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Early on the morning of Jan. 10, the team confirmed the spacecraft had successfully entered its final L1 orbit, where it will stay for the duration of its mission.From L1, IMAP will explore and map the very boundaries of our heliosphere — the protective bubble created by the solar wind that encapsulates our entire solar system — and study how the heliosphere interacts with the local galactic neighborhood beyond.Learn more about the milestone: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/imap/2026/01/12/nasas-imap-mission-reaches-its-destination/ || ", "hits": 313 }, { "id": 14954, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14954/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-01-23T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's Illuminate Series (2026)", "description": "NASA's Illuminate is a video series about out-of-this-world images that shine light on our Sun and solar system. || ", "hits": 161 }, { "id": 5591, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5591/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-12-29T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "ICESat-2 Land Ice Height Change (2020-2025)", "description": "NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite measures the elevation of Earth’s surfaces – and two data products from the mission map the height of Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, as well as how those ice sheets change over time. The ICESat-2 ATL14 data product provides a reference ice sheet surface, while ATL15 provides elevation changes to that surface through time.", "hits": 391 }, { "id": 14940, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14940/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-12-17T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Cosmic Dawn with Nobel Laureate John Mather", "description": "Complete transcript available. || CU_Mather_Thumb.png (1280x720) [1.3 MB] || CU_Mather_Thumb_print.jpg (1024x576) [186.9 KB] || CU_Mather_Thumb_searchweb.png (320x180) [90.4 KB] || CU_Mather_Thumb_thm.png (80x40) [7.3 KB] || CU_Mather_ProRes.webm (1920x1080) [130.9 MB] || CU_Mather.en_US.srt [31.4 KB] || CU_Mather.en_US.vtt [29.7 KB] || CU_Mather_YT.mp4 (1920x1080) [1.2 GB] || CU_Mather_ProRes.mov (1920x1080) [16.3 GB] || ", "hits": 284 }, { "id": 14895, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14895/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-09-17T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Mapping the Boundaries of Our Home in Space with NASA’s IMAP Mission", "description": "NASA’s new Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, will explore and map the very boundaries of our heliosphere — a huge bubble created by the Sun's wind that encapsulates our solar system — and study how that boundary interacts with the local galactic neighborhood beyond.As a modern-day celestial cartographer, IMAP will chart the vast range of particles in interplanetary space, helping to investigate two of the most important overarching issues in heliophysics — the energization of charged particles from the Sun, and the interaction of the solar wind with interstellar space. Additionally, IMAP will support near real-time observations of the solar wind and energetic particles, which can produce hazardous conditions in the space environment near Earth. IMAP is launching no earlier than Sept. 23, 2025, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Learn more about IMAP science: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/nasas-imap-mission-to-study-boundaries-of-our-home-in-space/Find out more about the IMAP mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/imap/ || ", "hits": 139 }, { "id": 14881, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14881/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2025-08-13T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fermi Spacecraft Animations 2025", "description": "A beauty pass of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The spacecraft fills the frame with a starry background at 0:05 and is fully in frame with Earth partially in the background at 0:11.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab || Fermi_Beauty_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [250.1 KB] || Fermi_Beauty_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [11.5 KB] || Fermi_Beauty_Still_thm.png (80x40) [1.6 KB] || Fermi_BeautyPass_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [46.1 MB] || Fermi_BeautyPass_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [113.7 MB] || Fermi_BeautyPass_V002_ProRes_4k.mov (3840x2160) [1.3 GB] || ", "hits": 211 }, { "id": 5543, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5543/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-06-11T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Solar Magnetic Field - from Solar Minimum to Solar Maximum", "description": "Visualizations of the solar magnetic field evolution as a potential-field-source-surface model (PFSS) from solar minimum (2019) to solar maximum (2025).", "hits": 178 }, { "id": 14827, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14827/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-04-24T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "TRACERS Instrument Development & Testing at the University of Iowa", "description": "NASA’s Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, or TRACERS, is embarking on its integration and testing campaign, during which all of the instruments and components will be added to the spacecraft structure, tested to ensure they will survive the harsh environments of launch and space, and made ready to execute its mission. The TRACERS mission will help scientists understand an explosive process called magnetic reconnection and its effects in Earth’s atmosphere. Magnetic reconnection occurs when magnetic fields and particles from the Sun interact with Earth’s magnetic field. By understanding this process, scientists will be able to better understand and prepare for impacts of solar activity on Earth, such as auroras and disruptions to telecommunications.Below are clips of TRACERS’ instrument design, build, and testing at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.Learn more about the mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/tracers/ || ", "hits": 69 }, { "id": 14815, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14815/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2025-04-09T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "IMAP Testing and Integration at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center", "description": "NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, is embarking on its yearlong integration and testing campaign, during which its instruments and components will be added to the spacecraft structure, tested to ensure they will survive the harsh environments of launch and space, and made ready to execute its mission.", "hits": 33 }, { "id": 14814, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14814/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2025-04-09T08:00:00-04:00", "title": "IMAP Testing and Integration at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab", "description": "NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, is embarking on its yearlong integration and testing campaign, during which all of the instruments and components will be added to the spacecraft structure, tested to ensure they will survive the harsh environments of launch and space, and made ready to execute its mission.", "hits": 174 }, { "id": 14749, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14749/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-14T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "OpenUniverse: Simulated Universe Views for Roman", "description": "This video begins with a tiny one-square-degree portion of the full OpenUniverse simulation area (about 70 square degrees, equivalent to an area of sky covered by more than 300 full moons). It spirals in toward a particularly galaxy-dense region, zooming by a factor of 75. This simulation showcases the cosmos as NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could see it, allowing scientists to preview the next generation of cosmic discovery now. Roman’s real future surveys will enable a deep dive into the universe with highly resolved imaging, as demonstrated in this video.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and M. Troxel || OpenUniverseFullZoom_4k_Best.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [111.9 KB] || OpenUniverseFullZoom_4k_Good.mp4 (3840x2160) [101.9 MB] || OpenUniverseFullZoom_4k_Best.mp4 (3840x2160) [249.3 MB] || OpenUniverseFullZoom_ProRes_3840x2160_30.mov (3840x2160) [2.9 GB] || ", "hits": 175 }, { "id": 14741, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14741/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-12-27T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe: Humanity’s Closest Encounter with the Sun", "description": "Controllers have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024.Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles above the surface of the Sun, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a blazing 430,000 miles per hour — faster than any human-made object has ever moved. A beacon tone received in the late evening hours of Dec. 26 confirmed the spacecraft had made it through the encounter safely and is operating normally.This pass, the first of more to come at this distance, allows the spacecraft to conduct unrivaled scientific measurements with the potential to change our understanding of the Sun. || ", "hits": 869 }, { "id": 14736, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14736/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-12-16T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's #3point8 Challenge", "description": "On Dec. 24, 2024, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will fly approximately 3.8 million miles from the solar surface — the closest solar approach in history — while traveling about 430,000 miles per hour — the fastest any human-made object ever has traveled.To celebrate, join Parker's journey with a digital quest of your own: Each day from Dec. 17 - 24, 2024, we're hiding a new custom \"3.8\" digital sticker on a secret NASA webpage. Solve our puzzles to find them! || ", "hits": 194 }, { "id": 5435, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5435/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2024-12-12T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Geomagnetic and Atmospheric Response to May 2024 Solar Storm", "description": "This visualization shows the Earth's magnetosphere being hit by a geomagnetic storm. The MAGE model simulates real events that happened throughout May 10-11, 2024.White orbit trails: All satellites orbiting Earth during the stormOrange orbits: Proposed orbits for six GDC spacecraftOrange-to-purple lines: Magnetic field lines around EarthBlue trails: Solar wind velocity tracersGreen clouds: Electric field current intensityCredit:NASA Scientific Visualization Studio and NASA DRIVE Science Center for Geospace Storms || multiField_11-25-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_4k.00450_print.jpg (1024x576) [191.2 KB] || multiField_11-25-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_4k.00450_searchweb.png (320x180) [102.0 KB] || multiField_11-25-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_4k.00450_web.png (320x180) [102.0 KB] || multiField_11-25-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_4k.00450_thm.png (80x40) [6.4 KB] || multiField_12-30-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [253.6 MB] || multiField_12-30-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_3x3Hyperwall (5760x3240) [2880 Item(s)] || multiField_12-30-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_3x3Hyperwall_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [773.4 MB] || multiField_12-30-2024b_magnetosphere_pc_anim_satellites_3x3Hyperwall_3240p30_h265.mp4 (5760x3240) [779.4 MB] || ", "hits": 414 }, { "id": 14715, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14715/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-11-18T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "COBE