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But some of the best views will come from 50,000 feet up, aboard NASA's WB-57 jet.Flying through the stratosphere, the jet’s instruments study the eclipse from above most of Earth’s atmosphere, avoiding the clouds, dust, and water vapor that can blur the view.As the Moon's shadow races across the ground, the crew pushes the high-speed jet to stay inside totality for as long as possible, giving scientists and their instruments extra time to study the Sun.Learn more: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasa-science-soars-during-august-total-solar-eclipse/ || ", "hits": 202 }, { "id": 15063, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15063/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-07-27T11:30:00-04:00", "title": "Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project", "description": "The NASA-funded Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project allows teams of students from across the U.S. to get a unique view of total solar eclipses with scientific balloons. Before, during, and after a total solar eclipse, teams of college and high-school students use balloons to fly cameras and scientific instruments — either off-the-shelf weather sensors or instruments they built themselves — into the stratosphere to investigate the Sun, the eclipse’s effects on our atmosphere, and other phenomena that are best studied at high altitudes. Started in 2014, the project has not only produced new discoveries but provided hundreds of students with hands-on science and engineering experience along the way.Learn more about the project: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasa-science-soars-during-august-total-solar-eclipse/ || ", "hits": 128 }, { "id": 5656, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5656/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2026-07-13T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Animations of the August 12, 2026, Total Solar Eclipse", "description": "On Wednesday, August 12, 2026, the Moon passes in front of the Sun, casting its shadow across a broad swath of Earth's northern hemisphere. 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This visualization shows how the Moon moves in and out of the magnetosphere.", "hits": 173 }, { "id": 15012, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15012/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-05-06T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "Artemis II Mission Social Media Products", "description": "Short videos produced for and during the duration of the Artemis II flight || ", "hits": 133 }, { "id": 15011, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15011/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-05-01T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Experiment to Track Space ‘Doughnut’ Encircling Earth", "description": "NASA is launching a new experiment to track charged particles in a \"space doughnut\" that encircles our planet. Installed on the exterior of the International Space Station, the new experiment will study the ring current — a doughnut-shaped swarm of particles that can surge when a solar blast hits Earth, disrupting our satellites in space and power systems on the ground.", "hits": 356 }, { "id": 14988, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14988/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-03-16T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Artemis II: Into the Path of Solar Eruptions", "description": "For the first time in half a century, four astronauts are leaving Earth’s protective magnetic field. They’ll enter a realm where massive solar eruptions can unleash more energy than a billion hydrogen bombs. The Artemis II crew will fly through a dangerous environment, but they’re not going it alone. On the voyage, the astronauts and their Orion capsule are outfitted with radiation trackers as ground teams monitor solar eruptions 24/7. Here’s how NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are protecting explorers from the most powerful eruptions in the solar system. 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NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory watches the Sun 24/7 and captured these views of the Sun in multiple wavelengths of light.The Sun’s activity, which includes flares, follows an approximately 11-year cycle that creates periods of high and low activity. After reaching the current cycle’s most active phase in 2024 — known as solar maximum — the Sun remains in a heightened period of activity.For news of the recent flares: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/solar-cycle-25/ || ", "hits": 252 }, { "id": 5609, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5609/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2026-01-26T05:00:00-05:00", "title": "Heliophysics Satellite Fleet - 2026", "description": "A tour of the NASA Heliophysics fleet from near-Earth satellites out to the Voyagers beyond the heliopause.", "hits": 188 }, { "id": 14954, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14954/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-01-23T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's Illuminate Series (2026)", "description": "NASA's Illuminate is a video series about out-of-this-world images that shine light on our Sun and solar system. || ", "hits": 115 }, { "id": 14718, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14718/", "result_type": "Infographic", "release_date": "2026-01-09T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's Heliophysics Fleet Graphics (2025)", "description": "NASA has a fleet of spacecraft strategically placed throughout our heliosphere—from Parker Solar Probe at the Sun observing the very start of the solar wind, to satellites around Earth, to the farthest human-made object, Voyager, which is sending back observations on interstellar space. Each mission is positioned at a critical, well-thought out vantage point to observe and understand the flow of energy and particles throughout the solar system—all helping us untangle the effects of the star we live with.The graphics below show the Heliophysics Division fleet as of December 2025. Green indicates missions in operation and blue indicates missions in extended operation. Numbers in parentheses indicate how many spacecraft the mission currently includes. || ", "hits": 77 }, { "id": 14949, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14949/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-01-09T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA Monitors Space Weather 24/7", "description": "Our Sun creates conditions in space, called space weather, that can affect our technologies both in space and on Earth — from GPS satellites to airplanes to power grids.", "hits": 134 }, { "id": 5503, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5503/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-11-19T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "ESCAPADE Theoretical Flight Through Active Mars Magnetosphere", "description": "NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration Dynamics Explorers mission, or ESCAPADE, aims to study Mars' real-time response to the solar wind and how the Martian magnetosphere changes over time, helping us better understand Mars' climate history. 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Ground controllers for the ESCAPADE mission established communications with both spacecraft by 10:35 p.m. EST the same day.The twin spacecraft, built by Rocket Lab, will investigate how a never-ending, million-mile-per-hour stream of particles from the Sun, known as the solar wind, has gradually stripped away much of the Martian atmosphere, causing the planet to cool and its surface water to evaporate. The mission is led by the University of California, Berkeley.Learn more on NASA.gov. || ", "hits": 121 }, { "id": 14925, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14925/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-11-14T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Intense Solar Storm Delays ESCAPADE Launch", "description": "NASA’s ESCAPADE mission launched on Nov. 13, 2025!But it wasn’t without any hiccups — or maybe a series of violent burps? — from the Sun!The launch of ESCAPADE, our next mission to Mars, was delayed by a day due to the most powerful geomagnetic storm of 2025. The storm was caused by multiple flares and eruptions known as coronal mass ejections heading toward Earth.With the help of NASA satellites and models, the team could monitor when the storm subsided and by the following day, it was safe to launch. || ", "hits": 168 }, { "id": 14915, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14915/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-11-13T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "ESCAPADE Trajectory Animations", "description": "The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission will use two identical spacecraft to investigate how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape. The first multi-spacecraft orbital science mission to the Red Planet, ESCAPADE’s twin orbiters will take simultaneous observations from different locations around Mars to reveal the planet’s real-time response to space weather and how the Martian magnetosphere changes over time.The ESCAPADE mission is being carried into orbit on the second launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket (NG-2) and is scheduled to launch in November 2025 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. New Glenn is a single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying both spacecraft and people to low Earth orbits, geostationary transfer orbits, cislunar orbits (between Earth and the Moon), and beyond via Earth-departure orbits like the one required for ESCAPADE. The vehicle is named after John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit Earth.The ESCAPADE mission is managed by the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, with key partners Rocket Lab, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Advanced Space LLC, and Blue Origin.Below are animations demonstrating the different phases of the mission's trajectory from traveling from Earth to Mars to implementing its science orbits around the Red Planet. || ", "hits": 273 }, { "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": 100 }, { "id": 14896, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14896/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-12T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's IMAP Mission (Trailer)", "description": "NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, is a new mission that will map the boundaries of our heliosphere — a giant protective bubble