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The patch begins rotating again, so the tab on the bottom becomes visible. 1:03 A gloved hand slowly tilts a damaged thermal shield. 1:41 The thermal shield rests in a container that slowly rotates. 2:08 A gloved hand rotates a NICER X-ray concentrator. 2:30The camera moves past the X-ray concentrator. 2:52 A hand places a NICER sunshade on the table. 2:58 The sunshade rotates counterclockwise. 3:00 The sunshade rotates on its side.Credit:NASA/Sophia Roberts and Scott Wiessinger || Studio_Shoot_Single_Components.00001_print.jpg (1024x540) [16.9 KB] || Studio_Shoot_Single_Components.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [23.1 KB] || Studio_Shoot_Single_Components.00001_thm.png (80x40) [2.1 KB] || Studio_Shoot_Single_Components.mp4 (4096x2160) [1.9 GB] || Studio_Shoot_Single_Components.mov (4096x2160) [12.7 GB] || ", "hits": 31 }, { "id": 14591, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14591/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-05-16T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Quickshot: Twin NASA Spacecraft Headed To Ends Of The Earth Launching May 22", "description": "Scroll down page to see pre-recorded soundbites available for download + animations of the satellites.Check out 5 Things to Know About NASA’s Tiny Twin Polar Satellites ! || Screenshot_2024-05-14_at_4.19.48_PM.png (3360x844) [4.6 MB] || Screenshot_2024-05-14_at_4.19.48_PM_print.jpg (1024x257) [95.7 KB] || Screenshot_2024-05-14_at_4.19.48_PM_print_print.jpg (1024x257) [53.8 KB] || Screenshot_2024-05-14_at_4.19.48_PM_web.png (320x80) [53.4 KB] || Screenshot_2024-05-14_at_4.19.48_PM_thm.png (80x40) [10.8 KB] || Screenshot_2024-05-14_at_4.19.48_PM_print_searchweb.png (320x180) [94.5 KB] || Screenshot_2024-05-14_at_4.19.48_PM_print_thm.png (80x40) [10.3 KB] || ", "hits": 28 }, { "id": 14491, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14491/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-12-26T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman Hardware Highlights", "description": "This video, covering the second half of 2025, opens with a person entering NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s largest clean room, the Spacecraft Systems Development and Integration Facility. 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The other tests are on two vibration tables that shake Roman along all three axes: up/down, left/right, and forward/backward. Engineers attach hundreds of sensors and run tests of increasing intensity. During and after each test, they carefully study the data to make sure that Roman is behaving as they anticipated.While these tests occur, Roman’s inside half, containing the mirrors, instruments and support equipment, move into Goddard’s largest thermal vacuum chamber, the SES (Space Environment Simulator). This 40-foot-tall chamber can simulate the vacuum of space and the wide temperature range that Roman will experience there: from -310° Fahrenheit (-190° C) to 302° Fahrenheit (150° C). The move to the chamber happens without a clean tent, so the entire path was cleaned, and all the workers dress in full clean-room garb to ensure that no dirt contaminates the sensitive parts of the spacecraft. Once the two layers of doors are sealed, Roman spends 72 days inside running through tests at various temperatures and with equipment turned on to ensure that it works at low temperature in a vacuum. A special array installed above the mirror projects light that engineers use to test the optics and sensors.After leaving the SES chamber and returning to the SSDIF, Roman’s primary and secondary mirrors are carefully cleaned and inspected. It is a balance to get the mirrors as clean as possible while not cleaning too aggressively and damaging the delicate surfaces. The mirrors are cleaned both horizontally with a gentle vacuum cleaner and vertically with brushes. After this cleaning, every inch is visually inspected and photographed to record the exact optical characteristics. This was the last time the primary mirror would be accessible.Finally, in late November, Roman’s two halves are joined together to form the complete observatory. The process takes the better part of a day. Two guide poles are installed on the inside half to help direct OSD down onto it. At various times, the clearances between the two halves are only a few inches. 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First, she assembles a layer of the tracker, which is housed in an aluminum casing. Next, she shows one of the tracker’s silicon detectors. 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This transformative project takes the audience on a captivating voyage through the universe, showcasing the beauty and power of the marriage between music and science.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic credit: “Earth, Our Home\" from Cosmic Cycles: A Space Symphony by Henry Dehlinger. 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One of those mysteries that Hubble has helped us understand are exoplanets.For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. Videos & Images:NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterEuropean Space AgencyMusic Credits:“Transitions” by Ben Niblett [PRS] and Jon Cotton [PRS] via Atmosphere Music Ltd [PRS] and Universal Production Music.Extra Visualizations:Hubble CGI Hubble Rising + Door Opening: M. Kornmesser (ESA/Hubble)Water Vapor Planet: Credits: M. Kornmesser (ESA/Hubble) || ", "hits": 179 }, { "id": 13418, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13418/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-11-20T09:55:00-05:00", "title": "Hubble: Voyage of Discovery", "description": "The Hubble Space Telescope has transformed our understanding of the universe, its view from orbit unleashing a flood of cosmic discoveries that have changed astronomy forever. From its discovery of dark energy to its quest to determine the age of the universe, Hubble has helped answer some of the most compelling astronomical questions of our time and revealed even stranger phenomena, opening our eyes to the grandeur and mystery of space.For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterPaul R. Morris (USRA): Lead ProducerTracy Vogel: Lead WriterMusic Credits: \"Above the Stars\" by Magnum Opus [ ASCAP ] Universal Production Music || ", "hits": 78 }, { "id": 13754, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13754/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-10-29T15:57:00-04:00", "title": "OSIRIS-REx Stow Success Media Telecon", "description": "NASA hosted a media teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 29, to provide an update on the status of the agency’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft and the mission’s work to safely stow the sample it collected from asteroid Bennu.The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made a dramatic six-second touch of Bennu on Oct. 20, and video released the next day indicated a significant number of particles were agitated on Bennu’s surface and collected in the spacecraft’s Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism collector head. Over the following days, the team worked ahead of schedule to stow the primordial cargo for return to Earth in September 2023.During the teleconference, OSIRIS-REx team members discussed how the stowage process had gone, what else they had learned about the sample, and what the next steps are for the mission to return the sample to Earth. || ", "hits": 36 }, { "id": 13724, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13724/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-09-24T14:25:00-04:00", "title": "OSIRIS-REx: Countdown to TAG", "description": "Trailer for the OSIRIS-REx TAG EventUniversal Production Music: \"The Glory of Victory\" by Frederik WiedmannCredit: NASA/Goddard || tagtrailer13725_print.jpg (1024x576) [67.1 KB] || tagtrailer13725.jpg (3840x2160) [354.2 KB] || tagtrailer_twitter_720.mp4 (1280x720) [18.8 MB] || tagtrailer_facebook_720.webm (1280x720) [11.4 MB] || tagtrailer_facebook_720.mp4 (1280x720) [107.3 MB] || tagtrailercaption.en_US.srt [1.6 KB] || tagtrailercaption.en_US.vtt [1.6 KB] || tagtrailer.mp4 (3840x2160) [106.9 MB] || ", "hits": 58 }, { "id": 4766, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4766/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2020-09-21T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "IRIS views Nano-Flares on the Sun", "description": "Opening full-disk solar view from AIA 304 angstroms, zooming in and fading in IRIS SJI at 1400 angstroms. || SDO304-IRIS1400-nanoflare2014-zoom_stand.HD1080i.00663_print.jpg (1024x576) [139.8 KB] || SDO304-IRIS1400-nanoflare2014-zoom_stand.HD1080i.00663_searchweb.png (320x180) [67.9 KB] || SDO304-IRIS1400-nanoflare2014-zoom_stand.HD1080i.00663_thm.png (80x40) [5.0 KB] || SDO304-IRIS1400-nanoflare2014-zoomHD (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || SDO304-IRIS1400-nanoflare2014-zoom_stand.HD1080i_p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [60.5 MB] || SDO304-IRIS1400-nanoflare2014-zoom_stand.HD1080i_p30.webm (1920x1080) [3.0 MB] || SDO304-IRIS1400-nanoflare2014-zoomHD (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || SDO304-IRIS1400-nanoflare2014-zoom_stand.UHD2160_p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [203.9 MB] || SDO304-IRIS1400-nanoflare2014-zoom_stand.HD1080i_p30.mp4.hwshow [218 bytes] || ", "hits": 29 }, { "id": 4838, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4838/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2020-07-09T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Zoom into Central America", "description": "This short example animation begins by showing most of Central America and zooms down to El Salvador and it's neighboring countries. || elsalvador_zoom.0135_print.jpg (1024x576) [139.3 KB] || elsalvador_zoom.0135_searchweb.png (320x180) [52.5 KB] || elsalvador_zoom.0135_thm.png (80x40) [4.8 KB] || elsalvador_zoom_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [4.3 MB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || elsalvador_zoom_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [1.0 MB] || elsalvador_zoom_1080p30.mp4.hwshow [189 bytes] || ", "hits": 64 }, { "id": 40413, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/earth-science-playlist/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2020-04-01T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth Science Playlist", "description": "No description available.", "hits": 7 }, { "id": 31138, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31138/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2020-03-13T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "2019 AGU Hyperwall Presentations: Opening Night Talks and Data Visualization Winners", "description": "Opeing NASA AGU 2019 ExhibtThis video is also available on our YouTube channel. || Paula_Bontempi_SMD_open.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [81.7 KB] || Paula_Bontempi_SMD_open.