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            "title": "NASA Interview Opportunity: NASA’s Europa Clipper is Ready for Launch to Jupiter’s Moon Europa",
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            "title": "East African Rift Valley Volcanoes",
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            "description": "On Enceladus under a crust of ice lies a global ocean of salty water. Jets, supplied by that ocean, gush from the surface of the moon and feed into the entire system of Saturn. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope first look at this ocean world is revealing that a plume spouts water out more than 20 times the size of the moon itself. Enceladus, together with its sub-surface ocean, is one of the most exciting scientific targets in our solar system in the search for life beyond Earth. Sandwiched between the moon’s icy outer crust and its rocky core is a global reservoir of salty water. Geyser-like volcanos spew jets of ice particles, water vapor, and organic chemicals out of crevices in the moon’s surface informally called ‘tiger stripes.’ In this video, we show a possible scenario of how water could be being sourced from hydrothermal vents in the sub-surface ocean to generate the observed plumes. || ",
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            "title": "Hubble Finds Evidence of Water Vapor at Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede",
            "description": "Astronomers have used new and archival datasets from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to uncover evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. The vapor is present due to the thermal excitation of water molecules from the moon’s icy surface.   Previous research has offered circumstantial evidence for the moon containing more water than all of Earth's oceans. However, temperatures there are so cold that water on the surface freezes and the ocean lies roughly 100 miles below the crust.For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Paul Morris: Lead Producer Andrea Gianopoulos: Science WriterTracy Vogel: Science WriterAdditional Credits:Artist’s Impression of Ganymede: Credit: ESA/Hubble, M. GarlickArtist’s Impression of a Sublimated Water Atmosphere on Ganymede: Credit: ESA/Hubble, J. daSilvaNASA’s Juno Spacecraft Observation of Ganymede in June 2021Video Artist’s Impression of Ganymede: Credit: ESA/Hubble, M. GarlickGanymede Spinning Globe: Credit: USGS Astrogeology Science CenterMusic Credits: \"Mysterious Discoveries\" by Bertrand Allagnat [SACEM] via Koka Media [SACEM], Universal Production Music France [SACEM], and Universal Production Music. || ",
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            "title": "NASA’s NICER Tests Matter’s Limits",
            "description": "Watch how NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) is helping physicists peer into the hearts of neutron stars, the remains of massive stars that exploded in supernovae. Scientists want to explore the nature of matter inside these objects, where it exists on the verge of collapsing into black holes. To do so, scientists need precise measurements of neutron stars’ masses and sizes, which NICER and other efforts are now making possible.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: \"Question Time\" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Video_title_card_2.jpg (1920x1080) [206.4 KB] || Video_title_card_2_searchweb.png (320x180) [54.8 KB] || Video_title_card_2_thm.png (80x40) [5.7 KB] || 13832_NICER_TestsMattersLimits_Best_1080.webm (1920x1080) [28.5 MB] || 13832_NICER_TestsMattersLimits_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [187.8 MB] || 13832_NICER_TestsMattersLimits_Best_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [650.1 MB] || 13832_NICER_TestsMattersLimits_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [4.7 KB] || 13832_NICER_TestsMattersLimits_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [4.8 KB] || 13832_NICER_TestsMattersLimits_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [3.5 GB] || ",
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            "release_date": "2021-02-08T09:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Apollo 14 Hike To Cone Crater",
            "description": "Full Video with Narration: This video describes the hike toward Cone crater by Apollo 14 astronauts Al Shepard and Ed Mitchell, using a visualization created from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data.Music provided by Universal Production Music: “Taking Flight” – Ben Beiny.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || 4883_HikeThumbnail1.jpg (1920x1080) [474.2 KB] || 4883_HikeThumbnail2.jpg (1920x1080) [565.1 KB] || 4883_HikeThumbnail1_print.jpg (1024x576) [161.9 KB] || 4883_Apollo14HikeCone_YouTubeHD.webm (1920x1080) [18.4 MB] || 4883_Apollo14HikeCone_FacebookHD.mp4 (1920x1080) [152.1 MB] || 4883_Apollo14HikeCone_YouTubeHD.mp4 (1920x1080) [202.4 MB] || 4883_Apollo14HikeCone_CAPTIONS.en_US.srt [2.4 KB] || 4883_Apollo14HikeCone_CAPTIONS.en_US.vtt [2.3 KB] || 4883_Apollo14HikeCone_MASTER.mov (1920x1080) [3.1 GB] || ",
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            "release_date": "2020-11-05T10:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Rising Waters: Our Dynamic Earth",
            "description": "Universal Production Music: \"Patisserie Pressure\" by Benjamin James Parsons [PRS]Complete transcript available.This video can be freely shared and downloaded. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, some individual imagery provided by pond5.com and Artbeats is obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on stock footage may be found here. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.htmlNotes on Footage: Provided by Artbeats: 00:00-00:03; 00:08-00:15; 01:02-01:09; 01:48-01:52; 01:58-02:02Stock: 1:29 – 1:33 provided by Razvan25/Pond5 || Card_Title.jpg (1920x1080) [1003.9 KB] || Card_Title_print.jpg (1024x576) [348.9 KB] || Card_Title_searchweb.png (320x180) [102.1 KB] || Card_Title_web.png (320x180) [102.1 KB] || Card_Title_thm.png (80x40) [7.2 KB] || 13739_SLR_Subsidence.mov (1920x1080) [1.8 GB] || 13739_SLR_Subsidence.mp4 (1920x1080) [245.2 MB] || 13739_SLR_Subsidence_lowres.mp4 (1280x720) [42.2 MB] || 13739_SLR_Subsidence_lowres.webm (1280x720) [17.1 MB] || SLR_captions.en_US.srt [2.6 KB] || SLR_captions.en_US.vtt [2.6 KB] || ",