Celebrates 35th Launch Anniversary", "description": "Technicians work on the COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) spacecraft in a clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The mission launched into an Earth orbit in 1989 to make an all-sky map of the cosmic microwave background, the oldest light in the universe. The conical silver shield protects the scientific instruments from direct radiation from the Sun and Earth, isolates them from radio-frequency interference from the spacecraft transmitters and terrestrial sources, and provides thermal isolation for a dewar containing liquid helium coolant.Credit: NASA/COBE Science Team || COBE_in_gfsc_clean_room_1.jpg (1629x1600) [552.8 KB] || ", "hits": 221 }, { "id": 31319, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31319/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2024-10-23T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "2025 NASA Science Calendar", "description": "Images from the 2025 NASA Science Calendar", "hits": 674 }, { "id": 14659, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14659/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-10-01T06:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Interview Opportunity: NASA’s Europa Clipper is Ready for Launch to Jupiter’s Moon Europa", "description": "Click here to find out more about Europa Clipper: go.nasa.gov/europaclipperClick here for the Europa Clipper PRESS KITKeep up-to-date on the lastest news about the mission blogs.nasa.gov/europaclipperScroll down page for LIVE SHOT B-ROLL PACKAGE and PRERECORDED INTERVIEWS || Europa_Clipper_Banner-english.png (1800x720) [974.7 KB] || Europa_Clipper_Banner-english_print.jpg (1024x409) [101.8 KB] || Europa_Clipper_Banner-english_searchweb.png (320x180) [77.5 KB] || Europa_Clipper_Banner-english_thm.png (80x40) [5.8 KB] || ", "hits": 207 }, { "id": 14619, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14619/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-07-17T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Black Hole with Accretion Disk Visualization", "description": "This visualization shows the strange ways that light is gravitationally warped in the region around a black hole surrounded by a rapidly-rotating disk of gas and dust. The distortions seen in this image are due to the physics of general relativity, which informs us how the path of light is deflected in the presence of a gravitational field. The material forming a black hole has been compressed to densities so high that it is hidden within an “event horizon,” beyond which the gravitational field is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. Outside of this event horizon light paths will bend sharply, and even loop around the black hole, under the influence of the intense gravitational fields.The speed at which material, in what is known as an accretion disk, orbits the black hole increases with proximity. The orbital speed of material closest to the event horizon approaches the speed of light. This produces an effect known as “relativistic doppler beaming” which enhances the brightness of material moving towards us along our line of sight, and correspondingly dims the brightness of material moving away.The gravitational warping of the light from background stars is strong, creating the effect of a powerful lens. Light from the region directly behind the black hole forms an “Einstein Ring” that encircles the event horizon. Inside this ring we find an inverted view of the entire sky, which is increasingly distorted. The inner black disk is known as the black hole’s “shadow” which appears slightly larger than the actual location of the event horizon due to the distortion of the light paths.The light from the orbiting material is likewise distorted, making the flat accretion disk appear to bend completely around the black hole’s shadow and have the disk behind the black hole appear to be both above and below it. Yet despite these strange visual distortions that change with viewing angle, the accretion disk itself physically remains flat.These illustrations depict what is known as a “Schwarzschild” black hole, made from material that had no overall rotation. A black hole created from rapidly spinning material retains a sense of this rotation and displays additional asymmetries not pictured here; this is known as a “Kerr” black hole.The appearance of a black hole like this is “scale invariant,” meaning that the way light warps around it will appear the same, regardless of the mass of the object. The only thing that changes is the overall size of the distortions and shadow. Thus a black hole ten times as massive as the one shown here, viewed from ten times further away, would look exactly the same.These animations show qualitatively correct depictions of light distortion around a black hole that use a simplified optical model for the effect, rather than full general relativistic ray-tracing code. || ", "hits": 1368 }, { "id": 14620, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14620/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-07-17T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Isolated Black Hole Visualization", "description": "This visualization shows the strange ways that light is gravitationally warped in the region around a black hole. The distortions seen in this image are due to the physics of general relativity, which informs us how the path of light is deflected in the presence of a gravitational field. The material forming a black hole has been compressed to densities so high that it is hidden within an “event horizon,” beyond which the gravitational field is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. Outside of this event horizon light paths will bend sharply, and even loop around the black hole, under the influence of the intense gravitational fields.The gravitational warping of the light from background stars is strong, creating the effect of a powerful lens. Light from the region directly behind the black hole forms an “Einstein Ring” that encircles the event horizon. Inside this ring we find an inverted view of the entire sky, which is increasingly distorted. The inner black disk is known as the black hole’s “shadow” which appears slightly larger than the actual location of the event horizon due to the distortion of the light paths.These illustrations depict what is known as a “Schwarzschild” black hole, made from material that had no overall rotation. A black hole created from rapidly spinning material retains a sense of this rotation and displays additional asymmetries not pictured here; this is known as a “Kerr” black hole.The appearance a black hole like this is “scale invariant,” meaning that the way light warps around it will appear the same, regardless of the mass of the object. The only thing that changes is the overall size of the distortions and shadow. Thus a black hole ten times as massive as the one shown here, viewed from ten times further away, would look exactly the same.These animations show qualitatively correct depictions of light distortion around a black hole that use a simplified optical model for the effect, rather than full general relativistic ray-tracing code. || ", "hits": 1226 }, { "id": 31290, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31290/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2024-06-13T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Webb and Hubble's Views of Spiral Galaxy NGC 628", "description": "animated comparison || NGC_628-HST_Webb-1080p.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [334.0 KB] || NGC_628-HST_Webb-1080p.mp4 (1920x1080) [58.7 MB] || NGC_628-HST_Webb-4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [221.7 MB] || webb-and-hubbles-views-of-spiral-galaxy-ngc-628-4k-movie.hwshow [350 bytes] || ", "hits": 192 }, { "id": 14604, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14604/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-06-12T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA’s Roman Mission Gets Cosmic ‘Sneak Peek’ From Supercomputers", "description": "This graphic highlights part of a new simulation of what NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could see when it launches by May 2027. The background spans about 0.11 square degrees (roughly equivalent to half of the area of sky covered by a full Moon), representing less than half the area Roman will see in a single snapshot. The inset zooms in to a region 300 times smaller, showcasing a swath of brilliant synthetic galaxies at Roman’s full resolution. Having such a realistic simulation helps scientists study the physics behind cosmic images –– both synthetic ones like these and future real ones. Researchers will use the observations for many types of science, including testing our understanding of the origin, evolution, and ultimate fate of the universe.Credit: C. Hirata and K. 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This supercomputer visualization tracks a camera as it approaches, briefly orbits, and then crosses the event horizon — the point of no return — of a supersized black hole similar in mass to the one at the center of our galaxy. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/J. Schnittman and B. PowellMusic: “Tidal Force,” Thomas Daniel Bellingham [PRS], Universal Production Music“Memories” from Digital Juice“Path Finder,” Eric Jacobsen [TONO] and Lorenzo Castellarin [BMI], Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || 14576_BHPlunge_Explain_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [1.2 MB] || 14576_PageThumbnail.jpg (3840x2160) [1.2 MB] || 14576_PageThumbnail_searchweb.png (180x320) [85.0 KB] || 14576_PageThumbnail_thm.png (80x40) [9.6 KB] || 14576_BHPlunge_Explainer_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [319.5 MB] || 14576_BHPlunge_Explainer_Captions.en_US.srt [2.5 KB] || 14576_BHPlunge_Explainer_Captions.en_US.vtt [2.4 KB] || 14576_BHPlunge_Explainer_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [1.5 GB] || 14576_BHPlunge_Explainer_4kYouTube.mp4 (3840x2160) [3.0 GB] || 14576_BHPlunge_Explainer_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [12.8 GB] || ", "hits": 2334 }, { "id": 14542, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14542/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-03-05T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "EZIE – Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer", "description": "Slated to launch in 2025, NASA’s Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) will be the first mission to image the magnetic fingerprint of the auroral electrojets — intense electric currents flowing high above Earth’s poles that are central to the electrical circuit coupling the planet’s magnetosphere to its atmosphere.Led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), EZIE will use a trio of small satellites to characterize and record the electrojets’ structure over space and time. It will fill gaps in our understanding of this space weather phenomenon and provide findings that scientists can apply to other magnetized planets, both within and outside our solar system.Learn more:https://science.nasa.gov/mission/ezie/ || ", "hits": 95 }, { "id": 14534, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14534/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-02-27T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's Heliophysics Division Director Joe Westlake", "description": "Meet NASA’s new heliophysics division director, Joe Westlake.Joe has more than 18 years of scientific, technical, management, and programmatic experience in heliophysics, astrophysics, and planetary science. Throughout his career he has made several significant contributions to NASA missions including the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, the Van Allen Probes, Parker Solar Probe, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer mission, the Juno mission, Cassini, and the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission.Prior to joining NASA, Joe served as a researcher and project scientist for the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe mission and principal investigator for the Plasma Instrument for Magnetic Sounding instrument at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. || ", "hits": 