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There, it will measure the magnetic fields, waves, energetic particles and plasma escaping the Sun while they are in their pristine state, before being modified and mixed in their long journey from the Sun. || ", "hits": 85 }, { "id": 13527, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13527/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-01-27T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "New Mission Will Take First Peek at Sun’s Poles", "description": "A new spacecraft is journeying to the Sun to snap the first pictures of the Sun’s north and south poles. Solar Orbiter, a collaboration between ESA (the European Space Agency) and NASA will have its first opportunity to launch from Cape Canaveral on Feb. 7, 2020, at 11:15 p.m. EST. Launching on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, the spacecraft will use Venus’ and Earth’s gravity to swing itself out of the ecliptic plane — the swath of space, roughly aligned with the Sun’s equator, where all planets orbit. From there, Solar Orbiter's bird’s eye view will give it the first-ever look at the Sun's poles.Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/new-mission-will-take-first-peek-at-sun-s-poles || ", "hits": 59 }, { "id": 4653, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4653/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2018-06-05T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter Trajectories", "description": "This visualization opens near Earth for the launch of Parker Solar Probe August 12, 2018. Then the camera moves around the Sun to match of with Earth again for the launch of Solar Orbiter in 2020. After that, the camera moves in a slow drift around the Sun as the orbits evolve. The Parker Solar Probe orbit fades out after the nominal end of mission in 2025. 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Particles of light form from atoms undergoing nuclear fusion in the sun’s innermost layer known as the core. The light then flows through the sun’s interior for millennia, slowly bubbling up like water in a boiling pot. It eventually bursts past the sun’s surface, called the photosphere, and rises into the solar atmosphere. Once in the atmosphere—made up of the chromosphere and corona—the light streams out through the solar system. Watch the video to see how light travels from the sun's interior to the surface. || ", "hits": 364 }, { "id": 11429, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11429/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-12-05T17:00:00-05:00", "title": "Sun Magnetic Field Flip Live Shots and Media Resources", "description": "On Dec. 6, 2013, NASA scientists Alex Young and Holly Gilbert discussed how the sun's magnetic field is in the process of flipping. || ", "hits": 151 }, { "id": 11084, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11084/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-10-04T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Origin Of Light", "description": "An elegant interaction powers the sun, producing the light and energy that makes life possible. That interaction is called fusion, and it naturally occurs when two atoms are heated and compressed so intensely that their nuclei merge into a new element. This process often leads to the creation of a photon, the particles of light that are released from the sun. However, before exiting our star, each photon must first undergo a long journey. Over the course of 40,000 years it will be absorbed by other atoms and emitted repeatedly until reaching the sun's surface. Once there, the photons stream out, illuminating Earth, the solar system and beyond. The number released from the surface every second is so vast that it is more than a billion billion times greater than the number of grains of sand on our planet. Watch the animation to see how atoms deep inside the sun's core melt together and generate light. || ", "hits": 1570 }, { "id": 20192, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20192/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2012-09-20T00:01:00-04:00", "title": "Space Weather", "description": "This movie takes us on a space weather journey from the center of the sun to solar eruptions in the sun's atmosphere all the way to the effects of that activity near Earth. The view starts in the core of the sun where atoms fuse together to create light and energy. Next we travel toward the sun's surface, watching loops of magnetic fields rise up to break through the sun's atmosphere, the corona. In the corona is where we witness giant bursts of radiation and energy known as solar flares, as well as gigantic eruptions of solar material called coronal mass ejections or CMEs. The movie follows one of these CME's toward Earth where it impacts and compresses Earth's own protective magnetic bubble, the magnetosphere. As energy and particles from the sun funnel along magnetic field lines near Earth, they ultimately produce aurora at Earth's poles. || ", "hits": 90 }, { "id": 3956, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3956/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-09-20T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Halloween Solar Storms - 2003", "description": "This is a 1024x1024 pixel version of solar storms providing a more complete view of the SOHO/LASCO/C3 field-of-view.Here is a view of the solar disk in 195 Å ultraviolet light (colored green in this movie) and the Sun's extended atmosphere, or corona, (blue and white in this movie). The corona is visible to the SOHO/LASCO coronagraph instruments, which block the bright disk of the Sun so the significantly fainter corona can be seen. In this movie, the inner coronagraph (designated C2) is combined with the outer coronagraph (C3). This movie covers a two week period in October and November 2003 which exhibited some of the largest solar activity events since the advent of space-based solar observing.As the movie plays, we can observe a number of features of the active Sun. Long streamers radiate outward from the Sun and wave gently due to their interaction with the solar wind. The bright white regions are visible due to their high density of free electrons which scatter the light from the photosphere towards the observer. Protons and other ionized atoms are there as well, but are not as visible since they do not interact with photons as strongly as electrons. Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are occasionally observed launching from the Sun. Some of these launch particle events which can saturate the cameras with snow-like artifacts.Also visible in the coronagraphs are stars and planets. Stars are seen to drift slowly to the right, carried by the relative motion of the Sun and the Earth. The planet Mercury is visible as the bright point moving left of the Sun. The horizontal 'extension' in the image is called 'blooming' and is due to a charge leakage along the readout wires in the CCD imager in the camera. || ", "hits": 196 }, { "id": 10941, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10941/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-04-24T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Space Weather FAQ Interviews", "description": "NASA scientists answer some frequently asked questions about the sun, space weather, and the effects on Earth. Each video is one or more scientists responding to the question above it. The videos are available as ProRes files for broadcast use and have had minor audio equalizing and color correction applied.The scientists interviewed are:Dr. Holly Gilbert, NASA HeliophysicistDr. Alex Young, NASA HeliophysicistDr. Phil Chamberlin, NASA Research Heliophysicist and SDO Deputy Project ScientistThere are also two short videos created with this interview content. They are available here.Additional responses to these questions are available upon specific request.For space weather-related footage, animations, and features, visit the Space Weather gallery. || ", "hits": 34 }, { "id": 10959, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10959/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-04-24T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Scientists Answer Top Space Weather Questions", "description": "NASA scientists answer some common questions about the sun, space weather, and how they affect the Earth. This is a two-part series.Part One addresses:1. What is space weather?2. 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The path of the Moon's umbral shadow crosses the South Pacific Ocean where it makes no landfall except for Mangaia (Cook Islands) and Easter Island (Isla de Pascua). The path of totality ends just after reaching southern Chile and Argentina. The Moon's penumbral shadow produces a partial eclipse visible from a much larger region covering the South Pacific and southern South America. || ", "hits": 63 }, { "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. 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