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            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2019-09-23T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Greenland on the move",
            "description": "A geologic hotspot shaped one of Earth's coldest places. || hotspot.0240_1024x576.jpg (1024x576) [126.6 KB] || hotspot.0240_print.jpg (1024x576) [135.6 KB] || hotspot.0240_thm.png (80x40) [7.9 KB] || hotspot.0240_searchweb.png (320x180) [100.2 KB] || hotspot.0240.tif (1920x1080) [5.1 MB] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/nasaearth-science/",
            "result_type": "Gallery",
            "release_date": "2019-09-13T10:53:37-04:00",
            "title": "NASA Earth Science",
            "description": "NASA’s Earth Science Division (ESD) missions help us to understand our planet’s interconnected systems, from a global scale down to minute processes. Working in concert with a satellite network of international partners, ESD can measure precipitation around the world, and it can employ its own constellation of small satellites to look into the eye of a hurricane. ESD technology can track dust storms across continents and mosquito habitats across cities.\n\nFor more information:\nhttps://science.nasa.gov/earth-science",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4714/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2019-05-13T11:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Lee Lincoln Scarp at the Apollo 17 Landing Site",
            "description": "An animated view of Lee Lincoln scarp from above and from near ground level. This visualization is created from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter photographs and elevation mapping. The scarp is at the western end of the Taurus-Littrow valley, landing site of Apollo 17, and was explored by the astronauts on their second moonwalk. || scarp.0510_print.jpg (1024x576) [101.8 KB] || scarp.0510_searchweb.png (320x180) [63.7 KB] || scarp.0510_thm.png (80x40) [5.3 KB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || scarp_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [15.7 MB] || scarp_720p30.mp4 (1280x720) [8.7 MB] || scarp_720p30.webm (1280x720) [3.5 MB] || scarp_1080p30_prores.mov (1920x1080) [657.9 MB] || scarp_360p30.mp4 (640x360) [3.3 MB] || scarp_1080p30.mp4.hwshow || ",
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            "release_date": "2018-08-01T09:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Geothermal Heat Flux Reveals the Iceland Hotspot Track underneath Greenland",
            "description": "This visualization shows the Greenland geothermal heat flux map, the track of the Iceland hotspot through Greenland, and the plate tectonic motion of Greenland over the hotspot during the past 100 million years.This video is also on the NASA YouTube channel. || hotspot.0240_print.jpg (1024x576) [157.4 KB] || hotspot.0240_searchweb.png (320x180) [100.2 KB] || hotspot.0240_thm.png (80x40) [7.9 KB] || hotspot_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [17.1 MB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || hotspot_720p30.mp4 (1280x720) [8.7 MB] || hotspot_720p30.webm (1280x720) [3.0 MB] || hotspot_360p30.mp4 (640x360) [3.4 MB] || hotspot_1080p30.mp4.hwshow [181 bytes] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13025/",
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            "release_date": "2018-08-01T09:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "NASA Scientist Reveals Greenland's Geologic Past",
            "description": "A new map of Greenland's geothermal heat flux is helping to reveal the path of the North American tectonic plate over geologic time. Complete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Music Provided by Killer Tracks: \"Valfri\" by James Alexander Dorman || FACEBOOK_720_13025_Greenland_Hotspot_MASTER_facebook_720.mp4 (1280x720) [173.9 MB] || Greenland_Tectonic_Preview_print.jpg (1024x576) [383.0 KB] || Greenland_Tectonic_Preview.jpg (3840x2160) [3.0 MB] || Greenland_Tectonic_Preview_searchweb.png (320x180) [136.6 KB] || Greenland_Tectonic_Preview_thm.png (80x40) [8.8 KB] || TWITTER_720_13025_Greenland_Hotspot_MASTER_twitter_720.mp4 (1280x720) [28.6 MB] || 13025_Greenland_Hotspot_MASTER.webm (960x540) [53.0 MB] || YOUTUBE_1080_13025_Greenland_Hotspot_MASTER_youtube_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [228.2 MB] || YOUTUBE_1080_13025_Greenland_Hotspot_MASTER_youtube_1080_Output.en_US.srt [2.5 KB] || YOUTUBE_1080_13025_Greenland_Hotspot_MASTER_youtube_1080_Output.en_US.vtt [2.5 KB] || YOUTUBE_4K_13025_Greenland_Hotspot_MASTER_youtube_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [543.3 MB] || 13025_Greenland_Hotspot_MASTER_youtube_hq.mov (3840x2160) [1.3 GB] || 13025_Greenland_Hotspot_MASTER.mov (3840x2160) [6.3 GB] || ",
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            "title": "Orientale Impact Basin for the Cover of <i>Science</i>",
            "description": "This print-resolution still image was created for the cover of the October 28, 2016 issue of Science. It features a free-air gravity map of the Orientale impact basin based on data returned by the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission.Orientale is about 930 kilometers wide and lies on the western limb of the Moon as viewed from Earth. It's the Moon's youngest and best-preserved large impact basin, formed about 3.8 billion years ago at the end of the conjectured Late Heavy Bombardment. A paper in Science by Maria Zuber et al. uses the GRAIL data to shed new light on the basin's geology, while a second paper by Brandon Johnson et al. describes a computer simulation of the basin's formation constrained by that data.The shaded relief in this image is not a photograph. It's a very accurate computer rendering based on a digital model of the terrain. The model is derived from a digital elevation map called SLDEM2015. This map combines data from the laser altimeter (LOLA) on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) with stereo imagery from the Terrain Camera on the Japan Space Agency's SELENE spacecraft.The angle of the virtual Sun was chosen to throw Orientale's terrain into high relief — it's just after sunrise at Orientale, about a day past full Moon. The camera is on the western terminator (day/night line) looking north.The colorful part is the gravity anomaly based on measurements by GRAIL. Red indicates areas of higher gravity, or excess mass, and blue indicates lower gravity or areas of mass deficits. The GRAIL data reveals the structure of the basin beneath the surface. The red in the center of the basin, for example, shows that the crust is particularly thin there, and that denser mantle material is closer to the surface. || ",
