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Versions both with and without the annotations in the bottom right are available, as are the separate components (Moon and path with alpha, starry background). || path.0900_print.jpg (1024x576) [59.6 KB] || path.0900_thm.png (80x40) [2.3 KB] || path.0900_searchweb.png (320x180) [43.9 KB] || path_annotated_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [16.1 MB] || path_annotated_720p30.mp4 (1280x720) [7.3 MB] || path_annotated_720p30.webm (1280x720) [7.0 MB] || path_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [14.9 MB] || path_720p30.mp4 (1280x720) [6.6 MB] || path_ann (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || path_stars (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || path (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || path_comp (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || path_annotated_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [50.4 MB] || path_360p30.mp4 (640x360) [1.5 MB] || path_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [43.7 MB] || path_annotated_360p30.mp4 (640x360) [1.8 MB] || path_2160p30_prores.mov (3840x2160) [4.3 GB] || path_1080p30.mp4.hwshow [178 bytes] || ", "hits": 539 }, { "id": 4768, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4768/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2019-12-12T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Moon Phase and Libration, 2020", "description": "Dial-A-Moon || moon.0001.jpg (730x730) || comp.0001.tif (5760x3240) || || ", "hits": 837 }, { "id": 4769, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4769/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2019-12-12T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Moon Phase and Libration, 2020 South Up", "description": "Dial-A-Moon || moon.0001.jpg (730x730) || comp.0001.tif (5760x3240) || || ", "hits": 190 }, { "id": 13501, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13501/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-12-11T15:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA’s Operation IceBridge Completes Eleven Years of Polar Surveys", "description": "Music:Foraging At Duskby Benjamin James Parsons [PRS];Orchestra Grooveby James Alexander Dorman [PRS];Watching Ladybirdsby Benjamin James Parsons [PRS];Nanofiberby Andrew Michael Britton [PRS], David Stephen Goldsmith [PRS]Complete transcript available. || OIBTop10_FINAL_COLOR.00_00_58_00.Still001.jpg (1920x1080) [743.5 KB] || OIBTop10_2019.mov (1920x1080) [1.1 GB] || OIBTop10_2019.webm (960x540) [139.0 MB] || OIBTop10_2019.mp4 (1920x1080) [542.3 MB] || OIBTop10_FINAL_COLOR.en_US.srt [6.4 KB] || OIBTop10_FINAL_COLOR.en_US.vtt [6.4 KB] || ", "hits": 72 }, { "id": 4706, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4706/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2019-07-28T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Greenland's Hiawatha Crater", "description": "This visualization shows the location of the Hiawatha Glacier near Inglefield Land in northwest Greenland. The surface of the ice sheet fades away to show the impact crater discovered beneath the ice sheet. A red cylinder shows the best-fit rim of the impact crater and a measuring stick shows that the diameter of the crater is more than 31 kilometers across. The size of the crater is compared to the cities of Washington, DC and Paris, France.The visualization also shows how the scientists from Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) flew the Polar 6 aircraft (a DC-3T) to collect radar data over the Hiawatha impact crater. The radar data is shown in detail as curtains of the radar data are dissolved away to display the layers of the ice sheet in the interior of the crater. || Hiawatha.0590_print.jpg (1024x576) [150.4 KB] || Hiawatha.0590_searchweb.png (320x180) [88.4 KB] || Hiawatha.0590_thm.png (80x40) [6.2 KB] || 4706_Hiawatha_Crater.webmhd.webm (1080x606) [23.5 MB] || 4706_Hiawatha_Crater.mp4 (1920x1080) [228.6 MB] || 3840x2160_16x9_30p (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || 4706_Hiawatha_Crater.en_US.vtt [2.1 KB] || 4706_Hiawatha_Crater.en_US.srt [2.0 KB] || Hiawatha_Prores_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [566.2 MB] || 4706_Hiawatha_Crater.mov (1920x1080) [1.9 GB] || Hiawatha_Prores_4k.mov (3840x2160) [7.6 GB] || ", "hits": 113 }, { "id": 13136, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13136/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-07-22T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Moon Craters a Window to Earth's Past", "description": "Studying asteroid impacts on the Moon uncovers Earth’s past. || CoverImage_13136_1024x576.jpg (1024x576) [102.5 KB] || CoverImage_13136_print.jpg (1024x576) [110.4 KB] || CoverImage_13136_searchweb.png (320x180) [61.9 KB] || CoverImage_13136_thm.png (80x40) [5.0 KB] || CoverImage_13136.tif (1920x1080) [6.0 MB] || ", "hits": 72 }, { "id": 13215, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13215/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-05-30T17:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Selects First Commercial Moon Landing Services for Artemis Program Live Shots", "description": "We are going to the Moon, to stay, by 2024. And this is how. And this is how. Credit: NASA || Screen_Shot_2019-05-30_at_5.01.31_PM.png (2196x684) [1.4 MB] || Screen_Shot_2019-05-30_at_5.01.31_PM_print.jpg (1024x318) [71.2 KB] || Screen_Shot_2019-05-30_at_5.01.31_PM_searchweb.png (320x180) [73.7 KB] || Screen_Shot_2019-05-30_at_5.01.31_PM_thm.png (80x40) [6.3 KB] || ", "hits": 69 }, { "id": 40372, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/moonpole/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2019-05-10T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Moon's South Pole", "description": "This is a collection of the media resources available on the Scientific Visualization Studio website related to the south pole of the Moon, an area of special interest for future exploration. It has been studied intensively by every instrument aboard Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). It includes cold, permanently shadowed craters that have collected water and other volatiles and shielded them from the Sun. Its rugged terrain also offers temperate high spots with persistent sunshine ideal for continuous solar power generation. More information and media are available at\nLRO Camera Images (search for south pole)\nLRO Diviner temperature measurements\nLyman-Alpha Map\n", "hits": 1318 }, { "id": 4691, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4691/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2019-02-11T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "A possible second large subglacial impact crater in northwest Greenland", "description": "As this visualization draws near to the northwest coast of Greenland where the Hiawatha Glacier is located, the ice sheet is cut away to show the topography of Greenland's bedrock lying beneath the ice sheet at 20x vertical exaggeration. The Hiawatha crater is clearly visible in the topography. Farther inland another, subtler circular depression can be seen. The edge picks of this depression are shown as vertical bars, while potential central peaks are marked by orange pyramids. As we rotate around the depression, the location of the best-fit circle to the edge picks appears and that circle's center is marked with an \"X\". This circle matches well with both the edge of the bedrock depression and also the residual slope of the ice surface as it flows over this depression (not shown), strongly supporting the inference that this depression is another large impact crater.This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || C2_Crater_4k.1524_print.jpg (1024x576) [111.8 KB] || C2_Crater_4k.1524_searchweb.png (320x180) [88.0 KB] || C2_Crater_4k.1524_thm.png (80x40) [7.2 KB] || C2_Crater_4k_1080p30_low.mp4 (1920x1080) [23.1 MB] || C2_Crater_4k_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [47.8 MB] || C2_Crater_4k_1080p30.webmhd.webm (1080x606) [11.6 MB] || C2_Crater_4k_2160p30_low.mp4 (3840x2160) [48.2 MB] || C2_Crater_4k_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [85.9 MB] || 3840x2160_16x9_30p (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || captions_silent.24907.en_US.srt [43 bytes] || captions_silent.24907.en_US.vtt [56 bytes] || C2_Crater_4K_YouTube.mp4 (3840x2160) [245.6 MB] || C2_Crater_4K_ProRes.mov (3840x2160) [3.4 GB] || C2_Crater_4k_1080p30_low.mp4.hwshow [190 bytes] || ", "hits": 59 }, { "id": 13146, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13146/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-02-11T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA Finds Second Massive Greenland Crater", "description": "Text-on-screen video about a possible new impact crater under Greenland's ice || C2_TOS_Final.00768_print.jpg (1024x576) [142.6 KB] || C2_TOS_Final.00768_searchweb.png (180x320) [98.7 KB] || C2_TOS_Final.00768_thm.png (80x40) [7.3 KB] || C2_TOS_Final.mp4 (1920x1080) [67.0 MB] || C2_TOS_Final.webm (1920x1080) [6.9 MB] || C2_TOS_Final.en_US.srt [1.2 KB] || C2_TOS_Final.en_US.vtt [1.2 KB] || ", "hits": 40 }, { "id": 13144, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13144/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-02-07T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Moon Sheds Light on Earth's Impact History", "description": "By analyzing data on lunar craters provided by the Diviner instrument aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, scientists have made a fascinating discovery about the history of impacts on both the Earth and the Moon.Music Provided by Killer Tracks: “The Starting Squad” - David Corboy & Guido CastilloWatch this video on the NASA.gov Video YouTube channel. || MoonEarthImpactThumbnail.jpg (1920x1080) [995.5 KB] || MoonEarthImpactThumbnail_searchweb.png (320x180) [74.1 KB] || MoonEarthImpactThumbnail_thm.png (80x40) [5.0 KB] || MoonEarthImpacts_YoutubeHD.mp4 (1920x1080) [213.3 MB] || MoonEarthImpacts_MASTER.mov (1920x1080) [1.7 GB] || MoonEarthImpacts_YoutubeHD.webm (1920x1080) [14.9 MB] || ", "hits": 113 }, { "id": 4708, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4708/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2019-02-07T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Moon Sheds Light on Earth's Impact History", "description": "Diviner rock abundance data is overlaid on the lunar globe. 