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NASA’s Artemis II Mission Days From Launch — First Crewed Journey Around the Moon in More Than 50 Years!", "description": "Click here for the Artemis II PRESS KIT. || ARTEMIS_II_BANNER_english2.jpeg (1800x720) [342.6 KB] || ARTEMIS_II_BANNER_english2_print.jpg (1024x409) [139.2 KB] || ARTEMIS_II_BANNER_english2_searchweb.png (320x180) [86.2 KB] || ARTEMIS_II_BANNER_english2_thm.png (80x40) [7.7 KB] || ", "hits": 3778 }, { "id": 14957, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14957/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-01-27T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "IMAP Arrives at L1", "description": "NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) reached its destination at Lagrange point 1, or L1, approximately 1 million miles from Earth toward the Sun on Jan. 10, 2026.The mission’s operations team sent commands to the spacecraft on the morning of Jan. 9 to begin trajectory maneuvers to enter orbit at L1. Early on the morning of Jan. 10, the team confirmed the spacecraft had successfully entered its final L1 orbit, where it will stay for the duration of its mission.From L1, IMAP will explore and map the very boundaries of our heliosphere — the protective bubble created by the solar wind that encapsulates our entire solar system — and study how the heliosphere interacts with the local galactic neighborhood beyond.Learn more about the milestone: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/imap/2026/01/12/nasas-imap-mission-reaches-its-destination/ || ", "hits": 394 }, { "id": 14956, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14956/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-01-26T16:00:00-05:00", "title": "Space Weather Effects Animations", "description": "Solar flares, coronal mass ejections, solar particle events, and the solar wind form the recipe for space weather that affects life on Earth and astronauts in space. 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 it’s impacts on objects in the solar system. Learn more about space weather: https://science.nasa.gov/space-weather-2/ || ", "hits": 504 }, { "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": 395 }, { "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. NASA’s Space Weather Program monitors space weather 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This important work helps decision makers not only protect people and equipment but maintain the services our modern-day society relies on every day. NASA’s space weather monitoring is also critical for safeguarding astronauts as they journey to the Moon and onward to Mars. || ", "hits": 309 }, { "id": 14944, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14944/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-01-06T16:00:00-05:00", "title": "Black Aurora Rocket Instrument Testing at NASA Goddard", "description": "NASA’s Black and Diffuse Aurora Science Surveyor sounding rocket mission has completed its testing campaign at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, ahead of its launch. Sounding rocket missions like this one are suborbital rockets that fly scientific instruments into near-Earth space for short, approximately 15-minute flights. The mission will study so-called “black auroras,” dark patches and stripes that appear within an aurora. Previous research has hinted that they may be formed by electrons going upward escaping back out into space (rather than the absence of any electrons). The visible aurora is formed by an incoming downward stream of electrons. Scientists want to solve the puzzle as to why these patches and stripes form within the visible aurora. From Goddard, the instruments were delivered to Wallops Flight Facility, where they – along with the entire rocket payload – will be shipped to the Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, where the team aims to fly their rocket through black aurora. Onboard instruments will survey the electron populations as they fly through them to understand how and why these black patches and stripes form within the visible aurora. The mission is scheduled for launch no earlier than February 2026. || ", "hits": 88 }, { "id": 14921, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14921/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-11-21T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "IMAP Testing and Integration at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center", "description": "NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) spacecraft arrived May 10, 2025, for processing at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will study how the Sun shapes the boundaries of the heliosphere, the bubble around our solar system. A semitrailer transported the spacecraft from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, after completing thermal vacuum testing, which simulates the harsh conditions of space, at the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility. Astrotech provides the facility and technicians to prepare the spacecraft for launch, including fueling and encapsulation. The IMAP spacecraft launched Sept. 24, 2025, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA Kennedy. || ", "hits": 157 }, { "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": 662 }, { "id": 14920, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14920/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-11-13T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Preparing for Martian Explorers: NASA's ESCAPADE Investigates Mars Space Weather", "description": "NASA’s new ESCAPADE mission is launching to Mars to help us better understand the Sun’s influence on Mars’ past and present. Its work could help protect future human explorers from potentially dangerous space weather when they set foot on the Red Planet.For the first time, the 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. Its observations will reveal the planet’s real-time response