created by the Sun that encapsulates our solar system. The spacecraft will study the Sun’s activity and how the heliosphere boundary interacts with the local galactic neighborhood beyond.The heliosphere protects the solar system from dangerous high-energy particles called galactic cosmic rays. Mapping the heliosphere’s boundaries helps scientists understand our home in space and how it came to be habitable. IMAP is launching no earlier than Sept. 23, 2025, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Learn more about the IMAP mission. || ", "hits": 75 }, { "id": 14893, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14893/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-04T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Three Missions Launch to Track Space Weather (Official NASA Trailer)", "description": "Soon, there will be three new ways to study the Sun’s influence across the solar system with the launch of a trio of NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) spacecraft. Launching September 23, 2025, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the missions include NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and NOAA’s SWFO-L1 (Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1) spacecraft.The missions will each study different effects of the solar wind — the continuous stream of particles emitted by the Sun — and space weather — the changing conditions in space driven by the Sun — from their origins at the Sun to their farthest reaches billions of miles away at the edge of our solar system. Research from the missions will help us better understand the Sun’s influence on Earth’s habitability, map our home in space, and protect satellites and voyaging astronauts from space weather threats.Watch the launch with NASA from anywhere in the world. We will provide live broadcast coverage on September 23 from 6:40 a.m. to about 9:15 a.m. EDT (1040 to 1415 UTC) on NASA+, Amazon Prime, Twitch, YouTube, and more. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media.Media Resources• Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP)• Carruthers Geocorona Observatory• Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) || ", "hits": 104 }, { "id": 14889, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14889/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-08-25T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Heliosphere Maps", "description": "The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, will explore and map the very boundaries of our heliosphere — a huge bubble created by the Sun's wind that encapsulates our entire solar system — and study how the heliosphere interacts with the local galactic neighborhood beyond.Learn more about IMAP: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/imap/ || ", "hits": 80 }, { "id": 14888, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14888/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-08-22T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "IMAP Traveling to L1", "description": "The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, will explore and map the very boundaries of our heliosphere — a huge bubble created by the Sun's wind that encapsulates our entire solar system — and study how the heliosphere interacts with the local galactic neighborhood beyond. Additionally, IMAP will support real-time observations of the solar wind and energetic particles, which can produce hazardous conditions in the space environment near Earth. The IMAP spacecraft is situated at the first Earth-Sun Lagrange point (L1), at around one million miles from Earth toward the Sun. There, it will collect and measure particles that have traveled from the Sun, the heliosphere’s boundary 6 to 9 billion miles away, and interstellar space. At L1, it can also provide about a half hour's warning to voyaging astronauts and spacecraft near Earth of harmful radiation coming their way. || ", "hits": 123 }, { "id": 20406, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20406/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2025-08-22T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Heliosphere Within The Milky Way Galaxy", "description": "Our solar system is nestled inside the Milky Way galaxy, home to more than 100 billion stars. Stretching for millions of miles around the solar system is a protective bubble called the heliosphere. Created by particles and magnetic fields from the Sun, the heliosphere separates our solar system from the vast galaxy beyond — and much of its harsh space radiation that can be damaging to life on Earth. || ", "hits": 604 }, { "id": 20408, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20408/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2025-08-22T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Solar Particle Acceleration", "description": "The Sun constantly emits a stream of high energy particles that can be accelerated by magnetic fields and other processes to nearly the speed of light. These particles, made of protons, ions and electrons, can be damaging at Earth where they can impede the function of satellites and telecommunications. NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) studies particle acceleration to better understand the fundamental processes driving these particles. This information will help scientists better understand and prepare for their effects at Earth, collectively called space weather. || ", "hits": 88 }, { "id": 20409, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20409/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2025-08-22T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Heliosphere and Galactic Cosmic Rays", "description": "Surrounding our solar system is a giant protective bubble created by particles and magnetic fields from the Sun called the heliosphere. Every 11 years, the Sun’s activity ramps up and down in what’s known as the solar cycle. As the Sun reaches its peak activity level, called solar maximum, the heliosphere expands. During this time, the heliosphere’s protective shield is strengthened by the increase in particles and magnetic fields from the Sun. As a result, fewer damaging particles from the galaxy, such as galactic cosmic rays, are able to penetrate into the heliosphere. As the Sun ramps down into a low level of activity, called solar minimum, the heliosphere shrinks and more cosmic rays are able to enter the heliosphere. || ", "hits": 237 }, { "id": 20410, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20410/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2025-08-14T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "IMAP Beauty Passes", "description": "NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) will explore and map the very boundaries of our heliosphere — a huge bubble created by the Sun's wind that encapsulates our entire solar system — and study how the heliosphere interacts with the local galactic neighborhood beyond.As a modern-day celestial cartographer, IMAP will also explore and chart the vast range of particles in interplanetary space, helping to investigate two of the most important overarching issues in heliophysics — the energization of charged particles from the Sun, and the interaction of the solar wind at its boundary with interstellar space. Additionally, IMAP will support real-time observations of the solar wind and energetic particles, which can produce hazardous conditions in the space environment near Earth. The IMAP spacecraft will be located at Lagrange Point 1, or L1. Lagrange points are positions in space where objects sent there tend to stay put. At L1, which is around 1 million miles from Earth towards the Sun, the gravitational pull of the Sun and Earth are balanced, allowing spacecraft to reduce fuel consumption needed to remain in position. At L1, IMAP will have a clear view of the heliosphere and will also be positioned to provide advanced warning of incoming solar storms headed to Earth. Learn more about IMAP.Below are conceptual animations highlighting the IMAP spacecraft. || ", "hits": 183 }, { "id": 14873, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14873/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-22T17:00:00-04:00", "title": "Lagrange Point 1 Animation", "description": "Lagrange points are positions in space where objects sent there tend to stay put. At Lagrange points, the gravitational pull of two large masses precisely equals the centripetal force required for a small object to move with them. These points in space can be used by spacecraft to reduce fuel consumption needed to remain in position.Of the five Lagrange points, three are unstable and two are stable. The unstable Lagrange points - labeled L1, L2 and L3 - lie along the line connecting the two large masses. The stable Lagrange points - labeled L4 and L5 - form the apex of two equilateral triangles that have the large masses at their vertices. L4 leads the orbit of earth and L5 follows.The L1 point of the Earth-Sun system affords an uninterrupted view of the Sun and will be home to three new heliophysics missions in 2025 - NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and NOAA's Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1). || ", "hits": 254 }, { "id": 5567, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5567/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-07-21T18:59:59-04:00", "title": "New Missions to L1", "description": "Three missions, Carruthers, IMAP and SWFO-L1 will be launched to the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point, L1.", "hits": 171 }, { "id": 14865, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14865/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-10T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Closest Images Ever Taken of the Sun’s Atmosphere", "description": "On its record-breaking pass by the Sun in December 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured stunning new images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. These newly released images — taken closer to the Sun than we’ve ever been before — are helping scientists better understand the Sun’s influence across the solar system, including events that can affect Earth.Parker Solar Probe started its closest approach to the Sun on Dec. 24, 2024, flying just 3.8 million miles from the solar surface. As it skimmed through the Sun’s outer atmosphere, called the corona, in the days around the perihelion, it collected data with an array of scientific instruments, including the Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe, or WISPR.Learn more - https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-parker-solar-probe-snaps-closest-ever-images-to-sun/Find the latest WISPR imagery here. || ", "hits": 747 }, { "id": 