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [65.9 KB] || Paula_Bontempi_SMD_open.00001_thm.png (80x40) [5.4 KB] || Paula_Bontempi_SMD_open.mp4 (1280x720) [87.8 MB] || Paula_Bontempi_SMD_open.webm (1280x720) [62.1 MB] || Paula_Bontempi_SMD_openCOR.en_US.srt [10.9 KB] || Paula_Bontempi_SMD_openCOR.en_US.vtt [10.9 KB] || ", "hits": 19 }, { "id": 13563, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13563/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2020-02-24T17:00:00-05:00", "title": "Katherine Johnson IV&V B-roll", "description": "B-roll from the opening of the Katherine Johnson IV&V Facility || Katherine_Johnson_Rededication_broll_1080.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [136.8 KB] || Katherine_Johnson_Rededication_broll_1080.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [88.4 KB] || Katherine_Johnson_Rededication_broll_1080.00001_thm.png (80x40) [6.3 KB] || Katherine_Johnson_Rededication_broll_1080.mov (1920x1080) [12.0 GB] || Katherine_Johnson_Rededication_broll_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [447.4 MB] || Katherine_Johnson_Rededication_broll_720.mov (1280x720) [6.0 GB] || Katherine_Johnson_Rededication_broll_720.mp4 (1280x720) [445.4 MB] || Katherine_Johnson_Rededication_broll_1080.webm (1920x1080) [63.7 MB] || ", "hits": 17 }, { "id": 13421, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13421/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-12-19T06:55:00-05:00", "title": "Hubble Archive - Servicing Mission 3A, STS-103", "description": "Hubble's third servicing mission, Servicing Mission 3A, launched on December 19, 1999 on Space Shuttle Discovery as part of the STS-103 mission.What was originally conceived as a mission of preventive maintenance turned more urgent on November 13, 1999, when the fourth of six gyros failed and Hubble temporarily closed its eyes on the universe. Unable to conduct science without three working gyros, Hubble entered a state of dormancy called safe mode. Essentially, Hubble \"went to sleep\" while it waited for help.NASA decided to split the Third Servicing Mission (SM3) into two parts, SM3A and SM3B, after the third of Hubble's six gyroscopes failed. In accordance with NASA's flight rules, a \"call-up\" mission was quickly approved and developed and executed in a record 7 months.The Hubble team left the telescope far more fit and capable than ever before. The new, improved, and upgraded equipment included six fresh gyroscopes, six battery voltage/temperature improvement kits, a faster, more powerful, main computer, a next-generation solid state data recorder, a new transmitter, an enhanced fine guidance sensor, and new insulation. || ", "hits": 60 }, { "id": 20301, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20301/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2019-10-21T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Lucy Mission Animations", "description": "Lucy flies by its final target, the binary asteroid Patroclus/Menoetius. When it completes this flyby, Lucy will have visited an unprecedented seven asteroids. || Lucy_Flyby_main_seq_00315_print.jpg (1024x576) [85.2 KB] || Lucy_Flyby_main_seq_00315_searchweb.png (320x180) [77.9 KB] || Lucy_Flyby_main_seq_00315_thm.png (80x40) [6.1 KB] || Lucy_Flyby_main_1080_H264.mp4 (1920x1080) [45.0 MB] || Lucy_Flyby_main_1080_H264.webm (1920x1080) [2.8 MB] || Lucy_Flyby_1080_ProRes.mov (1920x1080) [282.0 MB] || Lucy_flyby_4k_prores_seq (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || Lucy_Flyby_main_4k_H264.mp4 (3840x2160) [27.5 MB] || Lucy_Flyby_main_4k_H264.webm (3840x2160) [5.9 MB] || Lucy_Flyby_main_4k.mov (3840x2160) [758.8 MB] || ", "hits": 69 }, { "id": 13246, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13246/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-07-09T05:50:00-04:00", "title": "NASA’s 50th Anniversary Of The Apollo 11 Moon Landing Live Shots", "description": "B-roll and canned interviews to be added by July 16 at 5:00 a.m. EST || Screen_Shot_2019-06-20_at_5.40.18_PM.png (2618x394) [975.4 KB] || Screen_Shot_2019-06-20_at_5.40.18_PM_print.jpg (1024x154) [39.8 KB] || Screen_Shot_2019-06-20_at_5.40.18_PM_searchweb.png (320x180) [61.8 KB] || Screen_Shot_2019-06-20_at_5.40.18_PM_thm.png (80x40) [5.2 KB] || ", "hits": 425 }, { "id": 13160, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13160/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-04-03T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hubble Archive - Servicing Mission 4, STS-125", "description": "Hubble's fifth and final servicing mission, Servicing Mission 4, launched on May 11, 2009 on Space Shuttle Atlantis as part of the STS-125 mission.During SM4, two new scientific instruments were installed – the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). Two failed instruments, the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), were brought back to life by the first ever on-orbit repairs. With these efforts, Hubble has been brought to the apex of its scientific capabilities. To prolong Hubble's life, new batteries, new gyroscopes, a new science computer, a refurbished fine guidance sensor and new insulation on three electronics bays were also installed over the 12-day mission with five spacewalks. || ", "hits": 115 }, { "id": 31029, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31029/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2019-03-31T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Shanghai Growth from the International Space Station", "description": "An animation comparing Shanghai night lights in 2003 and 2018 || shanghai_2003-2018_wipe_print.jpg (1024x576) [149.6 KB] || shanghai_2003-2018_wipe.png (3840x2160) [9.5 MB] || shanghai_2003-2018_wipe_searchweb.png (320x180) [97.3 KB] || shanghai_2003-2018_wipe_thm.png (80x40) [6.4 KB] || shanghai_2003-2018_wipe_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [6.1 MB] || shanghai_2003-2018_wipe_720p30.mp4 (1280x720) [3.5 MB] || shanghai_2003-2018_wipe_720p30.webm (1280x720) [1.1 MB] || shanghai_2003-2018_wipe_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [13.8 MB] || ", "hits": 75 }, { "id": 20290, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20290/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2018-11-30T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Goddard Film Festival Opening 2016", "description": "2016 Goddard Film Festival Opening || 2016_GoddardFilmFestival_1080_5994_NoText_ProRes422.02000_print.jpg (1024x576) [34.8 KB] || 2016_GoddardFilmFestival_1080_5994_NoText_ProRes422.02000_searchweb.png (320x180) [23.6 KB] || 2016_GoddardFilmFestival_1080_5994_NoText_ProRes422.02000_thm.png (80x40) [3.2 KB] || 2016_GoddardFilmFestival_1080_5994_NoText_h264.mov (1920x1080) [66.1 MB] || 2016_GoddardFilmFestival_1080_5994_NoText_ProRes422.webm (1920x1080) [5.2 MB] || SolarSystem_GFF (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || 2016_GoddardFilmFestival_1080_5994_NoText_ProRes422.mov (1920x1080) [1.3 GB] || big-bang-to-solar-system.hwshow [312 bytes] || ", "hits": 26 }, { "id": 13081, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13081/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-10-04T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hubble Archive - Launch, STS-31", "description": "STS-31 Mission Highlights Resource TapeLaunch of the Hubble Space Telescope, April 24-29 1990Astronauts: Loren Shriver, Charles Bolden, Bruce McCandless, Steven Hawley, Kathryn Sullivan09:50 - Launch12:27 - Opening bay doors20:40 - Taking telescope out of payload bay24:50 - Deploying the solar arrays26:08 - Deploying the high gain antennas26:56 - Unfurling the first solar array30:16 - EVA preparation31:24 - Unfurling the second solar array32:00 - Second solar array gets stuck34:30 - Disable tension monitoring software to unfurl the solar array36:25 - Go for Hubble release39:07 - Student experiment43:50 - Commands sent to open aperture door45:45 - Thank you to training crew46:40 - Thoughts on historical significance50:09 - Closing bay doors50:58 - Shuttle re-entry and landing54:59 - Astronauts exiting Shuttle || GSFC_1990xxxx_HST_m001_thumbnail.jpg (960x720) [265.6 KB] || GSFC_1990xxxx_HST_m001_thumbnail_searchweb.png (320x180) [116.7 KB] || GSFC_1990xxxx_HST_m001_thumbnail_thm.png (80x40) [7.8 KB] || GSFC_1990xxxx_HST_m001.mov (960x720) [9.4 GB] || GSFC_1990xxxx_HST_m001.mp4 (960x720) [4.0 GB] || GSFC_1990xxxx_HST_m001.webm (960x720) [423.6 MB] || GSFC_1990xxxx_HST_m001.en_US.srt [55.9 KB] || GSFC_1990xxxx_HST_m001.en_US.vtt [53.0 KB] || ", "hits": 161 }, { "id": 13012, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13012/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-08-24T13:55:00-04:00", "title": "OSIRIS-REx Approach Media Telecon", "description": "Recorded audio from the OSIRIS-REx approach media teleconference on August 24, 2018, with accompanying presenter graphics. Individual graphics are available below.Watch this video on the NASA.gov Video YouTube channel. || OSIRIS-REx_TAG_preview.jpg (1920x1080) [380.4 KB] || OSIRIS-REx_Approach_Media_Telecon.webm (960x540) [427.4 MB] || TWITTER_720_OSIRIS-REx_Approach_Media_Telecon_twitter_720.mp4 (1280x720) [934.4 MB] || OSIRIS-REx_Approach_082418.wav [51.6 MB] || FACEBOOK_720_OSIRIS-REx_Approach_Media_Telecon_facebook_720.mp4 (1280x720) [1.7 GB] || OSIRIS-REx_Approach_Media_Telecon.mp4 (1920x1080) [4.0 GB] || ", "hits": 32 }, { "id": 12996, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12996/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-07-26T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "National Intern Day with Administrator Bridenstine", "description": "Q&A with NASA Administrator Jim BridenstineAir Date: July, 26, 2018 || Bridenstine_Interns.jpg (1280x720) [170.3 KB] || 12996_Bridenstine_QandA_Event_lowres.mp4 (1280x720) [1.6 GB] || 12996_Bridenstine_QandA_Event.mov (1280x720) [62.5 GB] || 12996_Bridenstine_QandA_Event.webm (960x540) [2.5 GB] || 12996_Bridenstine_QandA_Event.en_US.srt [184.7 KB] || 12996_Bridenstine_QandA_Event.en_US.vtt [174.7 KB] || ", "hits": 17 }, { "id": 40348, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/esddatafor-societal-benefits/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2018-04-24T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "ESD data for Societal Benefit", "description": "No description available.", "hits": 228 }, { "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": 246 }, { "id": 12879, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12879/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-02-28T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA Studies an Unusual Arctic Warming Event", "description": "Winter temperatures are soaring in the Arctic for the fourth winter in a row. The heat, accompanied by moist air, is entering the Arctic not only through the sector of the North Atlantic Ocean that lies between Greenland and Europe, as it has done in previous years, but is also coming from the North Pacific through the Bering Strait. “We have seen winter warming events before, but they’re becoming more frequent and more intense,” said Alek Petty, a sea ice researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Scientists are waiting to see how much this heat wave will impact the wintertime sea ice maximum extent, which has been shrinking in the past decades and has hit record lows each of the past three