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They portray both the location and size of the 31-kilometer-wide impact crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier. They also portray the structure of the glacier ice that flows into and fills the crater.The Hiawatha impact crater was first suspected to exist in the summer of 2015, from examination of a compilation of Greenland's sub-ice topography radar measurements made by NASA over two decades. The visualizations of the subsurface shown below are derived from a spring 2016 airborne survey by Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute, using a new ultrawideband radar sounder developed by the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets at The University of Kansas. Subsequent helicopter visits to the deglaciated terrain in front of Hiawatha Glacier by scientists from the Natural History Museum in Denmark recovered sediment samples from the main river that discharges water from beneath Hiawatha Glacier, through the northwestern rim breach. Laboratory examination revealed that these sediment samples contained shocked quartz and elevated platinum-group-element concentrations, both signs that the sediment records evidence of the impact of an iron asteroid more than one kilometer wide. The Hiawatha impact crater is potentially one of the youngest large impact craters on Earth.In the visualizations below, the elevation of the topography of the bed, the ice surface and the radar curtains have been exaggerated ten times in order to better illustrate their structure. || ", "hits": 263 }, { "id": 12941, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12941/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-11-14T13:50:00-05:00", "title": "Massive Crater Discovered under Greenland Ice", "description": "It took the combined efforts of an international team of scientists to unravel the mystery of the Hiawatha crater. This video shows how that discovery came together. 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Music performed by Timothy Michael Hammond, distributed by Killer Tracks.This video is also on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel at both 720p (HD) and 2160p (UHD or 4K). || moonlight_prores.00210_print.jpg (1024x576) [25.1 KB] || moonlight_prores.00210_searchweb.png (320x180) [9.8 KB] || moonlight_prores.00210_thm.png (80x40) [970 bytes] || moonlight_720p30.webm (1280x720) [34.3 MB] || moonlight_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [312.4 MB] || moonlight_720p30.mp4 (1280x720) [319.9 MB] || moonlight_360p30.mp4 (640x360) [94.6 MB] || moonlight_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [341.2 MB] || moonlight_1080p30_prores.mov (1920x1080) [4.2 GB] || moonlight_2160p30_prores.mov (3840x2160) [15.8 GB] || moonlight_2160p30.hwshow || moonlight_1080p30.hwshow || ", "hits": 294 }, { "id": 12963, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12963/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-06-02T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Airglow Imagery", "description": "Airglow occurs when atoms and molecules in the upper atmosphere, excited by sunlight, emit light in order to shed their excess energy. The phenomenon is similar to auroras, but where auroras are driven by high-energy particles originating from the solar wind, airglow is sparked by day-to-day solar radiation. Airglow carries information on the upper atmosphere’s temperature, density, and composition, but it also helps us trace how particles move through the region itself. Vast, high-altitude winds sweep through the ionosphere, pushing its contents around the globe — and airglow’s subtle dance follows their lead, highlighting global patterns. || ", "hits": 912 }, { "id": 12880, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12880/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-03-05T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Cosmic Designs and The Planets", "description": "Greetings and welcome to “Cosmic Designs” a performance by the National Philharmonic presented in partnership with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.“Cosmic Designs” is a voyage that blends together science and art. The pursuit of knowledge and the creative drive for artistic expression are inherent to the human condition. The melding of NASA imagery and symphonic music we present here showcases the imagination that underpins both and highlights how inspiring the combination can be. || CD_Intro_Image_print.jpg (1024x567) [135.2 KB] || CD_Intro_Image.png (2918x1618) [5.8 MB] || CD_Intro_Image_searchweb.png (320x180) [103.7 KB] || CD_Intro_Image_web.png (320x177) [101.8 KB] || CD_Intro_Image_thm.png (80x40) [7.6 KB] || 1.CosmicDesigns_Title_1080.mov (1920x1080) [1.0 GB] || 1.CosmicDesigns_Title_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [35.9 MB] || 1.CosmicDesigns_Title_1080.webm (1920x1080) [3.3 MB] || 1.CosmicDesigns_Title_4K.mov (3840x2160) [4.3 GB] || 1.CosmicDesigns_Title_4K.mp4 (3840x2160) [55.1 MB] || ", "hits": 259 }, { "id": 12861, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12861/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-02-14T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA Valentines", "description": "Download our collection of valentines, featuring science visualizations and imagery from NASA missions.Want more NASA valentines? 