133 }, { "id": 5214, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5214/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2024-02-08T08:00:00-05:00", "title": "Geomagnetic Storm Causes Satellite Loss for Fulldome", "description": "In February 2022, a Coronal Mass Ejection led to 38 commercial satellites being lost. Solar plasma from a geomagnetic storm heated the atmosphere, causing denser gases to expand into the satellites’ orbit, which increased atmospheric drag on the satellites and caused them to de-orbit. Johns Hopkins APL-led Center for Geospace Storms (CGS) is building a Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment (MAGE) supercomputer model to predict space weather. The physics-based MAGE simulation reproduced the storm-time atmospheric density enhancement much better than empirical or standalone ionosphere-thermosphere models, emphasizing the need for fully-coupled whole-of-geospace models for predicting space weather events.This is 4k fulldome imagery intended for projection in a planetarium or other hemispherical dome theater. || ", "hits": 396 }, { "id": 5200, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5200/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2023-12-11T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Mars Disappearing Solar Wind: MAVEN Visualizations", "description": "This data visualization depicts a period of decreased solar wind at Mars that occurred on December 25, 2022, causing the planet’s magnetosphere to expand outward. Ion velocity and density data collected by the MAVEN spacecraft is presented using a color-mapped satellite orbit tail and vectors along MAVEN’s orbit. || maven_solar_wind_comp.02715_print.jpg (1024x576) [84.4 KB] || maven_solar_wind_comp.02715_searchweb.png (320x180) [47.3 KB] || maven_solar_wind_comp.02715_thm.png (80x40) [4.3 KB] || maven_solar_wind_comp (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || maven_solar_wind_comp_2160p60.mp4 (3840x2160) [187.6 MB] || maven_solar_wind_comp_prores.mov (3840x2160) [10.1 GB] || ", "hits": 256 }, { "id": 14477, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14477/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-12-11T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Day the Solar Wind Disappeared from Mars", "description": "Learn about the “disappearance” of the solar wind at Mars that was witnessed by MAVEN – an event last seen nearly a quarter-century ago at Earth.Complete transcript available.Universal Production Music: “Space Museum” by Harry Gregson Williams [BMI], Atmosphere Music Ltd. [PRS]; “Currents and Crime Scenes” by Dylan Matthew Love and Harry Gregson Williams [BMI], Atmosphere Music Ltd. [PRS]Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || MAVEN_Solar_Wind_Disappear_V4_print.jpg (1024x576) [142.7 KB] || MAVEN_Solar_Wind_Disappear_V4.jpg (1280x720) [459.3 KB] || MAVEN_Solar_Wind_Disappear_V4.png (1280x720) [800.2 KB] || MAVEN_Solar_Wind_Disappear_V4_searchweb.png (320x180) [69.9 KB] || MAVEN_Solar_Wind_Disappear_V4_thm.png (80x40) [6.5 KB] || 14477_MAVEN_Solar_Wind_Disappear_720.mp4 (1280x720) [43.4 MB] || 14477_MAVEN_Solar_Wind_Disappear_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [243.1 MB] || MavenSolarWindCaptionsV2.en_US.srt [3.8 KB] || MavenSolarWindCaptionsV2.en_US.vtt [3.6 KB] || 14477_MAVEN_Solar_Wind_Disappear_4K.mp4 (3840x2160) [3.0 GB] || 14477_MAVEN_Solar_Wind_Disappear_ProRes.mov (3840x2160) [20.7 GB] || ", "hits": 347 }, { "id": 5193, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5193/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2023-12-11T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "Geomagnetic Storm Causes Satellite Loss", "description": "In February 2022, a Coronal Mass Ejection led to 38 commercial satellites being lost. Solar plasma from a geomagnetic storm heated the atmosphere, causing denser gases to expand into the satellites’ orbit, which increased atmospheric drag on the satellites and caused them to de-orbit. Johns Hopkins APL-led Center for Geospace Storms (CGS) is building a Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment (MAGE) supercomputer model to predict space weather. The physics-based MAGE simulation reproduced the storm-time atmospheric density enhancement much better than empirical or standalone ionosphere-thermosphere models, emphasizing the need for fully-coupled whole-of-geospace models for predicting space weather events. || ", "hits": 599 }, { "id": 14440, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14440/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-10-25T08:00:00-04:00", "title": "Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) Media Resources", "description": "From its unique vantage point on the International Space Station, NASA’s Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) will look directly down into Earth’s atmosphere to study how gravity waves travel through the upper atmosphere. Data collected by AWE will enable scientists to determine the physics and characteristics of atmospheric gravity waves and how terrestrial weather influences the ionosphere, which can affect communication with satellites.AWE is led by Michael Taylor at Utah State University in Logan, and it is managed by the Explorers Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory built the AWE instrument and will provide the mission operations center.Visit https://science.nasa.gov/mission/awe/ to learn more. Watch AWE launch aboard NASA's SpaceX Cargo Dragon. Download isolated launch views of NASA's SpaceX CRS-29 mission. || ", "hits": 7901 }, { "id": 40513, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/awe/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2023-10-25T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "AWE – Atmospheric Waves Experiment", "description": "From its unique vantage point on the International Space Station, NASA’s Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) looks directly down into Earth’s atmosphere to study how atmospheric gravity waves — naturally occurring waves often caused by weather disturbances — travel through the upper atmosphere. Data collected by AWE enables scientists to determine the physics and characteristics of atmospheric gravity waves and how terrestrial weather influences the ionosphere, which can affect communication with satellites.\n\nAWE launched on Nov. 9, 2023, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\n\nLearn more: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/awe/", "hits": 197 }, { "id": 20385, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20385/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2023-10-04T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) Beauty Pass", "description": "AWE aboard the ISS || ISS_AWE_ProRes.00420_print.jpg (576x1024) [133.9 KB] || ISS_AWE_ProRes.00420_searchweb.png (180x320) [81.4 KB] || ISS_AWE_ProRes.00420_thm.png (80x40) [6.7 KB] || ISS_AWE_1080_h264.mov (1920x1080) [27.7 MB] || ISS_AWE_ProRes.mov (3840x2160) [1.7 GB] || ISS_AWE_h264.mov (3840x2160) [66.2 MB] || AWE_frames (3840x2160) [32.0 KB] || ISS_AWE_ProRes.webm (3840x2160) [9.6 MB] || ", "hits": 162 }, { "id": 14362, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14362/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-06-13T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "High Above Down Under Series", "description": "Around a different star, Earth may never have developed life at all. So what makes a star friendly to life? We joined two rocket teams as they traveled to the remote Northern Territory of Australia to capture light from our closest stellar neighbors to help reveal the answer. Follow their journey in the 6-part video series High Above Down Under. Episodes released weekly starting June 27, 2023. || ", "hits": 245 }, { "id": 14297, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14297/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-03-01T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "How NASA's Roman Space Telescope Will Rewind the Universe", "description": "In this simulated view of the deep cosmos, each dot represents a galaxy. The three small squares show Hubble's field of view, and each reveals a different region of the synthetic universe. Roman will be able to quickly survey an area as large as the whole zoomed-out image, which will give us a glimpse of the universe’s largest structures.Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/A. Yung || Yung_Stucture_Survey-Hubble.gif (800x800) [10.9 MB] || Yung_Structure_Survey-Hubble_ProRes.mov (800x800) [36.3 MB] || Yung_Structure_Survey-Hubble_800.mp4 (800x800) [6.4 MB] || Yung_Structure_Survey-Hubble_800.webm (800x800) [1.6 MB] || ", "hits": 326 }, { "id": 14242, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14242/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-11-14T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "A Month at Sea: Scientists Prepare to Set Sail for NASA’s S-MODE Mission\u2028", "description": "Complete transcript available. || Thumbnail_1.jpg (2482x1396) [783.2 KB] || S-MODE_FInal_Lock.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [289.4 KB] || S-MODE_FInal_Lock.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [136.7 KB] || S-MODE_FInal_Lock.00001_web.png (320x180) [136.7 KB] || S-MODE_FInal_Lock.webm (1920x1080) [48.0 MB] || Transcript_2_otter_ai.en_US.srt [7.3 KB] || Transcript_2_otter_ai.en_US.vtt [7.3 KB] || S-MODE_FInal_Lock.mp4 (1920x1080) [874.1 MB] || ", "hits": 178 }, { "id": 20362, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20362/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2022-07-07T15:20:00-04:00", "title": "Gravity on the Moon vs. Asteroid Bennu: Animation", "description": "The lunar surface is better at resisting impacts than the loose surface of asteroid Bennu – thanks to the Moon’s much stronger gravity. || OREX-MoonvsBennuMograph-ProRes.00240_print.jpg (1024x576) [74.2 KB] || OREX-MoonvsBennuMograph-ProRes.00240_searchweb.png (320x180) [60.3 KB] || OREX-MoonvsBennuMograph-ProRes.00240_thm.png (80x40) [4.3 KB] || OREX-MoonvsBennuMograph-ProRes_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [58.2 MB] || 3840x2160_16x9_30p (3840x2160) [128.0 KB] || OREX-MoonvsBennuMograph-ProRes.webm (3840x2160) [8.7 MB] || OREX-MoonvsBennuMograph-ProRes.mov (3840x2160) [3.2 GB] || OREX-MoonvsBennuMograph-ProRes_4K.mp4 (3840x2160) [238.1 MB] || ", "hits": 135 }, { "id": 14179, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14179/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-07-07T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Asteroid Bennu’s Surprising Surface Revealed by OSIRIS-REx", "description": "When OSIRIS-REx touched down on asteroid Bennu, it encountered a surface of loose rocks and pebbles just barely held together by gravity.Complete transcript available.Universal Production Music: “Subsurface” by Ben Niblett and Jon CottonWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || TAG_Science_Preview_4_print.jpg (1024x576) [182.1 KB] || TAG_Science_Preview_4.png (3840x2160) [10.5 MB] || TAG_Science_Preview_4.jpg (3840x2160) [902.0 KB] || TAG_Science_Preview_4_searchweb.png (180x320) [109.2 KB] || TAG_Science_Preview_4_thm.png (80x40) [7.1 KB] || 14179_TAG_Science_SHORT_Twitter.mp4 (1280x720) [22.5 MB] || 14179_TAG_Science_SHORT_Twitter.webm (1280x720) [10.5 MB] || 14179_TAG_Science_SHORT_Facebook.mp4 (1920x1080) [127.7 MB] || 14179_TAG_Science_SHORT_Captions.en_US.srt [2.0 KB] || 14179_TAG_Science_SHORT_Captions.en_US.vtt [1.9 KB] || 14179_TAG_Science_SHORT_MASTER.mov (3840x2160) [5.0 GB] || ", "hits": 88 }, { "id": 14175, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14175/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-07-05T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Expanding Our View (2022 STScI presentation)", "description": "Complete PowerPoint file with all slides and notes || PPT_still.jpg (3840x2160) [750.6 KB] || roman-expanding-our-view-presentation.pptx [76.2 MB] || Slide #1 – Onscreen before presentation begins and during introductionCredit: STScI, NASA || Slide1_print.jpg (1024x576) [98.1 KB] || Slide1.png (3840x2160) [3.4 MB] || Slide1.jpg (3840x2160) [750.6 KB] || Slide1_searchweb.png (320x180) [63.9 KB] || Slide1_thm.png (80x40) [5.6 KB] || ", "hits": 161 }, { "id": 