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            "title": "Seeing Earth as Only NASA Can",
            "description": "NASA's first image of Earth was taken by Explorer 6 in 1959. It was a grainy, black-and-white photo captured from 17,000 miles above the planet's surface and depicted little more than a sliver of cloud cover over the Pacific Ocean. Nearly 70 years later, NASA's vantage point of Earth has advanced dramatically — forever changing the way we see our home planet. As we continue reaching for the stars, training a careful eye on Earth keeps things in perspective.",
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            "release_date": "2023-01-19T16:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Leaders in Lidar",
            "description": "In this series, we dive into the legacy of Goddard's lead role in developing laser altimetry, which has revolutionized the way we map our planet, the Moon and other planets. Each chapter looks at the successes and failures of these lidar instruments, beginning with the Mars Observer Laser Altimeter in the late 1980s, through the current generation of laser altimeters on ICESat-2 and GEDI. Through dozens of interviews and archival footage, the history, challenges and legacy of lidar are uncovered. || ",
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            "title": "What Mercury’s Unusual Orbit Reveals About the Sun",
            "description": "Mercury is special. As the closest planet to the Sun, it occupies a region where the Sun’s influence is changing dramatically. The Sun’s magnetic field, which dominates space close to the Sun, is rapidly waning. And Mercury’s orbit – more elliptical or “oval-shaped” than any other planet – allows it to experience a wider range of solar magnetic field conditions than any other planet. As a result, Mercury provides a unique opportunity to study how the Sun’s influence on a planet varies with distance.In a new study published in Nature Communications, Goddard scientists Norberto Romanelli and Gina DiBraccio used data from NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft to study the Sun’s changing interaction with Mercury. As Mercury moves through the solar wind, the steady stream of particles escaping the Sun, some of them strike Mercury’s magnetosphere and bounce back towards the Sun. These rebounding solar wind particles generate low-frequency waves that reverberate through space, traveling “upstream” in the solar wind towards the Sun. Romanelli and DiBraccio observed these waves emanating from Mercury and discovered that the rate of wave production varied throughout Mercury’s orbit. As Mercury moved farther from the Sun it generated more waves; as it got closer, the rate of wave production dropped. The results provide key evidence for a theory that these waves are affected, in part, by the strength of the Sun’s magnetic field, which grows weaker with distance. || ",
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            "release_date": "2022-02-24T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Global View of Mercury – Animation",
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            "release_date": "2021-12-20T09:55:00-05:00",
            "title": "Hubble and Webb: A New Golden Age of Astronomy",
            "description": "The scientific community is incredibly excited to have these two highly complementary observatories operating together. With their collaboration, they will push the boundaries of knowledge on the backdrop of a rapidly evolving astronomical landscape. A wealth of multiwavelength and now multi-messenger astrophysical observatories, from space and from the ground, are currently operating or being planned, Hubble and Webb will work together to advance our collective understanding of the universe, ushering in a new golden age of astronomy!For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. Additional Credits:Comparison of Hubble and James Webb mirror: ESA/M. KornmesserESO ALMA Timelapse: ESOMusic Credits: \"Wonderful Nature\" by July Tourret [SACEM] via Koka Media [SACEM], Universal Production Music France [SACEM], and Universal Production Music. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4954/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2021-11-11T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Mercury Makes Waves Cruising through the Solar Wind",
            "description": "Mercury orbits the Sun in a unique regime. The solar wind is still fresh from the Sun, and the Sun’s magnetic field strength (which drops with the square of distance) is rapidly waning. Furthermore, Mercury’s highly elliptical orbit means the planet passes through a wider range of distances from the Sun than any other planet. As a result, Mercury provides a unique opportunity to study how the Sun’s influence on a planet varies with distance.These animations provide a conceptual schematic of the results of one such investigation as described in “Occurrence rate of ultra-low frequency waves in the foreshock of Mercury increases with heliocentric distance.” Using data from NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft, the authors has detected Ultra Low Frequency (ULF) waves rebounding from Mercury’s foreshock, the turbulent area where solar wind particles collide with Mercury’s magnetosphere. These waves are caused by solar wind protons – the steady stream of particles escaping the Sun –collide with and reflect off of this foreshock against the stream of the solar wind. The authors discovered that the ULF wave production rate varied throughout Mercury’s orbit. MESSENGER detected more ULF waves as Mercury moved farther from the Sun in its orbit, and fewer as it approached the Sun. The results support an existing theory that claimed that ULF waves are affected in part by the strength of the solar magnetic field, which is at its weakest when Mercury is farthest from the Sun. || ",
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            "release_date": "2019-12-09T13:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "From Interstellar Space",
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            "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] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30820/",
            "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual",
            "release_date": "2016-10-14T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "First Global Topographic Model of Mercury",
