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However, some of these high-energy particles can sneak past Earth’s natural magnetic defenses and produce hazardous conditions for satellites and astronauts, as well as power grids and infrastructure on Earth.Learn more about the solar wind: https://science.nasa.gov/sun/what-is-the-solar-wind/ || ", "hits": 989 }, { "id": 31299, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31299/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2024-07-24T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Penguin and the Egg (Interacting Galaxies Arp 142)", "description": "ARP 142 as seen by Hubble vs. Webb || penguin-and-the-egg_print.jpg (1024x576) [59.0 KB] || penguin-and-the-egg.png (3840x2160) [4.6 MB] || penguin-and-the-egg_searchweb.png (320x180) [30.6 KB] || penguin-and-the-egg_thm.png (80x40) [2.5 KB] || penguin-and-the-egg_1080p.mp4 (1920x1080) [10.1 MB] || penguin-and-the-egg_1080p.webm (1920x1080) [1.5 MB] || penguin-and-the-egg_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [31.2 MB] || the-penguin-and-the-egg-4k.hwshow [292 bytes] || the-penguin-and-the-egg-1080p.hwshow [301 bytes] || ", "hits": 92 }, { "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": 525 }, { "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": 187 }, { "id": 14045, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14045/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-12-14T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA's Parker Solar Probe Touches The Sun For The First Time", "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. More information here. || ", "hits": 227 }, { "id": 20347, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20347/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2021-09-28T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fast and Slow Solar Wind", "description": "These animations show how Earth’s magnetosphere responds as it encounters the slow and fast solar wind.The solar wind is a plasma made of ions and electrons that have escaped the Sun. The solar wind streams outwards in all directions, filling the spaces between the planets and carrying with it the Sun’s magnetic field. When the solar wind reaches Earth’s magnetosphere, the region of space surrounding our planet where Earth’s magnetic field is dominant, the magnetosphere can respond differently depending on the speed of the solar wind, as demonstrated here. || ", "hits": 361 }, { "id": 13664, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13664/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-07-16T08:00:00-04:00", "title": "ESA and NASA Release First Images From Solar Orbiter Mission", "description": "Scientists from ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA will present the first images captured by Solar Orbiter, the joint ESA/NASA mission to study the Sun, during an online news briefing at 8 a.m. EDT Thursday, July 16. Launched on Feb. 9, 2020, Solar Orbiter turned on all 10 of its instruments together for the first time in mid-June as it made its first close pass of the Sun. The flyby captured the closest images ever taken of the Sun. During the briefing, mission experts will discuss what these closeup images reveal about our star, including what we can learn from Solar Orbiter’s new measurements of particles and magnetic fields flowing from the Sun.The briefing will stream live at:https://www.nasa.gov/solarorbiterfirstlight/Participants in the call include:•Daniel Müller – Solar Orbiter Project Scientist at ESA•Holly R. Gilbert – Solar Orbiter Project Scientist at NASA•José Luis Pellón Bailón – Solar Orbiter Deputy Spacecraft Operations Manager at ESA•David Berghmans – Principal investigator of the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) at the Royal Observatory of Belgium•Sami Solanki – Principal investigator of the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) and director of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research•Christopher J. Owen – Principal investigator of the Solar Wind Analyser (SWA) at Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London•ESA’s first light images•ESA press release •NASA feature story || ", "hits": 197 }, { "id": 13113, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13113/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-12-12T15:00:00-05:00", "title": "AGU 2018 - Expected Data and Scientific Discovery from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe", "description": "Animation of NASA's Parker Solar Probe in the solar wind. 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WISPR’s telescopes will provide white-light images of the solar wind, shocks, solar ejecta and other structures as they approach and pass the spacecraft. Parker Solar Probe is scheduled for launch in July 2018. It will be the first spacecraft ever to fly through the solar corona to investigate the evolution of the solar wind and heating of the solar corona. WISPR does not look directly at the Sun. Its very wide field-of-view extends from 13° away from the center of the Sun to 108° from the Sun. || ", "hits": 128 }, { "id": 12915, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12915/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-04-12T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hubble Space Telescope Celebrates 28 Years: Live Interviews on April 20, 2018", "description": "Hubble Space Telescope Celebrates 28 Years: Live Shots B-Roll Reel || Hubble28broll.png (1280x720) [1.1 MB] || Hubble28broll_print.jpg (1024x576) [79.5 KB] || Hubble28broll_searchweb.png (320x180) [87.4 KB] || Hubble28broll_thm.png (80x40) [6.8 KB] || Hubble28broll.mp4 (1280x720) [339.8 MB] || Hubble28broll.webm (1280x720) [31.0 MB] || Hubble28broll.mov (1280x720) [4.0 GB] || ", "hits": 58 }, { "id": 12481, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12481/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-03-27T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "2017's All