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            "release_date": "2013-07-11T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "A Dip In The Ring",
            "description": "Saturn’s F ring does not sit still. Located on the outermost edge of the planet's many planetary rings, it wriggles and writhes, morphing into a slightly different shape at every turn. These movements are no accident. They’re the result of moons—sometimes called shepherds—passing by the ring. One of these shepherds is Prometheus, a moonlet just 53 miles across. As Prometheus passes, its gravity pulls on the F ring’s icy particles. This causes kinks, channels and streamers to form along the arc of the ring. Over time, these regular wriggles form recognizable patterns, some as long as 65 miles from top to bottom. By studying Saturn’s rings with missions like Cassini, NASA scientists hope to learn more about the structure and fluctuations of the F ring. The video captures a moment when Prometheus’s orbit causes one of its fascinating stirs. || ",
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            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2013-07-09T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Hot Lines",
            "description": "Magnetic field lines dance above the surface of the sun. Called coronal loops, these lines are difficult to observe from afar, since they are invisible. Scientists can observe them in two ways: by watching the visible solar material that flows along the lines or by modeling them using computer simulations. Studying these formations help us understand the way energy travels on and around the sun. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, is a sun-observing spacecraft that can measure and depict distortions in the sun’s magnetic field. Using data collected by the spacecraft, scientists created a virtual, 3D model of the field lines. Watch the video to explore the loops. || ",
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            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2013-07-04T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Lunar Impact",
            "description": "On March 17, 2013, a meteoroid crashed into the surface of the moon. Such events are common for the moon, which has no atmosphere to protect itself from incoming debris. In fact, there are hundreds of detectable impacts each year. This particular meteoroid, however, packed an unusual punch, kicking off a powerful explosion as it slammed into the lunar surface. The impact, visible from our planet with the naked eye, created a flash that shined about as bright as the stars of the Little Dipper. Now, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter—a robotic craft that regularly circles the moon—has been tasked to keep an eye out for the crater left behind in the crash. Observing the crater will help scientists validate and improve models of other lunar impacts. Watch the video to see where astronomers think this meteoroid, and others like it, might have come from. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11273/",
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            "release_date": "2013-06-25T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Portrait In Ultraviolet",
            "description": "About 200,000 light-years away, two small and misshapen galaxies orbit our own. Known as the Large and Small Magellenic Clouds, or LMC and SMC for short, they are the Milky Way’s closest neighbors, visible from Earth’s Southern Hemisphere as faint, glowing clouds in the night sky. Now, we can explore the breadth of these galaxies with the best ultraviolet view ever created. Astronomers wanted to view the LMC and SMC in ultraviolet because that light removes the distraction of normal stars like our sun, revealing only the hottest stars and star-formation regions. To create the mosaics, scientists stitched together thousands of individual snapshots taken by the Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope on NASA’s Swift satellite. Such detail allows us to study the evolution of each galaxy’s young stars in a single picture—an option that’s not available for own galaxy, which we must view from the inside. Watch the video to learn more. || ",
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            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2013-06-18T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Moon Scanner",
            "description": "The moon makes one revolution around Earth and one full turn on its axis every 27.3 days. Within this period, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will have made its own journey, circling the moon 348 times. Each successive orbit differs by a single degree of longitude, resulting in a path that allows the spacecraft to survey the entire moon every two weeks. During each orbit, LRO scans the moon's terrain using a special instrument called the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter. The data collected by the instrument not only helps scientists to create detailed elevation maps of the lunar surface, but also pinpoints LRO’s precise position in space. Watch the animation to see how LRO scans the moon. || ",
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            "release_date": "2013-06-13T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Rare And Cool",
            "description": "A neutron star is the compact, spinning structure that’s left over after a massive star explodes. Roughly a billion exist in the Milky Way galaxy. In the core of one of these neutron stars is evidence of a rare form of matter known as a superfluid. Laboratory experiments show that superfluids have the ability to rapidly conduct heat. For a decade, scientists using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory monitored the temperature of the neutron star within Cassiopeia A, a supernova remnant located 11,000 light-years from Earth. To their surprise, they found the neutron star was cooling unusually fast. In fact, the researchers determined that the drop in temperature could be explained if the neutron star had a superfluid core. Watch the video to learn more. || ",
