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The mission will study so-called “black auroras,” dark patches and stripes that appear within an aurora. Previous research has hinted that they may be formed by electrons going upward escaping back out into space (rather than the absence of any electrons). The visible aurora is formed by an incoming downward stream of electrons. Scientists want to solve the puzzle as to why these patches and stripes form within the visible aurora. From Goddard, the instruments were delivered to Wallops Flight Facility, where they – along with the entire rocket payload – will be shipped to the Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, where the team aims to fly their rocket through black aurora. Onboard instruments will survey the electron populations as they fly through them to understand how and why these black patches and stripes form within the visible aurora. The mission is scheduled for launch no earlier than February 2026. || ", "hits": 58 }, { "id": 20410, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20410/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2025-08-14T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "IMAP Beauty Passes", "description": "NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) will explore and map the very boundaries of our heliosphere — a huge bubble created by the Sun's wind that encapsulates our entire solar system — and study how the heliosphere interacts with the local galactic neighborhood beyond.As a modern-day celestial cartographer, IMAP will also explore and 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 at its boundary with interstellar space. Additionally, IMAP will support real-time observations of the solar wind and energetic particles, which can produce hazardous conditions in the space environment near Earth. The IMAP spacecraft will be located at Lagrange Point 1, or L1. Lagrange points are positions in space where objects sent there tend to stay put. At L1, which is around 1 million miles from Earth towards the Sun, the gravitational pull of the Sun and Earth are balanced, allowing spacecraft to reduce fuel consumption needed to remain in position. At L1, IMAP will have a clear view of the heliosphere and will also be positioned to provide advanced warning of incoming solar storms headed to Earth. 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As it skimmed through the Sun’s outer atmosphere, called the corona, in the days around the perihelion, it collected data with an array of scientific instruments, including the Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe, or WISPR.Learn more - https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-parker-solar-probe-snaps-closest-ever-images-to-sun/Find the latest WISPR imagery here. || ", "hits": 594 }, { "id": 5534, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5534/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2025-06-18T11:23:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe - Extended Mission", "description": "After it's ultimate perihelion in December 2024, the Parker Solar Probe will continue it's orbits around the Sun. 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Coronagraphs work by blocking light from a bright object, like a star, so that the observer can more easily see a faint object, like a planet.The Roman Coronagraph is designed to detect planets 100 million times fainter than their stars, or 100 to 1,000 times better than existing space-based coronagraphs. The Roman Coronagraph will be capable of directly imaging reflected starlight from a planet akin to Jupiter in size, temperature, and distance from its parent star. || ", "hits": 66 }, { "id": 14650, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14650/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-11-25T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "EXCITE 2024: Infrared Detector and Spectrometer", "description": "EXCITE (EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope) is designed to study atmospheres around exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, during long-duration scientific balloon trips over Antarctica.These images, taken in July 2024, show Peter Nagler and Nat DeNigris preparing EXCITE’s infrared detector and installing it into the mission’s spectrometer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. At the time, the EXCITE team was gearing up for a test flight in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. || ", "hits": 36 }, { "id": 14725, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14725/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-11-25T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "EXCITE 2024: Payload Prep", "description": "In August 2024, the EXCITE (EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope) team conducted a test flight of their telescope from NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico.EXCITE's goal is to study atmospheres around hot Jupiters, gas giant exoplanets that complete an orbit once every one to two days and have temperatures in the thousands of degrees.The telescope is designed fly to about 132,000 feet (40 kilometers) via a scientific balloon filled with helium. That takes it above 99.5% of Earth’s atmosphere. At that altitude, it can observe multiple infrared wavelengths with little interference. In the future, EXCITE could take observations over both Arctic and Antarctic, with the latter offering longer duration flights optimum for observing planets for their entire orbit. || ", "hits": 54 }, { "id": 14726, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14726/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-11-25T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "EXCITE 2024: Launch and Recovery", "description": "On August 31, 2024, the EXCITE (EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope) team conducted a test flight of their telescope from NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico.EXCITE's goal is to study atmospheres around hot Jupiters, gas giant exoplanets that complete an orbit once every one to two days and have temperatures in the thousands of degrees.The telescope is designed fly to about 132,000 feet (40 kilometers) via a scientific balloon filled with helium. That takes it above 99.5% of Earth’s atmosphere. 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While anyone along the eclipse path with a clear sky will see the spectacular event, the best view might be 50,000 feet in the air, aboard NASA’s WB-57 jet planes. That’s where a trio of NASA-funded teams are sending their scientific instruments to take measurements of the eclipse.Two teams will image the Sun’s outer atmosphere – the corona – and a third will measure the ionosphere, the upper electrically charged layer of Earth’s atmosphere. This information will help scientists better understand the structure and temperature of the corona, the effects of the Sun on Earth’s atmosphere, and even aid in the search of asteroids that may orbit near the Sun. || ", "hits": 86 }, { "id": 14529, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14529/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-02-16T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "First U.S. Commercial Provider Just Days From Landing NASA Science And Technology Instruments on the Moon", "description": "See below for associated cut b-roll for the live shots AND a pre-recorded interview with Jim Free. 