4984, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4984/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2022-05-15T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "ICESat-2 Land Ice Height Change", "description": "At the whole ice sheet scale, this visualization shows the continued draw down of the major outlet glaciers in West Antarctica and in parts of East Antarctica between April 2019 and July 2021. Some areas show hints of blue, indicating places where the ice sheet surface has gone up, reflecting either increased snowfall or changes in ice dynamics.", "hits": 115 }, { "id": 14151, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14151/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-05-05T06:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Interview Opportunity: Skywatchers’ Delight! Chat with NASA About How YOU Can See Next Weekend’s Total Lunar Eclipse", "description": "QUICK LINK TO EDITED, CUT B-ROLLQuick link to canned interview with NOAH PETROQuick link to canned interview with BRETT DENEVI Canned interview in SPANISH with FRANCISCO ANDOLZNEW!!: NASA Extends Exploration for 8 Planetary Science Missions including the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. || updated_banner_lunar_eclipse_1.png (3125x1042) [2.0 MB] || updated_banner_lunar_eclipse_1_print.jpg (1024x341) [70.0 KB] || updated_banner_lunar_eclipse_1_searchweb.png (320x180) [63.6 KB] || updated_banner_lunar_eclipse_1_thm.png (80x40) [6.0 KB] || ", "hits": 145 }, { "id": 14123, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14123/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-03-24T14:00:00-04:00", "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. || ", "hits": 361 }, { "id": 20363, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20363/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2022-03-09T18:00:00-05:00", "title": "Animation: Heliosphere", "description": "The sun sends out a constant flow of charged particles called the solar wind, which ultimately travels past all the planets to some three times the distance to Pluto before being impeded by the interstellar medium. This forms a giant bubble around the sun and its planets, known as the heliosphere. NASA studies the heliosphere to better understand the fundamental physics of the space surrounding us - which, in turn, provides information regarding space throughout the rest of the universe, as well as regarding what makes planets habitable.The solar wind is a gas of charged particles known as plasma, a state of matter governed by its own set physical laws just as the more common solids, liquids, and gases are. As the solar wind sweeps out into space, it creates a space environment filled with radiation as well as magnetic fields that trail all the way back to the sun. This space environment is augmented by interstellar cosmic rays and occasional concentrated clouds of solar material that burst off the sun, known as coronal mass ejections.This complex environment surrounds the planets and ultimately has a crucial effect on the formation, evolution, and destiny of planetary systems. For one thing, our heliosphere acts as a giant shield, protecting the planets from galactic cosmic radiation. Earth is additionally shielded by its own magnetic field, the magnetosphere, which protects us not only from solar and cosmic particle radiation but also from erosion of the atmosphere by the solar wind. Planets without a shielding magnetic field, such as Mars and Venus, are exposed to such processes and have evolved differently.NASA's studies of the heliosphere include research into: how the solar wind behaves near Earth; what causes and sustains magnetic and electric fields around other planets; how does the heliosphere interact with the interstellar medium; what do the boundaries of the heliosphere look like; what is the origin and evolution of the solar wind and the interstellar cosmic rays; and what contributes to the habitability of exoplanets.The field is, therefore, intensely cross-disciplinary. Heliospheric research often works hand in hand with planetary scientists, astrophysicists, astrobiologists, and space weather researchers.NASA heliophysics missions contributing to heliospheric research are: the Advanced Composition Explorer; NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory; Voyager, and Wind. || ", "hits": 517 }, { "id": 14110, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14110/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-02-24T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Global View of Mercury – Animation", "description": "Global view of Mercury from NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft. || MercuryGlobeMESSENGER.gif (1200x675) [12.7 MB] || MercuryGlobePreview_print.jpg (1024x576) [51.6 KB] || MercuryGlobePreview.jpg (3840x2160) [664.3 KB] || MercuryGlobePreview_searchweb.png (320x180) [18.5 KB] || MercuryGlobePreview_thm.png (80x40) [1.6 KB] || Mercury_Globe_MESSENGER_Small.mp4 (3840x2160) [73.8 MB] || Mercury_Globe_MESSENGER_Large.webm (3840x2160) [20.4 MB] || Mercury_Globe_MESSENGER.mov (3840x2160) [9.9 GB] || Mercury_Globe_MESSENGER_Large.mp4 (3840x2160) [1.4 GB] || Mercury_Globe_MESSENGER_Medium.mp4 (3840x2160) [381.3 MB] || ", "hits": 966 }, { "id": 40436, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/black-hole-week/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2022-02-12T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Black Hole Week", "description": "This gallery brings together resources related to NASA’s Black Hole Week — videos, social media products, news stories, still images, and assets. This week is a celebration of celestial objects with gravity so intense that even light cannot escape them. Our goal is that no matter where people turn that week they will run into a black hole. (Figuratively, of course — we don’t want anyone falling in!)", "hits": 291 }, { "id": 14055, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14055/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-12-20T22:00:00-05:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe's WISPR Images Inside The Sun's Atmosphere", "description": "For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. As Parker Solar Probe flew through the corona, its WISPR instrument captured images.The Wide-Field Imager for Parker Solar Probe (WISPR) is the only imaging instrument aboard the spacecraft. WISPR looks at the large-scale structure of the corona and solar wind before the spacecraft flies through it. About the size of a shoebox, WISPR takes images from afar of structures like coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, jets and other ejecta from the Sun. These structures travel out from the Sun and eventually overtake the spacecraft, where the spacecraft’s other instruments take in-situ measurements. WISPR helps link what’s happening in the large-scale coronal structure to the detailed physical measurements being captured directly in the near-Sun environment.To image the solar atmosphere, WISPR uses the heat shield to block most of the Sun’s light, which would otherwise obscure the much fainter corona. Specially designed baffles and occulters reflect and absorb the residual stray light that has been reflected or diffracted off the edge of the heat shield or other parts of the spacecraft.WISPR uses two cameras with radiation-hardened Active Pixel Sensor CMOS detectors. These detectors are used in place of traditional CCDs because they are lighter and use less power. They are also less susceptible to effects of radiation damage from cosmic rays and other high-energy particles, which are a big concern close to the Sun. The camera’s lenses are made of a radiation hard BK7, a common type of glass used for space telescopes, which is also sufficiently hardened against the impacts of dust.WISPR was designed and developed by the Solar and Heliophysics Physics Branch at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. (principal investigator Russell Howard), which will also develop the observing program. || ", "hits": 495 }, { "id": 14035, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14035/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-12-14T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "AGU 2021 - Major discoveries as NASA’s Parker Solar Probe closes in on the Sun", "description": "NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now done what no spacecraft has done before—it has officially touched the Sun. Launched in 2018 to study the Sun’s biggest mysteries, the spacecraft has now grazed the edge of the solar atmosphere and gathered new close-up observations of our star. This is allowing us to see the Sun as never before—including the findings in two new papers, which were presented at AGU, that are helping scientists answer fundamental questions about the Sun.PANELISTSDr. Nicola Fox• Heliophysics Division Director of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA HeadquartersDr. Nour Raouafi• Project Scientist for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe• The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Dr. Justin Kasper• Principal Investigator for Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) Investigation on Parker Solar Probe • BWX Technologies, Inc., University of MichiganProf. Stuart D. Bale• Principal Investigator for Fields Experiment (FIELDS) on Parker Solar Probe • University of California, Berkeley Dr. Kelly Korreck• Program Scientist at NASA Headquarters• Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory || ", "hits": 257 }, { "id": 14036, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14036/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-12-14T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Animation: NASA's Parker Solar Probe Enters Solar Atmosphere", "description": "For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. The new milestone marks one major step for Parker Solar Probe and one giant leap for solar science. Just as landing on the Moon allowed scientists to understand how it was formed, touching the very stuff the Sun is made of will help scientists uncover critical information about our closest star and its influence on the solar system. On April 28, 2021, during its eighth flyby of the Sun, Parker Solar Probe encountered the specific magnetic and particle conditions at 18.8 solar radii (8.127 million miles) above the solar surface that told scientists it had crossed the Alfvén critical surface for the first time and finally entered the solar atmosphere.More information here. || ", "hits": 450 }, { "id": 14039, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14039/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-12-03T08:00:00-05:00", "title": "New NASA Spacecraft Will Help Unlock The Secrets Of Extreme Cosmic Objects Live Shots", "description": "Quick link to associated B-ROLL for the live shots.Quick link to canned interview with Martin Weisskopf IXPE Principal Investigator || IXPE_Advisory_Banner-2.png (1200x480) [762.4 KB] || IXPE_Advisory_Banner-2_print.jpg (1024x409) [117.3 KB] || IXPE_Advisory_Banner-2_searchweb.png (320x180) [106.3 KB] || IXPE_Advisory_Banner-2_thm.png (80x40) [8.4 KB] || ", "hits": 92 }, { "id": 20351, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20351/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2021-11-09T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "The DAVINCI Mission to Venus", "description": "DAVINCI the Movie || DaVinci1021cut422HQ.00130_print.jpg (1024x438) [75.7 KB] || DaVinci1021cut422HQ.00130_searchweb.png (180x320) [61.3 KB] || DaVinci1021cut422HQ.00130_thm.png (80x40) [5.3 KB] || DaVinci1021cut1080h264.mp4 (1920x820) [208.7 MB] || DaVinci1021cut720422HQ.mov (1682x720) [3.5 GB] || DaVinci1021cut720h264.mp4 (1280x548) [133.2 MB] || DaVinci1021cut720h264.webm (1280x548) [22.0 MB] || DaVinci1021cut422HQ.mov (5045x2160) [20.3 GB] || DaVinci1021cut1080422HQ.mov (2523x1080) [5.6 GB] || 20351_DAVINCIMissiontoVenus_CAPTIONS.en_US.srt [3.8 KB] || 20351_DAVINCIMissiontoVenus_CAPTIONS.en_US.vtt [3.6 KB] || ", "hits": 176 }, { "id": 13969, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13969/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-10-21T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Geospace Dynamics Constellation", "description": "\"Moonstone,\" by