5534, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5534/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-06-18T11:23:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe - Extended Mission", "description": "After it's ultimate perihelion in December 2024, the Parker Solar Probe will continue it's orbits around the Sun. This visualization presents a projection of it's current orbit through 2029.", "hits": 376 }, { "id": 5543, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5543/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-06-11T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Solar Magnetic Field - from Solar Minimum to Solar Maximum", "description": "Visualizations of the solar magnetic field evolution as a potential-field-source-surface model (PFSS) from solar minimum (2019) to solar maximum (2025).", "hits": 124 }, { "id": 20404, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20404/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2025-06-02T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "TRACERS Science Animations", "description": "The TRACERS, or the Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, mission will help scientists understand an explosive process called magnetic reconnection and its effects in Earth’s atmosphere. Magnetic reconnection occurs when magnetic fields and particles from the Sun interact with Earth’s magnetic field. By understanding this process, scientists will be able to better understand and prepare for impacts of solar activity on Earth, such as auroras and disruptions to telecommunications.Learn more about the mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/tracers/ || ", "hits": 105 }, { "id": 5524, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5524/", "result_type": "Interactive", "release_date": "2025-05-22T08:00:59-04:00", "title": "\"Snap It!\" Solar Eclipse Photography Game", "description": "The Traveler needs your help! They have come to Earth to study an event we call a total solar eclipse. Can you help the Traveler snap photos of an eclipse?", "hits": 76 }, { "id": 14835, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14835/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-05-09T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "What Happened During the Biggest Geomagnetic Storm in Over 20 Years", "description": "On May 10, 2024, the first G5 or “severe” geomagnetic storm in over two decades hit Earth. The event did not cause any catastrophic damages, but it did produce surprising effects on Earth. The storm, which has been called the best-documented geomagnetic storm in history, spread auroras to unusually low latitudes and produced effects spanning from the ground to near-Earth space. Data captured during this historic event will be analyzed for years to come, revealing new lessons about the nature of geomagnetic storms and how best to weather them.Learn more:• What NASA Is Learning from the Biggest Geomagnetic Storm in 20 Years• How NASA Tracked the Most Intense Solar Storm in Decades || ", "hits": 498 }, { "id": 14815, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14815/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2025-04-09T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "IMAP Testing and Integration at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center", "description": "NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, is embarking on its yearlong integration and testing campaign, during which its instruments and components will be added to the spacecraft structure, tested to ensure they will survive the harsh environments of launch and space, and made ready to execute its mission.", "hits": 62 }, { "id": 14814, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14814/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2025-04-09T08:00:00-04:00", "title": "IMAP Testing and Integration at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab", "description": "NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, is embarking on its yearlong integration and testing campaign, during which all of the instruments and components will be added to the spacecraft structure, tested to ensure they will survive the harsh environments of launch and space, and made ready to execute its mission.", "hits": 80 }, { "id": 5514, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5514/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-04-07T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Solar Storm Excites Martian Magnetosphere for Fulldome", "description": "On September 13, 2017, a coronal mass ejection from the Sun arrived at Mars. This data visualization shows how solar-wind-induced currents and magnetic fields combine with Mars' relatively weak and irregular native crustal magnetic fields to contribute to Mars’ \"hybrid\" magnetosphere.", "hits": 144 }, { "id": 5502, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5502/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-04-07T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Solar Storm Excites Martian Magnetosphere", "description": "On September 13, 2017, a coronal mass ejection from the Sun arrived at Mars. This data visualization shows how solar-wind-induced currents (green colors) and magnetic fields (pink lines) combine with Mars' relatively weak and irregular native crustal magnetic fields to contribute to Mars’ \"hybrid\" magnetosphere.", "hits": 3211 }, { "id": 14811, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14811/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-04-02T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "IMAP: Mapping The Heliosphere & Sun", "description": "The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, will explore and map the very boundaries of our heliosphere — a huge bubble created by the Sun's wind that encapsulates our entire solar system — and study how the heliosphere interacts with the local galactic neighborhood beyond.The mission’s investigation of the boundaries of the heliosphere will be primarily done with energetic neutral atoms, or ENAs. An ENA is a type of uncharged particle formed when an energetic positively charged ion runs into a slow-moving neutral atom. The ion picks up an extra negatively charged electron in the collision, making it neutral — hence the name energetic neutral atom. This process frequently happens wherever there is plasma in space, such as throughout the heliosphere, including its boundary.The IMAP-Lo, IMAP-HI, and IMAP-Ultra instruments on IMAP are imaging the energies and composition of ENAs.Learn more about IMAP: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/imap/ || ", "hits": 120 }, { "id": 14779, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14779/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-02-11T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's Illuminate Series (2025)", "description": "NASA's Illuminate is a video series about out-of-this-world images that shine light on our Sun and solar system. || ", "hits": 139 }, { "id": 14744, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14744/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-03T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "GDC and DYNAMIC to Explore Earth’s Upper Atmosphere", "description": "Two upcoming missions, the Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) and Dynamical Neutral Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling (DYNAMIC) will revolutionize our understanding of Earth’s upper atmosphere. This region includes Earth’s ionosphere, thermosphere, and mesosphere, and stretches from roughly 50 to 400 miles above Earth’s surface. Space weather disturbances can impact communications, navigation signals, and satellite orbits, and induce currents can trigger power outages on Earth — making the region a crucial area of study.GDC is a team of satellites that will study Earth’s upper atmosphere and provide the first direct global measurements of our planet’s dynamic and complex interface with the space environment. Working in tandem with the DYNAMIC spacecraft, scientists will be able paint a fuller picture of how energy transforms and travels throughout the upper atmosphere. GDC will fly at an altitude of 350-400 km.DYNAMIC is a pair of satellites that will work in tandem with GDC to study how changes in Earth’s lower atmosphere influence our planet’s upper atmosphere. Between the multiple spacecraft of GDC and DYNAMIC, simultaneous observations from different locations can give scientists a more complete picture of how atmospheric waves propagate up through this unique part of the atmosphere. DYNAMIC will fly at an altitude of 550-800 km. || ", "hits": 109 }, { "id": 14741, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14741/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-12-27T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe: Humanity’s Closest Encounter with the Sun", "description": "Controllers have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024.Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles above the surface of the Sun, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a blazing 430,000 miles per hour — faster than any human-made object has ever moved. A beacon tone received in the late evening hours of Dec. 26 confirmed the spacecraft had made it through the encounter safely and is operating normally.This pass, the first of more to come at this distance, allows the spacecraft to conduct unrivaled scientific measurements with the potential to change our understanding of the Sun. || ", "hits": 677 }, { "id": 14736, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14736/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-12-16T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's #3point8 Challenge", "description": "On Dec. 24, 2024, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will fly approximately 3.8 million miles from the solar surface — the closest solar approach in history — while traveling about 430,000 miles per hour — the fastest any human-made object ever has traveled.To celebrate, join Parker's journey with a digital quest of your own: Each day from Dec. 17 - 24, 2024, we're hiding a new custom \"3.8\" digital sticker on a secret NASA webpage. Solve our puzzles to find them! || ", "hits": 86 }, { "id": 14730, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14730/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-12-10T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA Thanks Heliophysics Big Year Citizen Scientists", "description": "During the Heliophysics Big Year from October 2023 to December 2024, volunteers around the world contributed to numerous NASA science projects, helping to seek answers to some of the most fundamental questions about the Sun and its connections to our planet and the entire solar