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            "release_date": "2016-06-21T11:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Magnificent Desiccation",
            "description": "Dry, dusty formations on the surface of Mars are evidence of the planet’s watery past. || c20-1024.jpg (1024x576) [184.1 KB] || c20-1280.jpg (1280x720) [265.9 KB] || c20-1920.jpg (1920x1080) [437.3 KB] || c20-1024_print.jpg (1024x576) [193.1 KB] || c20-1024_searchweb.png (320x180) [96.5 KB] || c20-1024_web.png (320x180) [96.5 KB] || c20-1024_thm.png (80x40) [20.8 KB] || ",
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            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2016-03-21T12:30:00-04:00",
            "title": "GMM-3 Mars Gravity Map",
            "description": "Scientists have used small fluctuations in the orbits of three NASA spacecraft to map the gravity field of Mars.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || MarsGravityMapYouTube.png (1920x1080) [7.9 MB] || MarsGravityMapYouTube.jpg (1920x1080) [706.6 KB] || APPLE_TV_G2016-003_Mars_Gravity_Map_MASTER_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [51.0 MB] || WEBM_G2016-003_Mars_Gravity_Map_MASTER.webm (960x540) [43.4 MB] || APPLE_TV_G2016-003_Mars_Gravity_Map_MASTER_appletv_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [15.5 MB] || LARGE_MP4_G2016-003_Mars_Gravity_Map_MASTER_large.mp4 (1920x1080) [109.0 MB] || NASA_TV_G2016-003_Mars_Gravity_Map_MASTER.mpeg (1280x720) [362.0 MB] || G2016-003_Mars_Gravity_Map_MASTER_GoogOut.en_US.srt [1.8 KB] || G2016-003_Mars_Gravity_Map_MASTER_GoogOut.en_US.vtt [1.9 KB] || G2016-003_Mars_Gravity_Map_MASTER.mov (1920x1080) [2.9 GB] || ",
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            "release_date": "2016-03-02T17:08:19-05:00",
            "title": "A Tour of Ceres",
            "description": "NASA’s Dawn mission begins to unlock mysteries of the asteroid belt’s largest object. || cf-1280.jpg (1280x720) [106.0 KB] || cf-1024.jpg (1024x576) [77.6 KB] || cf-1024_print.jpg (1024x576) [68.1 KB] || cf-1024_searchweb.png (320x180) [22.6 KB] || cf-1024_web.png (320x180) [22.6 KB] || cf-1024_thm.png (80x40) [12.5 KB] || ",
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            "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual",
            "release_date": "2015-12-09T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "The Mountainous Shoreline of Sputnik Planum",
            "description": "Sputnik Planum || nh-mountainousshorline_print.jpg (1024x1105) [426.2 KB] || nh-mountainousshorline.png (2520x2720) [19.6 MB] || nh-mountainousshorline_searchweb.png (320x180) [50.7 KB] || nh-mountainousshorline_thm.png (80x40) [3.0 KB] || mountainous_shoreline_sputnik_planum_30736.key [22.2 MB] || mountainous_shoreline_sputnik_planum_30736.pptx [4.4 MB] || the-mountainous-shoreline-of-sputnik-planum.hwshow [311 bytes] || ",
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            "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual",
            "release_date": "2015-12-09T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Pluto’s 'Badlands'",
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            "id": 11956,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11956/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2015-07-15T17:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "NASA On Air: NASA's First Close-Up Images Of Pluto (7/15/2015)",
            "description": "LEAD: We now have close-up views of Pluto thanks to NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.    1. Because Pluto is only two-thirds the size of our moon and 3 billion miles away, it is not visible without a telescope.  2. But, from the flyby distance of 7,750 miles, the New Horizons spacecraft has provided new perspectives of Pluto. 3. One giant surprise on Pluto: mountains about 11,000 feet high. The mountains are probably composed of water ice. 5. With Pluto's temperature at nearly 400 degrees Fahrenheit below zero, the water ice behaves like bedrock. 6. Pluto's moon Charon shows cliffs and trough 4 to 6 miles deep and 600 miles long. 7. This suggests widespread fracturing of Charon's crust. TAG: Data from the seven instruments aboard New Horizons will provide years of study and will help rewrite textbooks about Pluto. || NASAONAIR_Images_of_Pluto_10_print.jpg (1024x576) [35.3 KB] || NASAONAIR_Images_of_Pluto_10_searchweb.png (320x180) [26.0 KB] || NASAONAIR_Images_of_Pluto_10_thm.png (80x40) [2.5 KB] || NASAONAIR_Images_of_Pluto-1_Weather_Channel_30_fps.mov (1920x1080) [384.7 MB] || NASAONAIR_Images_of_Pluto-2_Weather_Channel_60_fps.mov (1280x720) [438.4 MB] || NASAONAIR_Images_of_Pluto-3_NBC_Today.mov (1920x1080) [244.0 MB] || NASAONAIR_Images_of_Pluto_4.wmv (1280x720) [4.6 MB] || NASAONAIR_Images_of_Pluto_5.avi (1280x720) [4.0 MB] || NASAONAIR_Images_of_Pluto-6_Baron_Services_MP4.mp4 (1920x1080) [20.1 MB] || NASAONAIR_Images_of_Pluto-7_APR_422_1920_30.mov (1920x1080) [334.7 MB] || NASAONAIR_Images_of_Pluto_8.m4v (960x540) [6.1 MB] || NASAONAIR_Images_of_Pluto_9.m4v (1280x720) [5.5 MB] || NASAONAIR_Images_of_Pluto_10.m4v (1920x1080) [6.9 MB] || NASAONAIR_Images_of_Pluto_10.webm (1920x1080) [2.1 MB] || ",
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            "id": 4312,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4312/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2015-06-01T16:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Measuring Mercury's Magnetism",