American Solar Eclipse", "description": "On August 21, 2017, a solar eclipse will be visible across North America. || usa_suns.0750_print.jpg (1024x576) [140.4 KB] || usa_suns.0750_1024x576.jpg (1024x576) [129.2 KB] || usa_suns.0750_searchweb.png (320x180) [88.7 KB] || usa_suns.0750_thm.png (80x40) [6.9 KB] || usa_suns.0750.tif (1920x1080) [5.0 MB] || ", "hits": 179 }, { "id": 30860, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30860/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2017-02-28T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Mystic Mountain: Pillars in the Carina Nebula from Hubble", "description": "A collection of pillars in the Carina Nebula create a gaseous landscape nicknamed \"Mystic Mountain\" || carina_mystic_mountain_wide-hst-3218x3240_print.jpg (1024x1031) [214.6 KB] || carina_mystic_mountain_wide-hst-3218x3240.png (3218x3240) [14.7 MB] || carina_mystic_mountain_wide-hst-3218x3240_searchweb.png (320x180) [92.5 KB] || carina_mystic_mountain_wide-hst-3218x3240_thm.png (80x40) [6.7 KB] || carina_mystic_mountain_wide-hst-308560.key [15.2 MB] || carina_mystic_mountain_wide-hst-308560.pptx [14.8 MB] || mystic-mountain-pillars-in-the-carina-nebula-from-hubble.hwshow [362 bytes] || ", "hits": 140 }, { "id": 12292, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12292/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-06-24T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Solar Highlights of 2016/2017", "description": "A collection of solar highlights featuring:- NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)- NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission- ESA/NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)- NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) mission || ", "hits": 145 }, { "id": 30774, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30774/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2015-01-05T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Pillars in the Eagle Nebula from Hubble (2014)", "description": "Hubble revisits the famous Pillars of Creation and reveals new details in a wider view. || eagle_pillars_2015-hst-3107x3240_print.jpg (1024x1067) [213.1 KB] || eagle_pillars_2015-hst-3107x3240.png (3107x3240) [16.6 MB] || eagle_pillars_2015-hst-6780x7071.png (6780x7071) [91.0 MB] || eagle_pillars_2015-hst-3107x3240_searchweb.png (320x180) [89.7 KB] || eagle_pillars_2015-hst-3107x3240_thm.png (80x40) [6.9 KB] || pillars-in-the-eagle-nebula-from-hubble-2014.hwshow [332 bytes] || ", "hits": 120 }, { "id": 11279, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11279/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-07-11T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "A Dip In The Ring", "description": "Saturn’s F ring does not sit still. Located on the outermost edge of the planet's many planetary rings, it wriggles and writhes, morphing into a slightly different shape at every turn. These movements are no accident. They’re the result of moons—sometimes called shepherds—passing by the ring. One of these shepherds is Prometheus, a moonlet just 53 miles across. As Prometheus passes, its gravity pulls on the F ring’s icy particles. This causes kinks, channels and streamers to form along the arc of the ring. Over time, these regular wriggles form recognizable patterns, some as long as 65 miles from top to bottom. By studying Saturn’s rings with missions like Cassini, NASA scientists hope to learn more about the structure and fluctuations of the F ring. The video captures a moment when Prometheus’s orbit causes one of its fascinating stirs. || ", "hits": 126 }, { "id": 3956, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3956/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-09-20T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Halloween Solar Storms - 2003", "description": "This is a 1024x1024 pixel version of solar storms providing a more complete view of the SOHO/LASCO/C3 field-of-view.Here is a view of the solar disk in 195 Å ultraviolet light (colored green in this movie) and the Sun's extended atmosphere, or corona, (blue and white in this movie). The corona is visible to the SOHO/LASCO coronagraph instruments, which block the bright disk of the Sun so the significantly fainter corona can be seen. In this movie, the inner coronagraph (designated C2) is combined with the outer coronagraph (C3). This movie covers a two week period in October and November 2003 which exhibited some of the largest solar activity events since the advent of space-based solar observing.As the movie plays, we can observe a number of features of the active Sun. Long streamers radiate outward from the Sun and wave gently due to their interaction with the solar wind. The bright white regions are visible due to their high density of free electrons which scatter the light from the photosphere towards the observer. Protons and other ionized atoms are there as well, but are not as visible since they do not interact with photons as strongly as electrons. Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are occasionally observed launching from the Sun. Some of these launch particle events which can saturate the cameras with snow-like artifacts.Also visible in the coronagraphs are stars and planets. Stars are seen to drift slowly to the right, carried by the relative motion of the Sun and the Earth. The planet Mercury is visible as the bright point moving left of the Sun. The horizontal 'extension' in the image is called 'blooming' and is due to a charge leakage along the readout wires in the CCD imager in the camera. || ", "hits": 113 }, { "id": 3667, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3667/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-06-03T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Ship Tracks Reveal Pollution's Effects on Clouds", "description": "NASA's MODIS satellite instrument is revealing that humans may be changing our planet's brightness. Pollution in the atmosphere creates