Rainman [PRS]; Atmosphere; Universal Production Music || 13969_GDC_Mission_FINAL.mov (1920x1080) [4.9 GB] || GDC_MissionVideo_Still.png (1920x1080) [3.7 MB] || GDC_Mission_SITLL.jpg (1920x1080) [441.3 KB] || 13969_GDC_Mission_FINAL_lowres.mp4 (1280x720) [62.3 MB] || TWITTER_720_13969_GDC_Mission_FINAL_twitter_720.mp4 (1280x720) [42.8 MB] || 13969_GDC_Mission_FINAL.webm (960x540) [94.7 MB] || YOUTUBE_1080_13969_GDC_Mission_FINAL_youtube_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [339.8 MB] || 13969_GDC_Mission_FINAL.en_US.srt [4.8 KB] || 13969_GDC_Mission_FINAL.en_US.vtt [4.6 KB] || YOUTUBE_4K_13969_GDC_Mission_FINAL_youtube_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [1.4 GB] || ", "hits": 38 }, { "id": 13945, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13945/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-10-14T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Lucy L-2 Science and Instrument Briefing", "description": "NASA will hold a virtual media briefing at 1 p.m. EDT Thursday, October 14th, to preview the launch of the agency’s first spacecraft to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. The Trojan asteroids are remnants of the early solar system clustered in two “swarms” leading and following Jupiter in its path around the Sun.The live briefing will stream on NASA Television, the agency's website, NASA’s Twitter account and the NASA App.Participants in Thursday's briefing will include:• Alana Johnson, Senior Communications Specialist, NASA Planetary Science Division• Adriana Ocampo, Lucy Program Executive, NASA Headquarters• Cathy Olkin, Lucy Deputy Principal Investigator, Southwest Research Institute • Keith Noll, Lucy Project Scientist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center• Hal Weaver, L’LORRI Instrument PI, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory • Phil Christensen, L’TES Instrument PI, Arizona State University • Dennis Reuter, L’RALPH Instrument PI, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Over its 12-year primary mission, Lucy will explore a record number of asteroids in separate orbits around the Sun. The spacecraft will fly by one asteroid in the solar system’s main belt, located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, followed by seven Trojans. In addition, Lucy’s path will circle back to Earth three times for gravity assists, making it the first spacecraft ever to travel out to the distance of Jupiter and return to the vicinity of Earth.The Lucy mission is named after the fossilized skeleton of an early hominin (pre-human ancestor) discovered in Ethiopia in 1974 and named “Lucy” by the team of paleoanthropologists who discovered it. Just as the Lucy fossil provided unique insights into humanity’s evolution, the Lucy mission promises to revolutionize our knowledge of planetary origins and the formation of the solar system.Lucy is scheduled to launch no earlier than Saturday, Oct. 16, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.Southwest Research Institute is the home institution of the principal investigator. NASA Goddard Space provides overall mission management, systems engineering, plus safety and mission assurance. Lockheed Martin Space built the spacecraft. Lucy is the 13th mission in NASA’s Discovery Program. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the Discovery Program for the Science Mission Directorate. The launch is managed by NASA’s Launch Services Program based at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.For more information about Lucy, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/lucy || ", "hits": 150 }, { "id": 13932, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13932/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-09-15T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Riding Along With a NASA Sounding Rocket (2021)", "description": "On Sept. 9, 2021, a sounding rocket launched from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, carrying a copy of the Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment, or EVE. This flight was used to calibrate the identical version of EVE that has flown in space since 2010 aboard NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Over the years, the space-based EVE has become degraded by intense sunlight, so scientists fly periodic calibration missions to keep EVE’s measurements sharp. || ", "hits": 140 }, { "id": 13898, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13898/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-07-30T09:55:00-04:00", "title": "Lyman Spitzer: Making Space For Hubble", "description": "Seventy-five years ago, astronomer Lyman Spitzer envisioned a future for space exploration that deepened humanity’s curiosity about the cosmos. A visionary behind the Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer was among the earliest astronomers pioneering a revolutionary way to explore the universe through astronomical satellites. His vision came over a decade before the launch of the first satellite, Sputnik, as well as the establishment of NASA itself. While the fundamental concept of sending a large telescope into space wasn’t new, the reality of doing so was.Seventy-five years ago, astronomer Lyman Spitzer envisioned a future for space exploration that deepened humanity’s curiosity about the cosmos. A visionary behind the Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer was among the earliest astronomers pioneering a revolutionary way to explore the universe through astronomical satellites. His vision came over a decade before the launch of the first satellite, Sputnik, as well as the establishment of NASA itself. While the fundamental concept of sending a large telescope into space wasn’t new, the reality of doing so was.For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Paul Morris: Lead Producer Anisha Engineer: Lead WriterGrace Weikert: NarrationImage Credits of Dr. Spitzer:The Princeton Plasma Physics LaboratoryDon MortonDenise ApplewhiteMusic Credits: \"Lead Train\" by Sebastian Barnaby Robertson [BMI] and Tristan Calder [ASCAP] via Killer Tracks [BMI], Soundcast Music [SESAC], and Universal Production Music. || ", "hits": 158 }, { "id": 13862, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13862/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-05-12T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "Chromatics Centrifuge Concert", "description": "The Chromatics, an AstroCappella group, sings in front of NASA Goddard’s centrifuge. || Chromatics_-_Dance_of_the_Planets_larger_version.00017_print.jpg (1024x576) [1.3 KB] || Chromatics_-_Dance_of_the_Planets_larger_version.00017_searchweb.png (320x180) [278 bytes] || Chromatics_-_Dance_of_the_Planets_larger_version.00017_thm.png (80x40) [262 bytes] || Chromatics_-_Dance_of_the_Planets_larger_version.mp4 (3840x2160) [515.8 MB] || The_Chromatics.en_US.srt [3.0 KB] || The_Chromatics.en_US.vtt [2.8 KB] || Chromatics_-_Dance_of_the_Planets_larger_version.webm (3840x2160) [60.8 MB] || ", "hits": 16 }, { "id": 12772, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12772/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-05-05T10:25:00-04:00", "title": "2017 Hurricanes and Aerosols Simulation", "description": "Tracking aerosols over land and water from August 1 to November 1, 2017. Hurricanes and tropical storms are obvious from the large amounts of sea salt particles caught up in their swirling winds. The dust blowing off the Sahara, however, gets caught by water droplets and is rained out of the storm system. Smoke from the massive fires in the Pacific Northwest region of North America are blown across the Atlantic to the UK and Europe. This visualization is a result of combining NASA satellite data with sophisticated mathematical models that describe the underlying physical processes.Music: Elapsing Time by Christian Telford [ASCAP], Robert Anthony Navarro [ASCAP]Complete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || 12772_hurricanes_and_aerosols_1080p_youtube_1080.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [161.7 KB] || 12772_hurricanes_and_aerosols_1080p_youtube_1080.00001_searchweb.png (180x320) [108.8 KB] || 12772_hurricanes_and_aerosols_1080p_youtube_1080.00001_thm.png (80x40) [7.5 KB] || 12772_hurricanes_and_aerosols_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [78.1 MB] || 12772_hurricanes_and_aerosols_twitter_720.mp4 (1280x720) [34.1 MB] || 12772_hurricanes_and_aerosols.webm (960x540) [65.0 MB] || 12772_hurricanes_and_aerosols_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [78.1 MB] || 12772_hurricanes_and_aerosols_1080p_large.mp4 (1920x1080) [163.1 MB] || 12772_hurricanes_and_aerosols_facebook_720.mp4 (1280x720) [184.9 MB] || 12772_hurricanes_and_aerosols_youtube_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [247.2 MB] || 12772_hurricanes_and_aerosols_youtube_720.mp4 (1280x720) [247.9 MB] || 12772_hurricanes_aerosols_captions.en_US.srt [3.1 KB] || 12772_hurricanes_aerosols_captions.en_US.vtt [3.1 KB] || 12772_hurricanes_and_aerosols_UHD.mp4 (3840x2160) [739.9 MB] || 12772_hurricanes_and_aerosols_1080p-prores.mov (1920x1080) [4.3 GB] || 12772_hurricanes_and_aerosols_UHD_4444.mov (3840x2160) [40.1 GB] || ", "hits": 366 }, { "id": 13841, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13841/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-04-27T17:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA’s NICER Telescope Examined a Star on the Edge of Becoming a Black Hole Live Shots", "description": "Quick link to canned interview in Spanish with Diego Altamirano: Principal Research Fellow, University of Southampton.Quick link to associated B-ROLL for live shots. || Unknown-2.png (1600x535) [1.1 MB] || Unknown-2_print.jpg (1024x342) [147.9 KB] || Unknown-2_searchweb.png (320x180) [95.0 KB] || Unknown-2_thm.png (80x40) [7.4 KB] || ", "hits": 42 }, { "id": 10662, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10662/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-04-14T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Webb Science Simulations: Planetary Systems and Origins of Life", "description": "Supercomputer simulations of planeratry evolution. Part 1: Turbulent Molecular Cloud Nebula with Protostellar ObjectsThe Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) collaborated with NASA and Drs. Alexei Kritsuk and Michael Norman to visualize a computational data set of a turbulent molecular cloud nebula forming protostellar objects and accretion disks approximately 100 AU in diameter, on the order of the size of our solar system. AVL used its Amore software to interpolate and render the Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) simulation generated from ENZO code for cosmology and astrophysics. The AMR simulation was developed by Drs. Kritsuk and Norman at the Laboratory for Computational Astrophysics. The AMR simulation generated more than 2 terabytes of data and follows star formation processes in a self-gravitating turbulent molecular cloud with a dynamic range of half-a-million in linear scale, resolving both the large-scale filamentary structure of the molecular cloud (~5 parsec) and accretion disks around emerging young protostellar objects (down to 2 AU). Part 2: Protoplanetary Disk and Planet FormationThe Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) collaborated with NASA and Dr. Aaron Boley to visualize the 16,000 year evolution of a young, isolated protoplanetary disk which surrounds a newly-formed protostar. The disk forms spiral arms and a dense clump as a result of gravitational collapse. Dr. Aaron Boley developed this computational model to investigate the response of young disks to mass accretion from their surrounding envelopes, including the direct formation of planets and brown dwarfs through gravitational instability. The main formation mechanism for gas giant planets has been debated within the scientific community for over a decade. One of these theories is 'direct formation through gravitational instability.' If the self-gravity of the gas overwhelms the disk's thermal pressure and the stabilizing effect of differential rotation, the gas closest to the protostar rotates faster than gas farther away. In this scenario, regions of the gaseous disk collapse and form a planet directly. The study, presented in