years. The sea ice levels are already at record lows or near-record lows in several areas of the Arctic. Another exceptional event this winter is the opening up of the sea ice cover north of Greenland, releasing heat from the ocean to the atmosphere and making the sea ice more vulnerable to further melting. “This is a region where we have the thickest multi-year sea ice and expect it to not be mobile, to be resilient,” Petty said. “But now this ice is moving pretty quickly, pushed by strong southerly winds and probably affected by the warm temperatures, too.” || ", "hits": 28 }, { "id": 12851, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12851/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-02-09T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "5th Anniversary of Landsat 8's Launch", "description": "In its five years in space, Landsat 8 made 26,500 orbits around Earth and captured 1.1 million \"scenes\" of our home planet, representing 16 percent of all the observations kept in the 45-year Landsat archive.Music: Divine Punishment by Christopher Franke [BMI]Complete transcript available. || 12851_Landsat8_5_year_large.01975_print.jpg (1024x576) [50.2 KB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year_large.01975_searchweb.png (320x180) [7.1 KB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year_large.01975_thm.png (80x40) [1.4 KB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year_prores_1920.mov (1920x1080) [4.7 GB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year_prores_1280.mov (1280x720) [2.5 GB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year_large.mp4 (1920x1080) [191.3 MB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year_youtube_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [327.2 MB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year_youtube_720.mp4 (1280x720) [315.6 MB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year_twitter_720.mp4 (1280x720) [53.5 MB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year.webm (960x540) [76.4 MB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year-captions.en_US.srt [3.8 KB] || 12851_Landsat8_5_year-captions.en_US.vtt [3.8 KB] || ", "hits": 77 }, { "id": 40344, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/the-nasascientific-visualization-studio/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2017-12-22T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "The NASA Scientific Visualization Studio", "description": "Explore data brought to life by NASA’s artists and scientists", "hits": 219 }, { "id": 12700, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12700/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-12-08T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Can Data from Space Save Dolphins?", "description": "In an unprecedented collaboration between NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, the International Fund for Animal Welfare, and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, scientists from a cross-section of fields pooled massive data sets together to investigate the possible connection between space weather and marine mammal mass stranding events. Music credits: Long Travels - Boris Nonte, Gregg LehrmanSpiritual Migration - Giles Robert LambCrystal Sound Bath - James Alexander DormanThe Space Between - Max ConcorsInducing Waves - Ben Niblett, Jon CottonEnchanted - Gregg Lehrman, Boris Nonte, Daniel Louis WalterComplete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Genna Duberstein/Scott Wiessinger || StrandingsPosterFrameTextv03.jpg (3840x2160) [3.0 MB] || 12700_NASA_Data_and_Dolphins_ProRes_FINAL.mov (1920x1080) [8.1 GB] || 12700_NASA_Data_and_Dolphins_FINAL_youtube_hq.mov (1920x1080) [4.5 GB] || YOUTUBE_1080_12700_NASA_Data_and_Dolphins_FINAL_youtube_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [1.1 GB] || 12700_NASA_Data_and_Dolphins_H264_FINAL.mp4 (1920x1080) [716.4 MB] || 12700_NASA_Data_and_Dolphins_FINAL_large.mp4 (1920x1080) [613.7 MB] || YOUTUBE_1080_12700_NASA_Data_and_Dolphins_FINAL_youtube_1080.webm (1920x1080) [66.9 MB] || 12700_data_and_dolphins.en_US.srt [11.6 KB] || 12700_data_and_dolphins.en_US.vtt [11.5 KB] || ", "hits": 43 }, { "id": 12709, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12709/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-09-12T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Cassini's Infrared Saturn", "description": "Since arriving at Saturn in 2004, Cassini has used its Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) to study the ringed planet and its moons in heat radiation. Complete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Music provided by Killer Tracks: \"Particle Waves,\" \"Odyssey,\" \"Solaris,\" \"Expansive,\"\"Horizon Ahead,\" \"Ion Bridge,\" \"Outer Space\" || CassiniCIRSpreviewShort.jpg (1920x1080) [591.6 KB] || CassiniCIRSpreviewShort_searchweb.png (320x180) [125.9 KB] || CassiniCIRSpreviewShort_thm.png (80x40) [8.4 KB] || 12709_Cassini_CIRS_Short_TWTR.mp4 (1280x720) [102.0 MB] || WEBM-12709_Cassini_CIRS_Short_APR.webm (960x540) [191.9 MB] || 12709_Cassini_CIRS_Short_FB.mp4 (1280x720) [574.1 MB] || 12709_Cassini_CIRS_Short_YT_Output.en_US.srt [10.3 KB] || 12709_Cassini_CIRS_Short_YT_Output.en_US.vtt [10.3 KB] || 12709_Cassini_CIRS_Short_YT.mp4 (1920x1080) [1.2 GB] || 12709_Cassini_CIRS_Short_APR.mov (1920x1080) [6.0 GB] || 12709_Cassini_CIRS_Short_YT.hwshow [96 bytes] || ", "hits": 52 }, { "id": 4139, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4139/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2017-08-31T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Voyager 1 Trajectory through the Solar System", "description": "This visualization tracks the trajectory of the Voyager 1 spacecraft through the solar system. Launched on September 5, 1977, it was one of two spacecraft sent to visit the giant planets of the outer solar system. Voyager 1 flew by Jupiter and Saturn before being directed out of the solar system.To fit the 40 year history of the mission into a short visualization, the pacing of time accelerates through most of the movie, starting at about 5 days per second at the beginning and speeding up to about 11 months per second after the planet flybys are past.The termination shock and heliopause are the 'boundaries' created when the plasma between the stars interacts with the plasma flowing outward from the Sun. They are represented with simple grid models and oriented so their 'nose' is pointed in the direction (Right Ascension = 17h 24m, declination = 17 degrees south) represented by more recent measurements from other missions. || ", "hits": 2630 }, { "id": 4140, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4140/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2017-08-31T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Voyager 2 Trajectory through the Solar System", "description": "This visualization tracks the trajectory of the Voyager 2 spacecraft through the solar system. Launched on August 20, 1977, it was one of two spacecraft sent to visit the giant planets of the outer solar system. Like Voyager 1, Voyager 2 flew by Jupiter and Saturn, but the Voyager 2 mission was extended to fly by Uranus and Neptune before being directed out of the solar system.To fit the 40 year history of the mission into a short visualization, the pacing of time accelerates through most of the movie, starting at about 5 days per second at the beginning and speeding up to about 11 months per second after the planet flybys are past.The termination shock and heliopause are the 'boundaries' created when the plasma between the stars interacts with the plasma flowing outward from the Sun. They are represented with simple grid models and oriented so their 'nose' is pointed in the direction (Right Ascension = 17h 24m, declination = 17 degrees south) represented by more recent measurements from other missions. || ", "hits": 508 }, { "id": 30874, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30874/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2017-03-24T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Sprawling Shanghai", "description": "Shanghai sprawl over time, 1984-2022 || shanghai_2022_00865_print.jpg (1024x576) [263.9 KB] || shanghai_2022_00865_searchweb.png (320x180) [123.1 KB] || shanghai_2022_00865_thm.png (80x40) [7.5 KB] || shanghai_2022_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [37.5 MB] || shanghai_2022_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [4.1 MB] || 3840x2160_16x9_30p (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || shanghai_2022_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [135.9 MB] ||", "hits": 72 }, { "id": 12417, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12417/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-01-13T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "WFIRST 2017 AAS Hyperwall Presentation", "description": "New hyperwall resources for Neil Gehrels' 2017 AAS talk. Most visuals are 5760x3240 and designed for a 3x3 hyperwall with 1920x1080 screens. || ", "hits": 30 }, { "id": 20232, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20232/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2016-09-20T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "WFIRST Updated Spacecraft Beauty Pass Animations", "description": "\"Beauty pass\" animation of WFIRST spacecraft || afta1200.png (1920x1080) [1.2 MB] || afta1200_print.jpg (1024x576) [77.3 KB] || afta1200_searchweb.png (180x320) [51.7 KB] || afta1200_thm.png (80x40) [3.8 KB] || Beauty (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || 20232_WFIRST_Beauty_Update_H264_Good_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [20.8 MB] || 20232_WFIRST_Beauty_Update_MPEG4_1920X1080_2997.mp4 (1920x1080) [9.7 MB] || 20232_WFIRST_Beauty_Update_H264_Best_1920x1080_5994.webm (1920x1080) [2.4 MB] || 20232_WFIRST_Beauty_Update_H264_Best_1920x1080_5994.mov (1920x1080) [332.8 MB] || 20232_WFIRST_Beauty_Update_ProRes_1920x1080_60.mov (1920x1080) [659.2 MB] || Beauty1 (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || WFIRST_Beauty_1_H264_4K.mov (3840x2160) [47.3 MB] || Wfirst_beauty_passes.key [193.5 MB] || Wfirst_beauty_passes.pptx [193.2 MB] || WFIRST_Beauty_1_4k_ProRes.mov (3840x2160) [2.7 GB] || ", "hits": 37 }, { "id": 4480, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4480/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2016-08-15T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Prompt Electron Acceleration in the Radiation Belts", "description": "Electrons gyrating along the lines of Earth's magnetic field make another orbit around Earth and strike the Van Allen Probe A AGAIN! || PromptAccel_EventCloseup_SlowOblique.slate_RigRHS.HD1080i.0540_print.jpg (1024x576) [139.2 KB] || PromptAccel_EventCloseup_SlowOblique.slate_RigRHS.HD1080i.0540_searchweb.png (320x180) [90.9 KB] || PromptAccel_EventCloseup_SlowOblique.slate_RigRHS.HD1080i.0540_thm.png (80x40) [6.0 KB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || PromptAccel.HD1080i_p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [48.5 MB] || PromptAccel.HD1080i_p30.webm (1920x1080) [3.1 MB] || PromptAccel_EventCloseup_SlowOblique.HD1080i_720p30.mp4 (1280x720) [24.1 MB] || 3840x2160_16x9_30p (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || PromptAccel_EventCloseup_SlowOblique_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [141.9 MB] || PromptAccel.HD1080i_p30.mp4.hwshow [189 bytes] || ", "hits": 279 }, { "id": 4469, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4469/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2016-06-16T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Dynamic Earth-A New Beginning", "description": "The visualization 'Excerpt from \"Dynamic Earth\"' has been one of the most popular visualizations that the Scientific Visualization Studio has ever created. It's often used in presentations and Hyperwall shows to illustrate the connections between the Earth and the Sun, as well as the power of computer simulation in understanding those connections.There is one part of this visualization, however, that has always seemed a little clumsy to us. The opening shot is a pullback from the limb of the sun, where the sun is represented by a movie of 304 Angstrom images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). It is difficult to pull back from the limb of a flat sun image and make the sun look spherical, and the problem was made more difficult because the original sun images were in a spherical dome show format. As a result, the pullback from the sun showed some odd reprojection artifacts.The best solution to this issue was to replace the existing pullout with a new one, one which pulled directly out from the center of the solar disk. For the new beginning, we chose a series of SDO images in the 171 Angstrom channel that show a visible coronal mass ejection (CME) in the lower right corner of the solar disk. Although this is not the specific CME that is seen affecting Venus and Earth later in this visualization, its presence links the SDO animation thematically to the later solar storm. The SDO images were also brightened considerably and tinted yellow to match the common perception of the Sun as a bright yellow object (even though it is actually white).Please go to the original version of this visualization to see the complete credits and additional details. || ", "hits": 79 }, { "id": 30684, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30684/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2015-09-25T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Flyby of JWST at L2 Point", "description": "A flyby of the James Webb Space Telescope at the second LaGrange point || jwst_flyby-example_frame-1920x1080.png (1920x1080) [1.4 MB] || jwst_flyby-example_frame-1920x1080.jpg (1080x1920) [148.1 KB] || jwst_flyby-example_frame-1920x1080_searchweb.png (180x320) [52.2 KB] || jwst_flyby-example_frame-1920x1080_thm.png (80x40) [4.1 KB] || jwst_flyby-b-1920x1080.wmv (1920x1080) [31.2 MB] || jwst_flyby-b-1280x720.wmv (1280x720) [19.6 MB] || jwst_flyby-b-1280x720.m4v (1280x720) [19.1 MB] || jwst_flyby-b-1920x1080.m4v (1920x1080) [31.1 MB] || jwst_flyby-b-1920x1080p24.webm (1920x1080) [4.6 MB] || jwst_flyby-b-30684.key [22.3 MB] || jwst_flyby-b-30684.pptx [19.9 MB] || jwst_flyby-b-1920x1080p24.mov (1920x1080) [176.2 MB] || flyby-of-jwst-at-l2-point.hwshow [218 bytes] || ", "hits": 88 }, { "id": 30685, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30685/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2015-09-25T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Pan Past JWST at L2 Point", "description": "A pan past the James Webb Space Telescope at the second LaGrange point || jwst_pan-example_frame-1920x1080.jpg (1920x1080) [312.9 KB] || jwst_pan-example_frame-1920x1080.png (1080x1920) [2.1 MB] || jwst_pan-example_frame-1920x1080_searchweb.png (180x320) [83.9 KB] || jwst_pan-example_frame-1920x1080_thm.png (80x40) [4.6 KB] || jwst_pan-b-1280x720.wmv (1280x720) [27.4 MB] || jwst_pan-b-1280x720.m4v (1280x720) [26.8 MB] || jwst_pan-b-1920x1080.m4v (1920x1080) [43.6 MB] || jwst_pan-b-1920x1080.wmv (1920x1080) [44.4 MB] || jwst_pan-b-1920x1080p24.webm (1920x1080) [6.5 MB] || jwst_pan-b-30685.key [30.4 MB] || jwst_pan-b-30685.pptx [27.9 MB] || jwst_pan-b-1920x1080p24.mov (1920x1080) [255.7 MB] || pan-past-jwst-at-l2-point.hwshow [216 bytes] || ", "hits": 190 }, { "id": 40110, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/astro-galaxy/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2015-09-18T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Astrophysics Galaxy Listing", "description": "No description available.", "hits": 121 }, { "id": 40111, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/astro-star/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2015-09-18T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Astrophysics Star Listing", "description": "No description available.", "hits": 171 }, { "id": 11918, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11918/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-07-28T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Orlando Development Blooms", "description": "Development turned Central Florida from swampland to the most visited tourist region of the U.S. || c-1920.jpg (1920x1080) [924.3 KB] || c-1280.jpg (1280x720) [621.5 KB] || c-1024.jpg (1024x576) [455.1 KB] || c-1024_print.jpg (1024x576) [425.6 KB] || c-1024_searchweb.png (320x180) [152.9 KB] || c-1024_thm.png (80x40) [27.3 KB] || ", "hits": 10 }, { "id": 11952, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11952/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-07-13T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "New Horizons Media Page", "description": "New Horizons' Closest Approach to Pluto Video FileEdited B-Roll and Press Briefing Excerpts || NH_Closest_Approach_to_Pluto_VF_print.jpg (1024x576) [98.4 KB] || NH_Closest_Approach_to_Pluto_VF.webm (1280x720) [27.0 MB] || NH_Closest_Approach_to_Pluto_VF.mov (1280x720) [1.6 GB] || ", "hits": 107 }, { "id": 10278, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10278/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-12-15T13:29:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's Fermi Helps Scientists Study Gamma-ray Thunderstorms", "description": "New research merging Fermi data with information from ground-based radar and lightning networks shows that terrestrial gamma-ray flashes arise from an unexpected diversity of storms and may be more common than currently thought. Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. 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NIRSpec is a near infrared multi-object dispersive spectrograph capable of simultaneously observing more than 100 sources over a field-of-view (FOV) larger than 3' x 3'. The NIRSpec will be the first spectrograph in space that has this capability. Targets in the Field of View are normally selected by opening groups of shutters in a micro-shutter array (MSA) to form multiple apertures.NIRSpec will address all of the four main JWST science themes, and much more. It will enable large spectroscopic surveys of faint galaxies at high redshift, obtain sensitive spectra of transiting exoplanets and image line emission from protoplanetary disks and protostars. NIRSpec is being built for the European Space Agency (ESA) by the Airbus Group. || ", "hits": 22 }, { "id": 11520, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11520/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2014-04-08T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "NIRSpec Instrument Gets Integrated into Webb's ISIM - B-ROLL", "description": "Engineers install the Near Infrared Spectrometer (NIRSpec) onto the Webb Telescope's Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) in NASA Goddard Space Flight Center cleanroom. This delicate procedure took place during March 24 and March 25, 2014 in preparation for the cryogenic test of a fully integrated ISIM structure to occur this summer. The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) is a near infrared multi-object dispersive spectrograph capable of simultaneously observing more than 100 sources over a field-of-view (FOV) larger than 3' x 3'. The NIRSpec will be the first spectrograph in space that has this capability. Targets in the Field of View are normally selected by opening groups of shutters in a micro-shutter array (MSA) to form multiple apertures. The microshutters are arranged in a waffle-like grid that contains more than 62000 shutters with each cell measuring 100 µm x 200 µm. Sweeping a magnet across the surface of the MSA opens all operable shutters. Individual shutters may then be addressed and closed electronically. NIRSpec is also capable of Fixed-slit and Integral-field spectroscopy and provides medium-resolution spectroscopy over a wavelength range of 1 - 5 µm and lower-resolution spectroscopy from 0.6 - 5 µm.NIRSpec will address all of the four main JWST science themes, and much more. It will enable large spectroscopic surveys of faint galaxies at high redshift, obtain sensitive spectra of transiting exoplanets and image line emission from protoplanetary disks and protostars. NIRSpec is being built for the European Space Agency (ESA) by the Airbus Group with Dr. Pierre Ferruit guiding its development as the ESA JWST Project Scientist. Peter Jakobsen, the NIRSpec Instrument PI, retired in December 2011. || ", "hits": 17 }, { "id": 11510, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11510/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-04-08T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "NIRSpec Instrument Gets Integrated into Webb's ISIM", "description": "Engineers install the Near Infrared Spectrometer (NIRSpec) onto the Webb Telescope's Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) in NASA Goddard Space Flight Center cleanroom. This delicate procedure took place during March 24 and March 25, 2014 in preparation for the cryogenic test of a fully integrated ISIM structure to occur this summer. The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) is a near infrared multi-object dispersive spectrograph capable of simultaneously observing more than 100 sources over a field-of-view (FOV) larger than 3' x 3'. The NIRSpec will be the first spectrograph in space that has this capability. Targets in the Field of View are normally selected by opening groups of shutters in a micro-shutter array (MSA) to form multiple apertures. The microshutters are arranged in a waffle-like grid that contains more than 62000 shutters with each cell measuring 100 µm x 200 µm. Sweeping a magnet across the surface of the MSA opens all operable shutters. Individual shutters may then be addressed and closed electronically. NIRSpec is also capable of Fixed-slit and Integral-field spectroscopy and provides medium-resolution spectroscopy over a wavelength range of 1 - 5 µm and lower-resolution spectroscopy from 0.6 - 5 µm.NIRSpec will address all of the four main JWST science themes, and much more. It will enable large spectroscopic surveys of faint galaxies at high redshift, obtain sensitive spectra of transiting exoplanets and image line emission from protoplanetary disks and protostars. NIRSpec is being built for the European Space Agency (ESA) by the Airbus Group with Dr. Pierre Ferruit guiding its development as the ESA JWST Project