hits": 92 }, { "id": 14313, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14313/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-05-11T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Cosmic Cycles 1: The Sun", "description": "This video includes music from a synthesized orchestra provided by composer Henry Dehlinger.Music credit: \"The Sun\" from Cosmic Cycles: A Space Symphony by Henry Dehlinger. Courtesy of the composer.Complete list of footage used HERE.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || Cosmic_Cycles_The_Sun_V2_print.jpg (1024x576) [103.2 KB] || Cosmic_Cycles_The_Sun_V2.jpg (3840x2160) [859.1 KB] || Cosmic_Cycles_The_Sun_V2_searchweb.png (320x180) [51.8 KB] || Cosmic_Cycles_The_Sun_V2_web.png (320x180) [51.8 KB] || Cosmic_Cycles_The_Sun_V2_thm.png (80x40) [5.6 KB] || Cosmic_Cycles-The_Sun_Online_50mbps.webm (1920x1080) [92.6 MB] || Cosmic_Cycles-The_Sun_Online_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [1.5 GB] || Cosmic_Cycles-The_Sun_Online_50mbps.mp4 (1920x1080) [3.6 GB] || Cosmic_Cycles-The_Sun_Online_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [10.1 GB] || ", "hits": 79 }, { "id": 14299, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14299/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-03-10T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "What is Plasma?", "description": "Plasma makes up 99.9% of the visible universe, but what is it? This video discusses what plasma is, where it lives, and how NASA studies it. || ", "hits": 791 }, { "id": 14204, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14204/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-08-31T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Mars Patchy Proton Aurora", "description": "NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission and the United Arab Emirates’ Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) have released joint observations of dynamic proton aurora events at Mars. Remote auroral observations by EMM paired with in-situ plasma observations made by MAVEN open new avenues for understanding the Martian atmosphere. This collaboration was made possible by recent data-sharing between the two missions and highlights the value of multi-point observations in space.Learn more about this discovery by MAVEN and EMM. || ", "hits": 61 }, { "id": 4934, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4934/", "result_type": "Infographic", "release_date": "2021-09-01T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Explore Auroras", "description": "One-page poster version. || Aurora_Infographic_print.jpg (1024x1592) [691.3 KB] || Aurora_Infographic.jpg (3859x6000) [4.7 MB] || Infographics and source components explaining auroras.PDF versions suitable for printing are linked below. || Long poster version. || Aurora_Infographic_Skinny.jpg (1185x9000) [2.1 MB] || Aurora_Infographic_Skinny_print.jpg (1024x7832) [2.0 MB] || ", "hits": 169 }, { "id": 13687, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13687/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-08-14T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Spacecraft Uncover Mystery Behind Auroral Beads", "description": "A special type of aurora, draped east-west across the night sky like a glowing pearl necklace, is helping scientists better understand the science of auroras and their powerful drivers out in space. Known as auroral beads, these lights often show up just before large auroral displays, which are caused by electrical storms in space called substorms. Until now, scientists weren’t sure if auroral beads are somehow connected to other auroral displays as a phenomenon in space that precedes substorms, or if they are caused by disturbances closer to Earth’s atmosphere.But powerful new computer models, combined with observations from NASA’s Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms – THEMIS – mission, have provided the first direct evidence of the events in space that lead to the appearance of these beads, and demonstrated the important role they play in our local space environment. || ", "hits": 112 }, { "id": 13628, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13628/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-06-12T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe Teams Up with Observatories Around the Solar System for Fourth Solar Encounter", "description": "At the heart of understanding our space environment is the knowledge that conditions throughout space — from the Sun to the atmospheres of planets to the radiation environment in deep space — are connected.Studying this connection – a field of science called heliophysics — is a complex task: Researchers track sudden eruptions of material, radiation, and particles against the background of the ubiquitous outflow of solar material.A confluence of events in early 2020 created a nearly ideal space-based laboratory, combining the alignment of some of humanity’s best observatories — including Parker Solar Probe, during its fourth solar flyby — with a quiet period in the Sun’s activity, when it’s easiest to study those background conditions. These conditions provided a unique opportunity for scientists to study how the Sun influences conditions at points throughout space, with multiple angles of observation and at different distances from the Sun. || ", "hits": 61 }, { "id": 13506, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13506/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-12-20T17:00:00-05:00", "title": "Solar Wind Interacting with Earth's Magnetic Field", "description": "A conceptual animation showing solar wind interacting with Earth's magnetic field and causing atmospheric loss at the polar cusps. || YOUTUBE_1080_13506_Atmospheric_Escape_youtube_1080.