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Many important instruments and missions are quite small and use less expensive methods to reach space or even simply get above most of the atmosphere.", "hits": 138 }, { "id": 14383, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14383/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-07-20T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "How NASA Unlocks the Moon's Mysteries", "description": "This video showcases how LRO's instruments and data they collect continue to help scientists make important discoveries about the Moon.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || LRO_Discoveries_Thumbnail.jpg (1920x1080) [777.1 KB] || LRO_Discoveries_Thumbnail_print.jpg (1024x576) [238.5 KB] || LRO_Discoveries_Thumbnail_searchweb.png (320x180) [51.5 KB] || LRO_Discoveries_Thumbnail_thm.png (80x40) [3.5 KB] || 14383_LunarDiscoveriesLRO_YouTubeHD.webm (1920x1080) [29.9 MB] || 14383_LunarDiscoveriesLRO_YouTubeHD.mp4 (1920x1080) [434.0 MB] || LRODiscoveries_CAPTIONS.en_US.srt [6.5 KB] || LRODiscoveries_CAPTIONS.en_US.vtt [6.2 KB] || 14383_LunarDiscoveriesLRO_MASTER.mov (1920x1080) [3.4 GB] || ", "hits": 367 }, { "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": 22 }, { "id": 14098, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14098/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-02-10T10:30:00-05:00", "title": "IMPACTS 2022: NASA Planes Fly into Snowstorms to Study Snowfall", "description": "NASA’s Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Storms (IMPACTS) mission, which began in January and is planned to wrap up at the end of February, has seen upwards of 10 flights so far. Ultimately, what the IMPACTS team learns about snowstorms will improve meteorological models and our ability to use satellite data to predict how much snow will fall and where.Music credit: “Struggles” and “Natural Time Cycles” from Universal Production MusicComplete transcript available. || Thumbnail.jpg (1920x1080) [737.2 KB] || Thumbnail_print.jpg (1024x576) [275.6 KB] || Thumbnail_searchweb.png (320x180) [100.7 KB] || IMPACTS_Final_Cut.webm (1920x1080) [21.1 MB] || IMPACTS_Final_Cut.mp4 (1920x1080) [378.3 MB] || IMPACTS_Final_1_otter_ai.en_US.srt [3.2 KB] || IMPACTS_Final_1_otter_ai.en_US.vtt [3.2 KB] || ", "hits": 28 }, { "id": 13918, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13918/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-09-22T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Investigating Asteroids with Lucy's Scientific Instruments", "description": "This video highlights the scientific instruments aboard the Lucy spacecraft that will be used to investigate the Trojan asteroids.Music provided by Universal Production Music:\"Holy\" - Martin Richter and Virginia Ernst\"Fired Up\" - David SchwartzWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || 13918_LucySciInstruments_Thumbnail.jpg (1920x1080) [1.1 MB] || 13918_LucySciInstruments_Thumbnail_print.jpg (1024x576) [537.1 KB] || 13918_LucySciInstruments_Thumbnail_searchweb.png (320x180) [132.2 KB] || 13918_LucySciInstruments_Thumbnail_thm.png (80x40) [26.1 KB] || 13918_LucySciInstruments_YouTubeHD.mp4 (1920x1080) [555.4 MB] || 13918_LucySciInstruments_FacebookHD.mp4 (1920x1080) [415.8 MB] || 13918_LucySciInstruments_MASTER.mov (1920x1080) [4.5 GB] || 13918_LucySciInstruments_YouTubeHD.webm (1920x1080) [37.9 MB] || 13918LucySciInstrumentsCAPTIONS.en_US.srt [8.0 KB] || 13918LucySciInstrumentsCAPTIONS.en_US.vtt [7.6 KB] || ", "hits": 56 }, { "id": 13826, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13826/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-05-11T09:55:00-04:00", "title": "Hubble’s Servicing Mission 4", "description": "The Hubble Space Telescope was reborn with Servicing Mission 4 (SM4), the fifth and final servicing of the orbiting observatory. During SM4, two new scientific instruments were installed – the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). Two failed instruments, the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), were brought back to life by the first ever on-orbit repairs. With these efforts, Hubble has been brought to the apex of its scientific capabilities.For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. Music Credits: \"Aquarius\" by Fred Dubois [SACEM] via Koka Media [SACEM], Universal Publishing Production Music France [SACEM], and Universal Production Music.“Adam and Eve” by Laurent Dury [SACEM] via Koka Media [SACEM], Universal Publishing Production Music France [SACEM], and Universal Production Music.\"Inquiring Mind\" by Leon Mitchener [NS] via Atmosphere Music Ltd. [PRS], and Universal Production Music.\"Weight of Water\" by Anthony Edwin Phillips [PRS] via Atmosphere Music Ltd. [PRS], and Universal Production Music.\"Urban Migration\" by Fred Dubois [SACEM] via Koka Media [SACEM], Universal Publishing Production Music France [SACEM], and Universal Production Music.\"Get up and Run\" by Raul del Moral Redondo [SGAE] via El Murmullo Sarao [SGAE], Universal Sarao [SGAE], and Universal Production Music.“Metamorphosis” by Matthew St Laurent [ASCAP] via Soundcast Music [SESAC] and Universal Production Music.Motion Graphics Template Media Credits:Lower Thirds Auto Self Resizing by cayman via Motion Array || ", "hits": 27 }, { "id": 13711, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13711/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-09-07T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fly Above Alaskan Glaciers in 360", "description": "The audio in this video essentially only consists of the noise of the aircraft. || OIB_Alaska_Best_VR_export.00001_print.jpg (1024x512) [145.5 KB] || OIB_Alaska_Best_VR_export.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [90.4 KB] || OIB_Alaska_Best_VR_export.00001_web.png (320x160) [81.6 KB] || OIB_Alaska_Best_VR_export.00001_thm.png (80x40) [6.5 KB] || OIB_Alaska_Best_VR_export.mp4 (4096x2048) [1.8 GB] || oib360.en_US.srt [67 bytes] || oib360.en_US.vtt [81 bytes] || OIB_Alaska_Best_VR_export.webm (4096x2048) [123.7 MB] || ", "hits": 35 }, { "id": 13639, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13639/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-06-09T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Tower Extension Test a Success for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope", "description": "Technicians test the James Webb Space Telescope's Deployable Tower Assembly in the cleanroom. 