Scientist. Peter Jakobsen, the NIRSpec Instrument PI, retired in December 2011. || ", "hits": 14 }, { "id": 11425, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11425/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-11-25T13:30:00-05:00", "title": "Operation IceBridge 2013 Antarctica Introduction", "description": "With the successful landing of the NASA P-3 aircraft on McMurdo Station's seasonal sea ice runway, Operation IceBridge is opening the door to a whole new suite of remote science targets in Antarctica. || ", "hits": 20 }, { "id": 11406, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11406/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-11-07T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Time Lapse of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Space Environment Simulator (SES) Opening and Closing", "description": "Time Lapse of NASA GSFC Space Environment Simulator (SES) opening and closing || ", "hits": 19 }, { "id": 11314, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11314/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-07-25T13:55:00-04:00", "title": "IRIS First Light", "description": "The images and video on this page are from the IRIS first light media teleconference on July 25, 2013.For supporting media resources, please click here.On July 17, 2013 at 11:14 pm PDT (2:14 pm EDT) the IRIS Lockheed Martin instrument team successfully opened the door on NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, which launched June 27, 2013, aboard a Pegasus XL rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.As the telescope door opened, IRIS’s single instrument began to observe the sun for the first time. Designed to research the interface region in more detail than has ever been done before, IRIS’s instrument is a combination of an ultraviolet telescope and a spectrograph. The telescope provides high-resolution images, capturing data on about 1 percent of the sun at a time. The images can resolve very fine features, as small as 150 miles across. While the telescope can look at only one wavelength of light at a time, the spectrograph collects information about many wavelengths of light at once. The instrument then splits the sun’s light into its various wavelengths and measures how much of any given wavelength is present. Analysis of the spectral lines can also provide velocity, temperature and density information, key information when trying to track how energy and heat moves through the region. || ", "hits": 54 }, { "id": 11238, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11238/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-04-30T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Breakup", "description": "Visualizations can give the impression that the Arctic ice cap is a continuous sheet of stationary, floating ice. In fact, it's a collection of smaller pieces that constantly shift, crack and grind against one another as they are jostled by winds and ocean currents. Especially during the summer, but even during the height of winter, cracks can open up between pieces of ice. That's what was happening during February and March 2013, when extensive fracturing took place in the Beaufort Sea. A series of storms passing over central Alaska intensified the cracking, but the age of the sea ice involved also played a role. The area was covered almost completely by thin, first-year ice, rather than older and sturdier ice because of the ongoing retreat of Arctic sea ice associated with climate change. Watch the video to see a time-lapse view of the breakup from images taken by the Suomi NPP satellite. || ", "hits": 9 }, { "id": 4026, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4026/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-02-20T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "July 2012: Coronal Rain", "description": "A moderate solar flare was emitted by the sun on July 19, 2012. At 5:58 UTC it peaked at M7.7 on the flare scale, which makes it fairly powerful, but still much weaker than X-class flares, which are the largest. What made this particular event so noteworthy was the associated activity in the sun's corona. For the next day, hot plasma in corona cooled and condensed along the strong magnetic fields of the region that produced the flare. Magnetic fields are invisible, but the plasma is very obvious in the extreme ultraviolet wavelength of 304 angstroms, which highlights material at a temperature of about 50,000 Kelvin. This plasma is attracted to the magnetic fields and outlines them very clearly as it slowly falls back to the solar surface. This process of condensing plasma falling to the surface is called coronal rain.The footage in this video was collected by the Solar Dynamics Observatory's AIA instrument. SDO collected one frame every 12 seconds so each second in this video corresponds to 6 minutes of real time. The video covers 4:30 UTC on July 19th to 2:00 UTC on July 20th, a period of 21 hours and 30 minutes.Music—\"Thunderbolt\" by Lars Leonhard || ", "hits": 59 }, { "id": 4032, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4032/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-01-14T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Urban Sprawl in Beijing, China (Hyperwall version)", "description": "Beijing is one of the oldest, and now, one of the most crowded cities in the world. Established as a city in 1045 BC, King Wu was the first to declare it as a capital in 1057 BC. Having served as the capital of the Liao, Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, Beijing is now the capital of the People's Republic of China. In these Landsat images, the explosive growth of this ancient city is clearly visible. In 1972, only about 7.89 million people lived there — but by 2010 the population swelled to more than 12 million. This increase in the city's size corresponds to the opening of China to the Western world in the 1970s. Up until 1979, the government restricted housing in the city, limiting it to the confines of the \"Outer City.\" Previously a walled fortress, its outline is still visible today due to the build up of canals and roads along the path of the original wall. Inside this rectangular boundary is the ancient heart of the capital, the moat-lined Forbidden City. Called forbidden because anyone entering needed royal permission, this is where the Imperial Palace still stands, once home to 500 years of Chinese emperors. It was Kublai Khan who established the Forbidden City in 1260 A.D. He called it Khanbaliq but Italian explorer Marco Polo called it Cambuluc. It still stands as Beijing's city center. In 1421 the Chinese took the city back and gave it its current name of Beijing. Today, Beijing is only limited by the rugged Taihang Mountains that run to the west and northwest of the city, pushing the population to spread to the south and east across the relatively flat coastal plain. || ", "hits": 45 }, { "id": 3966, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3966/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-09-20T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Heliospheric Future: Parker Solar Probe (formerly Solar Probe Plus) & Solar Orbiter", "description": "Two future missions scheduled for detailed studies of the Sun and solar atmosphere are Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter.Parker Solar Probe will move in a highly-elliptical orbit, using gravity-assists from Venus to move it closer to the Sun with each pass. The goal is to get the spacecraft to fly through the corona at a distance of 9.5 solar radii.Solar Orbiter will use Earth and Venus gravity assists to move into a relatively circular orbit, inside the orbit of Mercury for monitoring the Sun. || ", "hits": 45 }, { "id": 3791, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3791/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-07-23T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Urban Sprawl in Beijing, China", "description": "Beijing is one of the oldest, and now, one of the most crowded cities in the world. Established as a city in 1045 BC, King Wu was the first to declare it as a capital in 1057 BC. Having served as the capital of the Liao, Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, Beijing is now the capital of the People's Republic of China. In these Landsat images, the explosive growth of this ancient city is clearly visible. In 1972, only about 7.89 million people lived there — but by 2010 the population swelled to more than 12 million. This increase in the city's size corresponds to the opening of China to the Western world in the 1970s. Up until 1979, the government restricted housing in the city, limiting it to the confines of the \"Outer City.\" Previously a walled fortress, its outline is still visible today due to the build up of canals and roads along the path of the original wall. Inside this rectangular boundary is the ancient heart of the capital, the moat-lined Forbidden City. Called forbidden because anyone entering needed royal permission, this is where the Imperial Palace still stands, once home to 500 years of Chinese emperors. It was Kublai Khan who established the Forbidden City in 1260 A.D. He called it Khanbaliq but Italian explorer Marco Polo called it Cambuluc. It still stands as Beijing's city center. In 1421 the Chinese took the city back and gave it its current name of Beijing. Today, Beijing is only limited by the rugged Taihang Mountains that run to the west and northwest of the city, pushing the population to spread to the south and east across the relatively flat coastal plain. || ", "hits": 79 }, { "id": 3967, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3967/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-07-23T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Deforestation in Rondonia, Brazil", "description": "In this animation of images from 1975 until 2012, acquired by the Landsat 5 and 7 satellites, enormous tracts of Amazonian forest disappear in Rondonia, a state in Western Brazil.Deforestation in Rondonia in the 1970s until the 1990s had a distinctive \"fishbone\" pattern. Access to this remote region began with a major road cutting through the dense tropical forest, opening up new territory for small farms and ranches. Then, other roads developed at right angles to the initial road. In this visualization, these roads shoot off a stretch of the main \"backbone\" road for about 31 miles (~50 kilometers) long, each secondary road branching off about every 2.5 (~4 kilometers). This creates the \"fishbone\" pattern. Even with the deforestation, Brazil is still home to more than a quarter of Earth's tropical forests. In addition to their astounding biodiversity, these forests act as a major carbon \"sink.