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [77.5 KB] || YOUTUBE_1080_13506_Atmospheric_Escape_youtube_1080.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [74.4 KB] || YOUTUBE_1080_13506_Atmospheric_Escape_youtube_1080.00001_web.png (320x180) [74.4 KB] || YOUTUBE_1080_13506_Atmospheric_Escape_youtube_1080.00001_thm.png (80x40) [6.3 KB] || YOUTUBE_1080_13506_Atmospheric_Escape_youtube_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [43.1 MB] || FACEBOOK_720_13506_Atmospheric_Escape_facebook_720.mp4 (1280x720) [32.8 MB] || TWITTER_720_13506_Atmospheric_Escape_twitter_720.mp4 (1280x720) [5.7 MB] || FACEBOOK_720_13506_Atmospheric_Escape_facebook_720.webm (1280x720) [3.0 MB] || PRORES_B-ROLL_13506_Atmospheric_Escape_prores_b-roll.mov (1280x720) [227.8 MB] || YOUTUBE_4K_13506_Atmospheric_Escape_youtube_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [187.6 MB] || 13506_Atmospheric_Escape_Prores.mov (3840x2160) [2.4 GB] || ", "hits": 443 }, { "id": 13514, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13514/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-12-20T17:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Cusp Aurora", "description": "A conceptual animation showing electrons traveling down Earth's magnetic field lines, colliding into oxygen atoms in Earth's atmosphere and causing oxygen molecules to escape and release red light causing the cusp aurora. || YOUTUBE_1080_13514_Cusp_Aurora_from_ground_youtube_1080.00888_print.jpg (1024x576) [70.9 KB] || YOUTUBE_1080_13514_Cusp_Aurora_from_ground_youtube_1080.00888_searchweb.png (320x180) [64.8 KB] || YOUTUBE_1080_13514_Cusp_Aurora_from_ground_youtube_1080.00888_web.png (320x180) [64.8 KB] || YOUTUBE_1080_13514_Cusp_Aurora_from_ground_youtube_1080.00888_thm.png (80x40) [4.4 KB] || FACEBOOK_720_13514_Cusp_Aurora_from_ground_facebook_720.mp4 (1280x720) [49.5 MB] || TWITTER_720_13514_Cusp_Aurora_from_ground_twitter_720.mp4 (1280x720) [8.0 MB] || YOUTUBE_1080_13514_Cusp_Aurora_from_ground_youtube_1080.webm (1920x1080) [4.9 MB] || YOUTUBE_1080_13514_Cusp_Aurora_from_ground_youtube_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [64.2 MB] || PRORES_B-ROLL_13514_Cusp_Aurora_from_ground_prores_b-roll.mov (1280x720) [346.4 MB] || YOUTUBE_4K_13514_Cusp_Aurora_from_ground_youtube_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [285.2 MB] || 13514_Cusp_Aurora_from_ground_Prores.mov (3840x2160) [3.9 GB] || ", "hits": 54 }, { "id": 13430, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13430/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-11-14T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Why NASA is sending rockets into Earth’s leaky atmosphere", "description": "In the tiny Arctic town of Ny-Ålesund, where polar bears outnumber people, winter means three months without sunlight. The unending darkness is ideal for those who seek a strange breed of northern lights, normally obscured by daylight. When these unusual auroras shine, Earth’s atmosphere leaks into space.NASA scientists traveled to Ny-Ålesund to launch rockets through these auroras and witness oxygen particles right in the middle of their escape. Piercing these fleeting auroras, some 300 miles high, would require strategy, patience — and a fair bit of luck. This was NASA’s VISIONS-2 mission, and this is their story.VISIONS-2 was just the first of many. Over the coming months, rocket teams from all over the world will launch rockets into this region as part of the Grand Challenge Initiative—Cusp, an international collaboration to study the mysteries of the polar atmosphere. || ", "hits": 66 }, { "id": 13167, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13167/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-05-07T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "VISIONS-2 Aurora Imagery", "description": "Aurora in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard on December 6, 2018. A GIF optimized for Twitter. || Aurora.gif (1920x1080) [13.3 MB] || Aurora in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard on December 6, 2018.Credit: NASA/Joy Ng || Dec6_Aurora_JoyNg_print.jpg (1024x682) [455.2 KB] || Dec6_Aurora_JoyNg.jpg (4104x2736) [4.6 MB] || Dec6_Aurora_JoyNg_searchweb.png (320x180) [67.8 KB] || Dec6_Aurora_JoyNg_web.png (320x213) [82.2 KB] || Dec6_Aurora_JoyNg_thm.png (80x40) [4.6 KB] || ", "hits": 166 }, { "id": 12986, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12986/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-07-23T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Mars Proton Aurora", "description": "On Earth, the northern and southern lights occur when the solar wind (electrically charged particles from the Sun) follow our planet's geomagnetic field lines to the poles and collide with the upper atmosphere. Mars lacks a global magnetic field, so instead the solar wind piles up in front of Mars in a bow shock, which blocks charged particles from reaching the bulk of the atmosphere. However, in a process first observed by the MAVEN mission, some solar wind protons can slip past the bow shock by first bonding with electrons from the Mars upper atmosphere to form hydrogen atoms. Because these hydrogen atoms are electrically neutral, they can pass through the bow shock and go on to create an ultraviolet proton aurora on the dayside of Mars.Learn more about MAVEN's observation of a proton aurora at Mars. || ", "hits": 106 } ] }