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The video explains what role fluctuations in the solar cycle, changes in snow and cloud cover, and rising levels of heat-trapping gases may play in contributing to climate change. 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The following interview segments provide comments on the mission from key Glory personnel. Glory is a remote-sensing Earth-orbiting observatory designed to achieve two separate mission objectives. One is to collect data on the chemical, microphysical, and optical properties of aerosols, along with their spatial and temporal distributions. Glory's second mission objective is to continue collection of total solar irradiance data for the long-term climate record. Glory accomplishes these objectives by deploying two instruments aboard a low earth orbit satellite: the Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor (APS) and the Total Irradiance Monitor (TIM). Scientists are working to better understand exactly how and why Earth's climate changes, and the Glory mission will provide significant contributions toward this critical endeavor. || ", "hits": 18 }, { "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. 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Glory will continue collection of this critical climate data, which will contribute to the long-term climate record. The cutting edge TIM instrument will continue the work of NASA's SORCE mission. 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This conceptual animation reveals Glory's unique solar array deployment sequence. || ", "hits": 30 }, { "id": 10383, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10383/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-19T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Glory Instrument Flyover", "description": "Glory will help researchers better understand the direct and indirect effects of atmospheric aerosols and of the Sun on Earth's climate. This animation reveals Glory's trio of remote-sensing instruments: Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor (APS) will provide new capabilities in the characterization of aerosol particle microphysical properties through the collection of multiangle and multispectral radiance and polarization measurements. Total Irradiance Monitor (TIM) is an electrical substitution radiometer (ESR) that records measurements of total solar irradiance (TSI) with extreme accuracy and precision. Cloud Camera data will provide cross track coverage over a broader swath of aerosol load than the APS. || ", "hits": 15 }, { "id": 10384, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10384/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-19T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Glory's Total Irradiance Monitor (TIM)", "description": "The Total Irradiance Monitor (TIM) is an electrical substitution radiometer (ESR) that measures total solar irradiance (TSI) with extreme accuracy and precision. It has four identical radiometers to provide redundancy and to detect changes in the instrument performance due to exposure to solar radiation. As illustrated by this animation, the TIM is mounted on a two-axis, gimbaled platform that tracks the Sun independent of spacecraft orientation. The Glory TIM will continue the TSI measurements currently being acquired by the TIM instrument on the NASA SORCE satellite, in orbit since 2003. || ", "hits": 28 }, { "id": 10395, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10395/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-19T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Earth's Energy Budget Animations: Global View and Budget Breakout", "description": "Total solar irradiance (TSI) is the dominant driver of the Earth's climate. The global temperature of the Earth is almost completely determined by the balance between the intensity of the incident solar radiation and the response of the Earth's atmosphere via absorption, reflection, and re-radiation. Roughly 30 percent of the TSI that strikes the Earth is reflected back into space by clouds, atmospheric aerosols, snow, ice, desert sand, rooftops, and even ocean surf. The remaining 70 percent of the TSI is absorbed by the land, ocean, and atmosphere. In addition, different layers of the Earth's atmosphere absorb different wavelengths of light. Changes in either the TSI or in the composition of the atmosphere can cause climate change. Two conceptual science animations provide two different perspectives that both illustrate Earth's energy budget. || ", "hits": 163 }, { "id": 10396, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10396/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-19T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Solar Variability and Total Solar Irradiance (TSI)", "description": "Analyzing the Sun and its effects on climate is complicated by the fact that the amount of radiation arriving from the Sun is not constant. It varies from the average value of the total solar irradiance (TSI)—1,361 W/m2—on a daily basis. Variations in TSI are due to a balance between decreases caused by sunspots and increases caused by faculae, which are the bright areas that surround sunspots. The Sun's energy output varies with time, and Glory's TIM instrument will help measure those fluctuations by continued monitoring of TSI. Data from TIM will extend the long-term climate record, which has been uninterrupted since 1978 and provides the best estimate available of solar inputs to climate. This short movie displays the Sun rotating and the corresponding total solar irradiance. || ", "hits": 719 }, { "id": 10379, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10379/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-18T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Glory Launch Sequence", "description": "Glory will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base onboard a Taurus XL launch vehicle. The Taurus launch service is provided by Orbital Sciences Corporation Launch Systems Group, under contract to the NASA Kennedy Space Center. The Taurus XL will place Glory into a circular, Sun-synchronous injection orbit with an altitude of 640 kilometers and an inclination of 97.9 degrees. || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 10380, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10380/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-18T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Two Glory Beauty Passes", "description": "The Glory spacecraft uses Orbital Sciences Corporation Space Systems Group's LEOStar-1 bus design, with deployable solar arrays, 3-axis stabilization, and X-band/S-band RF communications capabilities. The structure consists of an octagonal aluminum space frame and a hydrazine propulsion module containing enough fuel to support initial orbit raising and at least 36 months of on-orbit service. The spacecraft bus also provides payload power; command, telemetry, and science data interfaces, including onboard storage of data; and an attitude control subsystem to support instrument pointing requirements. Two animated beauty passes reveal different perspectives of the spacecraft in orbit. || ", "hits": 21 }, { "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. 