system.NASA Heliophysics Division Director Joseph Westlake expresses his appreciation for the passion, commitment, and tireless efforts of these volunteers, which will continue to profoundly impact NASA research and inspire future generations of explorers for years to come. || ", "hits": 51 }, { "id": 5428, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5428/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2024-11-25T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe Towards its Ultimate Perihelion", "description": "Parker Solar Probe is making its final planned orbits around the Sun.On Wednesday, November 6, 2024, NASA's Parker Solar Probe completed it's final Venus gravity assist maneuver, passing within 233 miles (376 kilometers) of Venus' surface. The flyby adjusted Parker's trajectory into its final orbital configuration, bringing the spacecraft to within an unprecedented 3.86 million miles from the solar surface on December 24, 2024. It will be the closest any human-made object has been to the Sun. || ", "hits": 199 }, { "id": 14706, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14706/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-11-08T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's Illuminate Series (2024)", "description": "NASA's Illuminate is a video series about out-of-this-world images that shine light on our Sun and solar system. || ", "hits": 94 }, { "id": 14716, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14716/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-11-07T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Hurricane Helene’s Gravity Waves Revealed by NASA’s AWE", "description": "On Sept. 26, 2024, Hurricane Helene slammed into the Gulf Coast of Florida, inducing storm surges and widespread destruction on the land below. At the same time, NASA’s Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE), which is mounted on the outside of the International Space Station, recorded enormous swells that the hurricane produced in the atmosphere roughly 55 miles above the ground.These massive ripples through the upper atmosphere, known as atmospheric gravity waves, appear in AWE’s images as concentric bands extending away from northern Florida.Visit this page to learn more. || ", "hits": 106 }, { "id": 5344, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5344/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2024-10-15T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Solar Cycle 25 - the Solar Magnetic Field from Solar Minimum to Pole Flip", "description": "One advantage of long-lived missions like Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is the ability to see slow but significant changes over long periods of time.This view from SDO's Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) shows the evolution of sunspots on the solar disk starting from solar minimum (around December 2019) and into the maximum solar activity phase. The video ends in September 2024, however this maximum phase is expected to continue into 2025.", "hits": 277 }, { "id": 14686, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14686/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2024-09-18T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Eclipse Ballooning Project Featuring the University of Maryland", "description": "The NASA-sponsored Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project (NEBP) immerses teams of STEM learners from a wide range of higher education institutions in an innovative NASA-mission-like adventure in data acquisition and analysis through scientific ballooning during the Oct. 14, 2023, annular and April 8, 2024, total solar eclipses.NEBP includes development and implementation of two learner-centered activity tracks – engineering and atmospheric science. At sites along the eclipse path, student teams in the engineering track use innovative larger balloon systems to live stream video to the NASA eclipse website, observe in situ perturbations in atmospheric phenomena, and conduct individually designed experiments. Atmospheric science track teams make frequent observations by launching hourly radiosondes on helium-filled weather balloons. Student participants work with atmospheric science experts throughout the project and will publish results in peer-reviewed journals.The project fully supports 53 teams divided into nine pods to facilitate effective education. NEBP provides a learning environment that uses evidence and equity-based practices to make certain the 750+ participants are (and feel) supported, engaged, and valued. In addition, NEBP provides infrastructure tools and best practices to help participating institutions build collaborations that could continue far beyond the scope of this project.Learn more: https://science.nasa.gov/sciact-team/nationwide-eclipse-ballooning-project/ || ", "hits": 76 }, { "id": 14640, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14640/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-08-13T08:00:00-04:00", "title": "Touching the Sun with Solar Stones", "description": "In August 2024, the Heliophysics Big Year theme is Kids and Education. In collaboration with NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission and the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind, Creative Technology and Design students at the ATLAS Institute at University of Colorado Boulder have developed tactile representations of what many scholars believe to be the earliest known record of solar observations. Titled “Solar Stones,” the exhibit displays two famous petroglyphs, or rock carvings, found in Chaco Culture National Historical Park located in northwestern New Mexico. One petroglyph is believed to represent a total solar eclipse occurring on July 11, 1097, and the other a solar marker that indicates the annual equinoxes and solstices. The project is on display at Fiske Planetarium located on the University of Colorado Boulder campus.The Heliophysics Big Year is a global celebration of the Sun’s influence on Earth and the entire solar system. From Oct. 14, 2023, to Dec. 24, 2024, we are challenging you to participate in as many Sun-related activities as you can.For each month from October 2023 to December 2024, the Heliophysics Big Year will celebrate under a theme, sharing opportunities to participate in many solar science events from watching eclipses to joining citizen science projects. During the Heliophysics Big Year, participation isn’t limited to science – NASA invites everyone to celebrate the Sun with activities including dance, fashion, sustainability, and more. || ", "hits": 67 }, { "id": 14639, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14639/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-07-26T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "Helio Big Year: How Sonifications Connect to Performance Art", "description": "The Sun can put on spectacular shows in the sky. From Earth, we watch the dance between the Sun and Moon during eclipses, see the mesmerizing motion of the aurora, witness a tapestry of colors during sunrise and sunset, and sometimes even spot the bright flashes of sprites. All of these unique occurrences have inspired performance art — from dance, to music, to theater, and beyond.In June 2024, the Heliophysics Big Year explores how various kinds of performance artists are moved by the Sun and its influence on Earth. || ", "hits": 59 }, { "id": 14635, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14635/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-07-22T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "ESCAPADE Mission Spacecraft Beauty Passes", "description": "NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission will study the interaction between the solar wind and Martian atmosphere. Two identical spacecraft will orbit around the Red Planet to understand the structure, composition, variability, and dynamics of Mars’ unique hybrid magnetosphere, including its real-time response to space weather.The mission will leverage its unique dual viewpoint on the Mars environment to explore how the solar wind strips atmosphere away from Mars to better understand how its climate has changed over time — so much that Mars no longer supports liquid water on its surface. The pair will be the first coordinated multi-spacecraft orbital science mission to Mars.ESCAPADE is part of the NASA Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) program. The mission is managed by the University of California Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory, with key partners Rocket Lab, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Advanced Space LLC, and Blue Origin. || ", "hits": 95 }, { "id": 14624, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14624/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-07-09T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Eclipse Poems", "description": "In June 2024, the Heliophysics Big Year theme is Performance Art. To celebrate, the Shared Sky Project, funded by the NASA COFFIES DRIVE Center, collected poetry inspired by the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse.The Heliophysics Big Year is a global celebration of the Sun’s influence on Earth and the entire solar system. From Oct. 14, 2023, to Dec. 24, 2024, we are challenging you to participate in as many Sun-related activities as you can.For each month from October 2023 to December 2024, the Heliophysics Big Year will celebrate under a theme, sharing opportunities to participate in many solar science events from watching eclipses to joining citizen science projects. During the Heliophysics Big Year, participation isn’t limited to science – NASA invites everyone to celebrate the Sun with activities including dance, fashion, sustainability, and more. || ", "hits": 37 }, { "id": 14622, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14622/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-07-03T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Annular Solar Eclipse Broadcast Packages", "description": "Watch NASA's live broadcast as a “ring of fire” eclipse travels across the United States on Oct. 14, 2023, from Oregon to Texas. This event occurs when the Moon passes directly in front of the Sun, but appears too small to completely cover the Sun’s surface – resulting in what appears as a ring of fire in the sky. It’s also known as an annular solar eclipse. Everyone in the contiguous 48 states had the opportunity to see at least a partial eclipse on Oct. 14, 2023.Below is the collection of packages created for NASA's annular eclipse broadcast. || ", "hits": 43 }, { "id": 14588, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14588/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-05-09T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "May 