to space weather and how the Martian magnetosphere changes over time.The ESCAPADE orbiters build on earlier Mars missions, such as NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) orbiter. The MAVEN mission has one spacecraft that has been studying Mars’ atmospheric loss since arriving at the Red Planet in 2014.ESCAPADE is scheduled to launch no earlier than fall 2025 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Launch Complex 36 in Florida.Find out more about the ESCAPADE mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/escapade/ || ", "hits": 155 }, { "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": 537 }, { "id": 14918, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14918/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-11-11T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "ESCAPADE Prepares for Flight (2025)", "description": "The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, 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. || ", "hits": 277 }, { "id": 14904, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14904/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-24T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA, NOAA Launch Three Spacecraft to Map Sun’s Influence Across Space", "description": "NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) launched three new missions Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025, to investigate the Sun’s influence across the solar system.At 7:30 a.m. EDT, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying the agency’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and NOAA’s SWFO-L1 (Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1) spacecraft.Learn more about IMAP: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/imap/Learn more about Carruthers Geocorona Observatory: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/carruthers-geocorona-observatory/Learn more about SWFO-L1: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/swfo-l1/ || ", "hits": 187 }, { "id": 14887, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14887/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-18T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Mission to Study Giant ‘Halo’ Surrounding Earth", "description": "In 1972, Apollo 16 astronauts placed an ultraviolet camera on the Moon that captured the first images of Earth’s geocorona, the light emitted by Earth’s outermost atmospheric layer. A new NASA mission bearing the name of the telescope’s creator, Dr. George R. Carruthers, will launch into space to build on that legacy. From a vantage point roughly one million miles closer to the Sun than Earth is, the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory will capture the most comprehensive views of the geocorona to date. The observations will reveal new insights into the structure of our atmosphere, how solar eruptions impact Earth, and how a planet’s surface water can escape to space, aiding the search for habitable planets elsewhere in the universe.Learn more about Carruthers Geocorona Observatory science: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/new-nasa-mission-to-reveal-earths-invisible-haloLearn more about the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/carruthers-geocorona-observatory/ || ", "hits": 326 }, { "id": 14895, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14895/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-17T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Mapping the Boundaries of Our Home in Space with NASA’s IMAP Mission", "description": "NASA’s new 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 solar system — and study how that boundary interacts with the local galactic neighborhood beyond.As a modern-day celestial cartographer, IMAP will 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 with interstellar space. Additionally, IMAP will support near real-time observations of the solar wind and energetic particles, which can produce hazardous conditions in the space environment near Earth. 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 IMAP science: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/nasas-imap-mission-to-study-boundaries-of-our-home-in-space/Find out more about the IMAP mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/imap/ || ", "hits": 152 }, { "id": 14885, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14885/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-12T06:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Interview Opportunity: Groundbreaking New NASA Mission Will Give Us The Most Detailed Look Yet At Our Solar System’s Shield", "description": "Scroll down page for associated cut b-roll and pre-recorded soundbites. || IMAP_banner.jpeg (1600x640) [185.0 KB] || IMAP_banner_print.jpg (1024x409) [110.6 KB] || IMAP_banner_searchweb.png (320x180) [73.1 KB] || IMAP_banner_thm.png (80x40) [6.7 KB] || ", "hits": 126 }, { "id": 14892, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14892/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-08-29T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "Solar Wind Animations", "description": "The Sun releases a constant stream of charged particles, called the solar wind. The solar wind originates in the outermost layer of the Sun’s atmosphere, the corona, when plasma is heated to a point that the Sun’s gravity can’t hold it down. When this plasma escapes – often reaching speeds of over one million miles per hour – it drags the Sun’s magnetic out across the solar system. When the solar wind encounters Earth, it is deflected by our planet's magnetic shield, causing most of the solar wind's energetic particles to flow around and beyond us. However, some of these high-energy particles can sneak past Earth’s natural magnetic defenses and produce hazardous conditions for satellites and astronauts, as well as power grids and infrastructure on Earth.Learn more about the solar wind: https://science.nasa.gov/sun/what-is-the-solar-wind/ || ", "hits": 933 }, { "id": 20407, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20407/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2025-08-01T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Carruthers Geocorona Animation", "description": "The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory is a SmallSat mission at Lagrange Point 1 (L1) where it will use an advanced ultraviolet imager to monitor Earth’s exosphere — the outermost layer of the atmosphere — and the exosphere’s response to solar-driven space weather. Carruthers is poised to become the first SmallSat to operate at L1 and the first to deliver continuous exospheric observations from this vantage point.In this animation, atomic hydrogen floats in Earth’s exosphere. As the lightest chemical in existence, atomic hydrogen tends to float away, or evaporate, off the top of Earth’s atmosphere. When the Sun shines on these atoms, they scatter that light in all directions, causing a glow around Earth. This fuzzy halo of light that’s given off by those exospheric atoms is called the geocorona. || ", "hits": 70 }, { "id": 14874, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14874/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-28T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "STORIE Thermal Vacuum Test at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center", "description": "NASA’s STORIE mission, or Storm Time O+ Ring current Imaging Evolution, has completed its design, build, and testing campaign at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, ahead of its six-month mission onboard the International Space Station (ISS). From its unique vantage point on the ISS, STORIE will use its onboard neutral atom imager to provide an “inside out” view of Earth’s ring current – a region of the magnetosphere where energetic particles are trapped in near-Earth space. In addition to answering fundamental questions about the ring current’s intensity and composition, STORIE will also provide a more detailed understanding of how geomagnetic storms affect Earth.From NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, STORIE will be shipped to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, where it will be integrated onto a pallet to be installed outside the ISS’s Columbus Module. STORIE will head to the ISS aboard a SpaceX commercial resupply flight no earlier than spring 2026. || ", "hits": 108 }, { "id": 14876, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14876/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-25T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA’s TRACERS Mission Launches to Study Earth’s Magnetic Shield", "description": "NASA’s newest mission, TRACERS, soon will begin studying how Earth’s magnetic shield protects our planet from the effects of space weather. Short for Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, the twin TRACERS spacecraft lifted off at 11:13 a.m. PDT (2:13 p.m. EDT) Wednesday, July 23, 2025, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.Learn more about the mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/tracers/ || ", "hits": 133 }, { "id": 14875, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14875/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-25T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Carruthers Geocorona Observatory Arrives at Kennedy Space Center", "description": "NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory arrived at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, July 21, 2025. The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory is a small satellite set to operate at Lagrange Point 1 (L1), an orbit point between the Earth and Sun about one million miles away. Carruthers will use its ultraviolet cameras to monitor how space weather from the Sun impacts the exosphere, the outermost part of Earth’s atmosphere. The observatory will launch as a rideshare with NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe no earlier than September 2025. || ", "hits": 68 }, { "id": 14869, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14869/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-18T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "STORIE Fit Test at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center", "description": "NASA’s STORIE mission, or Storm Time O+ Ring current Imaging Evolution, has completed its design, build, and testing campaign at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, ahead of its mission onboard the International Space Station (ISS). From its unique vantage point on the ISS, STORIE will use neutral atom imaging to provide an “inside out” view of Earth’s ring current – a region of the magnetosphere where energetic particles are trapped in near-Earth space. In addition to answering fundamental questions about the ring current’s intensity and composition, STORIE will also provide a more detailed understanding of how geomagnetic storms affect Earth.From NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, STORIE will be shipped to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, where it will be integrated onto a pallet to be installed outside the ISS’s Columbus Module. STORIE will head to the ISS aboard a SpaceX commercial resupply flight no earlier than spring 2026. || ", "hits": 31 }, { "id": 14863, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14863/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-17T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Quickshot: New NASA Mission Launching Soon To Study Earth’s Space Weather Shield", "description": "Scroll down page for advisory with suggested questions and anchor intro. You will also find the associated cut b-roll and pre-recorded soundbites below.Click here for more information about TRACERS || Live_Shot_Banner_TRACERS_final.jpg (1800x720) [256.8 KB] || Live_Shot_Banner_TRACERS_final_print.jpg (1024x409) [150.1 KB] || Live_Shot_Banner_TRACERS_final_searchweb.png (320x180) [82.8 KB] || Live_Shot_Banner_TRACERS_final_thm.png (80x40) [6.5 KB] || ", "hits": 92 }, { "id": 5555, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5555/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-07-15T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "TRACERS through Earth's Polar Cusps", "description": "Visualization of the orbit of the twin TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) satellites that will explore the process of magnetic reconnection in Earth's polar regions and its effects on our atmosphere.", "hits": 186 }, { "id": 14862, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14862/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-14T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA’s TRACERS Studies Magnetic Explosions Above Earth", "description": "NASA's TRACERS mission, or the Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, will fly in low Earth orbit through the polar cusps, funnel-shaped holes in the magnetic field, to study magnetic reconnection and its effects in Earth's atmosphere. Magnetic reconnection is a mysterious process that happens when the solar wind, made of electrically charged particles and magnetic fields from the Sun, collides with Earth's magnetic shield, causing magnetic field lines to violently snap and explosively fling away particles at high speeds. This process has huge impacts on Earth, from causing breathtaking auroras to disrupting communications and power grids on Earth. TRACERS is launching no earlier than summer 2025 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.Find out more about the TRACERS mission and how it will help us better understand the ways space weather affects us on Earth: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/tracers/ || ", "hits": 429 }, { "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": 521 }, { "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": 203 }, { "id": 14829, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14829/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-04-25T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "TRACERS Thermal Vacuum Testing at Millennium Space Systems", "description": "NASA’s Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, or TRACERS, is embarking on its 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. The TRACERS 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.Below are clips of Millennium Space Systems’ team members conducting Thermal Vacuum (TVAC) testing at the Boeing Space Systems Laboratory in El Segundo, California.Learn more about the mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/tracers/ || ", "hits": 161 }, { "id": 14827, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14827/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-04-24T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "TRACERS Instrument Development & Testing at the University of Iowa", "description": "NASA’s Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, or TRACERS, is embarking on its 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. The TRACERS 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.Below are clips of TRACERS’ instrument design, build, and testing at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.Learn more about the mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/tracers/ || ", "hits": 94 }, { "id": 14828, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14828/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-04-24T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "TRACERS Testing & Integration at Millennium Space Systems", "description": "NASA’s Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, or TRACERS, is embarking on its 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. The TRACERS 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.Below are clips of TRACERS’ testing and integration at the Millennium Space Systems Small Satellite Factory in El Segundo, California. Learn more about the mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/tracers/ || ", "hits": 112 }, { "id": 14816, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14816/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-04-11T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "IMAP Testing and Integration at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center", "description": "NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, arrived at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center on March 18, 2025, to undergo testing prior to launch. At Marshall, IMAP will be exposed to extreme temperature changes during a 28-day-long test inside a thermal vacuum chamber (TVAC). By simulating the harsh conditions in space, scientists and engineers can identify any potential issues before launch.To learn more about the testing visit: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/imap/2025/05/07/nasas-imap-completes-thermal-vacuum-testing-campaign/After thermal vacuum testing concluded at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, IMAP was transported to Florida: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/imap/2025/05/10/nasas-interstellar-mapping-mission-arrives-in-florida/ || ", "hits": 144 }, { "id": 14805, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14805/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2025-03-24T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "TRACERS Spacecraft Beauty Passes", "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": 146 }, { "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": 231 }, { "id": 14773, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14773/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-02-04T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's PUNCH Mission", "description": "NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH mission, is a constellation of four small satellites in low Earth orbit that will make global, 3D observations of the Sun’s