smaller, brighter cloud droplets that reflect more sunlight back to space and may have a slight impact on global warming.This narrated visualization illustrates how we can study the effect against a clean backdrop by looking for zones of pollution in otherwise pristine air - in this case the North Pacific Ocean near the Aleutian islands. On an overcast day, the clouds look uniform. However, MODIS' sesor reveals a different picture - long skinny trails of brighter clouds hidden within. As ships travel across the ocean, pollution in the ships' exhaust create more cloud drops that are smaller in size, resulting in even brighter clouds. On clear days, ships can actually create new clouds. Water vapor condenses around the particles of pollution, forming streamers of clouds as the ships travel on. The ship tracks themselves are too small to impact global temperatures, but they help us understand how larger pollution sources such as industrial sites or agricultural burning might be changing clouds on a larger scale. || ", "hits": 55 }, { "id": 3504, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3504/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2008-04-02T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Halloween 2003 Solar Storms: SOHO/EIT and SOHO/LASCO", "description": "Here is a view of the solar disk in 195 Å ultraviolet light (colored green in this movie) and the Sun's extended atmosphere, or corona, (blue and white in this movie). The corona is visible to the SOHO/LASCO coronagraph instruments, which block the bright disk of the Sun so the significantly fainter corona can be seen. In this movie, the inner coronagraph (designated C2) is combined with the outer coronagraph (C3). This movie covers a two week period in October and November 2003 which exhibited some of the largest solar activity events since the advent of space-based solar observing.As the movie plays, we can observe a number of features of the active Sun. Long streamers radiate outward from the Sun and wave gently due to their interaction with the solar wind. The bright white regions are visible due to their high density of free electrons which scatter the light from the photosphere towards the observer. Protons and other ionized atoms are there as well, but are not as visible since they do not interact with photons as strongly as electrons. Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are occasionally observed launching from the Sun. Some of these launch particle events which can saturate the cameras with snow-like artifacts.Also visible in the coronagraphs are stars and planets. Stars are seen to drift slowly to the right, carried by the relative motion of the Sun and the Earth. The planet Mercury is visible as the bright point moving left of the Sun. The horizontal 'extension' in the image is called 'blooming' and is due to a charge leakage along the readout wires in the CCD imager in the camera.This movie is part of a series of movies with matching cadence designed to play synchronously with each other. The other movies in this series are Halloween 2003 Solar Storms: SOHO/EIT Ultraviolet, 195 angstromHalloween 2003 Solar Storms: SOHO/EIT Ultraviolet, 304 angstromHalloween 2003 Solar Storms: SOHO/MDI Continuum Halloween 2003 Solar Storms: SOHO/MDI Magnetograms For more information, visit the SOHO project page.. || ", "hits": 55 }, { "id": 3377, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3377/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2007-05-09T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "A Hurricane Model", "description": "NASA scientists use the computer modeling field including the NCAR Mesoscale Model Version 5 (MM5) model to study the winds and updrafts near the hurricane's eye. An updraft is the vertical upward movement of air inside of a storm. This research focuses on the processes that impact the formation, intensification, movement, structure, and precipitation organization of hurricanes. An MM5 simulation of Hurricane Bonnie (1998) suggests that the timing and location of individual updrafts that produce the rainfall (often concentrated on very small-scales) are controlled by intense, small-scale regions of rapidly swirling flow in the eyewall.The winds in hurricanes are often described in terms of radial (in toward the center or out away from it) and tangential (the swirling flow around a hurricane) winds. By looking at the urad field, one can see where the main inflow and outflow regions of the storm are, which can be important for a variety of reasons. Eyewall mesovortices are small scale rotational features found in the eyewalls of intense tropical cyclones. In these vortices, wind speed can be up to 10% higher than in the rest of the eyewall. Eyewall mesovortices are a significant factor in the formation of tornadoes after tropical cyclone landfall. Mesovortices can spawn rotation in individual thunderstorms (a mesocyclone), which leads to tornadic activity. At landfall, friction is generated between the circulation of the tropical cyclone and land. This can allow the mesovortices to descend to the surface, causing large outbreaks of tornadoes. || ", "hits": 73 }, { "id": 3405, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3405/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2007-03-01T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "STEREO Panoramic View", "description": "The STEREO mission presents a new view of the space between the Earth and the Sun.This view from the STEREO-A satellite, demonstrates the broad range of sky coverage by the five cameras of the SECCHI instrument. || ", "hits": 28 }, { "id": 2660, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2660/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2003-01-07T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Santa Ana winds on January 6, 2003", "description": "On January 6, 2003, Santa Ana winds blew dust from interior deserts and other dry areas out over California and the Pacific Ocean. || ", "hits": 10 } ] }