2-10, 2024 : A Busy Week of Flares", "description": "Produced VideoWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Music Credit: “Halos” from the album Burning Clouds. Written and produced by Lars Leonhard. https://ultimae.bandcamp.com/track/halos || 14588_FlareRecap_thumbnail.jpg (1280x720) [205.8 KB] || 14588_FlareRecap_X.mp4 (1920x1080) [138.1 MB] || 14588_FlareRecap_YT.mp4 (1920x1080) [337.5 MB] || 14588FlareRecapCaptions.en_US.srt [1.5 KB] || 14588FlareRecapCaptions.en_US.vtt [1.4 KB] || 14588_FlareRecap_ProRes.mov (1920x1080) [3.2 GB] || ", "hits": 373 }, { "id": 14572, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14572/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-04-22T21:00:00-04:00", "title": "2024 Total Solar Eclipse Imagery", "description": "On April 8, 2024, the Moon’s shadow swept across North America, treating millions to a breathtaking view of a total solar eclipse. As the Moon passed in front of the Sun, it revealed the Sun’s wispy white outer atmosphere — the corona. || ", "hits": 233 }, { "id": 14562, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14562/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-04-03T14:30:00-04:00", "title": "Chasing The 2024 Total Solar Eclipse With NASA Jets", "description": "The April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse will produce stunning views across North America. While anyone along the eclipse path with a clear sky will see the spectacular event, the best view might be 50,000 feet in the air, aboard NASA’s WB-57 jet planes. That’s where a trio of NASA-funded teams are sending their scientific instruments to take measurements of the eclipse.Two teams will image the Sun’s outer atmosphere – the corona – and a third will measure the ionosphere, the upper electrically charged layer of Earth’s atmosphere. This information will help scientists better understand the structure and temperature of the corona, the effects of the Sun on Earth’s atmosphere, and even aid in the search of asteroids that may orbit near the Sun. || ", "hits": 78 }, { "id": 14552, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14552/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-03-27T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Volunteers Help ESA & NASA Mission to Discover 5,000 Comets", "description": "The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a joint mission of ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA, has discovered its 5,000th comet, thanks to the help of volunteer comet hunters participating in the NASA-funded Sungrazer Project.The sungrazing comet was spotted in SOHO images on March 25, 2024, by Hanjie Tan in the Czech Republic, who has participated in the Sungrazer Project since he was 13 years old. The comet is small and has a short orbital period around the Sun. It belongs to the “Marsden group” of comets, which are thought to be related to the larger comet 96P/Machholz. The group is named after the late scientist Brian Marsden, who first recognized the group using SOHO observations.To learn more about the discovery and SOHO, visit: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/esa-nasa-solar-observatory-discovers-its-5000th-comet/Since the early 2000s, the Sungrazer Project has allowed anyone with a computer to search for comets in images taken by the SOHO spacecraft.To learn more about the Sungrazer Project, visit: https://science.nasa.gov/citizen-science/the-sungrazer-project/ || ", "hits": 57 }, { "id": 14555, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14555/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-03-20T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "How to Observe with GLOBE Eclipse", "description": "Music Credit: \"Silly Goose\" by Reveille from Soundstripe || EclipseEnglish.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [198.7 KB] || EclipseEnglish.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [104.0 KB] || EclipseEnglish.en_US.srt [4.2 KB] || EclipseEnglish.en_US.vtt [4.0 KB] || EclipseEnglish.mp4 (1920x1080) [362.6 MB] || ", "hits": 41 }, { "id": 14556, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14556/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-03-20T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Cómo observar con la herramienta GLOBE Eclipse", "description": "Music credit: \"By the Wayside\" by Reveille from Soundstripe || EclipseSpanish.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [201.0 KB] || EclipseSpanish.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [104.7 KB] || EclipseSpanish.mp4.es_US.srt [4.8 KB] || EclipseSpanish.mp4.es_US.vtt [4.5 KB] || EclipseSpanish.mp4 (1920x1080) [468.8 MB] || ", "hits": 25 }, { "id": 14547, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14547/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-03-12T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Citizen CATE 2024", "description": "Led by Amir Caspi of the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado, the Citizen Continental-America Telescopic Eclipse (CATE) 2024 project will place 35 teams in the eclipse path from Texas to Maine to capture the corona in polarized light.Light travels in waves, but those waves can be oriented in different directions, or polarization angles. Caspi explains that light we see from the corona is sunlight that gets bounced around by the corona before it reaches our eyes. Citizen CATE 2024 is one of many participatory science projects happening during the 2024 total solar eclipse. Read more: https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/skywatching/eclipse-photographers-help-study-sun-during-disappearing-act/ || ", "hits": 61 }, { "id": 14540, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14540/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-03-12T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Eclipse Megamovie", "description": "Eclipse Megamovie is a NASA-funded citizen science project that engages photographers across the United States to capture images of the Sun’s outermost atmosphere – the corona – during the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. Volunteers will use DSLR cameras on mounts that will track the Sun’s position in the sky to record changes in the Sun’s corona during the eclipse.Eclipse Megamovie is one of many participatory science projects happening during the 2024 total solar eclipse. Read more: https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/skywatching/eclipse-photographers-help-study-sun-during-disappearing-act/ || ", "hits": 125 }, { "id": 14541, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14541/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-03-12T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Dynamic Eclipse Broadcast (DEB) Initiative", "description": "In visible wavelengths of light, the Sun’s surface is much brighter than its corona. During a total solar eclipse, however, observers can see the corona – and scientists can investigate how solar material moves out from the Sun to form the solar wind, an ever-flowing particle stream that impacts Earth and our entire solar system.The Dynamic Eclipse Broadcast (DEB) Initiative, led by Bob Baer and Matt Penn of Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, organizes volunteers as they capture images of the corona during the 2024 eclipse. Using identical instruments at more than 70 different locations across North America, participants document the moment-by-moment appearance of the corona throughout the eclipse. Comparing these images across locations, scientists track plumes of solar material in the difficult-to-study inner corona, estimating their speed and rate of acceleration and linking these observations to those from NASA spacecraft.The project expands on the team’s efforts during the 2017 total solar eclipse, this time including observation sites outside the path of totality, where part of the solar disk will remain visible. Images from these locations will reveal the source of solar material later observed as outflows in the corona, allowing the team to trace them back to their origins on the Sun.DEB Initiative is one of many participatory science projects happening during the 2024 total solar eclipse. Click here to learn more. || ", "hits": 69 }, { "id": 14543, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14543/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-03-05T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Snap It! An Eclipse Photo Adventure (Trailer)", "description": "On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will be visible to over 30 million people across North America. To help kids learn about solar eclipses, NASA is launching Snap It! An Eclipse Photo Adventure on March 8.The Snap It! game – designed for kids ages 7 and up – lets players help out the Traveler, an enthusiastic character who loves to explore the universe. The Traveler has previously learned about black holes and is now visiting Earth to learn about eclipses.Through taking photos of the Sun and decorating postcards, the goal of this game is to learn about eclipses and objects that transit, or pass in front of, the Sun. The game can be played on any computer using an internet browser.Play Snap it! An Eclipse Photo Adventure at go.nasa.gov/SnapIt || ", "hits": 64 }, { "id": 14534, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14534/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-02-27T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's Heliophysics Division Director Joe Westlake", "description": "Meet NASA’s new heliophysics division director, Joe Westlake.Joe has more than 18 years of scientific, technical, management, and programmatic experience in heliophysics, astrophysics, and planetary science. Throughout his career he has made several significant contributions to NASA missions including the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, the Van Allen Probes, Parker Solar Probe, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer mission, the Juno mission, Cassini, and the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission.Prior to joining NASA, Joe served as a researcher and project scientist for the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe mission and principal investigator for the Plasma Instrument for Magnetic Sounding instrument at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. || ", "hits": 61 }, { "id": 20388, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20388/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2023-12-05T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "PUNCH Spacecraft Beauty Passes", "description": "NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission is a constellation of four small satellites in Sun-synchronous, low Earth orbit that will make global, 3D observations