            "description": "Three orbits of MESSENGER at different altitudes show small magnetic field signals from rocks magnetized early in Mercury's history. The signals are strongest at the lowest altitude. || mercury_magnetometry_print.jpg (1024x576) [134.6 KB] || mercury_magnetometry_searchweb.png (320x180) [66.9 KB] || mercury_magnetometry_thm.png (80x40) [4.8 KB] || mercury_magnetometry.tif (2800x3600) [5.4 MB] || ",
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            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2015-03-24T11:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Dawn At Ceres",
            "description": "A NASA spacecraft enters orbit around an unexplored world. || c2-1024.jpg (1024x576) [284.0 KB] || c2-1280.jpg (1280x720) [404.5 KB] || c2-1920.jpg (1920x1080) [709.1 KB] || c2-1024_print.jpg (1024x576) [119.8 KB] || c2-1024_searchweb.png (320x180) [70.3 KB] || c2-1024_print_thm.png (80x40) [13.6 KB] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11748/",
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            "release_date": "2015-02-17T11:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Vanishing Lake",
            "description": "The Middle East’s largest lake is drying up—and it’s not because of drought. || c-1280.jpg (1280x720) [310.8 KB] || c-1024.jpg (1024x576) [221.6 KB] || c-1024_print.jpg (1024x576) [208.7 KB] || c-1024_searchweb.png (320x180) [114.3 KB] || c-1024_print_thm.png (80x40) [19.8 KB] || ",
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            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2014-10-21T14:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Fermi Finds Hints of Starquakes in Magnetar 'Storm'",
            "description": "Astronomers analyzing data acquired by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope during a rapid-fire \"storm\" of high-energy blasts in 2009 have discovered underlying signals related to seismic waves rippling throughout the host neutron star.The burst storm came from SGR J1550−5418, a neutron star with a super-strong magnetic field, also known as a magnetar. Located about 15,000 light-years away in the constellation Norma, the magnetar was quiet until October 2008, when it entered a period of eruptive activity that ended in April 2009. At times, the object produced hundreds of bursts in as little as 20 minutes, and the most intense explosions emitted more total energy than the sun does in 20 years. High-energy instruments on many spacecraft, including NASA's Swift and Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, detected hundreds of gamma-ray and X-ray blasts.An examination of 263 individual bursts detected by Fermi's Gamma-ray Burst Monitor confirms vibrations in the frequency ranges previously only seen in rare giant flares from magnetars. Astronomers suspect these are twisting oscillations of the star where the crust and the core, bound by the magnetic field, vibrate together. In addition, a single burst showed an oscillation at a frequency never seen before and which scientists still do not understand.While there are many efforts to describe the interiors of neutron stars, scientists lack enough observational detail to choose between differing models. Neutron stars reach densities far beyond the reach of laboratories and their interiors may exceed the density of an atomic nucleus by as much as 10 times. Knowing more about how bursts shake up these stars will give theorists an important new window into understanding their internal structure.Magnetar Burst with Torsional Waves || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4218/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2014-10-01T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Procellarum Rifts for the Cover of <i>Nature</i>",
            "description": "Oceanus Procellarum, or the Ocean of Storms, is the largest of the dark maria visible to the naked eye on the near side of the Moon. Its relatively flat surface of basaltic lava covers most of the northwest quadrant of the Moon's disk.The leading explanation of Procellarum's origin is that it is a large, ancient impact basin. But the authors of a paper in the October 2, 2014 edition of the journal Nature suggest instead that this region is the result of the way the lunar crust cooled billions of years ago.The red in the image shown here is part of a pattern of gravity anomalies revealed by data from the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission. Jeffrey Andrews-Hanna and his coathors interpret this rectangular feature as a remnant of the plumbing system that moved magma to the surface of the Moon's near side, flooding low-lying areas with lava.The rectangular shape differs from the circular shape expected for an impact basin. It more closely resembles the pattern of cracks that form in materials subjected to thermal stress. In fact, the paper compares the shape of the Procellarum gravity anomaly with a feature spanning the south pole of Enceladus, the ice-covered moon of Saturn. || ",
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            "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. || ",
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            "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. || ",
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        },
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10916/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2014-03-06T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Hello Paradise",
            "description": "Depending on your definition, there are 2,000 to 400,000 islands in the world. Some rival the size of continents—Greenland and Indonesia—while others barely stick a kilometer or two of beach out of the sea. Together they shelter unique plant and animal species and nearly 500 million humans. Some islands are formed by volcanism, with molten rock emerging from Earth's interior to build seafloor mountains that eventually rise above the water surface. Others are chunks of continental crust that became surrounded by water when sea levels rose at the end of the last Ice Age. Life itself has created a few, from artificial islands made by humans to sandbar-topped reefs built by corals. With the space station and a fleet of satellites, NASA has seen all of them. Check out the images for a look at five islands viewed from orbit. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11185/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2013-02-14T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Ballistic Helix",