            "description": "NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) mission has unveiled the first global digital elevation model (DEM) of Mercury, revealing in stunning detail the topography across the entire innermost planet and paving the way for scientists to fully characterize Mercury’s geologic history.In the colorized map, purple and blue colors indicate lower elevations while yellows and red show high elevations. || ",
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            "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual",
            "release_date": "2016-03-15T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Our Solar System",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/hyperwall-planets/",
            "result_type": "Gallery",
            "release_date": "2015-07-24T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Hyperwall Planets",
            "description": "Hyperwall-ready visualizations featuring planets, moon, and small bodies\nReturn to Main Hyperwall Gallery.",
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            "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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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11843/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2015-05-12T15:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "A Crash On Mercury",
            "description": "After four years of exploring Mercury from orbit, NASA’s MESSENGER mission comes to an end. || c-1920.jpg (1920x1080) [206.3 KB] || c-1280.jpg (1280x720) [126.4 KB] || c-1024.jpg (1024x576) [90.0 KB] || c-1024_print.jpg (1024x576) [80.5 KB] || c-1024_searchweb.png (320x180) [42.5 KB] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11856/",
            "result_type": "B-Roll",
            "release_date": "2015-04-20T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Hubble's 25th Anniversary Resource B-Roll Collection",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4258/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2015-02-06T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Mercury Mascons for the Cover of <i>JGR Planets</i>",
            "description": "A gravity map of Mercury shows mass concentrations (red) centered on the Caloris basin (center) and the Sobkou region (right limb). || mercury_jgr_print.jpg (1024x1280) [170.5 KB] || mercury_jgr_print_ipad_poster_frame.jpg (1024x576) [113.1 KB] || mercury_jgr_web.jpg (320x400) [19.5 KB] || mercury_jgr_searchweb.png (320x180) [71.9 KB] || mercury_jgr_thm.png (80x40) [5.2 KB] || mercury_jgr.tif (2400x3000) [5.7 MB] || ",
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            "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/11434/",
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            "release_date": "2013-12-10T13:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Comet ISON before and during Perihelion",
            "description": "After a year of observations, scientists waited with bated breath on Nov. 28, 2013, as Comet ISON made its closest approach to the sun, known as perihelion. Would the comet disintegrate in the fierce heat and gravity of the sun? Or survive intact to appear as a bright comet in the pre-dawn sky? Some remnant of ISON did indeed make it around the sun, but it quickly dimmed and fizzled as seen with NASA's solar observatories. This does not mean scientists were disappointed, however. On Dec. 10, 2013, researchers presented science results from the comet's last days at the 2013 Fall American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco, Calif. They described how this unique comet lost mass in advance of reaching perihelion and most likely broke up during its closest approach, as well, as summarized what this means for determining what the comet was made of. The panel shared results from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO), the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and MESSENGER to present a picture of ISON's trip around the sun, which appears to have led to its demise.  The panel also reported on why ISON was not seen in images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30340/",
            "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual",
            "release_date": "2013-10-22T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "High-Resolution View of Mercury from Messenger Flyby 1",
            "description": "This high-resolution mosaic of images shows Mercury as it appeared to Messenger as the spacecraft departed the planet following the mission's first flyby of Mercury. This mosaic resembles the historic first image transmitted back to Earth after that flyby and shows a portion of the planet never previously seen by spacecraft. The Messenger mission is on track to become the first spacecraft ever to orbit Mercury. || ",
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            "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. || ",
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            "release_date": "2013-06-28T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Sun Emits a Solstice CME",
            "description": "On June 20, 2013, at 11:24 p.m., the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of particles into space that can reach Earth one to three days later. These particles cannot travel through the atmosphere to harm humans on Earth, but they can affect electronic systems in satellites and on the ground. Experimental NASA research models, based on observations from NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory and ESA/NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory show that the CME left the sun at speeds of around 1350 miles per second, which is a fast speed for CMEs. Earth-directed CMEs can cause a space weather phenomenon called a geomagnetic storm, which occurs when they funnel energy into Earth's magnetic envelope, the magnetosphere, for an extended period of time. The CME's magnetic fields peel back the outermost layers of Earth's fields changing their very shape. Magnetic storms can degrade communication signals and cause unexpected electrical surges in power grids. They also can cause aurora. Storms are rare during solar minimum, but as the sun's activity ramps up every 11 years toward solar maximum—currently expected in late 2013—large storms occur several times per year.In the past, geomagnetic storms caused by CMEs of this strength and direction have usually been mild. In addition, the CME may pass by additional spacecraft: Messenger, STEREO B, Spitzer, and their mission operators have been notified. If warranted, operators can put spacecraft into safe mode to protect the instruments from the solar material. || ",