of the young solar wind, from the outermost solar atmosphere to the inner heliopshere. Images of unprecedented quality will help to close a 60-year gap in measurements of understanding of what occurs in this region of space. PUNCH will share a ride to space with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Re-ionization, and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) mission. The missions launched on March 11, 2025, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.Get the latest updates on NASA's PUNCH blog. || ", "hits": 84 }, { "id": 14450, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14450/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-11-01T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Annular Eclipse Imagery", "description": "On Oct. 14, 2023, an annular solar eclipse crossed North, Central, and South America. Visible in parts of the United States, Mexico, and many countries in South and Central America, millions of people in the Western Hemisphere experienced this eclipse.An annular solar eclipse happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth while it is at or near its farthest point from Earth. Because the Moon is farther away from Earth than usual, it appears smaller than the Sun and does not completely cover the Sun's disk. Because of this, the Sun will appear like a “ring of fire” in the sky for those in the path of annularity.During an annular eclipse, it is never safe to look directly at the Sun without specialized eye protection designed for solar viewing.To learn more about eclipses visit: science.nasa.gov/eclipses. || ", "hits": 175 }, { "id": 14400, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14400/", "result_type": "Infographic", "release_date": "2023-10-31T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Annular Solar Eclipse Flyers", "description": "On Oct. 14, 2023, an annular solar eclipse will cross North, Central, and South America. Visible in parts of the United States, Mexico, and many countries in South and Central America, millions of people in the Western Hemisphere can experience this eclipse. || ", "hits": 58 }, { "id": 14447, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14447/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-10-31T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Eclipse Safety Imagery 2023", "description": "It is never safe to look directly at the Sun – even if the Sun is partially obscured. When watching a partial solar eclipse, you must wear eclipse glasses at all times when looking at the Sun, or use an indirect viewing method. This also applies during a total solar eclipse up until the moment when the Sun is completely blocked by the Moon.During the short time when the Moon completely obscures the Sun – known as the period of totality – it is safe to look directly at the star without eye protection. However, it’s crucial that you know when it’s safe to both remove and put back on your safe solar viewing glasses.To learn more about eclipses visit: science.nasa.gov/eclipses. || ", "hits": 96 }, { "id": 14446, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14446/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-10-27T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Ring of Fire: 2023 Annular Solar Eclipse (NASA Recap)", "description": "On Oct. 14, 2023, an annular solar eclipse crossed North, Central, and South America. Visible in parts of the United States, Mexico, and many countries in South and Central America, millions of people in the Western Hemisphere were able to experience this “ring of fire” eclipse. NASA’s official broadcast and outreach teams were located in Kerrville, TX, and Albuquerque, NM, to capture the event and celebrate with the communities in the path of annularity. For more information: • Official NASA Broadcast• Interactive Eclipse Map Explorer || ", "hits": 102 }, { "id": 13288, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13288/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-10-14T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Study Total Solar Eclipses With Ham Radio", "description": "Music credit: “Make a Change” by Eric Chevalier [SACEM] from Universal Production Music.Complete transcript available. || HamSCI_Thumbnail.jpg (1280x720) [448.6 KB] || HamSCI_Thumbnail_print.jpg (1024x576) [358.9 KB] || HamSCI_Thumbnail_searchweb.png (320x180) [71.1 KB] || HamSCI_Thumbnail_web.png (320x180) [71.1 KB] || HamSCI_Thumbnail_thm.png (80x40) [6.2 KB] || HamSCI_Video_2024.webm (1920x1080) [12.0 MB] || HamSCI_Video_2024.mp4 (1920x1080) [194.9 MB] || HAMSCI.en_US.srt [2.2 KB] || HAMSCI.en_US.vtt [2.1 KB] || ", "hits": 74 }, { "id": 14429, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14429/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-10-14T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's Scientific Balloon Program", "description": "Since its establishment more than 30 years ago, NASA’s Balloon Program has provided high-altitude scientific balloon platforms for scientific and technological investigations, including fundamental scientific discoveries that contribute to our understanding of the Earth, the solar system, and the universe. This short video highlights several key discoveries made with NASA's scientific balloons.Visit nasa.gov/scientificballoons to learn more! || ", "hits": 139 }, { "id": 14392, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14392/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-08-08T08:00:00-04:00", "title": "Introducing the Heliophysics Big Year", "description": "In October 2023, NASA is launching the Heliophysics Big Year – a global celebration of solar science and the Sun’s influence on Earth, our solar system, and beyond. Modeled after the “Big Year” concept from citizen scientists in the bird-watching community, the Heliophysics Big Year challenges everyone to get involved with Sun-related activities. The Heliophysics Big Year begins in October 2023 and runs through December 2024. || ", "hits": 104 }, { "id": 14366, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14366/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-06-20T22:00:00-04:00", "title": "Solstice Animations", "description": "Earth orbits at an angle, so half the year, the Northern Hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun — this is summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and winter in the Southern Hemisphere. The other half of the year, the Northern Hemisphere is tilted away from the Sun, creating winter in the north and summer in the south.Solstices happen twice per year, at the points in Earth’s orbit where this tilt is most pronounced. These days are the longest (in the summer hemisphere) and shortest (in the winter hemisphere) of the year, and mark the change of seasons to summer and winter, respectively. || ", "hits": 1277 }, { "id": 14348, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14348/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-06-13T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Interview Opportunity: Summer Solstice Leads to an Exciting Year for Our Sun Live Shots", "description": "Quick link to cut b-roll for the LIVE SHOTSQuick link to canned interview with DR. ALEX YOUNG || 2023_summer_solstice.jpeg (1800x720) [257.0 KB] || 2023_summer_solstice_print.jpg (1024x409) [101.3 KB] || 2023_summer_solstice_searchweb.png (320x180) [91.8 KB] || 2023_summer_solstice_thm.png (80x40) [8.2 KB] || ", "hits": 173 }, { "id": 14362, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14362/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-06-13T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "High Above Down Under Series", "description": "Around a different star, Earth may never have developed life at all. So what makes a star friendly to life? We joined two rocket teams as they traveled to the remote Northern Territory of Australia to capture light from our closest stellar neighbors to help reveal the answer. Follow their journey in the 6-part video series High Above Down Under. Episodes released weekly starting June 27, 2023. || ", "hits": 85 }, { "id": 20377, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20377/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2023-06-13T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Alpha Centauri Stellar System", "description": "At 4.3 light-years away, Alpha Centauri A and B are the nearest Sun-like stars to our solar system. They orbit with Proxima Centauri as a triple star system.Alpha Centauri A is a Class G star that is 1.1 times the mass of the Sun. Alpha Centauri B is slightly cooler Class K star that is 0.9 times the mass of the Sun. Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun, is a much smaller and cooler star, called a red dwarf. While no planets have been found around Alpha Centauri A or B, Proxima Centauri has two confirmed planets. || ", "hits": 4876 }, { "id": 14325, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14325/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-04-14T08:00:00-04:00", "title": "What Is an Annular Eclipse?", "description": "On Oct. 14, 2023, an annular solar eclipse will cross North, Central, and South America. Visible in parts of the United States, Mexico, and many countries in South and Central America, millions of people in the Western Hemisphere can experience this eclipse. But what is an annular eclipse? Why does it happen? And why does it create a “ring of fire” in the sky? || ", "hits": 111 }, { "id": 31215, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31215/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2023-02-01T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "2022 NASA Space Apps Challenge Global Winners Live Announcement", "description": "You’re invited to the 2022 NASA Space Apps Global Winners Live Announcement happening straight from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center! Tune in to find out the final teams and projects who will receive the #SpaceApps 10 Global Awards, and get the chance to meet our special NASA co-hosts; Denise Hill, NASA Heliophysics Communications & Outreach Lead and NASA Space Apps Challenge Author; Dr. Keith Gaddis, NASA Space Apps Program Scientist and Program Manager, Ecological Conservation and Biological Diversity Programs; and Marie Mimiaga Program Director for SecondMuse and member of the NASA Space Apps Challenge Global Organizing Team. This live announcement also features a special message from the NASA Earth Science Division Director, Dr. Karen St. Germain! || ", "hits": 51 }, { "id": 14249, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14249/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-12-02T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA Names Mission in Honor of Apollo-Era Visionary Dr. George R. Carruthers", "description": "Dr. George R. Carruthers (1939 - 2020) was a visionary scientist, inventor, engineer and educator. On Dec. 2, he became the namesake of a new NASA mission. The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory will observe Earth from space. The mission will capture light from Earth’s geocorona, the part of the outer atmosphere that emits ultraviolet light and will be ready to launch in 2025. || ", "hits": 72 }, { "id": 14206, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14206/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-10-27T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Chasing Sprites in Electric Skies", "description": "Paul Smith is a night-sky fanatic and photographer. His obsession is sprites: immense jolts of light that flicker high above thunderstorms. Last October, he guided NASA scientist Dr. Burcu Kosar through the backroads of Oklahoma to catch one herself. Although she’d studied sprites for more than 15 years, she hadn’t yet chased one.Image credits: Paul Smith, Frankie Lucena, Panagiotis Tsouras, Thomas Ashcraft. All imagery of sprites is copyrighted and used with permission. || ", "hits": 83 }, { "id": 14229, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14229/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-10-21T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Sun Time Science: Big Sun, Little Moon", "description": "Explore how solar eclipses can happen by using items from your own home in this do it yourself science activity.