corona to better understand how the mass and energy there becomes the solar wind that fills the solar system.Watch the video to learn how imaging the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together will help scientists better understand the entire inner heliosphere — Sun, solar wind, and Earth — as a single connected system.The PUNCH mission is led by Southwest Research Institute’s office in Boulder, Colorado. The mission is managed by the Explorers Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.For more information visit science.nasa.gov/mission/punch || ", "hits": 108 }, { "id": 14739, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14739/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-03T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "From the Moon, NASA’s LEXI Will Reveal Earth’s Magnetic Shield", "description": "NASA’s next mission to the Moon will carry an instrument called LEXI (the Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager), which will provide the first-ever global view of the magnetic environment that shields Earth from solar radiation.From the surface of the Moon, LEXI will capture wide-field images of Earth's magnetic environment, or magnetosphere, in low-energy (or \"soft\") X-rays. LEXI will study changes in the magnetosphere and help us learn more about how it interacts with a stream of particles from the Sun called the solar wind, which can pose hazards for Artemis astronauts traveling to the Moon.Learn more about LEXI and its CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) flight to the Moon from Hyunju Connor, LEXI co-investigator at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.More on LEXI: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-lexi-will-provide-x-ray-vision-of-earths-magnetosphere/ || ", "hits": 185 }, { "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": 189 }, { "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": 547 }, { "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": 143 }, { "id": 5435, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5435/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2024-12-12T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Geomagnetic and Atmospheric Response to May 2024 Solar Storm", "description": "This visualization shows the Earth's magnetosphere being hit by a geomagnetic storm. The MAGE model simulates real events that happened throughout May 10-11, 2024.White orbit trails: All satellites orbiting Earth during the stormOrange orbits: Proposed orbits for six GDC spacecraftOrange-to-purple lines: Magnetic field lines around EarthBlue trails: Solar wind velocity tracersGreen clouds: Electric field current intensityCredit:NASA Scientific Visualization Studio and NASA DRIVE Science Center for Geospace Storms || multiField_11-25-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_4k.00450_print.jpg (1024x576) [191.2 KB] || multiField_11-25-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_4k.00450_searchweb.png (320x180) [102.0 KB] || multiField_11-25-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_4k.00450_web.png (320x180) [102.0 KB] || multiField_11-25-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_4k.00450_thm.png (80x40) [6.4 KB] || multiField_12-30-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [253.6 MB] || multiField_12-30-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_3x3Hyperwall (5760x3240) [2880 Item(s)] || multiField_12-30-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_3x3Hyperwall_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [773.4 MB] || multiField_12-30-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_3x3Hyperwall_3240p30_h265.mp4 (5760x3240) [779.4 MB] || ", "hits": 333 }, { "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": 89 }, { "id": 14714, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14714/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2024-11-06T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "CODEX Heads to the Space Station for Install", "description": "On Nov. 4, 2024, the Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX) launched to space aboard NASA’s SpaceX CRS-31 – a commercial resupply mission of an uncrewed Dragon spacecraft headed for the International Space Station. Liftoff occurred at 9:29 p.m. EST.CODEX is a solar coronagraph that will be installed on the Space Station to gather important information about the solar wind and how it forms. A coronagraph blocks out the bright light from the Sun to better see details in the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona. CODEX is a collaboration between NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) with additional contributions from Italy’s National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF).To learn more about the experiment, visit: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/codex/ || ", "hits": 93 }, { "id": 14688, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14688/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-09-26T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "5 Ways NASA Uses Solar Power", "description": "From studying life on Earth to powering spacecraft across the Solar System, NASA uses solar power to explore near and far. In September 2024, the Heliophysics Big Year theme is Environment and Sustainability. The Heliophysics Big Year is a global celebration of the Sun’s influence on Earth and the entire solar system. From October 14, 2023, to December 24, 2024, the Heliophysics Big Year celebrates under a theme, sharing opportunities to participate in many solar science events and activities. During the Heliophysics Big Year, participation isn’t limited to science – NASA invites everyone to celebrate the Sun with as many Sun-related activities as they can.To learn more about NASA’s history with solar power, visit: https://science.nasa.gov/sun/how-nasa-uses-and-improves-solar-power/ || ", "hits": 137 }, { "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": 