            "description": "The Vela pulsar is a rapidly rotating neutron star located about 1,000 light-years from Earth in the Milky Way galaxy. A bright jet of charged particles and electromagnetic radiation, travelingat nearly three-quarters of the speed of light, shoots from its axis. In 2010, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory snapped a series of images over a period of four months that showed the pulsar's jet blasting material into space. Using these images, scientists modeled the jet's motion. To their surprise, the movement followed a winding path resembling that of a rotating helix. If their model is accurate, it means the pulsar may be off-balance, wobbling as it spins—a feature never before seen. Watch the video to see a time-lapse view of the pulsar as seen by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. || ",
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            "id": 11186,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11186/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2013-02-12T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Final Orbit",
            "description": "On December 17, 2012, two NASA spacecraft slammed into a ridge near the moon's north pole. The collisions marked the planned end to NASA's GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) mission. Flying in formation, the twin, washing machine-sized probes, named Ebb and Flow, spent 351 days in lunar orbit mapping the moon's gravitational field. The maps revealed features of the lunar surface and interior in incredible detail, providing scientists with new information about the moon's craggy topography and lumpy crust. Using these maps, researchers will be able to peer back at the moon's early history and better understand its origin and development, along with that of Earth and the other rocky bodies in the solar system. The visualization shows the two spacecraft's final three orbits and their mission-ending crash. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11176/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2013-01-31T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Europa's Chaos Terrains",
            "description": "Hard layers of ice make up the surface of Jupiter's frozen moon Europa. Glacial cracks and ridges scar its frigid white plains, carving paths across an icy shell that conceals a deep ocean of liquid water. Closer inspection of the moon's fractured topography reveals highly disrupted areas, called chaos terrains, where blocks of ice appear to have broken off, drifted and refrozen to the surface. Searching for an explanation of how these features formed, researchers studying images of Europa taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft have come up with an answer. As plumes of warm ocean water rise to the subsurface, massive lakes develop inside the moon's crust—some larger than North America's Great Lakes combined. Over time, the ice directly above these lakes collapses, splintering into floating geometric fragments that rotate, raft and resettle into all kinds of chaotic configurations. Watch the video to learn more about Europa's chaos terrains. || ",
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        {
            "id": 20196,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20196/",
            "result_type": "Animation",
            "release_date": "2012-12-27T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Earth Orientation Animations",
            "description": "When you think of the Earth's orientation, you'd probably imagine something like a globe, where it always rotates around an axis, called the spin axis, defined by the north and south poles. And while this generally makes sense, in reality, the Earth's orientation is constantly changing very slightly, and this change can be described in three ways. Learn more about how the Earth's orientation changes by watching the animations below!Note: All motion in these animations is greatly exaggerated for clarity. || ",
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        {
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4014/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2012-12-05T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "GRAIL Primary Mission Gravity Maps (AGU 2012)",
            "description": "The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission comprises a pair of satellites launched in September, 2011 and placed in orbit around the Moon in January, 2012. The two satellites, named Ebb and Flow, used radio signals to precisely measure their separation as they flew in formation, one following the other in the same nearly circular polar orbit. These measurements allowed mission scientists to build up an accurate and detailed gravity map of the Moon.If the Moon were a perfectly smooth sphere of uniform density, the gravity experienced by the spacecraft would be exactly the same everywhere. But like other rocky bodies in the solar system, including the Earth, the Moon has both a bumpy surface and a lumpy interior. As the spacecraft fly in their orbits, they experience slight variations in gravity caused by both of these irregularities, variations which show up as small changes in the separation of the two spacecraft.The free-air gravity map shows these variations directly. (Free-air is a historical term; there is, of course, no air on the Moon.) The Bouguer gravity map subtracts the effect of the bumpy surface to show the lumpiness underneath. The elevation maps from the laser altimeter on Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) were used to create a model of what the gravity would be if the Moon were bumpy but not lumpy. This model was then subtracted from the free-air map to produce the Bouguer map. (Note: The Bouguer map shown here was filtered to emphasize smaller features; harmonic degrees 1 to 6 were excluded.)The crustal thickness map is inferred from the Bouguer map: If the density of the crust is assumed to be uniform, then the gravity anomalies visible in the Bouguer gravity map can be explained by variations in the thickness of the crust. Highs in gravity indicate places where the denser mantle is closer to the surface, and hence where the crust is thinner.While aiding navigation for future lunar missions, GRAIL's gravity measurements reveal information about the internal structure of the Moon, improving our understanding of the origin and development of not just the Moon, but also the Earth and the rest of the inner solar system. || ",