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As the Earth rotates, the sun lights up only part of the Earth at a time, and some of that incoming solar energy is reflected and some is absorbed, depending on type of area it lights. The amount of reflection and absorption is critical to the climate. An instrument named CERES orbits the Earth every 99 minutes and measures the reflected solar energy. This animation shows the incoming solar radiation within view of CERES during 29 orbits on June 20 and 21 of 2003. Because this is incoming solar flux, its magnitude only depends on the position of the sun, and, because the orbit is synchronized with the sun, the orbit crosses the equator in the daylight at about 1:30 PM local time on every orbit. This data is not actually measured from CERES, but is calculated to compare with the outgoing radiation that CERES does measure. Note that the infrared cloud image shown under the solar data shows high infrared as dark (land) and low infrared as light (clouds). || ", "hits": 50 }, { "id": 3095, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3095/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-02-01T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Average Total-sky Incoming Solar Flux (WMS)", "description": "The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. As the Earth rotates, the sun lights up only part of the Earth at a time, and some of that incoming solar energy is reflected and some is absorbed, depending on type of area it lights. The average amount of reflection and absorption is critical to the climate, because the absorbed energy heats up the Earth until it is radiated away as thermal radiation. This animation shows the monthly average incoming solar radiation from July, 2002 through June, 2004 as measured by the CERES instrument. This average data set is constant in longitude because of the Earth's rotation, but clearly shows the seasonal cycle as the sun heats the Northern Hemisphere more in summer than in winter. Note that the polar regions are abnormally bright in the local summer and dark in the local winter because whole day is either light or dark in those seasons. || ", "hits": 33 }, { "id": 3105, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3105/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-02-01T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Instantaneous Incoming Solar Flux (WMS)", "description": "The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. As the Earth rotates, the sun lights up only part of the Earth at a time, and some of that incoming solar energy is reflected and some is absorbed, depending on type of area it lights. The amount of reflection and absorption is critical to the climate. An instrument named CERES orbits the Earth every 99 minutes and measures the reflected solar energy. This animation shows the incoming solar radiation within view of CERES during 29 orbits on June 20 and 21 of 2003. Because this is incoming solar flux, its magnitude only depends on the position of the sun, and, because the orbit is synchronized with the sun, the orbit crosses the equator in the daylight at about 1:30 PM local time on every orbit. This data is not actually measured from CERES, but is calculated to compare with the outgoing radiation that CERES does measure. || ", "hits": 110 }, { "id": 3109, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3109/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-02-01T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Solar Irradiance (WMS)", "description": "The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. As the Earth moves around the sun, the fact that the Earth's axis is tilted means that the sun's overhead position moves from the Northern Hemisphere to the Southern Hemisphere and back from one summer to the next. This effect causes winters to be cold and summers warm in the Northern Hemisphere and the opposite in the Southern Hemisphere. This animation shows the incoming solar irradiance on the Earth at noon on the Greenwich meridian during an entire year, illustrating this movement. The magnitude of this irradiance comes from measurements by the TIM instrument on SORCE. Since the Earth's orbit is elliptical, the magnitude of the solar irradiance at the Earth is least when the Earth is farthest from the sun and greatest when the earth is closest. This 6 or 7 percent change can be seen in the animation by watching the dark bands move. When the bands expand from the bright spot, the Earth is getting closer to the sun, from July through December, and when they contract the Earth is moving away, from January through June. The sun's irradiance is also variable from day to day, but that effect is about ten times smaller than the effect of the earth's orbit. || ", "hits": 52 }, { "id": 20076, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20076/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2003-03-26T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "SORCE Beauty Pass", "description": "A close-up view of the SORCE satellite in orbit. || A close-up view of the SORCE satellite in orbit. || sorce_pre.00002_print.jpg (1024x698) [36.1 KB] || sorce_thm.png (80x40) [3.3 KB] || sorce_pre.jpg (320x218) [4.6 KB] || sorce_pre_searchweb.jpg (320x180) [32.6 KB] || sorce.webmhd.webm (960x540) [3.3 MB] || sorce.mpg (352x240) [5.5 MB] || ", "hits": 14 } ] }