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The above displays the current state of the Moon. Click on the image to download a much larger version with labeled craters and additional graphics. Follow the links below to see the Moon at any hour of the year, play the animations, access the frames at multiple resolutions, and read detailed explanations.", "hits": 5135 }, { "id": 20252, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20252/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2017-10-18T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Phobos Electric Charging", "description": "The interaction of the solar wind with the Martian moon Phobos creates a complex electrical environment that could impact future exploration. 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If so, lunar pits might provide shelter from radiation, meteorite impacts, and extreme temperatures, making them valuable sites for future exploration. || ", "hits": 203 }, { "id": 4226, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4226/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-06-18T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hyperwall: LOLA Slope Map", "description": "Part of the LOLA slope map of the Moon centered on the south pole. 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Yellow denotes the mean.The map shown here extends from the south pole of the Moon up to 50°S and reveals the gravity for that region in even finer detail than the global gravity maps published previously. The image illustrates the very good correlation between the gravity map and topographic features such as peaks and craters, as well as the mass concentration lying beneath the large Schrödinger basin in the center of the frame. The terrain in the image is based on Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) altimeter and camera data. || ", "hits": 223 }, { "id": 11544, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11544/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-06-17T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Discover Mercury", "description": "The solar system’s smallest planet may look like Earth’s moon, but don’t mistake Mercury for another familiar face. Before 2008, fewer than half of the planet’s surface features had ever been seen by humans. Now, NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft has imaged over 90 percent of the planet to help paint a complete picture of its geologic past. Like the moon, scores of craters pock Mercury’s exterior. But unlike the moon, gigantic scarps, or cliffs, climb thousands of feet above its terrain. Such features are the result of the planet’s crust shrinking during a period of cooling after its formation. As scientists piece together its history, they hope to ultimately learn about the processes that forged Mercury over four billion years ago. Watch the video to see close-up views of the surface taken from orbit. || ", "hits": 565 }, { "id": 11533, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11533/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-05-15T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Moon Makeover", "description": "Jupiter's moon Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system, has a rich and intricate geologic history. Roughly two billion years ago, tectonic forces shifted chunks of the moon’s crust, producing extensive faults and ridges that stretched across its icy plains. Other landforms were created over the past four billion years, including legions of craters formed from bombardment by asteroids, meteoroids and comets. Using images collected by NASA's Voyager and Galileo spacecraft, scientists examined nearly every square mile of Ganymede—a sphere bigger than the planet Mercury—and generated a color-coded map that visualizes the age and type of material found on its surface. Watch the video to see a colorful new view of this distant world. || ", "hits": 100 }, { "id": 11494, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11494/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-03-24T06:00:00-04:00", "title": "Jim Garvin's Top \"Pics\" - LROC Images", "description": "In this video series, NASA Scientist Jim Garvin highlights his favorite pictures taken throughout the solar system. This episode focuses on images taken by LROC – the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. Jim explains which pictures made his “top 5” list. || ", "hits": 44 }, { "id": 11375, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11375/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Meet Vesta", "description": "No one really knew what Vesta looked like until NASA’s Dawn spacecraft decided to drop in on it. Now, images taken by the spacecraft have been stitched together to create a virtual flyover of the jumbo-sized space rock. Vesta is located approximately 100 million miles from Earth in the solar system’s main asteroid belt—home to countless bodies that circle the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Scientists believe the asteroid formed prior to the planets, making it one of the oldest objects in space that’s within our reach. After a four-year journey, Dawn arrived at Vesta in 2011 and spent 14 months mapping its surface. The close-up views shed light on a world filled with mountains, cliffs, valleys and craters. Watch the video for a tour that highlights some of Vesta’s most impressive features. || ", "hits": 30 }, { "id": 