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            "release_date": "2013-04-26T16:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "CMEs Galore",
            "description": "On April 20, 2013, at 2:54 a.m. EDT, the sun erupted with a coronal mass ejection (CME), a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space that can affect electronic systems in satellites. Experimental NASA research models show that the CME left the sun at 500 miles per second and is not Earth-directed. However, it may pass by NASA's Messenger and STEREO-A satellites, and their mission operators have been notified. There is, however, no particle radiation associated with this event, which is what would normally concern operators of interplanetary spacecraft since the particles can trip computer electronics on board. When warranted, NASA operators can put spacecraft into safe mode to protect the instruments from the solar material. The same region of the sun erupted with another coronal mass ejection (CME) at 3:54 a.m. on April 21, 2013. Experimental NASA research models show the CME left the sun at speeds of 550 miles per second. The models show that the CME will also pass by NASA's Messenger and the flank of the CME may graze STEREO-A.Another coronal mass ejection (CME) has erupted from the sun, headed toward Mercury and NASA's Messenger spacecraft. The CME began at 12:39 p.m. EDT on April 21, 2013. Experimental NASA research models show that the CME left the sun at 625 miles per second and that it will catch up to the CME from earlier on April 21 before the combined CMEs pass Messenger. There is also chance that the combined CMEs will give a glancing blow to STEREO-A. || ",
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            "release_date": "2013-04-11T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Departure",
            "description": "On August 3, 2004, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft launched into space, beginning an epic 4.9 billion-mile journey through the inner solar system on a mission to orbit Mercury. To conserve fuel, the spacecraft executed a gravity-assist flyby of Earth on August 2, 2005, that altered its trajectory and pointed it toward the sun. During the maneuver, several hundred images of Earth were taken using two onboard cameras. Assembled into a sequence, the images offer fascinating views of our home planet at varying scale. The sequence begins with an image of Earth from a distance of 40,761 miles. Over 24 hours, the size of Earth's sphere decreases as the spacecraft travels deeper into space, taking parting shots from beyond the moon's orbit, more than 270,000 miles away. Watch the video to see it for yourself. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11197/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2013-03-21T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Hypercolor Mosaic",
            "description": "On March 18, 2011, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft entered orbit around Mercury, becoming the first spacecraft ever to do so. Among the many instruments on this pioneering probe is a wide-angle camera capable of generating high-resolution images of the planet's surface. By stitching thousands of these images together, scientists created the first complete map of Mercury. The result isn't just a pretty picture. The map's enhanced colors, produced by special filters fitted on the camera, tell a story about the chemical, mineralogical and geological history of the innermost planet in our solar system. Young craters, for example, appear light blue or white. Tan regions mark plains formed by lava flows. Dark blue represents areas rich in a dark mineral. Watch the visualization for a tour of this colorful new view of Mercury. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11184/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2013-02-05T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Mercury's Ice Lockers",
            "description": "Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, sits in the hot seat, with temperatures soaring up to 800 degrees Fahrenheit. Certain spots at the planet's north and south poles, however, remain extremely cold—so cold, in fact, that scientists long suspected this sun-scorched planet of harboring ice. Sure enough, in 2012 NASA's MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) mission reported finding deposits of ice and frozen chemicals at Mercury's north pole. Granted, Mercury doesn't have the same kind of ice cap Earth does. But if all the deposits were added up, there would be enough ice to bury Washington, D.C., under a layer two miles thick. Watch the animation to see just how bone-chillingly dark Mercury's north pole can be, especially in deep craters, where the sun may never shine. || ",
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            "title": "Mercury Messenger False Color Image",
            "description": "This spectacular color mosaic shows the eastern limb of Mercury as seen by Messenger as the spacecraft departed the planet following the mission's first Mercury flyby in January 2008. The colors of this image are not those that would be seen by the human eye but instead convey information about the distribution of different rock types on Mercury's surface. The different rock types result in subtle color variations across all of the 11 WAC narrow-band color filters. The Caloris basin, visible as a large bright yellow circular area in this image due to its infill of volcanic plains, dominates the northern region. A similar image was published in Science magazine in July 2008, but it only covered the northern half of the region shown here. To create this larger color mosaic, Messenger Science Team members had to also devise a method to deal with scattered light in the 11 different WAC filters.  Messenger has obtained color imaging at this resolution only for the portions of Mercury seen on departure from Mercury flybys 1 and 2. || ",
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