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Luckily for us, many of the views are not only deeply informative but also awe-inspiring. A selection of some of the best views of Earth from space in 2012 can be seen in the video compilation. Included in the collection are satellite images, data visualizations, supercomputer model simulations and time-lapse observations of our planet captured by astronauts aboard the International Space Station. || ", "hits": 135 }, { "id": 11231, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11231/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-04-04T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "It's Fireball Season", "description": "Not only does spring herald warmer days and blooming flowers, it also kicks off fireball season—a time of year when bright meteors appear in greater number than usual. Oftentimes fragments of asteroids and comets, meteors typically range in size from a few feet to smaller than a grain of sand. As these objects enter Earth's atmosphere, they break apart in fiery displays that last only seconds. In the weeks around the start of spring, the appearance rate of bright meteors, aka fireballs, can increase by as much as 30 percent. The reason why is still unknown, but one hypothesis is that more space debris litters this section of Earth's orbit. In search of the answer, NASA scientists set up a network of ground cameras that track and record video of meteors flaming overhead. The footage can be used to pinpoint a meteor's orbit and origin. Watch the video to learn more. || ", "hits": 204 }, { "id": 11159, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11159/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-12-04T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "2012 and the Future of Fire", "description": "The U.S. fire season in 2012 was by some measures a record-breaking season. NASA scientist Doug Morton and University of Maryland scientist Louis Giglio discuss the links between climate and wildfires and the likelihood of seeing more extreme fire events in the future. This page includes a short video discussing these topics, extended interview clips from Giglio and Morton, and visualizations of the 2012 fire season in North America. || ", "hits": 17 }, { "id": 11027, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11027/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-08-09T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "RBSP L-14 Press Conference", "description": "The Radiation Belt Storm Probes mission is part of NASA's Living With a Star Geospace program to explore fundamental processes that operate throughout the solar system, in particular those that generate hazardous space weather effects near the Earth and phenomena that could affect solar system exploration.RBSP is designed to help us understand the sun's influence on the Earth and near-Earth space by studying the planet's radiation belts on various scales of space and time.Understanding the radiation belt environment and its variability has extremely important practical applications in the areas of spacecraft operations, spacecraft and spacecraft system design, mission planning, and astronaut safety.RBSP is scheduled to launch no earlier than 4:08 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 23 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The twin probes will lift off on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.News conference panelists are:— Madhulika Guhathakurta, Living With a Star program scientist, NASA Headquarters, Washington— Mona Kessel, RBSP program scientist, NASA Headquarters— Barry Mauk, RBSP project scientist, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Laurel, Md.— Rick Fitzgerald, RBSP project manager, APL, Laurel, Md. || ", "hits": 51 }, { "id": 10972, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10972/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-05-10T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Greatest Hits", "description": "Ever since NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) began collecting images in April 2010, it has delivered incredible views of the sun ranging from stunning to downright explosive. In the past two years, the sun generated more than 1,000 outbursts, including solar flares, coronal mass ejections and energetic particles that travel to the edge of the solar system. By recording these events in multiple wavelengths, scientists can unravel the process by which the roiling magnetic fields inside and around the sun cause it to erupt. For example, the above image showing light at 171 Angstroms and colorized in gold reveals the looping arcs of particles that coalesce around magnetic field lines in the sun's atmosphere during intense periods of solar activity. Other wavelengths make different features more readily visible to the human eye. Watch the video below highlighting some of the most amazing moments witnessed by SDO in its second year of operation. || ", "hits": 28 }, { "id": 10695, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10695/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-06-17T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA's Oceanographic Voyage - ICESCAPE", "description": "The ICESCAPE mission, or \"Impacts of Climate on Ecosystems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment,\" is NASA's first dedicated oceanographic field campaign. From June-July 2010, scientists onboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy spent five weeks at sea studying how changing conditions in the Arctic affect the ocean's chemistry and ecosystems. On June 25, 2011, researchers embark on the mission's second and final campaign. The multiyear observations collected from the icebreaker will help us interpret what instruments in space tell us, as well as turn up some new discoveries. || ", "hits": 34 }, { "id": 10733, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10733/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-03-03T16:00:00-05:00", "title": "SDO First Light Media", "description": "A compilation of some of the videos and stills used during the SDO First Light press conference.There are more video and stills available. || ", "hits": 75 }, { "id": 10594, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10594/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-04-01T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Making the Impossible Possible", "description": "From concept to reality, that's the NASA way. Since the first directive to put a man on the moon, NASA has been on the cutting edge of technology and innovation and continues to turn the impossible into the possible everyday. || ", "hits": 32 }, { "id": 40028, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/hurricanesand-typhoons/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2010-03-04T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Hurricanes and Typhoons", "description": "A collection of data visualizations and imagery for tropical cyclones, including hurricanes and typhoons.