Boley (2009), explores whether mass accretion in the outer regions of disks can lead to such disk fragmentation. The simulations show that clumps can form in situ at large disk radii. If the clumps survive, they can become gas giants on wide orbits, e.g., Fomalhaut b, or even more massive objects called brown dwarfs. Whether a disk forms planets at large radii and, if so, the number of planets that form, depend on how much of the envelope mass is distributed at large distances from the protostar. The results of the simulations suggest that there are two modes of gas giant planet formation. The first mode occurs early in the disk's lifetime, at large radii, and through the disk instability mechanism. After the main accretion phase is over, gas giants can form in the inner disk, over a period of a million years, through the core accretion mechanism, which researchers are addressing in other studies.Thanks to R. H. Durisen, L. Mayer, and G. Lake for comments and discussions relating to this research. This study was supported in part by the University of Zurich, Institute for Theoretical Physics, and by a Swiss Federal Grant. Resources supporting this work were provided by the NASA High-End Computing (HEC) Program through the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at Ames Research Center.AVL at NCSA, University of Illinois. || ", "hits": 651 }, { "id": 20340, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20340/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2021-03-22T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Landsat 9 Atmospheric Correction", "description": "Landsat collects light in visible and infrared wavelengths. Sunlight reflects off Earth’s surface, and scientists identify the land cover based on which wavelengths are reflected strongly or weakly.But sunlight is also reflected by particles in the atmosphere, which distorts the data and can lead to what looks like a haze in the imagery. Using basic principles of physics, and knowing the meteorological conditions, scientists can determine the effects of the scattering and absorption as light passes through the atmosphere. This atmospheric correction is essential to determining exactly how much of each wavelength reflected of the features of the surface, and having quantifiable data.The videos below show different examples of atmospheric scattering which need to be accounted for when doing atmospheric correction of satellite data. In these cases, it is for observations over water. The resulting atmospheric corrections are part of the process for the new Landsat Aquatic Reflectance data product. Landsat’s highly calibrated data products, free to download and use, are making detailed Earth-observation data more accessible to users and bringing a greater benefit to society. || ", "hits": 284 }, { "id": 13816, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13816/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-02-19T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Spacecraft Animation", "description": "NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, illustrated here, scans the entire sky every three hours as it orbits Earth.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA/GESTAR) || Fermi_01_Still_print.jpg (1024x604) [53.5 KB] || Fermi_01_Still.png (3584x2114) [3.3 MB] || Fermi_01_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [38.2 KB] || Fermi_01_Still_thm.png (80x40) [7.0 KB] || fermi_01_comp_060519_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [29.5 MB] || fermi_01_comp_060519_1080.webm (1920x1080) [2.1 MB] || fermi_01_comp_060519_ProRes_1920x1080_24.mov (1920x1080) [201.2 MB] || ", "hits": 142 }, { "id": 13673, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13673/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-07-31T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "March 7, 2012 X5.4 Flare", "description": "An X5.4 class solar flare flashes in the edge of the Sun on March 07, 2012. This image was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and shows a blend of light from the 171 and 131 angstrom wavelengths. 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In this illustration, the star changes in brightness when internal sound waves at different frequencies cause parts of the star to expand and contract. In one pattern, the whole star expands and contracts, while in a second, opposite hemispheres swell and shrink out of sync. In reality, a single star exhibits many pulsation patterns that can tell astronomers about its age, composition and internal structure. The exact light variations astronomers observe also depend on how the star's spin axis angles toward us. Delta Scuti stars spin so rapidly they flatten into ovals, which jumbles these signals and makes them harder to decode. Now, thanks to NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, astronomers are deciphering some of them.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA.gov Video YouTube channel. || Exterior_still.jpg (1920x1080) [460.3 KB] || 13605_Delta_Scuti_Pulsation_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [523.3 MB] || 13605_Delta_Scuti_Pulsation.mp4 (1920x1080) [36.1 MB] || 13605_Delta_Scuti_Pulsation.webm (1920x1080) [3.6 MB] || ", "hits": 261 }, { "id": 4796, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4796/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2020-04-30T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Land Ice Height Change Between ICESat and ICESat-2", "description": "This visualization depicts changes in Antarctic land ice thickness as measured by the ICESat (2003-2009) and ICESat-2 (2018-) satellites. The camera zooms into a region near the Kamb ice stream to compare ICESat and ICESat-2 beam tracks. The beam intersections are highlighted to explain how the data at these points are used to measure how land ice has changed over time. After exploring a few regions in detail, the camera moves out to a global view and an ocean temperature dataset is revealed. || land_ice_antarctica.2870_print.jpg (1024x576) [70.5 KB] || land_ice_antarctica.2870_searchweb.png (320x180) [61.2 KB] || land_ice_antarctica_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [48.6 MB] || land_ice_antarctica_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [8.8 MB] || land_ice_antarctica (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || land_ice_antarctica (5760x3240) [0 Item(s)] || land_ice_antarctica_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [129.9 MB] || land_ice_antarctica_1080p30.mp4.hwshow || ", "hits": 221 }, { "id": 13600, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13600/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-04-30T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA Mission Maps 16 Years of Ice Loss", "description": "Using the most advanced Earth-observing laser instrument NASA has ever flown in space, scientists have made precise, detailed measurements of how the elevation of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have changed over 16 years. The results provide insights into how the polar ice sheets are changing, demonstrating definitively that small gains of ice in East Antarctica are dwarfed by massive losses in West Antarctica. The scientists found the net loss of ice from Antarctica, along with Greenland’s shrinking ice sheet, has been responsible for 0.55 inches (14 millimeters) of sea level rise between 2003 and 2019 – slightly less than a third of the total amount of sea level rise observed in the world’s oceans. || ", "hits": 47 }, { "id": 13528, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13528/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-01-27T13:50:00-05:00", "title": "Solar Orbiter Media Telecon", "description": "NASA and ESA scientists will present Solar Orbiter, the ESA/NASA collaboration soon to start its journey to the Sun, during a media teleconference on Monday, Jan. 27, 2020 at 2 p.m. EST. Mission experts will discuss Solar Obiter’s uniquely tilted orbit, how the mission will capture the first images of the Sun’s North and South poles, and its ability to tackle major solar mysteries with its comprehensive suite of ten different instruments. The teleconference audio will stream live at:https://www.nasa.gov/liveParticipants include:•Nicola Fox, director of the Heliophysics Division in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington•Chris St. Cyr, former NASA project scientist for the mission at NASA Goddard•Yannis Zouganelis, ESA deputy project scientist for Solar Orbiter at the European Space Astronomy Centre in Madrid, Spain•Anne Pacros, ESA Mission and Payload Manager || ", "hits": 48 }, { "id": 4773, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4773/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2019-12-12T03:30:00-05:00", "title": "BedMachine: A high-precision map of Antarctic ice sheet bed topography", "description": "BedMachine is a new Antarctic bed topography product based on ice thickness data from 19 different research institutes dating back to 1967, encompassing nearly a million line-miles of radar soundings. BedMachine relies on the fundamental physics-based method of mass conservation to estimate what lies between the radar sounding lines, utilizing highly detailed information on ice flow motion from satellite data that dictates how ice moves. The dataset is available from the National Snow & Ice Data Center here. || ", "hits": 486 }, { "id": 13494, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13494/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-12-11T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "AGU 2019 - New Science from NASA's Parker Solar Probe Mission", "description": "Little more than a year into its mission, Parker Solar Probe has returned gigabytes of data on the Sun and its atmosphere. The very first science from the Parker mission is just beginning to be shared, and five researchers presented new findings from the mission at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union on Dec. 11, 2019. Their research hints at the processes behind both the Sun's continual outflow of material — the solar wind — and more infrequent solar storms that can disrupt technology and endanger astronauts, along with new insight into space dust that creates the Geminids meteor shower.Speakers:Nicholeen Viall - Research Astrophysicist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterTim Horbury - Professor of Physics, Imperial College LondonKelly Korreck - Astrophysicist, Head of Science Operations for SWEAP Suite, Harvard and Smithsonian Center for AstrophysicsNathan Schwadron - Presidential Chair, Norman S. and Anna Marie Waite Professor, University of New HampshireKarl Battams - Computational Scientist, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory || ", "hits": 81 }, { "id": 4754, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4754/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2019-12-09T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Complex Chemistry of Surface Ozone Depicted in a New GEOS Simulation", "description": "96 chemical species are shown from a GEOS atmospheric simulation || gmao_chem_3x3_pass02_09.05630_no_overlay_print.jpg (1024x576) [126.9 KB] || gmao_chem_3x3_pass02_09.05630_no_overlay.png (5760x3240) [2.5 MB] || gmao_chem_3x3_pass02_09.05630_no_overlay_searchweb.png (320x180) [82.3 KB] || gmao_chem_3x3_pass02_09.05630_no_overlay_thm.png (80x40) [6.8 KB] || 1920x1080_16x9_p30 (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || gmao_chem_HD_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [36.0 MB] || gmao_chem_HD_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [267.3 MB] || 9600x3240_16x9_30p (9600x3240) [0 Item(s)] || 3840x2160_16x9_p30 (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || gmao_chem_5x3_preview.mp4 (3200x1080) [429.0 MB] || gmao_chem_4k_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [762.1 MB] || gmao_chem_HD_1080p30.mp4.hwshow [212 bytes] || ", "hits": 342 }, { "id": 20299, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20299/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2019-12-04T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Parker Science Result animations", "description": "On Dec. 4, 2019, four new papers in the journal Nature describe what scientists working with data from NASA's Parker Solar Probe have learned from this unprecedented exploration of our star — and what they look forward to learning next. These findings reveal new information about the behavior of the material and particles that speed away from the Sun, bringing scientists closer to answering fundamental questions about the physics of our star. These animations represent five of those findings. || ", "hits": 121 }, { "id": 13332, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13332/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-11-18T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "How LISA Pathfinder Detected Dozens of 'Comet Crumbs'", "description": "NASA scientists used data from ESA’s (the European Space Agency’s) LISA Pathfinder mission to detect 54 micrometeoroid impacts on the spacecraft. The research will help scientists learn more about how dust behaves in our planetary system and those around other stars. 