11374, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11374/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Craterology", "description": "To better understand how Earth evolved, scientists are pointing cameras toward impact craters on the moon. Impact craters are giant surface depressions that form in the aftermath of collisions by asteroids, meteoroids and comets. Exposure to wind, water and geologic activity slowly degrades impact craters found on Earth. But by knowing how a crater has changed over time, scientists can piece together clues of what conditions were like on the planet long ago. Now, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft is collecting images of impact craters on the moon’s surface. Unlike on Earth, these craters aren’t prone to weathering because the moon has practically no atmosphere. As a result, some have remained untouched since the day they were born. Scientists will use the images to determine how natural disasters and the climates of Earth’s past have shaped how its craters look today. Watch the video to learn more. || ", "hits": 71 }, { "id": 30475, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30475/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-11-01T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "GRAIL Creates Most Accurate Moon Gravity Map", "description": "This colorful image of Earth’s moon shows variations in the lunar gravity field, as measured by NASA’s twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) satellites. Dark blue shades indicate areas that have a low local gravity, while red shades indicate areas that have a high degree of local gravity. The high-resolution gravity field map resolves spatial scales as fine as 13 kilometers (~8 miles) and reveals distinct lunar features including impact basins, complex craters, and simple craters. As the twin spacecraft move along the same orbit, they react to the mass of features on the surface below them (e.g., mountains and craters) as well as features hidden beneath the surface. In orbit, the two spacecraft transmit radio signals to define precisely the distance between them. Scientists translate this information into highly precise maps of gravity that allows them to learn about the moon's internal structure and composition, providing a better understanding of how Earth and other rocky planets in the solar system formed and evolved. After revealing much about the moon’s interior composition, GRAIL’s extremely successful primary mission ended in December 2012; unlike most missions, however, GRAIL went out with a bang. The twin spacecraft, called Ebb and Flow, were intentionally crashed into a mountain near the moon’s north pole to study the resulting dust cloud and learn more about the composition of the lunar surface.Used in 2014 Calendar. || ", "hits": 83 }, { "id": 30341, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30341/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-10-22T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Mercury's Permanently Shadowed Polar Craters", "description": "Shown in red are areas of Mercury’s north polar region that are in shadow in all images acquired by MESSENGER to date. Image coverage, and mapping of shadows, is incomplete near the pole. The polar deposits imaged by Earth-based radar are in yellow, and the background image is the mosaic of MESSENGER images. This comparison indicates that all of the polar deposits imaged by Earth-based radar are located in areas of persistent shadow as documented by MESSENGER images. || ", "hits": 138 }, { "id": 30316, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30316/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-10-21T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Near-Earth Asteroid 2007 PA8", "description": "A collage of nine radar images shows near-Earth asteroid 2007 PA8. The images were obtained between October 31 and November 13, 2012, with data collected by NASA's 70-meter Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California. The images of 2007 PA8 reveal possible craters, boulders, an irregular, asymmetric shape, and very slow rotation. The asteroid measures approximately 1.6 kilometers wide. New radar measurements of 2007 PA8's distance and line-of-sight velocity refined calculations of its orbit about the sun, enabling reliable computation of the asteroid's motion for the next 632 years. 2007 PA8 is not a threat to Earth. NASA detects, tracks, and characterizes asteroids and comets passing close to Earth using both ground- and space-based telescopes. The Near-Earth Object Observations Program, commonly called \"Spaceguard,\" discovers these objects, characterizes a subset of them, and plots their orbits to determine if any could be potentially hazardous to our planet. || ", "hits": 2691 }, { "id": 4109, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4109/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-10-02T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Lunar Far Side: From Luna 3 to LRO", "description": "In October of 1959, the Luna 3 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Luna 3 was the third spacecraft to reach the Moon and the first to send back pictures of the Moon's far side. The pictures were noisy and indistinct, but because the Moon always presents the same face to the Earth, they offered views of a part of the Moon that had never been seen