\nFor more resources, visit the links below:\nNASA's Hurricane Page\n2018 Hurricane Archive\nPrecipitation Measurement Missions' Extreme Weather Page", "hits": 323 }, { "id": 2748, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2748/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2003-06-09T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "15 Years of SVS Animations", "description": "This animation is a montage of short clips taken from animations the SVS has created over the past 15 years. || preview_made_from_dv.00070_print.png (720x480) [449.6 KB] || a002748_2_pre.jpg (320x240) [7.8 KB] || a002748_thm.png (80x40) [3.9 KB] || a002748_pre.jpg (320x240) [7.8 KB] || a002748_pre_searchweb.jpg (320x180) [58.2 KB] || a002748.webmhd.webm (960x540) [20.6 MB] || a002748.m2v (720x480) [60.8 MB] || a002748.mp4 (640x480) [14.8 MB] || a002748.mpg (320x240) [11.6 MB] || ", "hits": 71 }, { "id": 199, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/199/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1998-06-11T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "El Niño Sea Surface Wind, Temperature and Height Anomaly Compilation: June 1997 through June 1998", "description": "A compilation of animations showing El Niño as reflected in sea surface temperature, height, and wind anomalies in the Pacific for the period June 1997 through June 1998 || a000199.00095_print.png (720x480) [301.8 KB] || a000199_thm.png (80x40) [4.9 KB] || a000199_pre.jpg (320x242) [7.0 KB] || a000199_pre_searchweb.jpg (320x180) [45.5 KB] || a000199.webmhd.webm (960x540) [88.9 MB] || a000199.dv (720x480) [1.5 GB] || a000199.mp4 (640x480) [85.4 MB] || a000199.mpg (352x240) [29.7 MB] || ", "hits": 31 }, { "id": 283, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/283/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1998-03-20T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "El Niño Sea Surface Wind, Temperature and Height Anomaly Compilation: March 1997 through March 1998", "description": "A compilation of animations showing El Niño as reflected in sea surface temperature, height, and wind anomalies in the Pacific for the period March 1997 through March 1998 || a000283.00095_print.png (720x480) [274.1 KB] || a000283_thm.png (80x40) [4.6 KB] || a000283_pre.jpg (320x238) [6.8 KB] || a000283_pre_searchweb.jpg (320x180) [41.9 KB] || a000283.webmhd.webm (960x540) [48.0 MB] || a000283.dv (720x480) [752.4 MB] || a000283.mp4 (640x480) [42.3 MB] || a000283.mpg (352x240) [29.7 MB] || ", "hits": 45 }, { "id": 177, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/177/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1998-01-01T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Global Precipitation Anomalies: 1900-1988", "description": "Global land precipitation has increased during the 20th century, especially at the mid and high latitudes, according to a paper published in the November 1997 issue of the Journal of Climate. The paper, written by scientists Drs. Inez Fung, Anthony Del Genio, and Aiguo Dai, is based on a recalibrated compilation and analysis of data from 1900-1988 and confirms previous speculation that land precipitation is increasing. The new research shows a global land trend of a 2.4 mm per decade increase in annual precipitation amounts. Multiplied by almost nine decades, this means that there is about 22 mm more rain falling now each year than there was at the turn of the century — rainfall as a global mean has risen by slightly more than two percent. || ", "hits": 66 }, { "id": 178, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/178/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1998-01-01T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "United States Precipitation Anomalies: 1900-1988", "description": "Global land precipitation has increased during the 20th century, especially at the mid and high latitudes, according to a paper published in the November 1997 issue of the Journal of Climate. The paper, written by scientists Drs. Inez Fung, Anthony Del Genio, and Aiguo Dai, is based on a recalibrated compilation and analysis of data from 1900-1988 and confirms previous speculation that land precipitation is increasing. The new research shows a global land trend of a 2.4 mm per decade increase in annual precipitation amounts. Multiplied by almost nine decades, this means that there is about 22 mm more rain falling now each year than there was at the turn of the century — rainfall as a global mean has risen by slightly more than two percent. || ", "hits": 33 }, { "id": 179, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/179/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1998-01-01T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Precipitation Trends: 1900-1988", "description": "Global land precipitation has increased during the 20th century, especially at the mid and high latitudes, according to a paper published in the November 1997 issue of the Journal of Climate. The paper, written by scientists Drs. 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The excerpted visualizations include: Ocean Planet, El Niño, Ozone 1991, Clouds, Changes in Glacier Bay, Alaska, Biosphere, Lunar Topography from the Clementine Mission, Musculoskeletal Modeling Dynamic Simulations, Simulations of the Breakup and Dynamical Evolution of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, Convective Penetration in Stellar Interiors, Topological Features of a Compressible Plasma Vortex Sheet: A Model for the Outer Heliospheric Solar Wind, R-Aquarii Jet, The Evolution of Distorted Black Holes, Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in a Supernova, Galaxy Harassment, N-Body Simulation of the Cold Dark Matter Cosmology. || ", "hits": 259 } ] }