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Icelandic Arpeggios\" by DivKid [Youtube Audio Library]Complete transcript available. || Big_Sun_Still.png (1792x1056) [843.2 KB] || Big_Sun_Still_print.jpg (1024x603) [54.2 KB] || Big_Sun_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [48.2 KB] || Big_Sun_Still_thm.png (80x40) [7.8 KB] || Big_Sun_Little_Moon_3.0_MP4.mp4 (1920x1080) [132.1 MB] || Big_Sun_Little_Moon_3.0_MP4.webm (1920x1080) [12.9 MB] || Big_Sun_Little_Moon_Final.en_US.srt [3.2 KB] || Big_Sun_Little_Moon_Final.en_US.vtt [3.1 KB] || ", "hits": 105 }, { "id": 14168, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14168/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-06-14T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Heliophysics Big Year", "description": "The Heliophysics Big Year is a global celebration of solar science and the Sun’s influence on Earth and the entire solar system.During the Heliophysics Big Year, you will have the opportunity to participate in many solar science events such as watching solar eclipses, experiencing an aurora, participating in citizen science projects, and other fun Sun-related activities.Join us from October 2023 to December 2024!go.nasa.gov/HelioBigYear || ", "hits": 90 }, { "id": 14164, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14164/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-06-07T19:00:00-04:00", "title": "Australia Sounding Rocket Campaign Press Kit", "description": "NASA will launch three suborbital sounding rockets in June and July 2022 from the Arnhem Space Center in Australia’s Northern Territory to conduct astrophysics studies that can only be done from the Southern Hemisphere. The three missions will focus on α Centauri A and B, two of the three-star α Centauri system that are the closest stars to our Sun, and X-rays emanating from the interstellar medium, clouds of gases and particles between stars.The three sounding rocket night-time missions will be launched between June 26 and July 12 on two-stage Black Brant IX sounding rockets, from the Arnhem Space Center, which is owned and operated by Equatorial Launch Australia or ELA. The Arnhem Space Center is a commercial space launch facility, located on the Dhupuma Plateau near Nhulunbuy. The NASA missions will be the first launches from Arnhem.Learn more: Australia Sounding Rocket Fact SheetWatch more: Sounding Rockets: Cutting Edge Science, 15 Minutes at a TimeWhat Is a Sounding Rocket?Riding Along with a NASA Sounding Rocket || ", "hits": 101 }, { "id": 14120, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14120/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-03-16T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Tribute to Eugene Parker, Namesake of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe", "description": "Dr. Eugene N. Parker, visionary of heliophysics and namesake of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, passed away on March 15, 2022. He was 94. As a young professor at the University of Chicago in the mid-1950s, Parker developed a mathematical theory that predicted the solar wind, the constant outflow of solar material from the Sun. Throughout his career, Parker revolutionized the field time and again, advancing ideas that addressed the fundamental questions about the workings of our Sun and stars throughout the universe.More information:• NASA Press Release• University of Chicago Press Release || ", "hits": 89 }, { "id": 20363, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20363/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2022-03-09T18:00:00-05:00", "title": "Animation: Heliosphere", "description": "The sun sends out a constant flow of charged particles called the solar wind, which ultimately travels past all the planets to some three times the distance to Pluto before being impeded by the interstellar medium. This forms a giant bubble around the sun and its planets, known as the heliosphere. NASA studies the heliosphere to better understand the fundamental physics of the space surrounding us - which, in turn, provides information regarding space throughout the rest of the universe, as well as regarding what makes planets habitable.The solar wind is a gas of charged particles known as plasma, a state of matter governed by its own set physical laws just as the more common solids, liquids, and gases are. As the solar wind sweeps out into space, it creates a space environment filled with radiation as well as magnetic fields that trail all the way back to the sun. This space environment is augmented by interstellar cosmic rays and occasional concentrated clouds of solar material that burst off the sun, known as coronal mass ejections.This complex environment surrounds the planets and ultimately has a crucial effect on the formation, evolution, and destiny of planetary systems. For one thing, our heliosphere acts as a giant shield, protecting the planets from galactic cosmic radiation. Earth is additionally shielded by its own magnetic field, the magnetosphere, which protects us not only from solar and cosmic particle radiation but also from erosion of the atmosphere by the solar wind. Planets without a shielding magnetic field, such as Mars and Venus, are exposed to such processes and have evolved differently.NASA's studies of the heliosphere include research into: how the solar wind behaves near Earth; what causes and sustains magnetic and electric fields around other planets; how does the heliosphere interact with the interstellar medium; what do the boundaries of the heliosphere look like; what is the origin and evolution of the solar wind and the interstellar cosmic rays; and what contributes to the habitability of exoplanets.The field is, therefore, intensely cross-disciplinary. Heliospheric research often works hand in hand with planetary scientists, astrophysicists, astrobiologists, and space weather researchers.NASA heliophysics missions contributing to heliospheric research are: the Advanced Composition Explorer; NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory; Voyager, and Wind. || ", "hits": 450 }, { "id": 4970, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4970/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2022-02-25T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Many Eyes on the Parker Solar Probe Perihelion (February 2022)", "description": "This visualization opens with a top-down view, then transtions to an oblique view of the inner solar system with the various solar-observing missions conducting coordinated observations of the plasma environment. This version displays the imaging instrument camera frustums and solar magnetic field alignments - the 'glyph' version. A version with just the orbits, no 'glyphs' is available in the [Download Options] menu. || SolarSynergiesPlus.Encounter2022FebTop2Side.HAE.AU.glyphs_CRTT.HD1080.01300_print.jpg (1024x576) [123.3 KB] || SolarSynergiesPlus.Encounter2022FebTop2Side.HAE.AU.glyphs_CRTT.HD1080.01300_searchweb.png (320x180) [78.9 KB] || SolarSynergiesPlus.Encounter2022FebTop2Side.HAE.AU.glyphs_CRTT.HD1080.01300_thm.png (80x40) [5.2 KB] || Encounter2022FebTop2Side (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || Encounter2022FebTop2Side.glyphs (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || SolarSynergiesPlus.Encounter2022FebTop2Side.HD1080_p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [47.0 MB] || SolarSynergiesPlus.Encounter2022FebTop2Side.glyphs.HD1080_p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [60.7 MB] || SolarSynergiesPlus.Encounter2022FebTop2Side.HD1080_p30.webm (1920x1080) [9.7 MB] || Encounter2022FebTop2Side (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || Encounter2022FebTop2Side.glyphs (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || SolarSynergiesPlus.Encounter2022FebTop2Side.UHD2160_p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [143.6 MB] || SolarSynergiesPlus.Encounter2022FebTop2Side.glyphs.UHD2160_p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [176.4 MB] || SolarSynergiesPlus.Encounter2022FebTop2Side.HD1080_p30.mp4.hwshow [220 bytes] || ", "hits": 89 }, { "id": 14095, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14095/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-02-09T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA’s New Views of Venus’ Surface From Space", "description": "NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has taken its first visible light images of the surface of Venus from space. Smothered in thick clouds, Venus’ surface is usually shrouded from sight. But in two recent flybys of the planet, Parker used its Wide-Field Imager, or WISPR, to image the entire nightside in wavelengths of the visible spectrum – the type of light that the human eye can see – and extending into the near-infrared.The images, combined into a video, reveal a faint glow from the surface that shows distinctive features like continental regions, plains, and plateaus. A luminescent halo of oxygen in the atmosphere can also be seen surrounding the planet.Link to NASA.gov feature.Link to associated research paper. || ", "hits": 978 }, { "id": 14078, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14078/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-01-21T22:00:00-05:00", "title": "Mid-Level Flare Erupts From Sun", "description": "The Sun emitted a mid-level solar flare on Jan. 20, 2022, peaking at 1:01 a.m. EST. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the Sun constantly, captured an image of the event.Solar flares are powerful bursts of energy. Flares and solar eruptions can impact radio communications, electric power grids, navigation signals, and pose risks to spacecraft and astronauts.This flare is classified as a M5.5 class flare. More info on how flares are classified here.To see how such space weather may affect Earth, please visit NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center https://spaceweather.gov/, the U.S. government’s official source for space weather forecasts, watches, warnings, and alerts. NASA works as a research arm of the nation’s space weather effort. NASA observes the Sun and our space environment constantly with a fleet of spacecraft that study everything from the Sun’s activity to the solar atmosphere, and to the particles and magnetic fields in the space surrounding Earth. || ", "hits": 147 }, { "id": 4892, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4892/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2022-01-18T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Faculae and Sunspots at Solar Maximum and Solar Minimum", "description": "Movie of SDO/AIA 1700 angstrom imagery, collected near solar maximum (April 2014). Note the small dark regions (sunspots) and the brighter speckled regions (faculae) around them. || SolarMax_AIA1700A_stand.HD1080i.00300_print.jpg (1024x576) [61.4 KB] || SolarMax_AIA1700A_stand.HD1080i.00300_searchweb.png (320x180) [35.9 KB] || SolarMax_AIA1700A_stand.HD1080i.00300_thm.png (80x40) [3.3 KB] || SolarMax_AIA1700A (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || SolarMax_AIA1700A_stand.HD1080i_p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [66.8 MB] || SolarMax_AIA1700A_stand.HD1080i_p30.webm (1920x1080) [3.0 MB] || SolarMax_AIA1700A (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || SolarMax_AIA1700A_stand.UHD2160_p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [270.8 MB] || SolarMax_AIA1700A_stand.HD1080i_p30.mp4.hwshow [201 bytes] || ", "hits": 208 }, { "id": 14055, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14055/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-12-20T22:00:00-05:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe's WISPR Images Inside The Sun's Atmosphere", "description": "For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. As Parker Solar Probe flew through the corona, its WISPR instrument captured images.The Wide-Field Imager for Parker Solar Probe (WISPR) is the only imaging instrument aboard the spacecraft. WISPR looks at the large-scale structure of the corona and solar wind before the spacecraft flies through it. About the size of a shoebox, WISPR takes images from afar of structures like coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, jets and other ejecta from the Sun. These structures travel out from the Sun and eventually overtake the spacecraft, where the spacecraft’s other instruments take in-situ measurements. WISPR helps link what’s happening in the large-scale coronal structure to the detailed physical measurements being captured directly in the near-Sun environment.To image the solar atmosphere, WISPR uses the heat shield to block most of the Sun’s light, which would otherwise obscure the much fainter corona. Specially designed baffles and occulters reflect and absorb the residual stray light that has been reflected or diffracted off the edge of the heat shield or other parts of the spacecraft.WISPR uses two cameras with radiation-hardened Active Pixel Sensor CMOS detectors. These detectors are used in place of traditional CCDs because they are lighter and use less power. They are also less susceptible to effects of radiation damage from cosmic rays and other high-energy particles, which are a big concern close to the Sun. The camera’s lenses are made of a radiation hard BK7, a common type of glass used for space telescopes, which is also sufficiently hardened against the impacts of dust.WISPR was designed and developed by the Solar and Heliophysics Physics Branch at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. (principal investigator Russell Howard), which will also develop the observing program. || ", "hits": 651 }, { "id": 14046, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14046/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-12-17T19:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's Solar Tour", "description": "Starting Dec. 3, we took a journey from Earth to the Sun. We made pit stops along the way to learn how the Sun influences everything in the solar system.In 2018, NASA launched Parker Solar Probe to study the Sun up close. But the mission has also taught us much more about our solar system.On the final day of the #SolarTour, we had big news to share: Parker Solar Probe officially “touched” the Sun, becoming the first spacecraft in history to fly through the solar atmosphere.Below are postcards we released at each pit stop of the Solar Tour campaign. || ", "hits": 46 }, { "id": 4957, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4957/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2021-12-14T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe: The Origins of Switchbacks", "description": "Most of the magnetic field measured at Parker during this time is directed sunward (blue field lines and vectors). A switchback occurs when the field changes direction almost 180 degrees for a short period of time. FIELDS instrument magnetic vector data are projected from the spacecraft position as arrows. The arrows are colored deep blue for sunward vectors, deep red for anti-sunward, and in between for directions off from this line. 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Launched in 2018 to study the Sun’s biggest mysteries, the spacecraft has now grazed the edge of the solar atmosphere and gathered new close-up observations of our star. This is allowing us to see the Sun as never before—including the findings in two new papers, which were presented at AGU, that are helping scientists answer fundamental questions about the Sun.PANELISTSDr. Nicola Fox• Heliophysics Division Director of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA HeadquartersDr. Nour Raouafi• Project Scientist for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe• The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Dr. Justin Kasper• Principal Investigator for Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) Investigation on Parker Solar Probe • BWX Technologies, Inc., University of MichiganProf. Stuart D. Bale• Principal Investigator for Fields Experiment (FIELDS) on Parker Solar Probe • University of California, Berkeley Dr. Kelly Korreck• Program Scientist at NASA Headquarters• Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory || ", "hits": 165 }, { "id": 14036, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14036/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-12-14T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Animation: NASA's Parker Solar Probe Enters Solar Atmosphere", "description": "For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. The new milestone marks one major step for Parker Solar Probe and one giant leap for solar science. Just as landing on the Moon allowed scientists to understand how it was formed, touching the very stuff the Sun is made of will help scientists uncover critical information about our closest star and its influence on the solar system. On April 28, 2021, during its eighth flyby of the Sun, Parker Solar Probe encountered the specific magnetic and particle conditions at 18.8 solar radii (8.127 million miles) above the solar surface that told scientists it had crossed the Alfvén critical surface for the first time and finally entered the solar atmosphere.More information here. || ", "hits": 283 }, { "id": 14045, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14045/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-12-14T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's Parker Solar Probe Touches The Sun For The First Time", "description": "For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. 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By the time it reaches Earth, 93 million miles away, the solar wind is an unrelenting headwind of particles and magnetic fields. But as it escapes the Sun, the solar wind is structured and patchy. In the mid-1990s, the NASA-European Space Agency mission Ulysses flew over the Sun’s poles and discovered a handful of bizarre S-shaped kinks in the solar wind’s magnetic field lines, which detoured charged particles on a zig-zag path as they escaped the Sun. For decades, scientists thought these occasional switchbacks were oddities confined to the Sun’s polar regions. In 2019, at 34 solar radii from the Sun, Parker Solar Probe discovered that switchbacks were not rare, but common in the solar wind. This renewed interest in the features raised new questions: Where are they coming from and how do they form and evolve? Were they forged at the surface of the Sun, or shaped by some process kinking magnetic fields in the solar atmosphere? The new findings, in press at the Astrophysical Journal, finally confirm one origin point near the solar surface. More information here. || ", "hits": 79 }, { "id": 4917, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4917/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2021-11-29T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "ICON Snaps a Peek at the Ionospheric Dynamo", "description": "Visualization of ICON in Earth orbit, camera ahead of the spacecraft looking back on spacecraft and limb of Earth. Magenta curves are lines of Earth's geomagnetic field. Field-of-view (FOV) of MIGHTI imagers (green frustums) and the longitudinal wind vectors (green arrows) it measures are shown. MIGHTI imagers FOV eventually fades out. Vertical plasma speed (red arrows) is measured at the spacecraft. 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The dynamo churns in the ionosphere, the electrically charged boundary between Earth and space. It’s powered by tidal winds in the upper atmosphere that are faster than most hurricanes and rise from the lower atmosphere, creating an electrical environment that can affect satellites and technology on Earth. The new work, published today in Nature Geoscience, improves our understanding of the ionosphere, which helps scientists better predict space weather and protect our technology from its effects.More information: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/strong-winds-power-electric-fields-in-upper-atmosphere-icon/ || ", "hits": 102 } ] }