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In 2019, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope celebrated the full mechanical and electrical assembly of the world's largest, most powerful space science observatory ever built. Meaning that Webb's two halves have been physically put together and its wiring harnesses and electrical interfaces have been connected.Following assembly, the Webb team moved on to successfully send deployment and tensioning commands to all five layers of its sunshield, which is designed to protect the observatory's mirrors and scientific instruments from light and heat, primarily from the Sun. Ensuring mission success for an observatory of this scale and complexity is a challenging endevour. All of the telescope's major components have been tested individually through simulated environments they would encounter during launch, and while orbiting a million miles away from earth. Now that Webb is fully assembled, it must meet rigorous observatory-level standards. The complete spacecraft reacts and performs differently to testing environments than when its components are tested individually.The 1:00 minute video was created by NASA's videographers and filmed over a period of time at Northrop Grumman's clean room in Redondo Beach, California.Following Webb's successful sunshield deployment and tensioning test, members have nearly finished the long process of perfectly folding the sunshield back into its stowed position for flight, which occupies a much smaller space than when it is fully deployed. Then, the observatory will be subject to comprehensive electrical tests and one more set of mechanical tests that emulate the launch acoustic and vibration environment, followed by one final deployment and stowing cycle on the ground, before its flight into space. || ", "hits": 73 }, { "id": 13505, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13505/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-12-11T15:00:00-05:00", "title": "Solar Orbiter - ESA Animations", "description": "Solar Orbiter is an European Space Agency (ESA) mission with strong NASA participation. Its mission is to perform unprecedented close-up observations of the Sun and from high-latitudes, providing the first images of the uncharted polar regions of the Sun, and investigating the Sun-Earth connection. || ", "hits": 149 }, { "id": 13298, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13298/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-12-09T17:00:00-05:00", "title": "Operation IceBridge - Alaskan Landscape", "description": "In Alaska, 5 percent of the land is covered by glaciers that are losing a lot of ice and contributing to sea level rise. To monitor these changes, a small team of NASA-funded researchers has been flying scientific instruments on a bright red, single-engine plane since spring 2009.While scientists at the Goddard Space Flight Center managed the two larger yearly field campaigns in the Arctic and Antarctica, monitoring Alaskan glaciers fell on a smaller team based at the University of Fairbanks, Alaska. || ", "hits": 29 }, { "id": 13299, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13299/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-12-09T17:00:00-05:00", "title": "Operation IceBridge - Alaskan Glaciers", "description": "In Alaska, 5 percent of the land is covered by glaciers that are losing a lot of ice and contributing to sea level rise. To monitor these changes, a small team of NASA-funded researchers has been flying scientific instruments on a bright red, single-engine plane since spring 2009.While scientists at the Goddard Space Flight Center managed the two larger yearly field campaigns in the Arctic and Antarctica, monitoring Alaskan glaciers fell on a smaller team based at the University of Fairbanks, Alaska. || ", "hits": 32 }, { "id": 13490, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13490/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-12-09T17:00:00-05:00", "title": "Operation IceBridge - Alaskan Operations", "description": "In Alaska, 5 percent of the land is covered by glaciers that are losing a lot of ice and contributing to sea level rise. To monitor these changes, a small team of NASA-funded researchers has been flying scientific instruments on a bright red, single-engine plane since spring 2009.While scientists at the Goddard Space Flight Center managed the two larger yearly field campaigns in the Arctic and Antarctica, monitoring Alaskan glaciers fell on a smaller team based at the University of Fairbanks, Alaska. || ", "hits": 27 }, { "id": 13337, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13337/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-10-09T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "The James Webb Space Telescope is now an Assembled Observatory", "description": "Engineers from NASA and Northrop Grumman have successfully integrated the James Webb Space Telescope's optical telescope element and spacecraft element together at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, CA. Thus completing the construction of the most complex and powerful telescope ever built. Webb will explore the cosmos using infrared light from planets and moons within our solar system to the earliest and most distant galaxies. Next up for Webb; Deploying the five-layer sunshield designed to keep Webb's mirror and scientific instruments super cold. || ", "hits": 65 }, { "id": 40378, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/oib/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2019-08-20T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Operation IceBridge", "description": "Operation IceBridge was a NASA field campaign that was the largest airborne survey of Earth's polar ice ever flown. Spanning 11 years, IceBridge produced an unprecedented three-dimensional view of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets, glaciers and sea ice. Dozens of flights every year provided regular, multi-instrument insights into the behavior of Earth’s rapidly changing cryosphere.\n\nData collected by IceBridge helped scientists bridge the gap in polar observations of ice height between NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat), which launched in 2003, and ICESat-2, which launched on September 15, 2018. ICESat stopped collecting science data in 2009, making IceBridge critical for ensuring a continuous series of observations. IceBridge surveyed the Arctic and Antarctic areas once a year, typically in the springtime before summer melting began. The first Operation IceBridge flights were conducted in March/May 2009 over Greenland and in October/November 2009 over Antarctica. Other smaller airborne surveys around the world, in particular Alaska, were also part of the IceBridge mission.