\" These are places where carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is absorbed by living things, like trees and plants, and thus the carbon is said to be trapped or sequestered. With increasing carbon dioxide levels around the world, the ability of these forests to hold onto carbon has beneficial implications for stabilizing the world's climate.NASA and the U.S. Department of the Interior through the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) jointly manage Landsat, and the USGS preserves a 40-year archive of Landsat images that is freely available over the Internet. The next Landsat satellite, now known as the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) and later to be called Landsat 8, is scheduled for launch in 2013. || ", "hits": 79 }, { "id": 40098, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/landsat/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2012-02-23T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Landsat", "description": "Since 1972, Landsat satellites have consistently gathered data about our planet for the benefit of the U.S. and the world. The Landsat data archive is the longest continuous remotely sensed global record of Earth’s surface, with all the data free and available to the public. The Landsat satellite missions, jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, are a central pillar of our national remote sensing capability and established the U.S. as a leader in land imaging.\n\nLandsat 9 is the next satellite in the program, and will add more than 700 scenes a day to this invaluable archive. As Earth’s population approaches 8 billion, Landsat 9 will extend our ability to detect and characterize land surface changes, and will do so at a scale where researchers can differentiate between natural and human-induced change. \r\n \r\nLand cover and land use are changing globally at rates unprecedented in human history. These changes bring profound consequences for weather, ecosystems, resource management, the economy, carbon storage and emissions, human health, and other aspects of society. Landsat datasets are a critical tool in monitoring and managing essential resources in a changing world.\r\n\nBelow are highlights of Landsat videos and graphics. Follow this link to see the entire collection of Landsat multimedia.\n", "hits": 379 }, { "id": 40113, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/monitoring-the-globe-to-sustain-seven-billion/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2011-11-14T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Monitoring the Globe to Sustain Seven Billion", "description": "Expanding demand from a growing world population -- now numbered at over 7 billion -- exerts unprecedented pressure on global resources, especially forests, water, and agriculture. Observing our world by remote sensing satellites enables scientists around the world to detect the most critical trends in natural resource conditions at local to global scales. Since 1972, the Landsat Earth observation satellites have monitored changes at the Earth's land surface, including changes in forests, water bodies and agricultural and urban areas.\n\nUsing the nearly 40 year global Landsat record in combination with other Earth observation systems and the latest scientific techniques in Earth imaging, experts in mapping and monitoring our planet will describe present conditions and outline the future of many of Earth's natural resources.\n\n Link to Media Advisory", "hits": 1 }, { "id": 10827, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10827/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-11-08T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "West Antarctica's Weak Spot", "description": "Pine Island Glacier was first called the \"weak underbelly\" of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet almost 30 years ago. The nickname stuck in glaciology circles because scientists still fear it is true. Pine Island, or PIG, as it's often called, drains about 10 percent of the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet. In 2006, the glacier began losing ice mass at an even faster rate than it had before. For scientists concerned with how much PIG could contribute to sea level rise if it lives up to its moniker, there are two key questions. First, why is it changing? Scientists are investigating, among other causes, how the circulation of warming waters under the ice shelf could lead to thinning. Second, how much is it changing? Following the end of the laser altimetry mission ICESat in 2009, NASA launched an airborne campaign called Operation IceBridge to measure critical polar regions. A laser altimeter onboard NASA's DC-8 research airplane has observed PIG continuing the rapid ice loss—measured as a change in elevation—that began to accelerate in 2006. Watch in the visualization below, an analysis partly based on satellite and aircraft data, how NASA has charted PIG's increasing changes. || ", "hits": 33 }, { "id": 10860, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10860/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-11-02T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Operation IceBridge Discovers Massive Crack In Ice Shelf", "description": "NASA's DC-8 flew over the Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf on Oct. 14, 2011, as part of Operation IceBridge. A large, long-running crack was plainly visible across the ice shelf. The DC-8 took off on Oct. 26, 2011, to collect more data on the ice shelf and the crack. The area beyond the crack that could calve in the coming months covers about 310 square miles (800 sq. km). || ", "hits": 88 }, { "id": 10859, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10859/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "TIRS TVAC1 Opening The Vacuum Chamber", "description": "The Thermal InfraRed Sensor (TIRS) is part of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) to continue thermal imaging and to support emerging applications such as evapotranspiration rate measurements for water management. TIRS is being built by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and has a three-year design life.TIRS completed its first round of thermal vacuum testing on Tuesday, October 4, marking the first time engineers evaluated the fully-assembled instrument at its normal operating temperature. When operational, TIRS is only 43 Kelvin (-382 °F). Such a cold temperature is necessary so the instrument itself does not overwhelm the heat radiated by Earth.The Landsat Program is a series of Earth observing satellite missions jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. Landsat satellites have been consistently gathering data about our planet since 1972. They continue to improve and expand this unparalleled record of Earth's changing landscapes for the benefit of all. || ", "hits": 30 }, { "id": 10825, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10825/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-09-27T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Big Melt", "description": "Each year, as temperatures dip in the wintertime, new sea ice emerges from cold Arctic waters. By late summer, sea ice extent shrinks as warm ocean temperatures eat away at the ice. This shrink-and-swell rhythm is one of constant change. But in the 30 years since scientists began monitoring Arctic sea ice with satellites, a persistent trend has emerged: Less ice grows back in winter, more ice melts in summer. Year-to-year ups and downs still occur, but the long-term trend comes through clear in the satellite data, and correlates strongly with rising surface temperatures. The end result of this change remains unknown, as Arctic sea ice cover plays a dynamic role in regulating ocean currents, polar ecosystems and even the heat budget of the Earth. The extent of the oldest, thickest ice is now declining at more than 15 percent per decade. Arctic sea ice reached its second smallest extent on record in 2011, opening up the fabled Northwest Passage (shown with a red line). Watch in the visualization below how the Arctic sea ice cap changes throughout a season and now covers far less area than the 30-year average (shown in yellow). || ", "hits": 35 }, { "id": 10822, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10822/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-09-15T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Does DNA Have Extraterrestrial Origins?", "description": "If terms like adenine and guanine bring back unpleasant memories of Genetics 101 here's one reason to give the words a second thought: A team of scientists has discovered that these and other DNA building blocks can form in outer space and have been deposited on Earth's surface by meteorites. To reach this eye-opening conclusion, researchers ground up and analyzed a set of twelve meteorites collected from Antarctica and Australia. Within them, the scientists found a treasure trove of molecules that may have played a key role in allowing early forms of life to form. Adenine, which helps make up the rungs of DNA's spiraling, ladder-like structure, turned up in eleven of the meteorites. Guanine, another key building block of DNA, was present in eight. Two of the twelve meteorites also contained something extraordinary—exotic molecules that are so rare on Earth that they prove the DNA building blocks must have formed in outer space. The discovery lends support to the theory that a kit of pre-made parts from meteorites or a comet might have kick-started life on Earth. Learn more about the breakthrough in the video below. || ", "hits": 962 }, { "id": 3786, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3786/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-10-27T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "ARTEMIS at Lagrange: The View from Above", "description": "This visualization is built from the components of ARTEMIS Mission with emphasis on the maneuvers of the two ARTEMIS spacecraft (red=ARTEMIS-1, green=ARTEMIS-2) around the lunar Lagrange Points L1 and L2.As with the ARTEMIS Mission visual, we show the Earth, the Earth's magnetosphere, the Moon and Sun, with the direction of the Sun from the Earth indicated by the yellow arrow.In this version, the satellite trails are are constructed in a lunar-centric inertial coordinate system so the trails reveal the motion of the satellites relative to the Lagrange points in INERTIAL space (fixed with the distant stars). To see another example of how coordinate systems dramatically affect the construction of trails, see LRO in Earth Centered and Moon Centered Coordinates.In this movie, the camera stays above the Moon's orbital plane for a better view of the motion in the orbital plane. For a change in perspective, see ARTEMIS at Lagrange. || ", "hits": 505 }, { "id": 3770, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3770/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-09-30T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "IBEX Observes Changes in Heliopause Emission", "description": "The camera view moves from the heliosphere 'nose', the apparent direction of the heliopause relative to the interstellar wind, towards the 'knot'. The 'knot' represents a direction of high emission of neutral atoms which has changed significantly in the six months since the first IBEX map.We fade-in an artistic conception of the 'knot', which untangles during the six months as we fade to the second IBEX map. || ", "hits": 27 }, { "id": 3740, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3740/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-07-08T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Space