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        {
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10979/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2012-05-31T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "The Smallest Planet?",
            "description": "Even though Vesta is only the size of Arizona, the asteroid may be a planet. New measurements taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which arrived at Vesta in July 2011 and has orbited as close as 130 miles from the surface, show that beneath complex layers of rock lies a solid metal core. This distinct characteristic makes a strong case for Vesta's reclassification, as the separation of geologic material into crust, mantle and core layers is universal among the terrestrial planets in our solar system. Scientists argue Vesta could have grown to be a full-size planet, but the gravity of its massive neighbor Jupiter disrupted the process. The video below explores Vesta's landscape, history and prospects of being named a planet. || ",
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        {
            "id": 10948,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10948/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2012-04-05T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Shrinking, Growing Moon",
            "description": "Ever since getting whacked by asteroids and cooked by heat radiating from unstable elements during its violent formation, the moon has cooled. Many things shrink as they cool and the moon is no exception. But tiny valleys discovered in new images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) indicate that the forces causing the moon to shrink were accompanied in some places by other forces acting to pull it apart. This tectonic tug-of-war taking place on the supposedly inert lunar surface surprised scientists. Not only that, it suggests the moon never completely melted in its early stages of evolution—unlike Earth and the other rocky planets—and instead was covered by an expansive ocean of molten rock. Watch the videos below to see evidence of these lunar valleys, called graben, and to learn more about the moon's fascinating geologic past. || ",
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        },
        {
            "id": 10915,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10915/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2012-02-20T11:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "NASA Spacecraft Reveals Recent Geological Activity on the Moon",
            "description": "New images acquired by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft show that the moon's crust is being slightly stretched, forming small valleys - at least in some small areas. High-resolution images obtained by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) provide evidence that these valleys are very young, suggesting the moon has experienced relatively recent geologic activity. || ",
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        {
            "id": 10631,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10631/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2010-08-19T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "NASA's LRO Reveals \"Incredible Shrinking Moon\"",
            "description": "Newly discovered cliffs in the lunar crust indicate the moon shrank globally in the geologically recent past and might still be shrinking today, according to a team analyzing new images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft. The results provide important clues to the moon's recent geologic and tectonic evolution.For complete transcript, click here. || G2010-102_ShrinkingMoon_ipod_lg00500_print.jpg (1024x576) [100.5 KB] || G2010-102_ShrinkingMoon_ipod_lg_web.png (320x180) [133.5 KB] || G2010-102_ShrinkingMoon_ipod_lg_thm.png (80x40) [12.1 KB] || G2010-102_ShrinkingMoon_appletv.m4v (960x540) [86.7 MB] || G2010-102_ShrinkingMoon_windows.wmv (1280x720) [63.6 MB] || G2010-102_ShrinkingMoon_youtube_hq.mov (1280x720) [111.0 MB] || G2010-102_ShrinkingMoon_prores.mov (1280x720) [2.0 GB] || G2010-102_ShrinkingMoon_appletv.webmhd.webm (960x540) [28.1 MB] || G2010-102_ShrinkingMoon_ipod_lg.m4v (640x360) [30.7 MB] || G2010-102_ShrinkingMoon_portal.mov (640x360) [59.1 MB] || G2010-102_ShrinkingMoon_ipod_sm.m4v (320x240) [13.7 MB] || G2010-102_ShrinkingMoon_SVS.mpg (512x288) [18.7 MB] || ",
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        },
        {
            "id": 10595,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10595/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2010-06-23T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Ten Cool Things Seen in the First Year of LRO",
            "description": "Having officially reached lunar orbit on June 23nd, 2009, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has now marked one full year on its mission to scout the moon. Maps and datasets collected by LRO's state-of-the-art instruments will form the foundation for all future lunar exploration plans, as well as be critical to scientists working to better understand the moon and its environment. In only the first year of the mission, LRO has gathered more digital information than any previous planetary mission in history. To celebrate one year in orbit, here are ten cool things already observed by LRO. Note that the stories here are just a small sample of what the LRO team has released and barely touch on the major scientific accomplishments of the mission. If you like these, visit the official LRO web site at www.nasa.gov/LRO to find out even more! || ",