57 }, { "id": 14628, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14628/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-08-28T11:30:00-04:00", "title": "Discovering Earth’s Third Global Energy Field", "description": "High above the Earth’s North and South Poles, a steady stream of particles escapes from our atmosphere into space. Scientists call this mysterious outflow the “polar wind,” and for almost 60 years, spacecraft have been flying through it as scientists have theorized about its cause. The leading theory was that a planet-wide electric field was drawing those particles up into space. But this so-called ambipolar electric field, if it exists, is so weak that all attempts to measure it have failed – until now.In 2022, scientists traveled to Svalbard, a small archipelago in Norway, to launch a rocket in an attempt to measure Earth’s ambipolar electric field for the first time. This was NASA’s Endurance rocketship mission, and this is its story.To learn more, visit: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasa-discovers-long-sought-global-electric-field-on-earth/ || ", "hits": 368 }, { "id": 14647, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14647/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2024-08-12T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "CODEX – Coronal Diagnostic Experiment", "description": "The Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX) is a solar coronagraph that will be installed on the International Space Station to gather important information about the solar wind and how it forms. A coronagraph blocks out the bright light from the Sun to better see details in the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona. CODEX is a collaboration between NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) with additional contribution from Italy's National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF).Learn more: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/codex/ || ", "hits": 96 }, { "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": 14593, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14593/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-05-16T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Continuing Strong Solar Flares: May 15-16, 2024", "description": "During the week of May 10 to May 16, 2024, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) observed nine X-class solar flares erupting from the Sun, including the largest in this solar cycle to date on May 14 that peaked at X8.7.This video shows these flares using SDO observations in two wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light, 131 angstroms (colorized as teal) and 171 angstroms (colorized as gold).These flares originated primarily from an active region on the Sun called AR 13664. This region, along with another called AR 13663, was responsible for the majority of strong solar flares from May 3 through May 9.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Music credit: \"Collab Alert\" by Ellis Kent [PRS] from Universal Production Music || Thumbnail02.jpg (1280x720) [818.1 KB] || 14593_X-ClassFlaresDominateSunInMay_1080_YouTube.mp4 (1920x1080) [221.9 MB] || XClassFlares.en_US.srt [1.4 KB] || XClassFlares.en_US.vtt [1.3 KB] || 14593_X-ClassFlaresDominateSunInMay_4K_Facebook.mp4 (3840x2160) [328.8 MB] || 14593_X-ClassFlaresDominateSunInMay_4K_YouTube.mp4 (3840x2160) [539.4 MB] || 14593_X-ClassFlaresDominateSunInMay_4K_ProRes_.mov (3840x2160) [7.2 GB] || ", "hits": 113 }, { "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": 88 }, { "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": 58 }, { "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": 77 }, { "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": 81 }, { "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": 42 }, { "id": 14532, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14532/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-02-26T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Different Ways to Safely View a Solar Eclipse", "description": "Do you know how to safely view a solar eclipse? There are more ways than one! To protect your eyes while looking at a solar eclipse, always use proper eye protection for solar viewing – such as solar viewing glasses (often called “eclipse glasses”) or a handheld solar viewer – when any part of the bright solar disk is visible. To use telescopes or binoculars to look directly at the Sun, you must install a certified solar filter to the front of the instrument. Don’t have eclipse glasses or other equipment? You can use an indirect viewing method to project sunlight onto another surface and see the shape of the Sun throughout the eclipse. There are many ways you can do this from using materials around your house, tree leaves, or even your hands.To learn more about solar eclipse safety, visit: https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2024/safety/ || ", "hits": 225 }, { "id": 14512, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14512/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2024-01-28T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Aerial Views of Goddard: 2023 Wildfire Smoke", "description": "This panorama of NASA Goddard was taken on the morning of June 7, 2023, when smoke from raging wildfires in Eastern Canada wafted over the Mid-Atlantic region. The Integration and Test complex is located at top center in this view, looking north.Credit: NASA/Francis Reddy || Wildfire_Smoke_am_GSFC_06072023_looking_N.jpg (7500x3167) [7.9 MB] || Wildfire_Smoke_am_GSFC_06072023_looking_N_print.jpg (1024x432) [292.8 KB] || Wildfire_Smoke_am_GSFC_06072023_looking_N_searchweb.png (320x180) [111.8 KB] || Wildfire_Smoke_am_GSFC_06072023_looking_N_thm.png (80x40) [20.7 KB] || ", "hits": 60 }, { "id": 14505, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14505/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-01-19T17:00:00-05:00", "title": "Goddard