Weather Event: The View from L1", "description": "We start from a position 'behind' the Earth, looking towards the Sun. From this position we see the orbit of the Moon as well as three of the heliospheric 'sentinels' (see \"Sentinels of the Heliosphere\"), ACE, SOHO, and Wind patrolling along 'halo orbits' (Wikipedia) around the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point, L1.The CME (orange isosurface) erupts, heading towards the Earth. The density enhancement of the CME is visible in slice of data in the Earth's orbit plane which provides a better sense of when the CME actually reaches the Earth.As the particle density enhancement from the CME strikes the Earth, we see the Earth's magnetosphere respond, with the outer, high density surface (red), 'blown away'. This surface location corresponds roughly to the location of the bow shock. The bow shock has not been eliminated, only some of its particles have been depleted, to be carried off in the CME and solar wind. As the densest material of the CME passes (orange surface), plasma from the CME continues to flow by the Earth, stretching the magnetosphere into a long, thin structure behind the Earth.The magnetosphere slowly recovers from the 'impact', and regions that can confine higher particle densities reform - the red surfaces return. But not for long as the rarefaction behind the CME reaches the Earth. This lower density region provides fewer particles to repopulate the magnetosphere and make it easier for particles confined in the magnetosphere to 'leak' out into the solar wind.For the BATS-R-US model, the isosurface colors are: red=20 AMUs per cubic centimeter, yellow=10.0 AMUs per cubic centimeter, light blue=1.0 AMUs per cubic centimeter, and blue=0.1 AMUs per cubic centimeter. An AMU corresponds to about the mass of a hydrogen atom, the dominant component of the solar wind.This visualization is part of a series of visualizations on space weather modeling. || ", "hits": 22 }, { "id": 3739, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3739/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-07-06T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Space Weather Event: Incoming View", "description": "We open with a view from high above the ecliptic plane, at the space between the Sun (left) and the Earth (within the small rectangular box on the right). In the plane of the Earth's orbit, we show a 'slice' of the Enlil model showing the particle density profile of the solar wind (white to yellow for decreasing particle density). The spiral 'rotating water sprinkler' pattern in the density is the Parker spiral (Wikipedia). The nested grid pattern centered on the Earth, provides a sense of scale to the scene. The smallest grid square in the opening view is 1,000 Earth radii on each side. The scale changes by a factor of ten for each step larger or smaller in size.We zoom down to the Earth as the CME (orange surface) erupts in the direction of the Earth, then move into a position behind the Earth with the Sun visible in the distance.As the particle density enhancement from the CME strikes the Earth, we see the Earth's magnetosphere respond, with the outer, high density surface (red) 'blown away'. This surface location corresponds roughly to the location of the bow shock. The bow shock has not been eliminated, only some of its particles have been depleted, to be carried off in the CME and solar wind. As the densest material of the CME passes (orange surface), plasma from the CME continues to flow by the Earth, stretching the magnetosphere into a long, thin structure behind the Earth.The magnetosphere slowly recovers from the 'impact', and regions that can confine higher particle densities reform - the red surfaces return. But not for long as the rarefaction (Wikipedia) behind the CME reaches the Earth. This lower density region provides fewer particles to repopulate the magnetosphere and makes it easier for particles confined in the magnetosphere to 'leak' out into the solar wind.For the BATS-R-US model, the isosurface colors correpond to densities of: red=20 AMUs per cubic centimeter, yellow=10.0 AMUs per cubic centimeter, light blue=1.0 AMUs per cubic centimeter, and blue=0.1 AMUs per cubic centimeter. An AMU corresponds to about the mass of a hydrogen atom, so the value roughly corresponds to the number of atoms per cubic centimeter.This visualization is part of a series of visualizations on space weather modeling. || ", "hits": 31 }, { "id": 3683, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3683/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-04-02T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Halloween 2003 Solar Storms: GOES/SXI X-ray view", "description": "Here is a view of the full solar disk during a two-week period in October and November of 2003 which exhibited some of the largest solar activity events since the advent of space-based solar observing. The GOES-12/Solar X-Ray Imager was experiencing significant problems during this time period and was offline during part of the opening and closing portions of this movie, which is why there is a significant number of black frames. Actual data collection began on October 28, 2003 and terminated on November 5, 2003.This movie is part of a series of movies with matching cadence designed to play synchronously with each other. The other movies in this series are Halloween 2003 Solar Storms: SOHO/EIT Ultraviolet, 195 angstromsHalloween 2003 Solar Storms: SOHO/EIT Ultraviolet, 304 angstromsHalloween 2003 Solar Storms: SOHO/MDI ContinuumHalloween 2003 Solar Storms: SOHO/MDI MagnetogramsHalloween 2003 Solar Storms: SOHO/EIT and SOHO/LASCO || ", "hits": 29 }, { "id": 40065, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/conference-videos/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2010-02-26T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Conference Videos", "description": "No description available.", "hits": 85 }, { "id": 3591, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3591/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-04-09T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "STEREO Visits the Lagrange Points - L4 and L5", "description": "The two STEREO spacecraft orbit the Sun in orbits slightly different from the Earth. STEREO A orbits between the Earth and the Sun, while STEREO-B orbits beyond the Earth and the Sun. As a result, relative to the Earth, STEREO-A appears to move ahead of the Earth, while STEREO-B falls behind the Earth, in their motion around the Sun.In this configuration, the two spacecraft are now passing near the two stable Lagrange Points, L4 and L5, of the Earth-Sun system. The STEREO spacecraft are imaging these regions in the hopes of finding material that might have been left over from the original formation of the Solar System.Revision Note: April 15, 2009:It was pointed out that L4 and L5 were reversed in the initial release of this visualization. These animations and stills were revised to reflect the corrections. We apologize for any inconvenience. || ", "hits": 198 }, { "id": 10375, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10375/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-03-20T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Glory Podcast Opener", "description": "Opening title sequence for 'The Road to Glory' podcast, released in support of the Glory mission. || ", "hits": 17 }, { "id": 10386, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10386/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-19T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Sources of Aerosols", "description": "Aerosols can occur in nature, but they can also originate from human activity. These animations provide an introduction to four of the varied sources of atmospheric aerosols: cities, forest fires, the ocean, and deserts. || ", "hits": 41 }, { "id": 10377, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10377/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-06T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Black History Month 2009", "description": "Join NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., in celebrating Black History Month. Each week in February, a different African-American employee from GSFC will be featured. In the opening week, two will be featured. The employees will talk about their careers, career paths and, in some cases, obstacles and challenges they have faced. || ", "hits": 18 }, { "id": 10337, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10337/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-11-27T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "JWST Deployment and Beauty Animations", "description": "Animations of the James Webb Space Telescope including spacecraft deploy and on orbit animations. || ", "hits": 62 }, { "id": 10206, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10206/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-10-16T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM)", "description": "Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) is a suite of instruments developed for use on the Mars Science Laboratory. By looking for evidence of water, carbon, and other important building blocks of life in the Mars soil and atmosphere, this suite will help answer one of humankind's biggest questions about the planet: did it ever support life? SAM was designed and built in an international collaboration between Goddard Space Flight Center, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the University of Paris, and Honeybee Robotics. This video series highlights the mission, its objectives, and some of Goddard's contributors to the project. || ", "hits": 77 }, { "id": 10345, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10345/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-08-25T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "GLASTcast in HD for Apple TV and iTunes", "description": "The Universe is home to numerous exotic and beautiful phenomena, some of which can generate inconceivable amounts of energy. GLAST will open a new window on this high-energy world. With GLAST, astronomers will have a superior tool to study how black holes, notorious for pulling matter in, can accelerate jets of gas outward at fantastic speeds. Physicists will be able to search for signals of new fundamental processes that are inaccessible in ground-based accelerators and observatories. GLAST's spectacular high-energy gamma-ray 'eyeglasses' will reveal hidden wonders, opening our minds to new possibilities and discoveries, expanding our understanding of the Universe and our place in it. || ", "hits": 36 }, { "id": 3496, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3496/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2008-08-19T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Solar Dynamo: Plasma Flows", "description": "In this visualization, we illustrate the fluid flows in the Sun which drive the solar magnetic dynamo. The flows can be considered as a combination of two components, a toroidal component and a meridional component. The toroidal flow corresponds to the rotational motion of the Sun. In the cut-away view, this motion is represented