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        },
        {
            "id": 10498,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10498/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2009-10-12T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Keeping Up With Carbon",
            "description": "Carbon is all around us.  This unique atom is the basic building block of life, and its compounds form solids, liquids, or gases. Carbon helps form the bodies of living organisms; it dissolves in the ocean; mixes in the atmosphere; and can be stored in the crust of the planet. A carbon atom could spend millions of years moving through this complex cycle. The ocean plays the most critical role in regulating Earth's carbon balance, and understanding how the carbon cycle is changing is key to understanding Earth's changing climate. For complete transcript, click here. || Keeping_Up_with_Carbon_640x360_ESWpage.00577_print.jpg (1024x576) [71.2 KB] || Keeping_Up_with_Carbon_640x360_ESWpage_web.png (320x180) [128.6 KB] || Keeping_Up_with_Carbon_640x360_ESWpage_thm.png (80x40) [13.9 KB] || Keeping_Up_with_Carbon_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [84.1 MB] || Keeping_Up_with_Carbon_1280x720_ProRes.mov (1280x720) [5.1 GB] || Keeping_Up_with_Carbon_1280x720_H264.mov (1280x720) [159.3 MB] || Keeping_Up_with_Carbon_1280x720_ESWpage.mp4 (1280x720) [133.5 MB] || Keeping_Up_with_Carbon_AppleTV.m4v (960x540) [201.6 MB] || Keeping_Up_with_Carbon_640x360_ipod.m4v (640x360) [63.2 MB] || Keeping_Up_with_Carbon_640x360_ESWpage.mp4 (640x360) [63.2 MB] || Keeping_Up_with_Carbon_512x288.mpg (512x288) [123.9 MB] || Keeping_Up_with_Carbon_320x180.mp4 (320x180) [26.0 MB] || Keeping_Up_with_Carbon.wmv (320x176) [39.0 MB] || ",
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        },
        {
            "id": 10494,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10494/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2009-10-09T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "The Carbon Cycle",
            "description": "Carbon is the basic building block of life, and these unique atoms are found everywhere on Earth. Carbon makes up Earth's plants and animals, and is also stored in the ocean, the atmosphere, and the crust of the planet. A carbon atom could spend millions of years moving through Earth in a complex cycle. This conceptual animation provides an illustration of the various parts of the Carbon cycle. Purple arrows indicate the uptake of Carbon; yellow arrows indicate the release of Carbon. On land, plants remove carbon from the atmosphere through photosynthesis. Animals eat plants and either breath out the carbon, or it moves up the food chain. When plants and animals die and decay, they transfer carbon back to the soil. Moving offshore, the ocean takes up carbon through physical and biological processes. At the ocean's surface, carbon dioxide from the atmosphere dissolves into the water. Tiny marine plants called phytoplankton use this carbon dioxide for photosynthesis. Phytoplankton are the base of the marine food web. After animals eat the plants, they breathe out the carbon or pass it up the food chain. Sometimes phytoplankton die, decompose, and are recycled in the surface waters. Phytoplankton can also sink to the bottom of the ocean, where they become buried in marine sediment. Over long time scales, this process has made the ocean floor the largest reservoir of carbon on the planet. In a process called upwelling, currents bring cold water containing carbon up to the surface. As the water warms, the carbon is then be released as a gas back into the atmosphere, continuing the carbon cycle.  Carbon is found in the atmosphere as Carbon dioxide, which is a greenhouse gas. Greenhouse gases act like a blanket, and trap heat in the atmosphere. In the past two centuries, humans have increased atmospheric carbon dioxide by more than 30%, by burning fossil-fuels and cutting down forests. || ",
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        },
        {
            "id": 10358,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10358/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2009-01-15T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Geochemical Creation of Methane",
            "description": "Conceptual animation depicting how geochemical processes during the course of Mars' history may have produced the methane plumes now seen in Mars' atmosphere. Here, through a process called serpentinization, methane is generated as part of a reaction involving the conversion of liquid water (seen seeping into the planet's crust), iron oxide, and carbon dioxide energized by the planet's internal heat into serpentine minerals. || methane_geo_mpgLG00377_print.jpg (1024x576) [85.2 KB] || methane_geo_mpgLG_web.png (320x180) [184.0 KB] || methane_geo_mpgLG_thm.png (80x40) [16.0 KB] || methane_geo_h264fullres.webmhd.webm (960x540) [3.0 MB] || methane_geo_h264fullres.mov (1280x720) [12.3 MB] || methane_geo_prores.mov (1280x720) [535.3 MB] || methane_geo_YouTube.mov (1280x720) [5.8 MB] || methane_geo_ipodLG.m4v (640x360) [3.5 MB] || methane_geo_mpgLG.mpg (640x360) [4.7 MB] || methane_geo_ipodSM.m4v (320x180) [1.5 MB] || methane_geo_mp4SM.mp4 (320x240) [665.5 KB] || methane_geo_mpgSM.mpg (512x288) [3.1 MB] || ",
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            "title": "Millisecond Pulsar with Gravitational Waves",
            "description": "A pulsar is generally believed to be a rapidly rotating neutron star that emits pulses of radiation (such as x-rays and radio waves) at known regular intervals. A millisecond pulsar is one with a rotational period in the range of 1-10 milliseconds. As the pulsar picks up speed through accretion, it distorts due to subtle changes in the crust. Such slight distortion is enough to produce gravitational waves. Material flowing onto the pulsar surface from its companion star tends to quicken the spin, but the loss of energy to gravitational waves tends to slow the spin. This competition between forces may reach an equilibrium, setting a natural speed limit for millisecond pulsars beyond which they cannot spin faster. || ",