Year In Review 2023", "description": "From our home planet to the farthest reaches of the universe, review top highlights over 2023 from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, the agency’s scientific nerve center. Download a PDF of Goddard’s 2023 year in review booklet at: https://www.nasa.gov/goddard/annual-reports/An interactive version may be browsed at: https://issuu.com/nasagsfc/stacks Goddard is NASA’s premiere space flight complex and home to the nation’s largest organization of scientists, engineers, and technologists who build spacecraft, instruments, and new technology to study Earth, the Sun, our solar system, and the universe. Universal Production Music \"Info Bed Underscore\" \"World Wide Instrumental\" \"Nanotech Instrumental\" \"The Big Rush Instrumental\" \"Unsmiling Seriousness Underscore\" || Goddard_Year_in_Review_Thumbnail.png (1280x720) [1.0 MB] || Goddard_Year_in_Review_Thumbnail_print.jpg (1024x576) [144.4 KB] || Goddard_Year_in_Review_Thumbnail_searchweb.png (320x180) [86.6 KB] || Goddard_Year_in_Review_Thumbnail_thm.png (80x40) [6.4 KB] || GoddardYearInReview2023.en_US.srt [14.5 KB] || GoddardYearInReview2023.en_US.vtt [13.8 KB] || 2023_Goddard_Year_in_Review.webm (3840x2160) [258.1 MB] || Goddard_Year_in_Review_2023_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [2.5 GB] || 2023_Goddard_Year_in_Review.mp4 (3840x2160) [1.9 GB] || Goddard_Year_in_Review_2023_1080.mov (1920x1080) [16.8 GB] || 2023_Goddard_Year_in_Review.mov (3840x2160) [59.3 GB] || ", "hits": 42 }, { "id": 14506, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14506/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-01-18T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "Total Solar Eclipse Safety GIFs with Nicola Fox", "description": "On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will cross North America. Except during the brief total phase of a total solar eclipse, when the Moon completely blocks the Sun's bright face, it is not safe to look directly at the Sun without specialized eye protection designed for solar viewing. Viewing any part of the bright Sun through a camera lens, binoculars or a telescope without a special-purpose solar filter secured over the front of the optics can cause severe eye injury.These GIFs, featuring Nicola Fox, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, can be used as reminders for safe solar viewing this April.Learn more about how to safely watch the annular solar eclipse: https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2024/safety/ || ", "hits": 80 }, { "id": 14480, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14480/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2023-12-18T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Aerial Views of Goddard: 180- and 360-Degree Panoramas", "description": "Two 180-degree pans from above the Goddard Main Gate sign in midday sun and fall colors. The first is fairly slow, the return pan is faster. Greenbelt Road is prominent at the start and end. Captured Nov. 9, 2023.Credit: NASA/Francis Reddy || Goddard_Panorama_From_Main_Gate_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [3.5 MB] || Goddard_Panorama_From_Main_Gate_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [120.0 KB] || Goddard_Panorama_From_Main_Gate_Still_thm.png (80x40) [7.8 KB] || Goddard_PanoramaFromMainGate_clip_11132023_1080_30_15mbps.mp4 (1920x1080) [306.9 MB] || Goddard_PanoramaFromMainGate_clip_11092023_4k60_25mbps.mp4 (3840x2160) [511.6 MB] || Goddard_PanoramaFromMainGate_clip_11092023_4k60_100mbps.mp4 (3840x2160) [2.0 GB] || ", "hits": 47 }, { "id": 14475, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14475/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-12-13T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "Uncover the Secrets of Our Sun", "description": "We’re celebrating all things Sun with the Heliophysics Big Year and we want YOU to be a part of it! Join Nicola Fox, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, to learn how you can get involved in one of NASA’s many citizen science projects.In October 2023, NASA launched 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 fun Sun-related activities.Visit https://science.nasa.gov/citizen-science/ to learn more! || ", "hits": 57 }, { "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": 126 }, { "id": 14435, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14435/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2023-10-17T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Aerial Views of Goddard: Visitor Center", "description": "General afternoon drone footage of the rocket garden, flights between the Visitor Center and Gift Shop toward and away from the rocket garden, and ascents and descents along the Delta B looking west-northwest into the center. Captured June 13, 2023.Credit: NASA/Francis Reddy || Summer_VC_general_still.jpg (3840x2160) [2.5 MB] || Goddard_VCSummerGeneral_1080_30_15mbps.webm (1920x1080) [24.7 MB] || Goddard_VCSummerGeneral_1080_30_15mbps.mp4 (1920x1080) [370.4 MB] || Goddard_VCSummerGeneral_4k60_25mbps.mp4 (3840x2160) [617.5 MB] || Goddard_VCSummer_General_4k60_100mbps.mp4 (3840x2160) [2.4 GB] || ", "hits": 63 }, { "id": 14427, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14427/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-10-14T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Study Eclipses With NASA", "description": "Solar eclipses are awe-inspiring experiences – but did you know you can help NASA study them? Many NASA discoveries are achieved with help from volunteer scientists like you! Here are some of the citizen science projects kicking off for the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024.Visit https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/citizen-science/ to learn more! || ", "hits": 64 }, { "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": 129 }, { "id": 