before.The far side of the Moon is surprisingly different. The most striking difference evident in the Luna 3 pictures is the absence of the large, dark seas of cooled lava, called maria, that cover a substantial fraction of the Earth-facing near side. The far side is instead densely peppered with impact craters of every size and age.Fifty years later, in June of 2009, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Using LRO's global elevation maps and photographic mosaics, both of which are of unprecedented quality and detail, it's possible to accurately recreate the view captured in the pictures from Luna 3. As seen here, Luna 3 was directly over 12°N 120°E at a distance of 61,700 kilometers above the surface, and its camera was banked 17.5° clockwise from vertical relative to the Moon's north pole.The thicker blue longitude line at 90°E, along the left side of the LRO image, marks the boundary between the near and far sides of the Moon. To the left of that line are the familiar maria Crisium (the circular spot near the 9 o'clock position), Marginis, Smythii (both east of Crisium), Humboldtianum (in the north), Australe (near the south pole), and the eastern edge of Fecunditatis. The bright spot near the center of the disk is a complex of unnamed craters bordered by King, Langemak, Gregory, and Abul Wafa craters. The brightness is enhanced because it's near the subsolar point. The dark, sharp-edged shield shape in the southern hemisphere, with the white dot in the middle, is Tsiolkovskiy crater and its central peak. The dark spot to the southeast of Tsiolkovskiy is the crater Jules Verne. The mare in the northeast is Moscoviense. || ", "hits": 672 }, { "id": 4107, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4107/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-09-27T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Moon Map for InOMN 2013", "description": "October 12, 2013 is International Observe the Moon Night (InOMN), an annual public outreach event that encourages people from around the world to look up at our nearest neighbor in space. The map on this page was produced as an observing aid for the event. It shows the phase and libration of the Moon for noon Universal Time on the date of the event, with labels for many of the features that are visible on that date. A corresponding observing list is available as a PDF.The list includes items visible with the naked eye and with binoculars as well as telescopic targets. The Moon is just past First Quarter. Naked eye observers can see the shape and orientation of the daylit side and the difference in brightness of the northern and southern parts. They can probably make out the two largest maria, the Seas of Serenity and Tranquility. Those with keen eyes might also discern several less prominent maria, as well as a couple of bright spots near the southeastern limb.These bright spots, near the craters Langrenus and Stevinus, are easier to see in binoculars, which will also show the Apennine Mountains and the irregularity of the terminator, the line between day and night. A telescope reveals that the terminator crosses a densely cratered region in the south, and elsewhere, it can resolve long, cliff-like scarps and the remnants of an extinct volcano. Although Apollo artifacts can't be seen by any Earthbound telescope, four of the six landing sites are in daylight at First Quarter. || ", "hits": 342 }, { "id": 11346, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11346/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-08-29T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Triple Eclipse", "description": "Each time one of Jupiter’s large inner moons passes between the sun and the gas giant, a dark shadow is cast on the planet. That’s exactly what happened on March 28, 2004, when the Hubble Space Telescope imaged three of Jupiter’s moons eclipsing the sun. A series of images taken at different near-infrared wavelengths show the shadows of Io, Ganymede and Callisto traveling across Jupiter’s mighty disk. These moons make up three of the four Jovian moons discovered by Galileo in the early 1600s. The fourth moon, Europa, was located on the opposite side of the planet at the time of the observation. Watch the animation to see the event unfold. || ", "hits": 203 }, { "id": 11155, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11155/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-06-18T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "LRO Fourth Anniversary", "description": "Four years ago, NASA made a long promised return visit to a place so legendary in the history of space exploration that it felt like a reunion with a long lost relative. With the liftoff of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), NASA made a bold statement about its commitment to exploring Earth's closest neighbor, as well as other parts of the solar system. In the years since it rose on its rocket, LRO has amassed a stunning array of data on a wide range of subjects. From vital research about the formation of the early solar system, to fundamental research about the structure and natural history of the Moon itself, LRO continues to deliver state-of-the-art information about a place that almost every human being has pondered as it drifts through our skies and our collective imaginations. || ", "hits": 40 } ] }