\n\nLearn More", "hits": 144 }, { "id": 13273, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13273/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-08-06T09:45:00-04:00", "title": "The Webb Telescope's Unfolding Secondary Mirror", "description": "In order to do groundbreaking science, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope must first unpack itself in deep space. In its full configuration, Webb would be too big too fit in any available rocket. So, engineers designed the observatory to fold up to a much smaller size during transport. After Webb Launches, the observatory's delicate parts will unfold and arrange themselves through a series of carefully choreographed steps. When deployed, the secondary mirror will sit out in front of Webb's 18 primary mirrors, collect their light and focus it into a beam. That beam is then sent down into the tertiary and fine steering mirrors, and finally to Webb's four scientific instruments. This video shows the flurry of engineers and technicians examining the hinges and movement of the secondary mirror as it deploys. This is one of a final series of tests the Webb Telescope must perform to prove that it is ready to operate in space. || ", "hits": 27 }, { "id": 13208, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13208/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-05-15T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The 20-foot Solar Array Powering the James Webb Space Telescope", "description": "The James Webb Space Telescope's 20-foot solar array will provide all the power the observatory needs, by converting sunlight into electricity. Webb's solar array is its first and most important deployment. The small yet effective array will release itself like an accordian to a straightened configuration shortly after launch. The power it creates will help operate the telescope's propulsion and communication subsystems, as well as its scientific instruments. || ", "hits": 117 }, { "id": 40363, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/sounding-rockets/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2019-05-09T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Sounding Rockets", "description": "\nFor over 40 years, NASA's Sounding Rocket Program has provided critical scientific, technical, and educational contributions to the nation's space program and is one of the most robust, versatile, and cost-effective flight programs at NASA. \n\nSounding rockets carry scientific instruments into space along a parabolic trajectory. Their overall time in space is brief, typically 5-20 minutes, and at lower vehicle speeds for a well-placed scientific experiment. The short time and low vehicle speeds are more than adequate (in some cases they are ideal) to carry out a successful scientific experiments. Furthermore, there are some important regions of space that are too low for satellites and thus sounding rockets provide the only platforms that can carry out measurements in these regions.\n\nGo to NASA.gov for the latest sounding rocket news.", "hits": 210 }, { "id": 13160, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13160/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-04-03T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hubble Archive - Servicing Mission 4, STS-125", "description": "Hubble's fifth and final servicing mission, Servicing Mission 4, launched on May 11, 2009 on Space Shuttle Atlantis as part of the STS-125 mission.During SM4, two new scientific instruments were installed – the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). Two failed instruments, the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), were brought back to life by the first ever on-orbit repairs. With these efforts, Hubble has been brought to the apex of its scientific capabilities. To prolong Hubble's life, new batteries, new gyroscopes, a new science computer, a refurbished fine guidance sensor and new insulation on three electronics bays were also installed over the 12-day mission with five spacewalks. || ", "hits": 115 }, { "id": 12318, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12318/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-12-03T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Bennu Arrival", "description": "After traveling through space for more than 2 years and over 2 billion kilometers, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft arrived at its destination, asteroid Bennu, on Monday, Dec. 3, 2018. The spacecraft will spend almost a year surveying the asteroid with five scientific instruments with the goal of selecting a location that is safe and scientifically interesting to collect the sample. OSIRIS-REx will return the sample to Earth in September 2023. || ", "hits": 85 }, { "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. Credit: NASA || GR_Constellations-NorthFermi_FullSize_FInal.gif (1920x930) [4.4 MB] || ", "hits": 74 }, { "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. The instruments count the most abundant particles in the solar wind — electrons, protons and helium ions — and measure such properties as velocity, density, and temperature to improve our understanding of the solar wind and coronal plasma. SWEAP was built mainly at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and at the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. The institutions jointly operate the instrument. The principal investigator is Justin Kasper from the University of Michigan. || SWEAP.00001_print.jpg (1024x581) [151.9 KB] || SWEAP_thumb.png (2560x1448) [4.7 MB] || SWEAP.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [86.1 KB] || SWEAP.00001_web.png (320x181) [86.8 KB] || SWEAP.00001_thm.png (80x40) [5.6 KB] || SWEAP.webm (1902x1080) [21.8 MB] || SWEAP.mp4 (1902x1080) [195.4 MB] || SWEAP.en_US.srt [3.8 KB] || SWEAP.en_US.vtt [3.8 KB] || ", "hits": 303 }, { "id": 12979, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12979/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-06-06T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Power Up: Solar Arrays Installed on NASA’s Mission to Touch the Sun", "description": "NASA’s Parker Solar Probe depends on the Sun, not just as an object of scientific investigation, but also for the power that drives its instruments and systems. On Thursday, May 31, 2018, the spacecraft’s solar arrays were installed and tested. These arrays will power all of the spacecraft’s systems, including the suites of scientific instruments studying the solar wind and the Sun’s corona as well as the Solar Array Cooling System (SACS) that will protect the arrays from the extreme heat at the Sun. “Unlike solar-powered missions that operate far from the Sun and are focused only on generating power from it, we need to manage the power generated along with the substantial heat that comes from being so close to the Sun,” said Andy Driesman, project manager from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. “When we’re out around the orbit of Venus, we fully extend the arrays to get