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            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2013-05-28T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "A Devil On Mars",
            "description": "In March 2012, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured high-resolution images of an enormous, 12-mile-high dust devil storming across the northern plains of Mars. Dust devils are rotating columns of air that kick up sand and dust as they spin. Like dust devils on Earth, Martian dust devils spontaneously form when heated air rises from the surface and mixes with pockets of cold air above. Scientists estimate the winds generated by these whirling vortices can exceed 45 mph. Dust devils are common occurrences on Mars and were first imaged by NASA’s Viking mission in the 1970s. Watch the animation to see one in motion. || ",
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            "release_date": "2013-05-21T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "The Tempest",
            "description": "There’s a storm brewing on Saturn. Though it looks like a hurricane, the force and size of the spinning vortex at the planet’s north pole far outstrip that of any on Earth. The storm's eye measures more than 1,000 miles in diameter, making it twenty times larger in size than the typical eye of a terrestrial storm. And the winds around its center travel at 330 mph, or twice the speed of a Category 4 hurricane. In November 2012 NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured high-resolution images of the storm. The detailed views reveal the counter-clockwise nature of its spiral, and provide scientists with the first close-up look at Saturn’s north pole since the spacecraft arrived at the planet in 2004. Watch the video to see the storm in motion. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11263/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2013-05-16T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Comet Strike",
            "description": "Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was on a collision course. The comet had once orbited Jupiter, circling the gas giant every two years. But during a close encounter with the planet, it was ripped apart by tidal forces. A trail of fragments, some greater than 3,000 feet across, was all that remained of the icy mass. In July 1994, the fragments raced towards Jupiter’s south pole, exploding into fireballs as they entered the cloud-filled atmosphere. Each impact set off fiery plumes that could be seen by observing spacecraft. The event, which took place over six days, was the first collision of two bodies in the solar system ever witnessed by humans. Watch the visualization to see a re-creation of this historic clash. || ",
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            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2013-05-14T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Destination Moon",
            "description": "Achieving orbit around a celestial body is no simple feat. But on June 18, 2009, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) set out to accomplish that goal as it headed for the moon. The spacecraft was built at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, where it was outfitted with advanced instruments for studying the moon and its environment. After launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, LRO circled Earth once and then spent four days traveling through space. Once it reached the moon’s orbit, the spacecraft executed a series of burns that brought it within 31 miles of the lunar surface. At this range, from a polar orbit, LRO began collecting data used to create a 3-D map of the moon’s terrain. To this day, the spacecraft is still in operation, beaming back valuable information about Earth’s natural satellite. Check out the video to see a simulation of LRO’s journey to the moon. || ",
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            "release_date": "2013-05-07T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "To Pluto And Beyond",
            "description": "There is a pioneer hurtling through space. Its name is New Horizons, and in the summer of 2015, it will become the first spacecraft to visit Pluto. The dwarf planet lies at the edge of the solar system in a region known as the Kuiper Belt, a thick and icy expanse of space that is chock-full of objects yet to be explored or even discovered. Pluto and its moons Charon, Nix, and Hydra are particularly intriguing to astronomers, who have never had the chance to examine a dwarf planet up close. New Horizons left Earth in 2006, packed with two of each electronic system to protect against any mishaps on the long voyage ahead. It has traveled about one million miles every day since. Watch the video to learn more. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11236/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2013-04-18T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Flash In The Dark",
            "description": "A distant object suddenly bursts with light, then darkens. Space telescopes Spitzer and Hubble have watched this phenomenon repeat like clockwork every 25 days. The light appears to emanate from a protostar named LRLL 54361. It is not the first object to blink in this unusual way, but it is both the brightest and the most regular one ever observed. Astronomers think LRLL 54361 may actually consist of two newborn stars in a binary system. Drawn together by gravity, they circle around each other, kicking up nearby dust and gas. This material then slams back into the stars, causing a blast of radiation and—there!—a flash of bright light. If this theory holds true, LRLL 54361 will teach us more about how binary stars form. Watch the video to see its light flash at increased speed in a time-lapse sequence of images from the Hubble Space Telescope. || ",
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