14430, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14430/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-10-14T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Capturing the Sounds of a Solar Eclipse", "description": "In April 2024, volunteers can join the Eclipse Soundscapes project to help NASA scientists better understand how wildlife is impacted by solar eclipses. Volunteers will gather sound recordings, make observations using any of their senses, and even help with data analysis from across the path of the eclipse. This video features interviews from Eclipse Soundscapes experts MaryKay Severino, Dr. William “Trae” Winter III, and Dr. William Oestreich, and highlights natural resource manager Dr. Chace Holzhueser at Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas, who will be conducting a similar study for the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024.Visit https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/citizen-science/ to learn more! || ", "hits": 57 }, { "id": 14395, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14395/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-08-18T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Find Out if Your Eclipse Glasses Are Safe", "description": "How can you tell if your eclipse glasses are safe? With the annular solar eclipse just around on the corner on Oct. 14, 2023, here is a quick and easy way to make sure your eclipse glasses are safe to use.When watching an annular eclipse directly with your eyes, you must look through safe solar viewing glasses (“eclipse glasses”) or a safe handheld solar viewer at all times. Eclipse glasses are not regular sunglasses – no matter how dark, sunglasses are not safe for viewing the Sun.To learn more about eclipse safety, visit: http://go.nasa.gov/EclipseEyeSafety || ", "hits": 199 }, { "id": 14394, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14394/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-08-15T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Annular Eclipse Safety GIFs with Nicola Fox", "description": "On Oct. 14, 2023, an annular solar eclipse will cross North, Central, and South America. The Sun is never completely blocked by the Moon during an annular solar eclipse. Therefore, during an annular eclipse, it is never safe to look directly at the Sun without specialized eye protection designed for solar viewing.These GIFs, featuring Nicola Fox, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, can be used as reminders for safe solar viewing this October.Learn more about how to safely watch the annular solar eclipse: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/eclipses/2023/oct-14-annular/safety/ || ", "hits": 63 }, { "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": 76 }, { "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": 96 }, { "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": 76 }, { "id": 14290, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14290/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-02-17T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Heliosphere Has Ripples!", "description": "NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX mission, has helped researchers learn something new about the heliosphere – the magnetic bubble created by the Sun that we live in. It turns out, the heliosphere has ripples! These ripples also change – likely due to influences from the Sun itself.The paper explaining the results was published in Nature Astronomy. || ", "hits": 149 }, { "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": 23 }, { "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": 64 }, { "id": 12718, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12718/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-04-16T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Tracking El Niño", "description": "Follow changes in sea surface temperature and ocean currents during El Niño. || GMAO_elNino_oceanTemperatureAnomaly_currents__0191_1024x576.jpg (1024x576) [115.4 KB] || GMAO_elNino_oceanTemperatureAnomaly_currents__0191_1920x1080.jpg (1920x1080) [360.7 KB] || GMAO_elNino_oceanTemperatureAnomaly_currents__0191_searchweb.png (320x180) [78.9 KB] || GMAO_elNino_oceanTemperatureAnomaly_currents__0191_thm.png (80x40) [6.2 KB] || GMAO_elNino_oceanTemperatureAnomaly_currents__0191.tif (3840x2160) [23.7 MB] || ", "hits": 130 }, { "id": 12705, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12705/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-11-20T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Jack Schmitt: From Apollo 17 to LRO", "description": "December 11, 2022 will mark the 50th anniversary of the day NASA's Apollo 17 mission landed on the Moon. This video connects that history to the current Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission through the eyes of astronaut Harrison Jack Schmitt. As a geologist and Apollo 17 crewmember, Schmitt has a unique perspective about how data being collected by LRO enhances our current understanding of lunar science and lays the groundwork for future explorers. || ", "hits": 123 }, { "id": 12766, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12766/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-11-08T14:30:00-05:00", "title": "Hubble Inspires Our Inner Explorer", "description": "Humanity's drive to explore led to one of the most iconic exploration machines of all time, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This video was edited by summer interns at the Goddard Space Flight Center. || ", "hits": 22 }, { "id": 12544, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12544/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-09-04T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Landsat Lends Chimps a Hand", "description": "Landsat data helps answer questions about threatened chimpanzee habitat. || NASA_JGI_1024x576.jpg (1024x576) [129.4 KB] || NASA_JGI_print.jpg (1024x576) [135.3 KB] || NASA_JGI_searchweb.png (320x180) [94.7 KB] || NASA_JGI.tif (1280x720) [1.2 MB] || ", "hits": 36 } ] }