by the streaking flow vectors. The color code of the cross-section on the right-hand side illustrates the rotational period of this flow. Here we see that flow near the equator (in violet) takes about 24.5 days to make it all the way around the Sun. As we move to higher latitudes, we see that the flow gets steadily slower, increasing the time it takes to go around the Sun to as much as 34 days (in red) near the poles. A non-uniform fluid flow such as this is known as differential rotation. This motion in the interior can be measured at the solar surface through techniques of helioseismology.Deeper into the Sun, we see the different colors of the outer layers transition to a solid color (olive green). This transition point is called the tachocline. It is the boundary between the outer zone of the Sun where thermal energy is transferred by convection (the convective zone), and the inner region of the Sun where thermal energy is transferred by radiation (the radiative zone). The radiative zone is believed to rotate as a solid body with a period of about 28 days in this model.The yellow and white center in this model represents the solar radiative zone.In the cross-section on the left-side, we represent the other component of the flow, called the meridional flow, which moves plasma between the equator and the polar regions.These flows of solar plasma are used as input data for dynamo modeling (see The Solar Dynamo: Toroidal and Poloidal Fields and The Solar Dynamo: Toroidal and Radial Fields.) || ", "hits": 103 }, { "id": 3521, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3521/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2008-08-19T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Solar Dynamo: Toroidal and Poloidal Magnetic Fields", "description": "Using the solar plasma flows as input (see The Solar Dynamo: Plasma Flows), the equations of magnetohydrodynamics, and 'seeding' the calculations with an initial small magnetic field, one can compute how a magnetic field can grow and be maintained. This is the dynamo process, the net result being that part of the Sun's outflowing thermal convective energy from nuclear processes is used to create the magnetic field.In this view of the solar dynamo mechanism, we examine the evolution of the toroidal magnetic field, the field intensity represented by colors on the right-hand cross-section, and the poloidal magnetic potential field, represented by colors on the left-hand cross-section. The poloidal magnetic potential is a scalar quantity that contains information about the radial and latitudinal magnetic field vectors. To see the radial magnetic field, see The Solar Dynamo: Toroidal and Radial Magnetic Fields.In this visualization, the magnetic field lines (represented by the 'copper wire' structures) are 'snapshots' of the field structure constructed at each time step of the model. These field lines should not be considered as 'moving' or 'stretching' as the model evolves in time. Even this simplified model reproduces a number of characteristics observed in the actual solar magnetic field. Cyclic behavior with oscillations in the magnetic field amplitude.Magnetic regions at the surface migrate from high latitudes towards the equator as the solar cycle progresses. This reproduces the \"Butterfly Diagram\" pattern.Surface magnetic polarities reverse with each cycleBecause this model is axisymmetric, it cannot simulate non-axisymmetric features such as active longitudes. || ", "hits": 195 }, { "id": 3583, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3583/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2008-08-19T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Solar Dynamo: Toroidal and Radial Magnetic Fields", "description": "Using the solar plasma flows as input (see The Solar Dynamo: Plasma Flows), the equations of magnetohydrodynamics, and 'seeding' the calculations with an initial small magnetic field, one can compute how a magnetic field can grow and be maintained. This is the dynamo process, the net result being that part of the Sun's outflowing thermal convective energy from nuclear processes is used to create the magnetic field.In this view of the solar dynamo mechanism, we examine the evolution of the toroidal magnetic field, intensities represented by color on the right-hand cross-section, and the radial magnetic field, represented on the left-hand cross-section. To see the poloidal magnetic vector potential, see The Solar Dynamo: Toroidal and Poloidal Magnetic Fields.In this visualization, the magnetic field lines (represented by the 'copper wire' structures) are 'snapshots' of the field structure constructed at each time step of the model. These field lines should not be considered as 'moving' or 'stretching' as the model evolves in time.Even this simplified model reproduces a number of characteristics observed in the actual solar magnetic field.Cyclic behavior with oscillations in the magnetic field amplitude.Magnetic regions at the surface migrate from high latitudes towards the equator. This reproduces the \"Butterfly Diagram\" pattern.Surface magnetic polarities reverse with each cycleBecause this model is axisymmetric, it cannot simulate non-axisymmetric features such as active longitudes. || ", "hits": 78 }, { "id": 3513, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3513/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2008-07-23T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Auroral Substorm from Polar", "description": "This movie is an auroral substorm event observed by the visible light camera aboard the Polar spacecraft. Because the visible light camera records in a single broad range of wavelengths, we do not have color imagery of the event. For this movie we will color the aurora green since that is the dominant color in most cases. The VIS camera is also low resolution so the fine aurora details visible from the ground are not apparent in this movie. || ", "hits": 44 }, { "id": 20140, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20140/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2008-06-07T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "LRO Spacecraft Animations", "description": "11 animations of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's (LRO) journey around the Moon. || ", "hits": 102 }, { "id": 10247, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10247/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-05-29T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "GLASTcast Episode 1: What is GLAST?", "description": "NASA's GLAST mission is an astrophysics and particle physics partnership, developed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy, along with important contributions from academic institutions and partners in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and the U.S. The Universe is home to numerous exotic and beautiful phenomena, some of which can generate inconceivable amounts of energy. GLAST will open a new window on this high-energy world. With GLAST, astronomers will have a superior tool to study how black holes, notorious for pulling matter in, can accelerate jets of gas outward at fantastic speeds. Physicists will be able to search for signals of new fundamental processes that are inaccessible in ground-based accelerators and observatories. GLAST's spectacular high-energy gamma-ray \"eyeglasses\" will reveal hidden wonders, opening our minds to new possibilities and discoveries, expanding our understanding of the Universe and our place in it. Interviews with (in order of appearance): Steve Ritz - GLAST Project Scientist, NASA Goddard Peter Michaelson - Large Area Telescope (LAT) Principal Investigator, Stanford University Diego Torres - Large Area Telescope (LAT) Scientist, University of Barcelona Neil Gehrels - GLAST Deputy Project Scientist, NASA Goddard David Thompson - GLAST Deputy Project Scientist, NASA Goddard Luke Drury - Professor of Astronomy, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Valerie Connaughton - GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM) Team, NASA Marshall/University of Alabama Martin Pohl - GLAST Interdisciplinary Scientist, Iowa State University Per Carlson - Professor of Elementary Particle Physics, Manne Siegbahn Laboratory Charles \"Chip\" Meegan - GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM) Principal Investigator, NASA Marshall Alan Marscher - Professor of Astronomy, Boston University Julie McEnery - GLAST Deputy Project Scientist, NASA Goddard || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 3478, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3478/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2007-12-11T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "THEMIS Explores the Earth's Bow Shock", "description": "The solar wind's first contact with the Earth's magnetic field creates a region known as the bow shock, much like the bow wave of a boat moving through the water. This region can also create additional turbulence which generates bursts of explosion-like currents. In this visualization, the orbits of the THEMIS fleet are combined with a 2-D slice from a hybrid magnetosphere simulation which illustrates these turbulent regions in the bow shock. This hybrid magnetosphere simulation treats the slow-moving ions by particle-in-cell computational methods and the faster electrons as a massless fluid. These simulations more accurately represent the magnetospheric physics, enabling a view of turbulent non-linear processes not visible in the simpler magnetohydrodynamic models. In this simulation, the color table is somewhat unusual. In order of increasing density, the colors run from white through violet, blue, green to black. || ", "hits": 45 }, { "id": 3484, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3484/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2007-12-10T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "The First Season of Noctilucent Clouds from AIM", "description": "The Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) mission is the first satellite dedicated to the study of noctilucent clouds. Noctilucent clouds, sometimes called Polar Mesospheric Clouds, were first reported in 1885. Forming at altitudes above 50 miles, they are so faint that they can only be seen from the ground in the reflected light of the Sun after it has set below the horizon. Since their discovery, their cause has been a subject of study as a possible indicator of climate change. For those interested in observing noctilucent clouds from the ground, there are images and information at SpaceWeather's Gallery of Noctilucent Clouds. || ", "hits": 53 }, { "id": 3485, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3485/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2007-12-10T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "THEMIS and the March 2007 Substorm", "description": "NASA's Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) mission observed the dynamics of a rapidly developing substorm in March of 2007. This visualization combines the orbits of the THEMIS satellites with a magnetohydrodynamical simulation of the Earth's magnetosphere corresponding to this time. || ", "hits": 27 } ] }