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The X-ray burst, the brightest seen by NICER so far, came from an object named SAX J1808.4-3658, or J1808 for short. The observations reveal many phenomena that have never been seen together in a single burst. In addition, the subsiding fireball briefly brightened again for reasons astronomers cannot yet explain. The data reveal a two-step change in brightness, which scientists think is caused by the ejection of separate layers from the pulsar surface, and other features that will help them decode the physics of these powerful events.The explosion, which astronomers classify as a Type I X-ray burst, released as much energy in 20 seconds as the Sun does in nearly 10 days.J1808 is located about 11,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, spins at a dizzying 401 rotations each second, and is one member of a binary system. Its companion is a brown dwarf, an object larger than a giant planet yet too small to be a star. A steady stream of hydrogen gas flows from the companion toward the neutron star, and it accumulates in a vast storage structure called an accretion disk.Hydrogen raining onto the pulsar's surface forms a hot, ever-deepening global “sea.” At the base of this layer, temperatures and pressures increase until hydrogen nuclei fuse to form helium nuclei, which produces energy — a process at work in the core of our Sun. The helium settles out and builds up a layer of its own. Eventually, the conditions allow helium nuclei to fuse into carbon. The helium erupts explosively and unleashes a thermonuclear fireball across the entire pulsar surface.As the burst started, NICER data show that its X-ray brightness leveled off for almost a second before increasing again at a slower pace. The researchers interpret this “stall” as the moment when the energy of the blast built up enough to blow the pulsar’s hydrogen layer into space. The fireball continued to build for another two seconds and then reached its peak, blowing off the more massive helium layer. The helium expanded faster, overtook the hydrogen layer before it could dissipate, and then slowed, stopped and settled back down onto the pulsar’s surface. Following this phase, the pulsar briefly brightened again by roughly 20 percent for reasons the team does not yet understand. || ", "hits": 72 }, { "id": 13301, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13301/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-08-29T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Photon Phriday", "description": "Photon Phriday is a weekly look at what ICESat-2 is measuring as it orbits the Earth. || ", "hits": 118 }, { "id": 13295, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13295/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-08-28T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Take a Spin With NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope", "description": "Learn more about the Roman Space Telescope spacecraft with this short tour of the main systems.Music: “Phenomenon\" from Above and Below Written and produced by Lars LeonhardCredit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Roman_Spacecraft_360STILL_1.jpg (1920x1080) [272.4 KB] || 13295_Roman_360_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [219.9 MB] || 13295_Roman_360_Best_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [807.1 MB] || 13295_Roman_360_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.8 GB] || 13295_Roman_360_1080.webm (1920x1080) [24.0 MB] || Roman_360_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [4.3 KB] || Roman_360_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [4.3 KB] || ", "hits": 176 }, { "id": 40379, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/xmm/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2019-07-16T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "XMM-Newton", "description": "The X-ray Multi-mirror Mission\n\nThe European Space Agency's X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM-Newton) was launched by Ariane 504 on December 10 1999. XMM-Newton is ESA's second cornerstone of the Horizon 2000 Science Programme. It carries high thoughput X-ray telescopes with an unprecedend effective area, and an optical monitor, the first flown on a X-ray observatory. The large collecting area and ability to make long uninterrupted exposures provide highly sensitive observations.", "hits": 2 }, { "id": 13249, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13249/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-07-03T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Eclipse 2019", "description": "Composite photo of the 2019 total solar eclipse, taken from Chile. Credit: Williams College/NSF Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Division/Jay Pasachoff/David Sliski/Alan Sliski/Christian Lockwood/John Inoue/Erin Meadors/Aris Voulgaris/Kevin Reardon || Pasachoff-Sliski_2019_eclipse_composite_1.jpg (6893x4191) [342.5 KB] || Pasachoff-Sliski_2019_eclipse_composite_1_searchweb.png (320x180) [32.6 KB] || Pasachoff-Sliski_2019_eclipse_composite_1_thm.png (80x40) [3.5 KB] || ", "hits": 60 }, { "id": 4715, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4715/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2019-06-07T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Swedish Solar Telescope: Solar Closeups", "description": "Close-up of Active Region 12593 through the 400 nm filter of the Swedish Solar Telescope. 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Answers the following suggested questions: You may think space is empty, but there is a lot there that we can’t see. What are space weather and radiation belts?How do you observe the radiation belts?A new radiation belt was discovered several years ago. 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Apaza is a rising senior at Michigan State studying computer science and engineering with a math minor. Both agree that music and mathematics share a commonality of elegance and problem-solving. In this video, they explain how. || Elegance_Music_Math_V2.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [3.8 KB] || Elegance_Music_Math_V2.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [3.0 KB] || Elegance_Music_Math_V2.00001_thm.png (80x40) [594 bytes] || Elegance_Music_Math.mov (1920x1080) [7.2 GB] || Elegance_Music_Math.mp4 (1920x1080) [289.6 MB] || Elegance_Music_Math.webm (1920x1080) [30.6 MB] || Elegance_Music_Math_V2.en_US.srt [4.3 KB] || Elegance_Music_Math_V2.en_US.vtt [4.4 KB] || ", "hits": 17 }, { "id": 40365, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/earth-science-oct2018-briefing/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2018-10-18T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth Science Overview Oct 2018 Briefing", "description": "No description available.", "hits": 115 }, { "id": 13097, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13097/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-10-17T12:30:00-04:00", "title": "Fermi Scientists Introduce Gamma-ray Constellations", "description": "Scientists with NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope devised a set of constellations for the high-energy sky to highlight the mission’s 10th year of operations. Characters from modern myths, like the Hulk and the time-warping TARDIS from “Doctor Who,” represent one source of inspiration. Others include scientific concepts and tools, like the Fermi Satellite, and famous landmarks in countries contributing to the development and operation of Fermi. The mission has mapped about 3,000 gamma-ray sources -- 10 times the number known before its launch and comparable to the number of bright stars in the traditional constellations. The background shows the gamma-ray sky as mapped by Fermi. The prominent reddish band is the plane of our own galaxy, the Milky Way; brighter colors indicate brighter gamma-ray sources. 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It will revolutionize our understanding not only of the Sun, but also the space around us, and even the lives of stars beyond our solar system — crucial information as we explore more of space.On Aug. 10, scientists and mission experts gathered at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for a live sunset show — one of the last times the Sun set on Parker Solar Probe before it launched — to talk about what this landmark mission will teach us of the Sun. Guests included: - Jim Spann, Chief Solar Scientist, NASA HQ- Yari Collado-Vega, Space Weather Scientist, NASA Goddard- C. Alex Young, Solar Scientist, NASA Goddard- Nicola Fox, Parker Solar Probe Project Scientist, JHU Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) || ", "hits": 122 }, { "id": 13040, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13040/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-08-12T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Launch of Parker Solar Probe", "description": "Live Launch CoverageNASA’s Parker Solar Probe lifts off atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket from Space Launch Complex 37 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Sunday, Aug. 12. The agency’s Parker Solar Probe is a historic mission that will revolutionize our understanding of the Sun. Protected by a first-of-its-kind heat shield and other innovative technologies, this mission will provide unprecedented information about our Sun, where changing conditions can spread out into the solar system to affect Earth and other worlds. The spacecraft will fly directly into the Sun's atmosphere where, from a distance of – at the closest approach -- approximately 4 million miles from its surface, the spacecraft will trace how energy and heat move through the Sun’s atmosphere and explore what accelerates the solar wind and solar energetic particles. || KSC-20180812-VP-CDC01-0001-Parker_Solar_Probe_Live_Launch_Coverage-3197825~orig.00016_print.jpg (1024x576) [74.7 KB] || KSC-20180812-VP-CDC01-0001-Parker_Solar_Probe_Live_Launch_Coverage-3197825~orig.00016_searchweb.png (320x180) [65.8 KB] || KSC-20180812-VP-CDC01-0001-Parker_Solar_Probe_Live_Launch_Coverage-3197825~orig.00016_web.png (320x180) [65.8 KB] || KSC-20180812-VP-CDC01-0001-Parker_Solar_Probe_Live_Launch_Coverage-3197825~orig.00016_thm.png (80x40) [5.0 KB] || KSC-20180812-VP-CDC01-0001-Parker_Solar_Probe_Live_Launch_Coverage-3197825~orig.mp4 (1280x720) [6.4 GB] || KSC-20180812-VP-CDC01-0001-Parker_Solar_Probe_Live_Launch_Coverage-3197825~orig.webm (1280x720) [749.7 MB] || KSC-20180812-VP-CDC01-0001-Parker_Solar_Probe_Live_Launch_Coverage-3197825.en_US.srt [117.3 KB] || KSC-20180812-VP-CDC01-0001-Parker_Solar_Probe_Live_Launch_Coverage-3197825.en_US.vtt [110.7 KB] || ", "hits": 197 }, { "id": 13036, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13036/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-08-09T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Soundbites from Parker Solar Probe Experts", "description": "Nicola Fox - Parker Solar Probe Project Scientist, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory[0:00]Parker Solar Probe really is a historic mission, it was first dreamed of in 1958 and it has remained the highest priority mission throughout that period. The reason it hasn’t flown is just because it has taken a while for technology to catch up with the dreams that we had for this amazing mission.