the power we need. But when we’re near the Sun, we tuck the arrays back until only a small wing is exposed, and that portion is enough to provide needed electrical power.”The solar arrays are cooled by a gallon of water that circulates through tubes in the arrays and into large radiators at the top of the spacecraft. They are just over three and a half feet (1.12 meters) long and nearly two and a half feet (0.69 meters) wide. Mounted on motorized arms, the arrays will retract almost all of their surface behind the Thermal Protection System – the heat shield – when the spacecraft is close to the Sun. The solar array installation marks some of the final preparation and testing of Parker Solar Probe leading up to the mission’s July 31 launch date. || ", "hits": 41 }, { "id": 12975, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12975/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-06-02T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "ICON Photos", "description": "The Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, is a low-Earth orbiting satellite that will give us new information about how Earth’s atmosphere interacts with near-Earth space — a give-and-take that plays a major role in the safety of our satellites and reliability of communications signals.Specifically, ICON investigates the connections between the neutral atmosphere — which extends from here near the surface to far above us, at the edge of space — and the electrically charged part of the atmosphere, called the ionosphere. The particles of the ionosphere carry electrical charge that can disrupt communications signals, cause satellites in low-Earth orbit to become electrically charged, and, in extreme cases, cause power outages on the ground. || ", "hits": 56 }, { "id": 12905, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12905/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-03-30T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The 88-South Antarctic Traverse", "description": "NASA cryospheric scientist Kelly Brunt and ICESat-2 Deputy Project Scientist Tom Neumann recall some of the highlights and challenges from the recent 88-South Antarctic Traverse.Music: \"Lights,\" Alexius Tschallener [SUISA], Dominik Johnson [PRS]; \"Vulnerable Moment,\" John Ashton Thomas [PRS]Complete transcript available. || 12905_thumbstill_print.jpg (1024x576) [48.3 KB] || 12905_thumbstill_searchweb.png (180x320) [45.6 KB] || 12905_thumbstill_thm.png (80x40) [4.0 KB] || 12905_Post_Traverse_TWITTER.mp4 (1280x720) [58.5 MB] || 12905_Post_Traverse_PRORES.webm (1920x1080) [28.0 MB] || 12905_Post_Traverse.mp4 (1920x1080) [276.7 MB] || 12905_Post_Traverse_FACEBOOK.mp4 (1920x1080) [336.9 MB] || 12905_Post_Traverse_YOUTUBE.mp4 (1920x1080) [406.9 MB] || 12905_PostTraverse.en_US.srt [5.0 KB] || 12905_PostTraverse.en_US.vtt [5.1 KB] || 12905_Post_Traverse_PRORES.mov (1920x1080) [3.6 GB] || ", "hits": 28 }, { "id": 12809, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12809/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-12-14T01:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA Scientists Trek the South Pole", "description": "Music: \"Pizzicato Piece,\" Andrew Michael Britton, David Stephen Goldsmith, Atmosphere Music Ltd.; \"We Learn,\" Andrew Michael Britton, Atmosphere Music Ltd.Complete transcript available. || traverse_print.jpg (1024x575) [145.3 KB] || traverse_searchweb.png (320x180) [87.3 KB] || traverse_thm.png (80x40) [6.3 KB] || 12809_Pre_Antarctic_Traverse_TWITTER.mp4 (1280x720) [51.3 MB] || 12809_Pre_Antarctic_Traverse_prores.webm (1920x1080) [21.5 MB] || 12809_Antarctic_Traverse_FACEBOOK.mp4 (1920x1080) [261.9 MB] || 12809_Pre_Antarctic_Traverse_YOUTUBE.mp4 (1920x1080) [430.5 MB] || 12809_Pre_Antarctic_Traverse_youtube_720.mp4 (1280x720) [391.2 MB] || 12809_Traverse.en_US.srt [4.5 KB] || 12809_Traverse.en_US.vtt [4.5 KB] || 12809_Pre_Antarctic_Traverse_prores.mov (1920x1080) [2.9 GB] || ", "hits": 22 }, { "id": 12709, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12709/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-09-12T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Cassini's Infrared Saturn", "description": "Since arriving at Saturn in 2004, Cassini has used its Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) to study the ringed planet and its moons in heat radiation. Complete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Music provided by Killer Tracks: \"Particle Waves,\" \"Odyssey,\" \"Solaris,\" \"Expansive,\"\"Horizon Ahead,\" \"Ion Bridge,\" \"Outer Space\" || CassiniCIRSpreviewShort.jpg (1920x1080) [591.6 KB] || CassiniCIRSpreviewShort_searchweb.png (320x180) [125.9 KB] || CassiniCIRSpreviewShort_thm.png (80x40) [8.4 KB] || 12709_Cassini_CIRS_Short_TWTR.mp4 (1280x720) [102.0 MB] || WEBM-12709_Cassini_CIRS_Short_APR.webm (960x540) [191.9 MB] || 12709_Cassini_CIRS_Short_FB.mp4 (1280x720) [574.1 MB] || 12709_Cassini_CIRS_Short_YT_Output.en_US.srt [10.3 KB] || 12709_Cassini_CIRS_Short_YT_Output.en_US.vtt [10.3 KB] || 12709_Cassini_CIRS_Short_YT.mp4 (1920x1080) [1.2 GB] || 12709_Cassini_CIRS_Short_APR.mov (1920x1080) [6.0 GB] || 12709_Cassini_CIRS_Short_YT.hwshow [96 bytes] || ", "hits": 52 }, { "id": 12522, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12522/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-02-23T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA-funded Balloon Recovered From Antarctica", "description": "For 12 days in January 2016, a football-field-sized balloon with a telescope hanging beneath it floated 24 miles above the Antarctic continent, riding the spiraling polar vortex. On Jan. 31, 2016, scientists sent the pre-planned command to cut the balloon – and the telescope parachuted to the ground in the Queen Maud region of Antarctica. The telescope sat on the ice for an entire year. The scientists did quickly recover the data vaults from the NASA-funded mission, called GRIPS, which is short for Gamma-Ray Imager/Polarimeter for Solar flares. But due to incoming winter weather – summer only runs October through February in Antarctica – they had to leave the remaining instruments on the ice and schedule a recovery effort for the following year. Finally, in January 2017, it was warm and safe enough to recover the instruments.For more information visit the NASA.gov feature. || ", "hits": 36 }, { "id": 12322, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12322/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-08-04T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Sampling An Asteroid", "description": "NASA is sending a robotic spacecraft to collect material from an asteroid and return it to Earth. || c-1024.jpg (1024x576) [160.1 KB] || c-1280.jpg (1280x720) [225.7 KB] || c-1920.jpg (1920x1080) [337.4 KB] || c-1024_print.jpg (1024x576) [169.1 KB] || c-1024_searchweb.png (320x180) [79.8 KB] || c-1024_web.png (320x180) [79.8 KB] || c-1024_thm.png (80x40) [6.6 KB] || ", "hits": 33 }, { "id": 12273, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12273/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-06-07T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Webb Telescope's Science Instrument Installation Time Lapse", "description": "Time Lapse video of the science instrument package installation into the Webb Telescope. || ISIM_Install_timelapse-IMAGE_ONLY.