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            "title": "Millisecond Pulsar with Magnetic Field Structure",
            "description": "A pulsar is a rapidly rotating neutron star that emits pulses of radiation (such as X-rays and radio waves) at regular intervals. A millisecond pulsar is one with a rotational period between 1 and 10 milliseconds, or from 60,000 to 6,000 revolutions per minute. Pulsars form in supernova explosions, but even newborn pulsars don’t spin at millisecond speeds, and they gradually slow down with age. If, however, a pulsar is a member of a binary system with a normal star, gas transferred from the companion can spin up an old, slow pulsar to the millisecond range. || ",
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            "result_type": "Visualization",
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            "title": "Volumetric Visualization of the Convection-generated Stresses in Earth",
            "description": "The fundamental problem of the deformation of the Earth involves stress conditions on the basis of the crust caused by the mantle convection. Based on decades of satellite gravity data, a harmonic analytical model of the convection flow has been developed at GSFC. The magnitudes and directions of the resultant stresses in the crust were obtained at 64,000 grid points for each of 18 layers from 150 km to 600 km under the Earth. In this project, we explored three dimensional volumetric visualization methods for the data. To overcome the typical volumetric visualization obstacles such as enormous amount of data and opacity of objects in the scene, we developed an interactive and transparent isosurface model to render the volumetric data. a) Animated isosurfaces of earth stress below Hawaii. The blue objects indicate the shape of the stress distribution and the yellow objects indicate the high stress areas. b) Interactive global earth stress. To view the model, please use the QuickTime Player (similarly, please select the QuickTime version of the movie). Hold the left button and drag the mouse horizontally to view areas on the earth at the same depth. Hold the left button and drag the mouse vertically to view the different layers of the stress distributions inside the earth, between 150 km to 600 km deep. || ",
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            "title": "Glaciers Spur Alaskan Earthquakes",
            "description": "In a new study, NASA and United States Geological Survey (USGS) scientists found that retreating glaciers in southern Alaska may be opening the way for future earthquakes. The study examined the likelihood of increased earthquake activity in southern Alaska as a result of rapidly melting glaciers. As glaciers melt they lighten the load on the Earth's crust. Tectonic plates, that are mobile pieces of the Earth's crust, can then move more freely, which increases the probability of earthquakes occurring in this region. || ",
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            "result_type": "Visualization",
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            "title": "Retreating Glaciers Spur Alaskan Earthquakes",
            "description": "The study examined the likelihood of increased earthquake activity in southern Alaska as a result of rapidly melting glaciers. As glaciers melt they lighten the load on the Earth's crust. Tectonic plates, that are mobile pieces of the Earth's crust, can then move more freely. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2953/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2004-06-14T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Tectonic Plates and Plate Boundaries (WMS)",
            "description": "The Earth's crust is constantly in motion.  Sections of the crust, called plates, push against each other due to forces from the molten interior of the Earth.  The areas where these plates collide often have increased volcanic and earthquake activity.  These images show the locations of the plates and their boundaries in the Earth's crust.  Convergent boundaries are areas where two plates are pushing against each other and one plate may be subducting under another.  Divergent boundaries have two plates pulling away from each other and indicate regions where new land could be created.  Transform boundaries are places where two plates are sliding against each other in opposite directions, and diffuse boundaries are places where two plates have the same relative motion.  Numerous small microplates have been omitted from the plate image.  These images have been derived from images made available by the United States Geological Survey's Earthquake Hazards Program. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/1322/",
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            "release_date": "2000-10-11T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "The Farallon Plate",
            "description": "Farallon Plate sinks beneath North American Plate and scrapes along bottom of continent for 1,500 kilometers before sinking again. || ",
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            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2000-02-15T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Mars Crust Thickness",
            "description": "Looking at a slice of Mars.  The slice depicts Mars from south (left) to north (right).  Notice the downward trend from right to left, showing that Mars is mostly downhill from North to South. || ",
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            "id": 66,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/66/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "1994-03-13T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Crustal Dynamics Project",
            "description": "This animation was created to celebrate the anniversary of NASA's Crustal Dynamics Project. || ",
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