[0:23]The coolest thing about my job is just the sheer feeling that this is a 60-year journey that people have gone on to make Parker Solar Probe a reality and to be there at the finish line as we’re on the pad and ready to launch—that is definitely the coolest thing about my job.Betsy Congdon - Lead Thermal Protection Engineer, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory[0:51]After working on this for 10 years, it is really a pleasure to see it actually coming to fruition. To be one small part of this huge engineering team that is making science dreams come true is just amazing. I can’t wait to re-write textbooks and change the way we look at the Sun forever. I’m a whole ball of excited, and I honestly don’t know exactly how I’m going to feel at launch but I’m really excited to pass this off to the mission operations team and see all the science data that comes down and just get to enjoy all that Solar Probe brings us.[1:32]There are many enabling technologies, the solar arrays are really important, the autonomy is very important, one of the ones that is obviously also critical is the heat shield, and developing the technology to actually protect the probe at the Sun.[1:49]A sandwich panel is a lot like a honeycomb panel you find in a traditional spacecraft or on airplanes. You have the outer face sheets, and then you have a core. In this case the two outer face sheets are carbon-carbon composite, which is a lot like the graphite epoxy you might find in your golf clubs, it’s just been super-heated, and then the inside is a carbon foam. So the Parker Solar Probe heat shield has a white coating that’s on the Sun-facing surface of this giant frisbee that’s protecting the rest of the spacecraft. And that white coating was specially designed here at the lab, in collaboration with REDD and the space department as well as the Whiting school at Johns Hopkins proper, to actually work at the Sun, specifically designed for Solar Probe. And the concept is basically you’d rather be in a white car on a hot day, than a black car on a hot day—it just knocks down the heat that much more. So it’s helping us stay cool at the Sun.[2:43]The titanium truss was also specially designed for solar probe. It’s a really neat piece. It’s a welded titanium truss that’s about 4 feet tall, but it only weighs about 50 pounds. And the key there is we’re trying to minimize the conduction between the heat shield and the spacecraft, so you want to have as little stuff there as possible.[3:05]But then also the first closest approach will be a very interesting time. We’ll obviously be working towards closest approach a long time and getting science back from the beginning, but the heat shield has to do its hardest work 7 years into the mission, which has always been an interesting construct of the mission.[3:27]When we’re at closest approach, the front surface of the heat shield will be at about 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit. The back surface of the heat shield will be about 600 degrees Fahrenheit. But the spacecraft bus is basically sitting at 85 degrees Fahrenheit. So the shield is actually really keeping everything very cool, most of the stuff is on the bus.[3:50]The mission that is in its current form is actually a solar powered mission, whereas some of the earlier concepts were nuclear powered. So they just had different mission designs, there were different constraints on the mission, and so once this current form iteration with a flat heat shield, or 8-foot frisbee as we like to say, because it’s basically a giant sandwich panel protecting the spacecraft as an umbrella, really developed as a part of this solar-powered mission that is its most recent rendition. And so, reaching out with expertise all around the lab, that whole team really brought this heat shield to fruition.Yanping Guo - Design and Navigation Manager, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory[4:34]Of all the space missions I’ve worked on, Parker Solar Probe is the most challenging and complex mission to design and to fly. The launch energy required to reach the Sun is 55 times that required to get to Mars, and two times to Pluto.Annette Dolbow - Integration and Test Lead Engineer, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory[5:00]So the tensest moment for me after launch is when we’re sitting in the control room and we’re waiting for that green telemetry to show that the spacecraft is turned on and we can actually talk to it. || 18-03953_PSP_Media_Soundbites_v1.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [22.0 KB] || 18-03953_PSP_Media_Soundbites_v1.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [8.9 KB] || 18-03953_PSP_Media_Soundbites_v1.00001_web.png (320x180) [8.9 KB] || 18-03953_PSP_Media_Soundbites_v1.00001_thm.png (80x40) [1.3 KB] || 18-03953_PSP_Media_Soundbites_v1.mp4 (1920x1080) [385.8 MB] || 18-03953_PSP_Media_Soundbites_v1.webm [41.0 MB] || ", "hits": 62 }, { "id": 13029, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13029/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-08-09T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe Pre-Launch Briefing", "description": "Hosted by Karen Fox - Heliophysics Communications Lead, NASA Goddard/NASA HQSpeakers:Scott Messer - Program Manager, NASA Programs, United Launch AllianceOmar Baez - Launch Director, NASA, Kennedy Space CenterKathy Rice - Launch Weather Officer, 45th Weather Squadron, Cape Canaveral Air Force StationThomas Zurbuchen - Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASANicola Fox - Parker Solar Probe Project Scientist, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LabAndy Dreisman - Project Manger The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab || ", "hits": 30 }, { "id": 13035, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13035/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-08-08T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe Instruments", "description": "SWEAPThe Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons investigation, or SWEAP, gathers observations using two complementary instruments: the Solar Probe Cup, or SPC, and the Solar Probe Analyzers, or SPAN. 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Launching in 2018, Parker Solar Probe will provide new data on solar activity and make critical contributions to our ability to forecast major space-weather events that impact life on Earth.In order to unlock the mysteries of the corona, but also to protect a society that is increasingly dependent on technology from the threats of space weather, we will send Parker Solar Probe to touch the Sun.In 2017, the mission was renamed for Eugene Parker, the S. Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. In the 1950s, Parker proposed a number of concepts about how stars—including our Sun—give off energy. He called this cascade of energy the solar wind, and he described an entire complex system of plasmas, magnetic fields, and energetic particles that make up this phenomenon. 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He is the first living person to have a spacecraft named after him and now stands to become the firzst person to see his namesake mission thunder into space.Parker is best known for radically altering ideas about the solar system in the 1950s by proposing the concept of solar wind. As a young scientist at the University of Chicago, he showed that the sun radiates a constant and intense stream of charged particles, which travel throughout the solar system at about one million miles per hour. This is visible as the halo around the sun during an eclipse, and it can affect missions in space as well as satellite communication systems on Earth. Parker’s theory of the solar wind was so groundbreaking that it was at first dismissed by leading experts, and he barely managed to publish the original 1958 paper that presented his theory. But he firmly defended his work and he was ultimately proven correct in 1962 with data collected by the first successful interplanetary mission, the Mariner II space probe to Venus. NASA last year named its most important mission to the sun after Parker as a tribute to his work, which established a new field of solar research. He stands as a giant among researchers who continue to push the boundaries of science, such as UChicago professors Wendy Freedman, the world-renowned astronomer first to precisely measure the expansion rate of the universe, and Michael Turner, who coined the term dark energy. The Parker Solar Probe is scheduled to launch during a window that opens August 6, 2018. The spacecraft will use seven flybys of Venus to slowly reduce its orbital distance and drop closer to the sun. Three of the spacecraft’s orbits will bring it within 3.8 million miles of the sun’s surface—approximately seven times closer than any other previous probe.“The solar probe is going to a region of space that has never been explored before. It’s very exciting that we’ll finally get a look,” said Parker, who was on the UChicago faculty from 1955 to 1995. “One would like to have some more detailed measurements of what’s going on in the solar wind. I’m sure that there will be some surprises. There always are.”The probe’s observations will help scientists understand why the corona is hotter than the sun’s surface, how the solar wind is accelerated and how to forecast its flares, among other questions. “Gene Parker’s story is about challenging assumptions. He came up with a new theory and proved that theory through meticulous, scientific calculations,” said Angela Olinto, dean of physical science at the UChicago. “Gene carries on a great tradition at UChicago of questioning the status quo to make discoveries and create whole new fields of science.”Although Parker is the first living person to have a spacecraft named after him, he is the fifth of his peers at UChicago to have the honor, with the other four having won the recognition posthumously. They include alumnus Edwin Hubble, AB 1910, PhD 1917, with the Hubble Space Telescope; Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, a UChicago professor who worked with Parker, with the Chandra X-ray Observatory; Enrico Fermi, a Nobel laureate and UChicago professor, with the Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope; and Nobel laureate Arthur Holly Compton, a UChicago professor, with the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. || ", "hits": 136 }, { "id": 13003, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13003/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-07-20T12:30:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe Science Briefing - Visual Resources", "description": "July 20, 2018 - Live from NASA Kennedy - 1:00 p.m. ESTHosted by Karen Fox - Heliophysics Communications Lead, NASA Goddard/NASA HQSpeakers:Nicola Fox - Parker Solar Probe Project Scientist, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LabAlex Young - Solar Scientist from NASA GoddardThomas Zurbuchen - Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASABetsy Congdon - Thermal Protection System Engineer at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab || ", "hits": 64 }, { "id": 12866, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12866/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-07-19T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Blowtorch vs Heat Shield", "description": "Music Credit: Toy Factory In Progress by Laurent Dury from www.killertracks.com This music requires a license for use.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || torchtestthumb.jpg (1920x1080) [270.1 KB] || torchtestthumb_searchweb.png (320x180) [90.3 KB] || torchtestthumb_thm.png (80x40) [7.1 KB] || 12866_torchtest_V3_APR422.59.94.mov (1920x1080) [3.2 GB] || 12866_torchtest_V3_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [63.3 MB] || 12866_torchtest_V3_youtube_hq.mov (1920x1080) [1.7 GB] || 12866_torchtest_V3.mpeg (1280x720) [391.6 MB] || 12866_torchtest_V3_youtube_hq.webm (1920x1080) [13.4 MB] || 12866_torchtest_V3_appletv_subtitles.m4v (1280x720) [63.3 MB] || 12866_torchtest_V3_youtube_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [510.1 MB] || 12866_torchtest_V3_APR422.en_US.srt [2.0 KB] || 12866_torchtest_V3_APR422.en_US.vtt [2.0 KB] || ", "hits": 57 } ] }