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [212.2 KB] || ISIM_Install_timelapse-IMAGE_ONLY.00001_searchweb.png (180x320) [122.0 KB] || ISIM_Install_timelapse-IMAGE_ONLY.00001_web.png (320x180) [122.0 KB] || ISIM_Install_timelapse-IMAGE_ONLY.00001_thm.png (80x40) [7.7 KB] || ISIM_Install_timelapse_5-19-2016-h264.mp4 (1920x1080) [52.3 MB] || ISIM_Install_timelapse-5-19-2016-ProRes-master.webm (1920x1080) [10.3 MB] || ISIM_Install_timelapse_5-19-2016-closecap-srt.en_US.srt [937 bytes] || ISIM_Install_timelapse_5-19-2016-closecap-srt.en_US.vtt [950 bytes] || ISIM_Install_timelapse-5-19-2016-ProRes-master.mov (1920x1080) [1.4 GB] || ISIM_Install_timelapse_5-19-2016-h264.mp4.hwshow [90 bytes] || ", "hits": 26 }, { "id": 12124, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12124/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-01-14T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "From Earth To The Moon", "description": "Explore amazing archival images from NASA’s Apollo program. || c-1280.jpg (1280x720) [197.5 KB] || c-1024.jpg (1024x576) [130.3 KB] || c-1024_print.jpg (1024x576) [131.2 KB] || c-1024_searchweb.png (320x180) [73.7 KB] || c-1024_web.png (320x180) [73.7 KB] || c-1024_thm.png (80x40) [12.9 KB] || ", "hits": 294 }, { "id": 12034, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12034/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-11-01T08:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA Enters World of 4K Video", "description": "The solar system? Big. The galaxy? Bigger. What's bigger than that? Before you smugly suggest \"The universe?\", check this out: 4K Videos from NASA!A little more than a decade ago, television transformed from the boxy, standard definition dimensions of 20th century engineers to the wider and sharper images of high definition TV. Well into the 21st century now, rapid growth in the next generation of video images promises to deliver spectacular pictures with profoundly greater fidelity and resolution than even the best HDTV. Officially known as Ultra-High Definition Television, it has rapidly come to be known as \"4K\", a moniker derived from the approximate width of images measured in pixels horizontally across a screen.NASA has a long legacy pushing the boundaries of advanced media technologies, befitting its unique role in presenting important, state-of-the-art science and engineering stories to the American public. On this web page you'll find the first major release of 4K video content, presented in the public domain. The release of these media are concurrent with the launch of a new, non-commercial Ultra-High Definition channel in partnership with Harmonic. For each of the following items on this website you may preview the program in your browser or you may select one of several different resolutions from the \"download\" button in the lower right hand corner of each. Be advised that the 4K videos will require fast internet connections and substantial storage space.SYNTHESIS: NASA DATA VISUALIZATIONS IN ULTRA-HD (4K) || ", "hits": 1118 }, { "id": 4385, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4385/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-10-09T17:00:00-04:00", "title": "Zooming In: Remote Sensing the Earth", "description": "This gallery was created for Earth Science Week 2015 and beyond. It includes a quick start guide for educators and first-hand stories (blogs) for learners of all ages by NASA visualizers, scientists and educators. We hope that your understanding and use of NASA's visualizations will only increase as your appreciation grows for the beauty of the science they portray, and the communicative power they hold. Read all the blogs and find educational resources for all ages at: the Earth Science Week 2015 page.Observing something without coming in contact with it is called remote sensing. Think about that. Every living animal uses remote sensing. A spider keeps its eight eyes fixed on a fly, watches its movements. A dolphin sends out sounds to locate a school of fish. A tiger uses its Jacobson's organ to smell a mate. Humans listen to cicadas' loud noises coming from the trees. These are all examples of remote sensing. And, more than likely, all of these animals are analyzing the data they are receiving. I used these particular examples to show that there are different methods of receiving this data. The spider uses sight. The dolphin uses echolocation. The tiger uses smell. The human uses sound. I remember the first time I flew in an airplane. I was about 12 years old and was lucky enough to get a window seat. It was amazing to look down and try to identify things on the ground. I didn't realize it at the time but I was remotely sensing Earth! I could almost imagine how a bird must see the land when it's flying high in the sky. Since I cannot fly all the time like birds do, I can use another tool — Google Earth — to get the same experience. I can look at my computer screen, and identify the differences between urban and natural areas and between fields and forests. NASA creates the most amazing remotely-sensed images of space and the planets. I have always been fascinated by space and space exploration. In 1969, as I listened on my radio to the broadcast of the moon landing, I wondered what it would be like to walk on the moon and to look further out into space. Now, space telescopes, such as Hubble, provide scientists with hundreds of thousands of images for understanding our universe. Images of outer space are fascinating, but I am most excited about images of Earth. NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey have created an amazing collection of satellite images, called Earth as Art. Sometimes these almost look like art from a museum. These images are not only pleasing to look at; they can also tell us valuable information. || ", "hits": 55 }, { "id": 4356, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4356/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-09-15T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "LRO and the September 27-28, 2015 Lunar Eclipse: Telescopic View", "description": "On September 28, 2015 (the night of September 27), the Moon enters the Earth's shadow, creating a total lunar eclipse. This visualization simulates the view through a telescope during the eclipse while also showing the position of the LRO spacecraft.", "hits": 61 }, { "id": 11843, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11843/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-05-12T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "A Crash On Mercury", "description": "After four years of exploring Mercury from orbit, NASA’s MESSENGER mission comes to an end. || c-1920.jpg (1920x1080) [206.3 KB] || c-1280.jpg (1280x720) [126.4 KB] || c-1024.jpg (1024x576) [90.0 KB] || c-1024_print.jpg (1024x576) [80.5 KB] || c-1024_searchweb.png (320x180) [42.5 KB] || ", "hits": 167 }, { "id": 11863, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11863/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-04-24T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA On Air: Hubble Space Telescope Celebrates 25 Years Of Exploration (4/23/2015)", "description": "LEAD: The Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 25th anniversary of making new discoveries about our solar system.1. Since April 24, 1990, Hubble has circled the globe at an altitude of 340 miles.2. It is about the size of a bus, with a telescopic mirror that is 8 feet in diameter.3. Hubble has found planets outside our solar system located billions of miles from Earth.4. One of the biggest discoveries made by Hubble is that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate due to “dark energy,” a kind of repulsive gravity.TAG: Astronomers using Hubble data have published more than 12,800 scientific papers, making it one of the most productive scientific instruments ever built. || WC_Hubble-1920-MASTER_iPad_1920x0180_print.jpg (1024x576) [103.5 KB] || WC_Hubble-1920-MASTER_iPad_1920x0180_searchweb.png (320x180) [76.1 KB] || WC_Hubble-1920-MASTER_iPad_1920x0180_web.png (320x180) [76.1 KB] || WC_Hubble-1920-MASTER_iPad_1920x0180_thm.png (80x40) [5.6 KB] || WC_Hubble-1920-MASTER_1920x1080.mov (1920x1080) [294.2 MB] || WC_Hubble-1920-MASTER_1280x720.mov (1280x720) [374.4 MB] || WC_Hubble-1920-MASTER_NBC_Today.mov (1920x1080) [90.2 MB] || WC_Hubble-1920-MASTER_WEA_CEN.wmv (1280x720) [10.9 MB] || WC_Hubble3_converted.avi (1280x720) [12.8 MB] || WC_Hubble-1920-MASTER_baron.mp4 (1920x1080) [15.9 MB] || WC_Hubble-1920-MASTER_prores.mov (1920x1080) [332.5 MB] || WC_Hubble-1920-MASTER_iPad_960x540.m4v (960x540) [31.8 MB] || WC_Hubble-1920-MASTER_iPad_1280x720.m4v (1280x720) [43.4 MB] || WC_Hubble-1920-MASTER_iPad_1920x0180.m4v (1920x1080) [90.2 MB] || WC_Hubble-1920-MASTER_1920x1080.webm (1920x1080) [2.3 MB] || ", "hits": 73 }, { "id": 4156, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4156/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-04-10T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "LRO and the Lunar Eclipse of April 15, 2014: Telescopic View", "description": "|| || eclipse.0001.jpg (730x730) [104.6 KB] || eclipse.0001.tif (1920x1080) [2.5 MB] ||", "hits": 66 }, { "id": 11354, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11354/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-08-29T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Greenland's Mega Canyon (narrated video)", "description": "Hidden for all of human history, a 460 mile long canyon has been discovered below Greenland's ice sheet. Using radar data from NASA's Operation IceBridge and other airborne campaigns, scientists led by a team from the University of Bristol found the canyon runs from near the center of the island northward to the fjord of the Petermann Glacier. A large portion of the data was collected by IceBridge from 2009 through 2012. One of the mission's scientific instruments, the Multichannel Coherent Radar Depth Sounder, operated by the Center for the Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets at the University of Kansas, can see through vast layers of ice to measure its thickness and the shape of bedrock below. This is a narrated version of an visualization that can be found, along with more detailed information, at Greenland's Mega-Canyon beneath the Ice Sheet (#4097). || ", "hits": 53 }, { "id": 11240, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11240/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-05-07T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "To Pluto And Beyond", "description": "There is a pioneer hurtling through space. Its name is New Horizons, and in the summer of 2015, it will become the first spacecraft to visit Pluto. The dwarf planet lies at the edge of the solar system in a region known as the Kuiper Belt, a thick and icy expanse of space that is chock-full of objects yet to be explored or even discovered. Pluto and its moons Charon, Nix, and Hydra are particularly intriguing to astronomers, who have never had the chance to examine a dwarf planet up close. New Horizons left Earth in 2006, packed with two of each electronic system to protect against any mishaps on the long voyage ahead. It has traveled about one million miles every day since. Watch the video to learn more. || ", "hits": 67 }, { "id": 11014, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11014/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-07-24T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Being There", "description": "The car-sized rover called Curiosity will be NASA's biggest and most advanced robotic laboratory yet to make tracks on Mars. But it won't be the first to dig into the alien rocks and soils. Since 1976 NASA has landed six spacecraft on the Red Planet: Viking 1, Viking 2, Pathfinder, Spirit, Opportunity and Phoenix. Probing the environment with an array of tools—sensors, optics, drills and shovels—each has had to battle perilous dust storms and subfreezing temperatures to survive. And the discoveries have been worth the fight! Previous missions uncovered evidence of water, a molecule essential for all forms of life. Equipped with a suite of scientific instruments, who knows what Curiosity will find? The visualization shows the landing sites of the six NASA spacecraft to reach Mars and the target location where Curiosity will soon touch down. || ", "hits": 101 }, { "id": 10958, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10958/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-05-02T08:00:00-04:00", "title": "Pursuit of Light", "description": "Perhaps more than all other federal agencies, NASA tells stories about big things: big places, big data, big ideas. Using extraordinarily high resolution data sets from some of the most innovative and powerful scientific instruments ever built, the media team at NASA Goddard presents PURSUIT OF LIGHT. The presentation showcases top level goals of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, with an eye toward capturing the imagination of mainstream audiences. Data visualizations at resolutions far greater than HDTV present NASA's science goals like never before. Interspersed with inventive live action footage also designed to make use of that vast canvas, this six and a half minute presentation captivates and moves viewers.PURSUIT OF LIGHT was designed expressly for a screen technology called The Hyperwall, a system largely perfected at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The Hyperwall itself is a platform best suited for big themes. With colossal screen resolution and an ultrawide presentational style, moving images played there take on a vast sense of scale and power. PURSUIT OF LIGHT employs the strength of this remarkable system and pushes it further than ever before, presenting stories about the Earth, The Moon, The Sun, The Planets, and the deep sky, wrapped in poetic implication about the humanity's imperative need to explore. This show will play prominently on touring Hyperwalls around the country as well as on the web. || ", "hits": 25 }, { "id": 10564, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10564/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-02-03T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Hubble IMAX: Educator Resources", "description": "Table of Contents+ Build a Robotic Arm+ Communication Station+ Images from Hubble Simulation Build a Robotic Arm || See a robotic arm at work in the \"Servicing Mission 4 Essentials\" site at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/servicing/SM4/main/SM4_Essentials.html. || build_a_mission_tool_272861main_ess_2astronauts_arm_600x400.jpg (600x400) [240.0 KB] || build_a_mission_tool_272861main_ess_2astronauts_arm_600x400_web.png (320x213) [344.6 KB] || ", "hits": 32 }, { "id": 10249, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10249/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-05-14T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "LRO L-14 Press Conference Supporting Videos", "description": "LRO From Launch to OrbitThis video starts with LRO launch animation, shows the spacecraft's path to orbit, and ends with the spacecraft animated over the lunar surface. || LRO_L14_LaunchtoOrbit_50sec_ipod00702_print.jpg (1024x576) [91.7 KB] || LRO_L14_LaunchtoOrbit_50sec_ipod_web.png (320x180) [156.1 KB] || LRO_L14_LaunchtoOrbit_50sec_fullres.webmhd.webm (960x540) [11.4 MB] || LRO_L14_LaunchtoOrbit_50sec_fullres.mov (1280x720) [30.0 MB] || LRO_L14_LaunchtoOrbit_50sec_ipod.m4v (640x360) [8.8 MB] || LRO_L14_LaunchtoOrbit_50sec_svs.mpg (512x288) [7.6 MB] || LRO_L14_LaunchtoOrbit_50sec_portal.wmv (346x260) [7.1 MB] || LRO_L14_LaunchtoOrbit_50sec_fullres.mov.hwshow [218 bytes] || ", "hits": 15 }, { "id": 10436, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10436/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-05-12T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Making Hubble More Powerful", "description": "The Hubble Space Telescope would not be able to produce its breathtaking science without the upgraded infrastructure targeted during the HST SM4 mission: Fine Guidance Sensor, Scientific Instrument Command and Data Handling, Soft Capture Mechanism, Batteries, and New Outer Blanket Layers. Along with all new cameras, scientific instruments, the Hubble telescope will work better than it ever has in its lifetime. || ", "hits": 24 }, { "id": 10365, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10365/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-01-11T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "SLIC: The Unsung Hero of Servicing Mission 4", "description": "The composite Super Lightweight Interchangeable Carrier (SLIC) is a new breed of equipment carrier that will allow the Space Shuttle to transport a full complement of scientific instruments and other components to Hubble. Made of carbon fiber with a cyanate ester resin and a titanium metal matrix composite, SLIC is the first all-composite carrier to fly on the shuttle. This flat, reusable pallet looks very different from the carriers flown on previous Hubble servicing missions because of its efficient design. This design, plus SLIC's composite construction, makes it much lighter and stronger than traditional aluminum carriers. About half the weight of its predecessors, SLIC shows a dramatic increase in performance over other Hubble equipment carriers, with nearly double the carrying capability. || ", "hits": 16 }, { "id": 10318, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10318/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-07-26T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "HST SM4 Extended Resource Reel v2.0", "description": "Full HD Resource ReelThis resource reel includes all the clips shown below on this page. || G2008-009HD-HST_SM4_Footage_Resource_Reel_v2.0_Reel_1_1.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [99.1 KB] || G2008-009HD-HST_SM4_Footage_Resource_Reel_v2.0_Reel_1.mov (1280x720) [57.2 GB] || G2008-009HD-HST_SM4_Footage_Resource_Reel_v2.0_Reel_1_1.mp4 (1280x720) [4.1 GB] || G2008-009HD-HST_SM4_Footage_Resource_Reel_v2.0_Reel_1_1.webm (1280x720) [454.7 MB] || G2008-009HD-HST_SM4_Footage_Resource_Reel_v2.0_Reel_1.webm [0 bytes] || ", "hits": 57 }, { "id": 3229, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3229/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2005-09-13T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Global SST Model (ECCO)", "description": "Sea surface temperature plays a vital role in the behavior of the Earth's climate and weather. It is both a causal factor and a resulting effect of complex interactions of natural forces on Earth. NASA not only measures sea surface temperature from space using powerful scientific instruments, but it also studies temperature processes in advanced computer models. -Gretchen Cook-Anderson (GSFC) || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 40116, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/jwst/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2000-01-01T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "James Webb Space Telescope", "description": "The James Webb Space Telescope (sometimes called JWST) is a large, infrared-optimized space telescope. The observatory launched into space on an Ariane 5 rocket from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana on December 25, 2021. After launch, the observatory was successfully unfolded and is being readied for science. \n\nWebb will find the first galaxies that formed in the early Universe, connecting the Big Bang to our own Milky Way Galaxy. Webb will peer through dusty clouds to see stars forming planetary systems, connecting the Milky Way to our own Solar System. Webb's instruments are designed to work primarily in the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum, with some capability in the visible range.\n\nWebb has a large primary mirror, 6.5 meters (21.3 feet) in diameter and a sunshield the size of a tennis court. Both the mirror and sunshade are too large to fit onto the Ariane 5 rocket fully open, so both were folded which meant they needed to be unfolded in space. \n\nWebb is currently in its operational orbit about 1.5 million km (1 million miles) from the Earth at a location known as Lagrange Point 2 (L2).\n\nThe James Webb Space Telescope was named after the NASA Administrator who crafted the Apollo program, and who was a staunch supporter of space science.", "hits": 864 } ] }